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Thumbs up Re: Website Feedback 2013

Ok, looks to be fairly well designed, but there is one major problem: it's slow. I'm saying this with a high-end i5 and 20mbps internet.
- Think about dropping the snow. It's making my pc lag a bit, and I'd hate to think of browsing it with a netbook.
- Compress the images. The site logo is over a meg and downsamples rather badly on my screen. Resize that and the other large images (I'd try to go for 200K max, unless you need it high res, less for the logo). If you could fix one thing, fix this.
- There are some references to a pdfppt script that doesn't exist, which is driving up the load time and spitting out errors into the console.
- Also, one last critique: I love the little side arrow, but the facebook/youtube/twitter buttons at the top? They don't exactly fit the style of the site. Maybe consider removing them and permanently expanding the arrow on the right, or just match the look that the rest of the site has.

Other than those pet peeves (none of which were too high priority), I find it to be a great site; great looks and well-implemented. Maybe a touch more pictures would help, but I have a feeling you'll add plenty by the time build season is over.

Disclaimer: all IMHO, I do not design web sites for a living (but I probably could)