Splash Page Mobile

tomlewisphotogprahy

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone can help with the splash page on my site.

It looks great in all browsers on pc but terrible on mobile.

Can someone tell me if it's possible to make it look better, and if so, how?

Regards,

Tom Lewis

Hikin' Mike

We need to see your site first...

tomlewisphotogprahy

Yes mike, complete noob to forums you see, just learned about adding signature from support

I hope you can see it now on this post?

I've just made my site public to everyone which might also help!

thanks

Hikin' Mike

Yep, I can see it, but I don't understand your question. It looks the same on desktop and mobile to me.

tomlewisphotogprahy

This is what I'm talking about Mike, you can't see it all in portrait mode, no way to change that?

Also, id like there to be less space between the social links and my copyright, that is slightly different to the desktop site, and my eye is drawn to it. If I could do this myself I would, I appreciate the help.

thanks

Hikin' Mike

To be fair, I don't own a mobile so I had to resize my monitor. Had to resize it pretty small. Not sure if it's possible as you're using it as a background, but I suppose you can create to slideshow, one for desktop and one for mobile. You hide one using CSS. I know it will work as a regular slideshow.

tomlewisphotogprahy

Ok, yes I'm so pleased with how it works when resizing desktop windows, it all snaps to position brilliantly, thanks to the great smugmug design. Though I'm aware of the world today and if anyone looks at my site, it could possibly be on mobile more than desktop, especially among my age group.

Just to be clear what your saying: do I have to create two separate slideshows for all the images on my homepage or just the splash image?

Maybe all the images would display better on mobile if I did this?

Hikin' Mike

@tomlewisphotogprahy said:
Just to be clear what your saying: do I have to create two separate slideshows for all the images on my homepage or just the splash image?

I don't think you can create two slideshows as a BACKGROUND. You CAN create two regular slideshows though.

tomlewisphotogprahy

Hi Mike, I've got one more question related to the splash page.

It seems to take a long time to load when first going on my site. The screen stays grey for up to 10 seconds sometimes, I think that's long enough for someone to click off the site and deem it not working (I felt it myself and its my site)

Is this something I can fix myself, by reducing the image size maybe?

I know smugmug is smart and resizes images for the site itself, and maybe it's just my internet connection but the rest of the slideshow has no problem running seamlessly after the splash page and I uploaded them all as full size images.

The only thing I can think is because my splash has a logo on it I uploaded it as a png for best visuals, maybe this is a problem?

Any ideas?

Hikin' Mike

Me personally I don't like splash pages and I generally leave.

If you must use a full-size slideshow, I would try and resize them. I use this tool to get me an idea on how fast a site is: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.tomlewisphotography.co.uk/JUSjH21g/. As you can see, it takes 4-5 seconds for all of you content to display (I ran it twice). That is WAY too long, IMO. You can try with and without your logo and see if that helps.

tomlewisphotogprahy

Thats a nice thing to hear, i'm not sold on the idea of a splash page, but it was interesting and fun to make the logo over the image.

I think it's all to time consuming to worry about for the sake of a splash page.

thanks

Hikin' Mike

Technically it isn't a splash page. To me a splash page is just a useless page that has no menus, just a "Enter Here" link or something like that. So, since you do have a menu, it isn't that bad. I would try and reduce the file sizes of your images.

tomlewisphotogprahy

Thanks Mike, I'll play around with it.