Tandem Skydiving Website

[Lukevdp]

Skydive Nagambie is a skydiving dropzone here in central Victoria, Australia.

The site is http://www.skydivenagambie.com

CMS Version
1.8.2

Installed Modules

CMSMailer 2.0

FileManager 1.0.2

MenuManager 1.6.5

ModuleManager 1.4

News 2.10.6 (not used)

nuSOAP 1.0.2

Printing 1.1.0

Search 1.6.5

ThemeManager 1.1.1

TinyMCE 2.7.2

CGExtensions 1.18.7

CGSimpleSmarty 1.4.5

CompanyDirectory 1.5.7 (used for the staff members http://www.skydivenagambie.com/about/staff.html)

CGCalendar 1.5.2 (used for the calendar http://www.skydivenagambie.com/news/events.html)

Gallery 1.4.1 (used for the gallery http://www.skydivenagambie.com/gallery.html)

CMSSimplepie 1.0 (used for grabbing weather http://www.skydivenagambie.com/about/weather.html)

Twitter 0.0.7

CTLModuleMaker 1.8.9.3 (Used to make the testimonials module)

testimonials 1.0 (Used to manage testimonials)

Products 2.8.3 (Used to manage product prices http://www.skydivenagambie.com/tandem-skydiving/prices.html. Also used in the booking form https://www.skydivenagambie.com/tandem-skydiving/book-now.html)

Album 0.9.3 (Used so the client can update the photos that scroll on inner pages)

MovedPages 0.1 (Used so pages from the old site redirect to the new pages)

[Dr.CSS]

Nice look...

But...

I would not have parent page hover with yellow border on bottom, just looks weird above the drop...

The arrow in the drop menu makes me think they are parent and I expect more to drop out when I hover them...

[Lukevdp]

Thanks Dr CSS.

[Pedrosken]

Realy very nice work! Makes me almost wanne Skydive
But then again, I live in Belgium, so...

Just to make it a perfect website, I would make it google Friendly.
Compleet your Metatags like :

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<meta name='robots' content='index,follow' />
<meta name="author" content="www.yourdomain.com" />
<meta name="copyright" content="www.yourdomain.com" />
<meta name="follow" content="all" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="14 days" />
<meta name="description" content="....." />
<meta name="keywords" content="....." />

Also compleet your Contact page?
Formbuilder module is very easy to use for setting up a contact form.
Porsonaly I would not display your E-mail adress, its asking for spam.

Second, your page looks kind of slow, heavy..
I did run Yslow and this is the result:

Grade F on Make fewer HTTP requests

This page has 13 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.
This page has 7 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.
This page has 23 external background images. Try combining them with CSS sprites.

Grade F on Put JavaScript at bottom

There are 13 Javacript scripts found in the head of the document

    * http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/sifr/js/sifr.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/js/sfhover.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/sifr/js/sifr-config.js
    * http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jq ... ery.min.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/js/jquery.easing.1.2.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/js/jquery.testiinside.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/js/jquer ... gallery.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/js/slide ... gallery.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/js/slide ... -inside.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/js/date.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/js/jquery.datePicker.js
    * http://www.skydivenagambie.com/js/form-fields.js


JavaScript scripts block parallel downloads; that is, when a script is downloading, the browser will not start any other downloads. To help the page load faster, move scripts to the bottom of the page if they are deferrable.

Keep up the good work

[Lukevdp]

Thanks Pedrosken, I missed the meta tags on the home page, however interestingly enough we didn't notice any loss of rankings for the first 2 weeks since we've been up.

The client didn't want a contact form.

I agree about the javascript, thanks.

[uniqu3]

Nice one Lukevdp,

i agree with Dr.CSS regarding arrows in the navigation.
I have also experinced slow load time, ok there could also be issue with huge images and server located overseas since im in Austria, but still you could combine those js scripts very easy using ScriptDeploy module also minifying and combining your CSS since you use 6 different files excluding the print and ie stylesheet, what would reduce http request to 5 instead of 20.