paparazzinick wrote:
for one, using iWeb for a professional site isnt the best option.
Your site loads extremely slow. I am on a 30meg down connection and it is WOW slow...
The ads at the top of the site are extremely annoying. That is a feature that you have to enable in iWeb and make an effort. Why?
I think it is not your connection, (I guess is the .mac server) I have 1Mb and it downloads fast in Pc and Mac. I agree in the ads, I went to the domain host and quit the ads but they seem to not care much about it. (they were not there yesterday but today they appear again)
Edit: I just got a new domain host with name plus .com that will be working soon. Never get a free domain host, I will keep it engraved in my mind:-)
Not bad. The links along the top are good. Easy to see and navigate.
The pages that have two photos before showing the strip of thumbnails have to go. They are pointless. Go right from the link to the page with the thumbnail strips.
I am looking on an old laptop as i type and have to scroll the page. Resize the pages to fit on all monitors.
I would not link to other sites myself but if you do have them open in a new window.
Opening in a new window is a no no when linking to pages relating to your own site but the best option when going somewhere else.
Get the text off of the photo on the front page.
Could be good if you just clean it up a little.
Marcus Watts wrote:
I am looking on an old laptop as i type and have to scroll the page. Resize the pages to fit on all monitors.
I'm going to have to disagree. If your monitor is at a resolution smaller than 1280x800(700) then tough. Deal with it. research shows that 75-85% of the market is using monitors of 1600x1200 or larger. So i would say dont design your site to be wider than 1200 for now. Then as the market grows go wider, grow your website.
if you have to scroll up and down to read everything and you dont like i then leave the site. Unless your using a flash site your probably going to have to scroll to see everything. things that you have to deal with
paparazzinick wrote:
research shows that 75-85% of the market is using monitors of 1600x1200 or larger. So i would say dont design your site to be wider than 1200 for now. Then as the market grows go wider, grow your website.
Nick, can I ask where you read that? I'm responsible for web site stuff as part of my day job, and here's a report from google analytics from our site's traffic.
While I agree that a lot of people probably have screens capable of the higher resolution, and this is just a sample of visitors to one website, it is a fairly large sample group. So this data urges me to avoid designing for any resolution over 1024x768
If you don't run google analytics analysis of your site, imo, you should, the service is free, and can provide all sorts of usefull stats! It tells you refering sites, search keywords leading to traffic on your site, and a bunch of nifty stuff about your audience, from screen resolutions, to browsers, to connection type.
Never hurts to see things thru the eyes of your audience.
C Bennett wrote:
Nick, can I ask where you read that? I'm responsible for web site stuff as part of my day job, and here's a report from google analytics from our site's traffic.
While I agree that a lot of people probably have screens capable of the higher resolution, and this is just a sample of visitors to one website, it is a fairly large sample group. So this data urges me to avoid designing for any resolution over 1024x768
If you don't run google analytics analysis of your site, imo, you should, the service is free, and can provide all sorts of usefull stats! It tells you refering sites, search keywords leading to traffic on your site, and a bunch of nifty stuff about your audience, from screen resolutions, to browsers, to connection type.
Never hurts to see things thru the eyes of your audience.
C Bennett wrote:
Nick, can I ask where you read that? I'm responsible for web site stuff as part of my day job, and here's a report from google analytics from our site's traffic.
While I agree that a lot of people probably have screens capable of the higher resolution, and this is just a sample of visitors to one website, it is a fairly large sample group. So this data urges me to avoid designing for any resolution over 1024x768
If you don't run google analytics analysis of your site, imo, you should, the service is free, and can provide all sorts of usefull stats! It tells you refering sites, search keywords leading to traffic on your site, and a bunch of nifty stuff about your audience, from screen resolutions, to browsers, to connection type.
Never hurts to see things thru the eyes of your audience.
Lord Fluff wrote:
I've not read all the above, have just looked at your site.
1. Lose the kit list. Really. The only people that are interested are other photographers, and even they don't care that much
2. Why the 'glossary' on photography? If you want to do this, you'll have to do it really well and mind your grammar ("deep of field"?)
3. Lose the Google Ads at the bottom of page
Right, you are completely right.
I will check the grammar or just delete that section. :-) I wonder if any English tried making a Spanish website. I started learning English just 5 years ago but it haven't got a serious learning till the end of 2005 when I came to Ireland. And I suppose I have to care a bit more about grammar.
The gear will be deleted too as I see it is not the first time someone says it.
The adds are almost unseen but I will think about it.
