Forum: Photography


Subject: New Web Site

DIANE603 opened this issue on Nov 09, 2006 ยท 14 posts


3DGuy posted Tue, 14 November 2006 at 6:50 PM

The looks of it are good. But personally, I don't really like flash sites.

Here are my comments (which I hope you pick up as constructive)

First of all. Music in the background, now that interferes with the music I'm playing in WinAmp. Yes, I know you can stop it manually. I just think music shouldn't be playing on a website. Not everyone might like the music and that could be a reason to browse away.

Second: an intro. Ok, you got a skip button. But if I revisit your site I have to skip it again. Just register I've visited your site and skip the intro when I revisit.

Third. Too much going on. With that I mean I have to wait for some animation to finish before I get to where I want to go. It's nice the 1st couple of items, but it gets anoying having to wait. This is probably my main grievance with any flash site. For example from the home to the 1st item in the menu, it takes 3 seconds of animation.

Fourth: Please lose the beeps. It's really anoying to hear BEEP every time I go over any item on your site. If you insist on using a sound for that, use a more low key sound for that.

Fifth: the navigation. I click on Ikebana and get a gallery link on the left and a large image on the right. It says next to the small image "<click on gallery & #3". I have no idea what that means. Actually I think it means to say "". But the word "gallery" isn't even clickable, you need to click the image. Next I'm looking over at the menu and choose say: Terragen. A terragen image opens, but the link to the gallery (small image on the left) stays the same). So I'm starting to think there's only 1 terragen image there. Later I figured out I need to goto the gallery and click one of the numbered blocks on the bottom. My point here is that that isn't intuitive. If I click on the terragen link on the right I want to go to the terragen gallery. Not having to click another gallery first to choose another button to finally get there. Also what is the purpose of the small image under the bigger image. If I click that nothing happens except the bigger image flickers.

Sixth: The large empty patch on the topleft of the page. My gut tells me there should be a logo or something there. Now it's just an empty space. Is that intentional?

Lastly: On your contact page you have a blessing in 3 languages. Now my french is bad so I don't know if that is correct, but my german is good enough to know that that particular scentence isn't right. Maybe you could ask one of our german forummembers what the correct translations should be.

In closing: I really like the images themselves. But the flow of the website could use some work.

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