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Can I invite you to take a look at our newly revamped website and offer your thoughts on it.
The site has been produced with a great deal of help and patient advice by Alan Wallace, the brother of EPZ member Angi Nelson (Zarozinia), and I can recommend his services to anybody else that may be looking for a new website.
There are a couple of things that still need to be be done to it, I need to write a piece for the first "about" page ( I Hate writing about myself!!) and add some backdated news items from my previous website, but it's almost as it will be.
One item I am really keen on, and I would vaule your thoughts on it, is the "featured images" link from the front page.
the address is www.spiritofnatureimages.co.uk
Thank you in advace
Phil
Absolute first impression - first page takes too long to load.
I have a 8Mb connection and if it wasn't a link from this thread I'd have normally got bored and clicked away.
I did not time it, but in comparison with similar sites it seemed an age, which is what people notice. You may say it is only 10 secs, but in web world that's an age.
Off to look at the rest now.
I think you need some sort of 'Loading' message on the front screen. Those of us down at the far end of broadband are left wondering what the line is doing for a few minutes. Dial-up may be pondering on the purpose of the slow moving yellow dot 
Good first impressions though.
The links page
Lots of repeated links.
Why do I want to click on them? Normally people tell you site A is great for, and then the link for you to follow. Or my favourite photography sites and then a list of them. But just a list of links, why would I want to follow any of them?
Still looking, just feeding back as things hit me 
There are some typos - Photographes on the main page.
Also I keep getting confused - look at our website or photos. This showcases the work of Phil Jefferies. Do you have a split personality?
Keep the context of me, I, we, our consistent. If you want to try to say there are more of you then lose the specific reference to yourself
On the gallery pages there are 'blank' images at the end which sit there trying to load but nothing happens, you have select one of the top menu options to get out
Great site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loading was quick (about 2 or 3 seconds). Great colours.
You show a very interesting and attractive selection of your photos.
I noticed a typo error (line 7) in the description of the ephotozine photo of the week (article 4): you wrote "flood plane" instead of "flood plain"
All the best, Jean-Noël
Just tried the link again from a different PC (so no cache) and this time it loaded quickly, so maybe a problem earlier on with the host as I wasn't having problems with any other websites.
Does the site work for non-flash machines, not everyone likes flash based websites.
Will try and take another look later, but been a busy day.
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