Old Site / New Site which is better?

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM

06/22/2008 12:51:59 AM · #1

Well we think the new one is of course. What do you all think?

Old Site vs New Site

We are closing the current mall studio in a month or so, then reopening a new one sometime in September. BIG changes... so the site had to start looking professional.

So did we achieve it? (Well START it anyway, still lots to do.)

Sugarpie

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

06/22/2008 01:51:30 AM · #2

wow thats pretty nifty i think you achieved it, i like the 'scrolling' pictures on the front

06/22/2008 11:26:38 AM · #3

Thank you

Sugarpie I think this looks much more professional and upscale, which was our main goal.

purpleflutterby13

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

06/22/2008 12:13:49 PM · #4

Definitely looks very professional :) Much prettier than the old one too.

My one objection is that it takes a while to load up (even on my pretty fast broadband connection).

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

06/22/2008 01:04:45 PM · #5

Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:

Definitely looks very professional :) Much prettier than the old one too.

My one objection is that it takes a while to load up (even on my pretty fast broadband connection).

Ack, with only 4 shots at about 70k-100k each it should be very fast. I think it takes mauybe 3 seconds or so on our cable or dsl either one.

Beetle

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

06/22/2008 01:31:21 PM · #6

Sorry to be negative about it, but I'm sure you'd want to hear that side as well.

Overall, at first glance it looks great !

However, you play music at me, which I detest. I often listen to music while I am at the computer, and I do NOT want others to force THEIR stuff over the top of mine. I know many others feel like that, too. Only saving grace was that once I turned it off, it stayed off - some websites don't even have the grace to do that much.

The loading took a little longer (fast connection here) than I would have liked, but then again I AM spoiled and like things to happen instantly. It wasn't too bad, though, I could live with it.

At first I liked the scrolling, but then I saw so much of it - felt like EVERYTHING was scrolling - that I didn't like it anymore.

Dark backgrounds often look very classy, as is the case on your website. Downside to that is that light text on a dark background is very harsh on my eyes. Usually I do a "select all" to make it a little bit easier, but that didn't work on your flash site (btw, I spotted one typo - airbushing).

So overall whilst it looks rather nice, I never choose to spend much time on such a site, but go somewhere that I find easier to look at and work with.

To ME, user friendly is more important than pretty. Other's mileage obviously varies.