I found the site was extremely slow to load in both Safari and Firefox on Mac, and still pretty slow on IE Win. However, the problem only existed on the first page, which suggests that whatever the problem is, it's being cached so that future pages don't suffer from the same problem.
The javascript is 15k, which is pretty substantial, but I'm on DSL with heaps of bandwidth, so it's NOT a download issue, so my only guess is perhaps that my browsers are caching something *else* that's slowing down the first page -- perhaps it's the images (16k for one of them), or perhaps it's related to the JavaScript... the only way to test would be to turn off your cache and try different versions (with images, without, with JS, without, etc).
If the JS is the problem, I'd seriously consider trying different scripts that are more minimalist -- the speed of your first page is VERY IMPORTANT, and perhaps bloated JS is not the solution... anyway, onto your problems:
I recently put up my first two commercial sites. I just ran them through
iCapture and on one of them the menu is not showing. The clients wanted a
dropdown, flyout menu so it is a JavaScript menu and takes a tad longer to
download - would this be the reason it is not showing or do you think there
is a problem on the Macs/Safari? I would appreciate it if someone on a Mac
could do a quick site check for me please, the url is www.cwfs.org.au
The menu (and sub-menus) are working fine in Safari 1.0 on my Mac -- I can only assume Safari 1.1 and 1.2 are fine as well.
Not sure about your other issues.
--- Justin French http://indent.com.au
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