What would you do different

[niconel.com]

I will be rebuilding this site (http://www.studypath.cn)
Mostly I will stay with the current design and work on to convert to database driven site, but in the process I probably will work on the design.

Let me know please....design is not my strong point

[niconel.com]

I started a new version of the mentioned site. Though under construction, it can be viewed here (http://www.studypath.cn/www/studypath)

Seeing I'm inside of china, and not affected by the Great Chinese Firewall, I wont really notice a performance difference (heck fast), but I would like to know the difference in loading time from outside China.

Please guys, it's seems this forum is dead! Proof me wrong!!!!

[dtm32236]

i like the "accordion" effect on the first site, but I think that the effect should happen onClick and not onMouseOver.

the top images are nice, but i think that something should happen when you mouse over them. make the text change a different color or have an underline onmouseover at least. and i think that both the image and the text should be a link.

the main images loaded slow the first time, but it wasn't too terrible. but the top image on the sub-pages load really slow.

the only other thing is that on the home page, it's tough to figure out what your website is and what it does. a user should know the function of a website within the first 5 seconds or so... i think that you should try to make a tag line or something... maybe in the main images that very very briefly describes what your site is about.

the layout is very nice - good job with it.