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Old 04-03-2004, 01:39 AM Please Review Beta-Theta
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Hello Everybody. My site is www.beta-theta.com
Please review it and tell me about compatibility errors etc. (if any) and please provide a feedback.

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Old 04-03-2004, 09:44 AM Slow load time
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The first thing I notice is even on a high speed connection, that flash presentation took a long time to load, about 15 seconds. I would hate to be on dial up for that. Then once it did load, it was not that impressive. You could probably do the same thing in a gif and speed up the load times a bit. The flash presentation is rough around the edges. It looks like you realized that it took a long time to load so you bumped down the quality to speed it up.

The other thing I noticed rather quickly is that you have more links at the bottom of your page than at the top. Try swapping those around and giving your visitors the navigation first off. That way they do not have to scroll if they are looking for a specific item.

In the body of your page, rather that having that large column for your search box and ad, try making that column smaller so your main column can have more room. After all, the actual content is why people visit your site anyway.

On this page: http://www.beta-theta.com/News.html your navigation is only 3 buttons in the left column that say page 1 2 & 3. I am not sure if you meant to do this, but that does need fixed. In addition this page has a ton of ads. Mostly from google. I cannot blame you for putting this many google ads as it can be good money, but think about your visitor. It is really kind of overwhelming to see that. Also, the flash animation seems to need to load on every page, because it is different on every page. A 10-15 second wait is just unacceptable for this quality of flash.

Other than this, there is not much else. You do have good content and seem to know how to keep me interested. It took me about an hour to write this review because I was getting involved in your site. Just work out the wrinkles and you will have a top notch site.

7 out of 10
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Old 04-03-2004, 07:11 PM
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I was going to comment about the load time on the flash as well. I have high speed cable internet and it took a while for it to load. And i wasn't very impressed by the content of the flash either.

Other than that, the style and layout of your site look nice to me. I anticipate it would be a fast loader without the flash at the top.

Good luck with your site
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Old 04-04-2004, 01:45 PM
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Hey the flash loaded faster than the google ad did.

I would make better use of the title tag. Make it clear what the site is about (if possible).

I'm running Win2k and viewing site with Avant 9, Netscape 7, IE 6, Opera 7.23 and everything looks good.

The site is slow. I would determine which areas are slowing it down and decide if they are worth keeping or not.
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Old 04-05-2004, 09:57 AM Please review this website
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I have now removed the flash from the main page of www.beta-theta.com

Please review this site and give me comments and suggestions on how can I improve it. I am looking for a person/website which can make a flash intro for me for free . Please help me regarding this as well.

I will be highly thankful to all those who review my website. Please do so. Mine is a non-profit website and I seek on ways for improving it.

God bless ,
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Old 04-05-2004, 11:30 AM
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yep
definately better without the flash at the top
loads faster now
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Old 04-05-2004, 12:24 PM
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As for flash, what exactly are you looking for? Might be able to help you out there.
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Old 04-05-2004, 12:51 PM That is good
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I like that without the flash animations on it. In my opinion you really do not need to do anymore to this homepage. You have plenty of content, and the page loads extremely quickly now. I would leave it alone. If you want to fancy it up try making some rollover effects or something like that. Just my opinion.

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Old 04-05-2004, 07:32 PM
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I really do not think anything needs to be changed. I love the layout and the colors and think you did a great job on it. Loads fast and looks great! Good job!
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Old 04-05-2004, 09:38 PM
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It is perfect except i dont like the gray border with little white dots! It looks like your supposed to look at that instead of the content. in other words kill it. 9/10
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Old 04-06-2004, 07:56 AM
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I like the layout and colors for this site. As mentioned already, drop the flash banner. For your site, it doesn't do anything a gif couldn't do. It is only adding wasted CPU cycles on the client machine. Good luck with the site!
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After reading everyone's review, I was curious so I took a peek. Looks like the "slow loading" flash intro has been removed, as I didn't experience this on first entry, however, I did see what was meant by flash banners on other pages. Way too slow to load up. Gif images would suffice, I agree. The other thing I noticed right away, was that I had no way of knowing the websites purpose. No Slogan, or header, just a ton of content.. For what it's worth kdkat
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Old 04-08-2004, 08:56 AM Please Review Beta-Theta(updated) The coolest reference resource
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I have updated www.beta-theta.com based on user reviews. Please review it and let me know how I can I improve the website and other comments and suggestions. I would also like to exchange links with you at www.beta-theta.com/Links.html

If anyone is interested in providing content for this website please send me a message.

Thank you for your interest.
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Old 04-08-2004, 10:58 AM
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The grey bg with white dots looks bad.

I could have done with a bit more explanation as to what the three icons in your top left do. Perhaps a litle rollover could be used to good effect here? I also could have done with a little introduction as to what your site is for. So often this is missed out on sites, because the webmaster forgets that the general public don't have a clue what the site is about.

I think there's too many adverts, which spoils the page in my opinion.

Good colour scheme, good layout.
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Old 04-25-2004, 08:37 AM
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This is my first review (arent you luky)

coolsite over all first pageneeds a header title/ short explination re what its all about

"cant find page" message is good it feels like part of the site rather than standard browser message
(couldend find periodic table) found it on site map, wich could benifit from diferent icons for each section

the flash grafhix are a bit unnesercery on each page cos it fills 1/4 of the page, and if your useing the browser back button its almost infuriateing.

bottom of page could be made to match top, and all links to act the same on mouse over, would really improve continuety of site

hope this is of some use,
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Old 04-27-2004, 09:35 AM Geat site
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I got completely side tracked by some of the pages and before I know it had been reading for half an hour. Not a bad compliment!

Now to review. Check out your links. It might be better for example if some of them - those that link to other websites especially opened in a new window rather than meaning your viewer leaves your website. This happened on the front page on the academic book trade link, intelligent community and other links on that side. I also found the same in the periodic table. Some link to pages within your site others to a different site which used the same window again. Perhaps in the periodic table links could open a small window that had the information in which can then be closed after its been used.


When i go to the forum it also changes the same window and theres no way back other than with the windows back button which if I have been browsing for a while is a pain.

I like the colours & didnt experience the flash problem too much though it was slow & i quite agree if it doesnt really add to the experience & a graphic will do simply use a graphic.

Good luck & I think I will definately visit again. v sticky content!
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Old 04-27-2004, 02:26 PM
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I like it nice and simple and it seem to down load fast enought. I like the backgorund all lines up okay.

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