Please review my site, thanks!

[shenz]

Hello,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope you'll take a few moments to review my site.

Shenz International (http://www.shenz.com)

Was working on it since October - little by little. I design web sites as a hobby - this is my sixth so far, and the first site for "commercial" use.

I hope to improve with your comments. Thanks for the time.



All the best,
Lynda Shen

[Skunkboy]

As I flip through the pages:

index
*some may say to stick to an 800 width... perhaps; but, only if you had another image or color other than white to put behind it.
*I don't know if its possible to remove the horizontal scrollbar from "Making health your business" but since your site in general doesn't scroll horizontally, if it can be removed, it may add a little better touch.
*Also as for it being a scroll window... this may have a negative impact on someone with it being a scroll window on the first page. The first page is where you want to make the best impression the fastest way possible with the least amount of work. Perhaps moving something to another page so it isn't quite as busy thus allowing room for all the text to display at one time?
*If you can perhaps get wording or something across the top, even it small, it may break up the big contrast a little bit and slow down that spotlight. Its spotlighting a blank space basicly.
*I always warn people... just for grins. If you put a revision date at the bottom, this can be both good or bad. I've seen it hurt my own site on a number of occaisions... when I simply can't get out to update. If a page is too old, a person may shy away from it.

Join Us
*I don't know what type of issues with copyright are in play; but, if you can put the videos on your own site, that may be more beneficial to you.

Our Team
nothing noticed other than grammatical:
Plus several other very helpful, successful, and knowledgeable uplines.
You've got a subjet but no verb. Uplines... and a description; but, what about them? Perhaps start the sentence with:
We offer several...
But then you wouldn't want to start the second sentence with we... change that to something like:
As a caring team, we would be...

Just skimming through the rest of them, maybe something minor here and that which may want to be reworded; but, nothing major.

I understand why you chose the menu as you did but perhaps a scroll box with the words as hyperlinks vs having the button?

Good luck - so far, so good... and nothing happens overnight. My site has been tinkered with for seven years or so.

[grahm]

Personally, I don't care for the black/yellow vertical bars image at the top with the Shenz logo crammed to the left.

but this is just MHO. :p

[shenz]

To Skunkboy:

Thank You for taking so much time and effort to comment. I always like second and third opinions because we are usually blind to our own weaknesses. I've printed out your advice and will be looking at them in detail soon.

I've also visited your site and bookmarked it - will want to take a look at your site, and perhaps learn something from you. Thanks.

To grahm:

Thanks for your comments too. When I first got my site, it was extremely plain - so I looked for something readymade (for my other site) and decided to use it. Anyway, I can't think of anywhere else to put the logo without throwing the design off balance (I've experimented with several layouts.)


Shenz

[Skunkboy]

learn? from my site - LOL perhaps but I've kept it basic.

Good luck!

[shenz]

I had done a little revision. Basically removing the top background & putting the logo on top of the menu. A lot more revision to go.

However, I noticed a problem on my side the last few days -- my site (homepage) tends to load very slowly. The file is not big, and I have wireless broadband.

Any of you have problems accessing my site? :(


Shenz

[Skunkboy]

no problem accessing on this end