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[Tina J]

Hi All!

After about a month of hard work (mostly in finding a good graphics person!) - I finally have officially launched the new site this morning. Yay! :-D

We have a few special offers going on right now - details on our site.

Any comments, on the new look, good/bad appreciated! Thanks in advance! :-)

http://www.affordablehost.com

--Tina

[Martie]

Tina...Super job!
I really like it....loads nice and fast too.

[cbaker17]

I like it, although the side nav bar seemed to load slow for me and im on a very fast connection....

[Seer]

Looks pretty nice, but I agree on the navbar as it does seem a bit slow. The filesize of the images look good, maybe it's in the scripting since it has the same problem when reloading. I'm on a T3 here, wouldn't imagine it to be my connection either.

[Tina J]

Yeah, I noticed that too. I can't, for the life of me, figure out why it's doing that!

Grrrrr!

--Tina

[Planet Z]

I'm not a webdesign expert. However, it seems to me the buttons change after the mouse moves over them. Most sites preload the buttons (before and after mouseover) as the site loads instead of waiting for the user to move the mouse over the button.

I could be wrong, though.

[cahostnet]

I'm not expert either but I really like the look of your new site. Well job done. I think though there seems to be allot of dead space. Maybe putting a line around it and making it smaller will help that.

Congratulations!

[alucasa]

Nicely done site. Looks very professional and clean.
Do you mind telling us the name of web designer?

[Chas]

Hi Tina,

Planet Z is correct. You need to preload the images. Here is a quick and dirty example for you:

// This will preload both states for your first rollover
Image1off = new Image();
Image1off.src = "images/rightnavi_hosting.gif";
Image1on = new Image();
Image1on.src = "images/rightnavi_hosting_o.gif";


// These are the basic functions I use for rollovers
//mouseOver image swap
function over(img) {
document[img].src = eval(img + "on.src");
}

//mouseOut image swap
function off(img) {
document[img].src = eval(img + "off.src");
}


Yout first rollover link would look like this:

<a href="hosting.shtml" onMouseOut="off('Image1')" onMouseOver="over('Image1')"><img border="0" src="images/rightnavi_hosting.gif" width="166" height="23" name="Image1" alt="Hosting Packages"></a>

That should work for you. You might want to double check that it works in all browsers but it works for me in IE, NS4 and NS6.

The new design looks awesome, btw.

Regards
~Chas

[Martie]

Strange...on cable here
and its loading real fast for me.

[dherman76]

Beautiful site Tina! Good luck!

[BC]

Good work Tina! Rollovers are very, very slow indeed. You need some optimised JScript code to speed them up - if you need help drop me a line.

One slight problem : down the bottom left hand corner, you have

(copyright) 2001 Afordable Host.

(whoever did the graphics has left out an f!)

[Dylan]

fast for me

BUT

I only had one problem: how much is extra diskspace?

[Dogma]

all I can say is nice site!! Loaded pretty quickly for me on my tiny 56k web connection. Very nice!!

[koolguru]

Site Looks Realy Nice !
Very Professional !
Good Luck !