Topic: Please check this new forex trading site.

[webdesigner1980]

here is my website, thanks for your reviews, i welcome negative and positive criticism! http://www.forexjustice.com

[nrg_alpha]

Here are my thoughts:

Technical:

• Your markup doesn't validate. Nor does your css.
• You are making use of heading tags (<h2><h3>...etc) But there is no h1 tag.. perhaps making "Forex Justice - The Fair Forex Trading Forum " on the home page an h1 tag for example. Adds importance for search engine purposes
• I think I would come up with a better description for the 'description' meta tag... The format is good (a short sentence), but fails to describe the page IMO
• I would use css for layout purposes as opposed to using tables.
• Images could use some optimizations.. according to smushit, your home page could see savings of ~ 203.96 KB! - additional tools for stuff like minifying javascripts and such can be found using Yahoo's Yslow
• small images like http://www.forexjustice.com/modules/mod_bookmarkus/bookmark_site.gif could be merged with others (known as css sprites) to reduce http requests. You can also look at Yahoo's best practices for additional tips on improving your site.

Visual (non technical):

• The top menu looks like the text can use some bottom padding, as I find the text gets too close to the menu's lower edges.
• Along the left hand side menu, there are different coloured 'GO' bullet points.. I'm not sure what this means..I get the impression of the red ones signifying 'Proceed at your own risk' kind of thing.. while the yellows are moderately safe to click on, with the green being safe. Maybe its the wrong message being sent here.. perhaps replacing those with a single, attractive small bullet graphic instead?
• I'm not sure about your footer.. There is a large emphasis on 'Highest Rated', 'Worst Rated', 'Latest Reviews'. I'm wondering if those should not be placed somewhere near the top for more prominence?

[Axeia]

Speed
The site loads very very slow

• you don't have content compression enabled.
• The site uses 25!! background images, look into using CSS sprites
• You're using tables for layout tables need to fully loaded before your browser can render them, unless you do some extra work. But since it isn't tabular data you oughta fix the source of problem and switch over to divs/whatever other tags would make sense.
• Not all of your javascript/css is minified
• You have 6 external javascript files and 3 stylesheets, combine those where possible to reduce the number of http requests.
  
• http://www.forexjustice.com/images/stories/signalbanner.jpg that image is bigger than you have it displaying on the page itself

Suggestions/bugs

• I'd make the rating part in the top image link to http://www.forexjustice.com/jreviews/Reviews/Review_Section/order/rating.html
• Above page has overlapping text in Firefox 3
• Above page has "alt='image'" which makes no sense whatsoever, use something descriptive like "Broker Reviews"

Personal opinion

• The searchbox is too small and the button next to it is too big, I'd make the text on the button simply "Go" and the textbox itself wider.
• Other than that, I think the text for the 'read more' links in the footer is too big, and the sitemap/disclaimer links I don't like the color off, blue on blue.
• I'd get rid of the top banner, it's too prominent, people don't visit a site to see ads yet it's the first thing greeting them on your site.. not to mention they're mainly seem to be to your competitors and since your site is loading so slow I might actually be tempted to click it instead of waiting for the page to finish loading.
• http://www.forexjustice.com/forex_reviews.html I don't see the added value of all the icons, just makes it take longer for the content to show up.