New client website for your review :)

Page loads very slow.

Try google pagespeed to see where the problems are.

You have a lot of CSS stylesheets and Javascript running in the back which makes your site slow.

You are doing a good job while learning, seem to have a similar problem that I had a long time, overdesigning.

I used to get excited when learning CSS and implemented as much as possible, same after wordpress, I could not get enough plugins running at once, lol.

Part of learning is minimizing your efforts and keeping code as small as possible.

But takes a while to grasp, keep going.

P.H.

Much appreciated Peter. I will review the pagespeed information and see what I can do! Great advice.

You could try resizing some of the images to speed things up. All of the images in the slider section are being scaled down by WordPress as the page loads. This is slowing things down considerably. The images are 960×720 but are being rendered as 450×320

cheers

Gary

Page a little slow.
Other then that I really like it!
Im new to wordpress. If you don’t mind me asking how did you do you nav bar like that? I want that look!

Another thing you can do to speed things up a bit is a plugin like “wp minify” or similar, they combine your css files and javascript files and reduce speed quite a lot.

Although I do a lot of test-styling through google with the inspect elements option and the minify plugins make that imposible so I usually uninstall any minify thingy whilst designing.

P.H.

Hey Kristen. Working on the speed issues (especially with the help of people like Peter and Garry). The nav bar is just CSS styled. What particular features are you wanting? I can fire over my CSS for it if you are interested? The underlying site is based on the free Responsive Theme (now owned by CyberChimps). I have just overlaid my own CSS to make it more appropriate for my friend.

Peter, thanks again. I had tried enabling the minify for CSS and JS in the autoptimize plugin. It seemed to mess up some features of the site. It looks like you may be able to manually exclude some CSS/JS which might help. I can also try wp_minify and see if it is any more reliable. Will see when I get a chance to look at that and may get back to you if I can’t get it working :).

Garry, took your advice and shrunk a number of the images on the site. It certainly helped ??

Cheers,
Martin