Visitors and SmugMug Style View

Luc De Jaeger

I've set up my galleries in SmugMug Style because I find it very professional, clean and clear with a good navigation.

However, it seems my visitors don't find it as easy to navigate this style.

When I checked my statcounter stats and looked for some patterns I found it remarkable, even astonishing, that most visitors with a 1280x1024 monitor only looked at 12 pictures (just one page) in a gallery. Not more.

It's just now, after all these months that I've found out how come because I contacted a friend who has the same monitor size and was one of those who just viewed 12 photos in a gallery of 70+ photos and I asked why just one single page (the first page).

It seems that the visitor does not notice that there are pages in the galleries (the notification above the thumbnails and larger image seem not to be noticed)! Imho it's obvious there are pages in the gallery because it's indicated above the images, but it seems not that obvious to the visitors, they just stick with one page and think 'well that's all there is....'.

I thought that perhaps the same page and photo # indicator as found above the photos below the thumbnails may do the trick (but I don't know because I can't try this out). I'm not yet planning to change the style of all my galleries because I like it the most but I've today changed two galleries (set to thumbnail style) to see how visitors browse the photos in these galleries.

Am I the only one who has observed how visitors view the SmugMug Style?

Luc

scwalter

You can turn it on for the bottom too, try this for both the smugmug and smugmug_small styles.

#smugmug #albumNav_bottom, #smugmug_small #albumNav_bottom {
display: block;
}

Luc De Jaeger

scwalter wrote:

You can turn it on for the bottom too, try this for both the smugmug and smugmug_small styles.

#smugmug #albumNav_bottom, #smugmug_small #albumNav_bottom {
display: block;
}

Thanks for this Scott !!

I turned it on for the bottom now and will see if this helps the visitors to look further than the tip of their nose .

Thanks again!
Luc

eddief

That's very interesting, I've never thought that this could be an issue! I'm always surprised when I see the way people surf through my site, and it gives me ideas on how to improve it.

I noticed some of the new themes have larger text... maybe you could add to the CSS above to make the page navigation text larger so people notice it more!?