Here at JVF Consulting we've been hard at work with the Livermore Winegrowers site. We finally finished it all up and we're proud to finally launch the site and we're hoping to get some reviews from people browsing through on different platforms. If you experience any problems please let me know! Here is the url... http://www.livermorewine.com
Wow! Thanks so much for the compliments guys! If you find any flaws at all please let us know! Negative feedback would be good to hear as well!
Your hyperlinks don't change color after viewing, and I think the choice to make your header a flash logo was a poor idea. The change is a neat effect, but the silly loading icon to accomplish it is distracting. I also ran a test on Pingdom and it took your site nearly 5 seconds to load, that is kind of slow. Also, I usa a Firefox ad on called NoScript. Guess what your logo first looked like to me...
I'll look into why they chose not to change the color of the hyperlinks, thats a good point. We have a new logo prepared for LVWA but they're still waiting on approval from their board of directors before we can change it. The flash header was used because they wanted a seasonal theme, so in their CMS panel we built they can change the header skin for a different season. I'm not sure why the site would be so slow for you, we have an SSL cert for this domain and its hosted on a dedicated ip address.
Here is the load time test results: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/?url=w...ew=0&column=objectID&order=1&type=0&save=true You images are small, but use more kb's than the flash file. It just needs some streamlining.
I like the design of website. especially the shape & flash of your header is great ! good luck my friend
it was to heavy for load pages ... maybe it will great if you can make it faster .. and i loved your designs ..