Guinea Pigs Wanted - Irish SEO, Marketing & Webmaster Discussion

blacknight · #1 (**permalink**) 22-02-2006, 07:42 PM

We're about to relaunch Irish ISP Test and are looking for a few testers / guinea pigs.
If you can spare a couple of minutes please let me know

louie · #2 (**permalink**) 22-02-2006, 08:04 PM

fire away man.
what do you want me to do?

blacknight · #3 (**permalink**) 22-02-2006, 08:32 PM

I've sent you the link via PM
Please feel free to give it a lash and let me know what you think etc.,

9barJoe · #4 (**permalink**) 23-02-2006, 09:44 AM

aye, I'll have a look for you -

blacknight · #5 (**permalink**) 23-02-2006, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 9barJoe

aye, I'll have a look for you -

I've sent you the link

9barJoe · #6 (**permalink**) 23-02-2006, 10:31 AM

the speed test is realy nice.

many pages scroll horizontaly at 1024 .

Fix that so the site has a content width of 785 pixels & I'd be happy.

I like the way the google ads are blended at the bottom of the forum page, I clicked on one myself thinking it was an internal link - very nice.
I'd have the same format elsewhere.

for anyone interested , my speeds from eircon (spelling intended) were:

2.63 Mbps down
309 kbps up

richardo · #7 (**permalink**) 23-02-2006, 05:54 PM

I'll second 9barJoe's summary. There is a wee problem with the grey menu bars that causes a horizontal scroll bar in all screen resolutions. And the site could be run through the validation mill

.

Also [and this is a nit picker!] the average speed table is a bit confusing at first - until you have at least ten results. It is adding the total and dividing by 10. So, after my first test where I got a speed of around 300k, it gave the average as 30k. A more accurate result would be the total divided by the number of tests, which would give 300k.

Apart from the above, I like it

. Nice look, nice feel, nice features. Pity it doesnt do anything for my IBB speeds!

louie · #8 (**permalink**) 23-02-2006, 06:31 PM

the problem with you page scroll is in the css file:

Code:

 
 
#nav .grey { height: 20px; width: 99%;/*try here 98% or 97% cause you have 12px padding left*/ 
background-color: #8B9FB1; 
border-top-width: 1px; 
border-top-style: solid; 
border-top-color: #FFFFFF; 
padding-top: 5px; 
padding-left: 12px; /*replace this with text-indent:12px*/}

blacknight · #9 (**permalink**) 23-02-2006, 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by richardo

Also [and this is a nit picker!] the average speed table is a bit confusing at first - until you have at least ten results. It is adding the total and dividing by 10. So, after my first test where I got a speed of around 300k, it gave the average as 30k. A more accurate result would be the total divided by the number of tests, which would give 300k.

That's the kind of feedback I wanted, as I know that a lot of people will whine about it if we put it live with that kind of cockup

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