New website, critque please

Markjay

Could you please have a look at my newly developed smugmug site and tell me what you think?

http://360photostock.com currently redirects you to
http://360photostock.smugmug.com
until my CNAME record or url mask is done

Would you be kind enough to point out anything that can improved upon and / or let me know if you like what I've done so far?

Keep in mind:
The homepage graphic is a temporary placeholder... I'll be changing that but, if you like it do let me know! I have not finished the Links page and Photo Services Page (nav links) and, I have only uploaded a few photos.


Thank you in advance and you are welcome to be as blunt and honest as you would like.... it won't hurt my ego or feelings :-) Promise.

Andy

Set camera info to be "yes" so that buyers can see the exif by clicking on the link in the photoBar.....

No SmugMungous sizes????? How come?

Andy

Markjay wrote:

Tell me (because I really don't know) what it would matter to the buyer what camera was used or why the camera info would be of any use to the buyer...

They'd want to know the size of the photo?

denisegoldberg

I'd like to see a slightly larger font for your navbar entries. Even though the color contrast between the text and the background is good, the entries are just a little too small (for my taste).

You are showing the breadcrumb on your stock images gallery, and if I click on business in the breadcrumb I am taken to the business category page. Nothing wrong with that, but I was a little surprised that that page does not share the look & feel of your home page any your stock images gallery page. I'd either make them the same or remove the breadcrumb so viewers can't wander over there. I find that the breadcrumb can be useful if you have more categories that aren't shown on your navbar.

I find it interesting that you've priced the personal and commercial rights for a 1 megapixel download the same.

--- Denise

Markjay

Thanks
You are right, the font is most definately too small on the nav bar, thank you!

RE: Business..... that, was an oversight on my part that you just pointed out. Thank you!!

RE: dgidownloads small size comm. or personal
frankly, Im still not sure I understand why personal is even offered as an option? Do I really want personal downloads of my files to users who likely do not understand or respect licensed photography use? I amy very well remove the personal download option.... I'll have to think about that one some more.

Thank you very much for your feedback, most useful and thought provoking..... which is what I was hoping for!

Markjay

denisegoldberg wrote:

I'd like to see a slightly larger font for your navbar entries. Even though the color contrast between the text and the background is good, the entries are just a little too small (for my taste).

You are showing the breadcrumb on your stock images gallery, and if I click on business in the breadcrumb I am taken to the business category page. Nothing wrong with that, but I was a little surprised that that page does not share the look & feel of your home page any your stock images gallery page. I'd either make them the same or remove the breadcrumb so viewers can't wander over there. I find that the breadcrumb can be useful if you have more categories that aren't shown on your navbar.

I find it interesting that you've priced the personal and commercial rights for a 1 megapixel download the same.

--- Denise

denisegoldberg

Markjay wrote:

I'm new to this digital downloading thing so please pardon my ignorance. Just trying to figure out why I'm even offering the digital downloads for personal license at all?

It seems like your primary market is for commercial use, so it probably wouldn't hurt to only offer commercial license digital downloads.

But - while someone could choose a commercial license download for personal use, I'd imagine that won't be very common. What might someone do with a personal use download? 1 megapixel won't give them a quality print, but it would allow the use for a computer background, or... (sorry, my imagination isn't working too well right now...).

How's that for not answering a question?

--- Denise