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Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED

04/13/2008 01:51:43 PM · #1

Well, its finally up, there is still a bit of work to do, but everything is pretty much in place. I know there are some grammatical & spelling errors in there at the moment, but generally I am pleased with what I have so far, so if a bunch of you could test it that would be great.. I am not a web developer by any means and I have thrown this thing together with Dreamweaver in the best way I can, so its all HTML (aside from the gallery).. So if you can pass by and let me know what you think that would be great.

Cheers ears!!

Eyecandy Photographic

Cutter

Nikon D700

04/13/2008 01:59:13 PM · #2

gave it super quick go over...works for me. All I gotta say I want to be a "Licentiate"! heh.

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

04/13/2008 02:10:03 PM · #3

Originally posted by Cutter:

gave it super quick go over...works for me.

Cheers!

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

04/13/2008 02:19:12 PM · #4

I look at a TON of photograher's websites - its become a bit of a hobby lol; anyway, this is one of the most elegant and easy to navigate/understand that I've seen in a long time. The colors / fonts and imagery are all spot on! :)

Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Canon

04/13/2008 02:30:17 PM · #5

Originally posted by idnic:

Thanks Cindi, I did a lot of research and found a lot of websites are incredibly tiresome to navigate around, or waiting for Flash to load etc. So wanted to keep it basic yet functional. The colour scheme is geared towards `girlie` as it will be mostly the fairer sex who will be looking for stuff like this.

I appreciate your feedback.

moswyn

Canon EOS-7D

04/13/2008 03:16:26 PM · #6

It is pretty and elegant... the only suggestion I have is with the text. I feel like I need to squint to read it. If it could be just a shade darker, I think it might help. As it is, I feel like I need to bump the contrast up a bit :)

paynekj

Pentax K10D

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

04/13/2008 04:29:40 PM · #7

I have to agree with the colour of the text - it's a bit too pale.

A couple of other thoughts:

The Albums page is inconsistent with the other pages as you've lost the navigation, and haven't provided any means to get back to the front page.

Consider if you want to force the visitor to have to scroll the front page to see all of it.

You also might want to consider the psychology of admitting that it's a site under construction - and having blank and non-functioning pages. My feeling is that you should only put links and pages up that are finished because work-in-progress sends the wrong message - it implies you're not taking this seriously.

Otherwise it looks great - exactly the right tone.

Update: Having re-read your original post, and re-visited your site, I now know that the gallery page isn't blank as it first appeared to be (I'm on dial-up so Flash is generally incredibly slow) If you can get some sort of "loading" message up a bit quicker it might be better.

Message edited by author 2008-04-13 16:36:04.