Website Critique Requested

I just finished reformatting my web site. I would like your opinions
and recommendations. The gallery contains my favorite images. The rest
of the site displays photos from various places that I have visited.
Thanks.

Ron
http://ronbigelow.com

Website Critique Requested

"ron" wrote in message
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I just finished reformatting my web site. I would like your opinions
and recommendations. The gallery contains my favorite images. The rest
of the site displays photos from various places that I have visited.
Thanks.

Ron
http://ronbigelow.com

Website Critique Requested


Very nice photographs. What equipment do you use? Do the photos have
significant post-processing? They are very impressive.

Musty.

ron wrote:
I just finished reformatting my web site. I would like your opinions
and recommendations. The gallery contains my favorite images. The rest
of the site displays photos from various places that I have visited.
Thanks.

Ron
http://ronbigelow.com

Website Critique Requested


The front page looks good - nice and clean. But, IMHO, it's goes
slightly downhill from there. It's a little awkward with a "back" button
and the picture caption boxes are kinda funky looking - too big and
doesn't look like they belong. I think if you did away with the gray
caption/title box, just changed the letter color to a contrasting color,
and made the background color to black, it would do wonders.

I'm being hyper-critical because your pictures are so good and I think
they demand a better showcase.
--
Slack

Musty,

Originally, I used a Canon D60. Late last year, I moved up to the 20D.
Both are great cameras. I use four different lenses: 16 -- 35, 24 --
70, 180 macro, and 400. All are L lenses (Canon's professional grade
lenses). The images in the gallery have all been created as fine art
prints. As such, they take a significant amount of time to perfect
(they were shot as raw images). The rest of the images in my site took
very little post processing.

On 5 Jun 2005 16:07:25 -0700, "ron" wrote:

I just finished reformatting my web site. I would like your opinions
and recommendations. The gallery contains my favorite images. The rest
of the site displays photos from various places that I have visited.
Thanks.

Ron
http://ronbigelow.com

Website Critique Requested

OK...

I think you should split up the buttons you have on top, between the ones that
bring you to photos, and the ones that do other things such as Email or
whatever. You seem to have 2 main photo groups... I'd put them separate.

Also, your Gallery has a thum that brings you to more thums and then to an image
only a bit bigger then the thum... a bit confusing and time consuming.

I would lose the thums on the first link page, and make the photos bigger or
offer a choice of 2 sizes... I'm using an LCD monitor and it must be set to
highest res or it distorts - so your pics are very small!

Also add a bit more to the description if you can, such as some camera data...

Now I just clicked home and I'm on a different link page... oops I see the
'outings' page was confusing me... OK I think you need to re-do this outing page
somehow.... it doesn't match the gallery start page in any way, looks like a
different site... so many choices here but they lead to the same thing...

Another thing, I found the same pic in several places... you may not want to do
this!

hmmmm this is odd, but I'm lost! I can't tell you how to repair this because I'm
so deep in your links... but I noticed I got a big pic and description and THEN
I got a choice of thums... seems a bit backwards!

All in all it's a good start, but you can make it more uniform and not
repetitive. Also, maybe find a way to have links that don't require lots of
'back' 'back' page moves. This would KILL dial-up users!

Oh bye the way - GREAT PICS!!

I hope you don't take any offence at my critique - I'm very picky!

Hello Ron!

I've just been to the site and enjoyed my visit - nicely laid out and
straight to the point. No fiddlng about.

I'm usually not one for cottonwool water falls (hard for photographers
to be unique with this subject) but you've done an excellent job with
Limekiln Falls. Plenty going on, rich colour and nice compostion too.

Your Outings section is a really nice touch. You've put a lot of work
into all of this and it will be of interest to anyone visiting the
areas listed.

Just a personal thing here, but unless I've missed it, it would be nice
to have bit about yourself and your take on photography and what it
means to you. Your approach to technique would be worth reading to as
you know what you're doing! Equipment doesn't matter to me, but your
ethos would. Just a thought...

Good luck!

Sam

Let me start by saying i love your pics. Snow Storm and Sugarpine 1 and
2 are my particular favorites.

I have quite a bit of professional experience designing websites, so
please take my comments as constructive criticism...not everyone is a
programmer or has professional training in usability design, and I
think this is a good design overall but needs some work.

#1. The mottled background detracts from the site. Its a nice
countertop colour, but it both muddles the text of your
headings/buttons, and detracts from your photos. Go with a solid colour
for your layout and picture matting. A black matting will make your
pictures stand out.

#2. The font you've used is cute, but not professional. Go for a more
bold, CRT friendly font. Arial, Verdana, Tahoma...all good selections.
Ideally you should go with a bright colour (yellow? white?) and bevel
or shadow the text with a dark colour (black, dark grey) to make it
stand out.

You've done a good job with the colours though...complimentary (in this
case the light blue and gray are a bit too complimentary) colours and
nothing outrageously contrasting.Your menu headings inside the site are
consistent. I'd recommend a sub-menu heading for each section so that
you'd don't need to go back to the main gallery page if you don't use
the back button (i hope this makes sense).

One final comment..the text seems to me a bit too big. Lower the font
size of HTML text size one or two points. Ideally go with the HTML
default, if people have a hard time seeing the text then they can
always override with their own browser defaults.

"ron" wrote in message
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I just finished reformatting my web site. I would like your opinions
and recommendations. The gallery contains my favorite images. The rest
of the site displays photos from various places that I have visited.
Thanks.

Ron
http://ronbigelow.com

Website Critique Requested


Very nice. I'd make the thumbnails a little smaller and the images they
lead to a little larger, and then sharpen and compress them less than you
have here.

--
Regards,
Matt Clara
www.mattclara.com

I just finished reformatting my web site. I would like your opinions
and recommendations. The gallery contains my favorite images. The rest
of the site displays photos from various places that I have visited.
Thanks.

Ron
http://ronbigelow.com

I like your photography better than I like the /style/ of the web site, but
even so the web site is easy enough to navigate. You've got some really
nice photos there.

--
Mark

Photos, Ideas & Opinions
http://www.marklauter.com