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Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

03/28/2005 08:03:23 PM · #1

I was working on a new webite for my photos, and I was wondering if a few of you could give me some feedback. Its not all up yet, but there is a few photos, and I came up with a new layout rather than the other one I had. Remember your opinion counts.

Picture #3 is me.

Travis

website

Message edited by author 2005-03-28 20:20:13.

Canon EOS-20D

03/28/2005 08:07:47 PM · #2

What's different from the other layout other than the color?

pianomom

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

03/28/2005 08:08:22 PM · #3

I like it. It's easy to use and looks nice! Good pictures too, by the way! :)

gaurawa

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

03/28/2005 08:08:38 PM · #4

the thumbnails (?) are too small and black... shouldn't you have them show what's I am going to see ? a preview ? real thumbnail ?

03/28/2005 08:17:44 PM · #5

Originally posted by mk:

What's different from the other layout other than the color?

The origial was way different than that. I just posted a start of the new one last night, you must of seen that one.

03/28/2005 08:19:18 PM · #6

Originally posted by gaurawa:

the thumbnails (?) are too small and black... shouldn't you have them show what's I am going to see ? a preview ? real thumbnail ?

didnt really mean them to be thumbnails, because I will be using them for something else on another page. If you clicked them that means people are paying attention to them.

gaurawa

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

03/28/2005 08:28:07 PM · #7

The photos you have in there should be framed equally on opposite sides unless you are putting text or any other thing...
e.g. #2 men fishing, it has less room on top, more on bottoom... that looks very asymmetrical.

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

03/28/2005 08:31:42 PM · #8

Originally posted by gaurawa:

As does photo #4, I will fix when I add my better pictures, I just threw these in until I get my new computer because my PS wont let me crop anything to the right size because I have no space left on my hard drive. My new computer will be here Saturday and I will be all good to fix them. Thanks for pointing it out.

Travis

singe

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

03/28/2005 08:31:47 PM · #9

On photo #3, I can see spots where it appears you covered something up.

mrmojo

Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z2

03/29/2005 04:48:54 PM · #10

I like the simplicity of it but you can save load time by putting in a header tag to preload all of your images, and then attach a set image action to each of your squares to open the file in that center box. What this does is makes the whole thing one page rather than 7 seperate pages, and with them preloaded you can scan through the photos in notime flat.

Also maybe do a hover on those boxes so that when you put your mouse over the box a thumbnail pops up and then disapears when you move the mouse

buzzrock

Fujifilm X-M1

Fujifilm XC 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OIS

03/29/2005 04:57:53 PM · #11

It is Painfully Slow on dial-up!
I'm afraid that any potential customers you might have that are still using dial-up won't wait for the load times..
Also in both Firefox and IE, for some reason the thumbnails on the left arent showing up for me.

EDIT-- I just read that you planned the empty boxes as thumbnails..
???

Message edited by author 2005-03-29 17:02:20.

mrmojo

Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z2

03/29/2005 05:12:05 PM · #12

those arent thumbnails they are just links, you see them alot on fashion photographers sites cause it forces you to look at all of the photos. I just think a hover would be good because it still forces the viewer to move the mouse over the image but you still get the advantages of a thumbnail

seriocomic

Nikon D700

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

03/29/2005 05:20:36 PM · #13

My thoughts are exactly the same for my comments left on the last last thread you started on this topic.

GoldBerry

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

03/29/2005 05:43:48 PM · #14

nice site except the title font/color looks cheesy to me. Making the buttons "hover" instead of clickable is an easy way to deter people from saving your images...it doesn't make it impossible, but it's harder and people are lazy :-)

virtuamike

Nikon D2X

Carl Zeiss 35mm ZF f/2.0 Distagon T

03/29/2005 06:02:51 PM · #15

I'm not a terribly huge fan of image maps. Anything that could be text should be text. Any backgrounds should be made as small as possible (find a way to tile them).