Hody, www.walfisch-freiburg.de takes 2-3 seconds to load. Your other site, tribe-online.de comes up partially in a couple of seconds but took about 10-15 seconds to load completely, with the graphic in the right sidebar.

One thing I would do is to go to ATO/Configure CSS and JS (at the very bottom) and make both files External, so "Yes" to both. It may help load fractionally faster, but it also cleans up your code. I tried to look at your graphics to see if they were optimized properly, which could be another reason for the slow load, but you have some javascript or something that prevents me from looking at them

If your graphic is, for instance, 250px x 150px, make sure your original graphic is that size, too. Do not use a 500px x 300px graphic and scale it down to something smaller.

As for the look of the tribe-online.de, yes it does look rather "Industrial," however, I am not your demographic and besides, it is a matter of personal taste. Why don't you ask your customers/viewers if they like it?

[note: making the CSS and JS external will not save any time for the first page load and will actually add a fraction of load time because a nother reqest is sent to the server. It will save time in viewing other pages since the CSS and JS will be in memory and each page will be smaller when loaded - JD]

Thanks again, just changed that option (was set to internal and twice to yes) and disabled the script that prevents you from looking at code and stuff, try again pls.

This time, I had a timer. It took 32 seconds for the right hand graphic to load. What took a lot of time was google analytics, though I do not know why.

your 180 x 180 logo is 50k. It should be about 9 or 10k maximum. It only has 2 colours

TRENDnet Powerline Adapter TPL-405E / TPL-402E is about 9k so that is ok. The links take forever if i click the image. Why not take the link off the graphic and leave the link on "weiterlesen…"

Then again, this might just be my computer. I would ask some of your friends to test this for you, do not just take my word for it.

Check this out: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/b...ad-time/12419/

there are some options and extensions in FireFox you can use to see how long each piece of the page takes to load.

The page took 1m 44s to load for me

Yepp, just skaled the logo and the rememberance picture of my friend in the footer down, having the impression it loads a tiny bit faster...

I would try a test somtime when there is low activity and set the sidebar to not display to see how fast the page loads. I get the impression that all that code in the sidebar may be slowing things down.

It's always great to get good constructive feedback. Thanks!

Such useful feedback from the last 'showoff'; here's another...
http://www.worksantiques.co.uk/

Here is one of my sites.
cheapsearchengineoptimizationsite.com

NOT MY DESIGN, NOT MY SITE

Just happy that as a true blood Missouri transplant to Californian, California has a great implementation of everyone's favorite theme

http://cgia.org/

Very nice, very corporate and responsible looking. My only comment would be to change the default favicon to something blue to match the colours of the rest of your site. Lose the green default star thingy.

Hello Doop,

I liked your website very much. I had a quick look with FF element inspector. Would you mind telling us how you positioned the div.character (katieross.png) on top of the page?

I'm sorry but I'm very new at Atahualpa.

Your help will be much appreciated

Hello everyone,

(I posted this before but somehow it got lost?)

Here's my attempt with Atahualpa.

http://play.bugs3.com/

The site is not finished as you can see. The brief was to make a photographer's site clean and minimalist. I think I'm getting there. Shame the nice shadows around the container don't show in any IE version; FF, Opera and Chrome are fine. I might have to use graphics like other sites have done.

Two things I'm still struggling with is aligning the menu with the logo (align-bottom) and making the menu reflects the active page.

I'm still looking on this forum but haven't found the solution yet.

I'd appreciate your comments.

A big thank you to the creators of Atahualpa and the support team.

Amadeus - nice clean site.

use the firebug extension of firefox to play with the menu. Try setting the position relative and adjust the 'top' position - you will probably need to make the background transparent too.

Wouldn't be nice if you share the style.txt? :D

Hi Amadeus. In your photo gallery, I have a heck of a time getting out of it. I use Firefox. I do not see an X anywhere to escape, so I end up clicking all over the screen to escape it and finally it goes away.

I know you are not finished yet, but your galleries should be named something like "people and animals" and "Historic Architecture" or something to make it searchable.

Very clean looking, for sure.

Hi Sharon,

I'm using NextGEN Gallery with the default settings. Clicking on the picture gets you out of the gallery view. I will put a message to do so. At the moment the pictures are all stock photos. I will of course rename the galleries to whatever the pictures are about.

I appreciate your comments, thank you very much.

Hi Juggledad,

Thank you for your comments. I'll get firebug and play about with it.

Hi All

I have only just spotted this thread! Here are 3 recent sites I have completed using Atahualpa. For me this theme is by far the best I have ever come across and with all the options it offers I can't think of a reason to use any other. All I can say is thanks to all for putting this together. The other great thing is the rapid response to any help requests and invariably a simple solution into the bargain.

http://gocabrera.com
http://designcaribe.com
http://imagineonenessfoundation.com

Not quite finished with everything... but probably will be in a few weeks!

www.christianhomeandfamily.com

Any suggestions are appreciated! And thanks to lmilesw for all the help so far!

I switched over to Atahualpa yesterday. I'm thrilled with how customizable it is, as I wanted to make my blog consistent with my Zenfolio hosted photo gallery site. Using Atahualpa is as close as I've come. I'm also a sucker for rotating headers and/or home page slideshows. Yes, Zenfolio now offers a blog function, but I want to keep my Wordpress blog for a number of reasons. I'm also pleased with how easily customization is achieved using Atahualpa. I had to look a few things up in the forums, but answers were easily found.

http://blog.bigskycountry.net

Hey,

my site is nothing special and quite orange. Is it too much? http://www.2501.eu
Two questions:
1. The category menu bar has a different size in the center column than in the sidebars, how do I fix that?
2. I write about movies. Would you prefer to have a static page with big images of new movies as homepage or should i leave it as a blog.

Thanks
Chris

The site i'm currently playing with is... http://www.peakroutes.com/

Just trying to think of ideas to give it that extra something design wise.. any ideas folks?

Dean

When I viewed Qesmo.com site, it tried to give me a Trojan Virus Beware:(

Hi,
Some great sites here.. even giving me some inspiration for my sites!

Here is some of my work so far.

http://www.eattravelsave.com - personal blog
http://www.juliasalerni.com - Friends site, I am proud of this site and it really shows the versatility of atahualpa.