Need website feedback please

erikadorie · September 22, 2007

here's the website
http://erikalizphotography.com/main.html

and make sure you click on clients and view photos

here's a link to make it easier
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/store.aspx?p=49955

Thanks I really appreciate it!
Please be harsh, I can handle it and I want the best website possible for us right now.

wxwax · September 22, 2007

Erika, I moved this to a more appropriate forum.

Angelo · September 22, 2007

erikadorie wrote:

here's the website
http://erikalizphotography.com/main.html

and make sure you click on clients and view photos

here's a link to make it easier
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/store.aspx?p=49955

Thanks I really appreciate it!
Please be harsh, I can handle it and I want the best website possible for us right now.

generally it is very nice and I love your photos.... I'm still navigating through but here are first impressions:

1) home page: copywritten? :nono

2) once you're at the photo reflect site you can't return to your home page

3) investment: grammar needs to be cleaned up.

Andy · September 22, 2007

your music woke my wife up

I'm not a fan of music on the website, I think way more than not it's an intrusion. I was working here in bed (745am) and well...

erikadorie · September 22, 2007

Keep them coming
Thanks I appreciate the comments, I will work on them. Please keep them coming, I am hoping for about 15-20 critiques. Thanks

erikadorie

once again
http://www.erikalizphotography.com

Allen · September 22, 2007

I went to your Clients page and couldn't find where to click to view photos.
Not very obvious where to click. Need hover color or maybe the words "click
here" slightly larger or slightly different color.

Then when did find the clicky, Firefox announced a popup, I don't do popups.

saurora · September 22, 2007

Nice site Erika, your photos have come a long way! As mentioned, the music is a problem. You should at least have a volume control adjustment.

On your "About" page there is a sentence I feel you would be better off deleting: "We believe were one lacks the other succeeds at." My feeling is you shouldn't be advertising that either of the photographers 'lack' at anything (even if they do!). Aside from the spelling error and poor sentence structure, the words don't add anything positive to your statement.

I notice the "Click Here" link is broken on your Client page. Perhaps you are working on that.

Nice site....good luck with it!

erikadorie · September 22, 2007

I truely appreciate it.
I just wanted to say I appreciate you guys looking at the site for me. It's so hard to notice everything that's wrong. I will take these things to the bank and fix them!

I didn't care too much for that sentence either, so maybe we can delete that! What you said about it too makes me really not like it, I guess I didn't think about it that way.

Thanks, we had a wedding today so I've got to get to the drawing board!

I appreciate the kudos.

Phil Hawkins · September 23, 2007

I thought it was great; loaded quickly, images good, navigation easy... music did not bother me, but I seem to be in the minority on that issue.

Is this bludomain?

denisegoldberg · September 25, 2007

Your site has a nice overall look & feel, but I do have a couple of comments.

I think you need a way to turn the music off. My reaction (and I know that it may be a rather extreme reaction) when I go to a web site that has music without an obvious mute button is to immediately close the window.

I'd recommend either making the text size larger or setting your text in such a way that using the brower "text size" option is available.

And I'd recommend either making "here" in the Click here to view your photos a little larger or a different color.

Last, the client galleries opened in another window (could have been a pop-up, it opened in a different tab in my window). I don't like "window clutter". I'd prefer to see the client galleries open in the same window as your overall site.

--- Denise

Angelo · September 26, 2007

Angelo wrote:

generally it is very nice and I love your photos.... I'm still navigating through but here are first impressions:

1) home page: copywritten? :nono

2) once you're at the photo reflect site you can't return to your home page

3) investment: grammar needs to be cleaned up.

Erika you removed the word copywritten but you did not replace it with a proper copyright indicia.

JDCostner · September 29, 2007

Music on the website is a No No IMHO.

erikadorie wrote:

here's the website
http://erikalizphotography.com/main.html

and make sure you click on clients and view photos

here's a link to make it easier
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/store.aspx?p=49955

Thanks I really appreciate it!
Please be harsh, I can handle it and I want the best website possible for us right now.

I don't care for music on any web site. It is at minimum a distraction and if a person dislikes the music they will get off the site ASAP.

Good luck,
Jeff

Angelo · September 29, 2007

People, people...

would you all lay off the music criticism.......... lordy, all you have to do is click on the scales to turn off the music.

you'd think none of y'all ever visited a website before

denisegoldberg · September 30, 2007

Angelo wrote:

would you all lay off the music criticism.......... lordy, all you have to do is click on the scales to turn off the music.

OK, I may be a bit thick, but it never entered my brain that I could click on the scale. (And of course you're right, clicking on the moving scales did quiet the noise.)

I suppose for people like me a mute button (or the word mute, or a speaker symbol as opposed to the scale) makes more sense. And yes, I know that what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for everyone else.

--- Denise

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