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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 |
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"ron" wrote in message oups.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 Website Critique Requested Very nice photographs. What equipment do you use? Do the photos have significant post-processing? They are very impressive. Musty. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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"ron" wrote in message
oups.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 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 |
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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 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 |
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