rate my web page!

PhotolisticPhotolistic Registered Users Posts: 347 Major grins
edited March 27, 2008 in Mind Your Own Business
How professional is my web page.

Any tips are great!

lots of great pics to look at too...
http://somethingforever.com
Mac User

rate my site 18 votes

looks great A+
22% 4 votes
looks good but needs some work
72% 13 votes
I would start over
0% 0 votes
Did not look at the site but voting is fun!!!!!
5% 1 vote

Comments

  • i_worship_the_Kingi_worship_the_King Registered Users Posts: 548 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2008
    I'm a big fan of simple. I really like the design you've gone with.

    My only question was about page placement. While everything fit on one screen I had to scroll a few lines to get it all there. It's like there are a few blank lines at the top for some reason...
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  • PhotolisticPhotolistic Registered Users Posts: 347 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2008
    i_worship_the_King wrote:
    I'm a big fan of simple. I really like the design you've gone with.

    My only question was about page placement. While everything fit on one screen I had to scroll a few lines to get it all there. It's like there are a few blank lines at the top for some reason...

    blank lines on what page(s)?
    http://somethingforever.com
    Mac User
  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2008
    If I am reading i_worship_the_King correctly he may mean the white space above the framing element of every page.

    Seems excessive to me as well, at least as veiwed in Camino 1.5.5 on a Mac.

    Nice clean site with lots of good images, otherwise.

    Don
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  • afarberafarber Registered Users Posts: 267 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2008
    I like the overall design of the site. I didn't spend too much time there, but here are a couple very specific comments I thought of:

    - The one Music gallery uses the Smugmug layout where all the other galleries I checked out use the filmstrip layout. Make it uniform.

    - For the galleries with the filmstrip layout, there is specific code that will keep the filmstrip from moving by itself. i'd add that. It drives me crazy when the filmstrip moves and I'm not asking it to. (just my opinion)
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  • bhambham Registered Users Posts: 1,303 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2008
    One thing I noticed are you "Something Forever" or "Jim Yeager Photography"? I think you need to pic one and use it exclusively otherwise people can and do get confused. You could always do Something Forever photography by Jim Yeager.
    "A photo is like a hamburger. You can get one from McDonalds for $1, one from Chili's for $5, or one from Ruth's Chris for $15. You usually get what you pay for, but don't expect a Ruth's Chris burger at a McDonalds price, if you want that, go cook it yourself." - me
  • PhotolisticPhotolistic Registered Users Posts: 347 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2008
    Im Jim Yeager Photography and my site is Somethingforever.com

    is that really that confusing?
    bham wrote:
    One thing I noticed are you "Something Forever" or "Jim Yeager Photography"? I think you need to pic one and use it exclusively otherwise people can and do get confused. You could always do Something Forever photography by Jim Yeager.
    http://somethingforever.com
    Mac User
  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2008
    I agree, the banner is too tall for my taste. I like to see the content, not a huge banner. On my screen (in firefox) it takes up a quarter of the vertical space of every page - my suggestion would be to shrink it down substantially.

    Other than that (and my personal hatred of the filmstrip buttons working in those directions) I think the site looks very clean and professional. thumb.gif (Nice shots, too!)
  • bhambham Registered Users Posts: 1,303 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2008
    Photolistic wrote:
    Im Jim Yeager Photography and my site is Somethingforever.com

    is that really that confusing?

    Not sure its really confusing, but not normal and makes me scratch my head and go headscratch.gif . Just one more thing for potential customers to forget. You asked for some feedback that was what intially struck me. You can totally ignore it, no skin off my back.

    Also a few pictures (the 2 children on playing on the beach in the sunset, sunset with the lighthouse, the B&G on the beach kissing) on the slideshow on the homepage, these photos have white dots in areas that should almost be totally black. Its very odd and eye catching. I found the same photo of the B&G in the wedding gallery and the dots were not showing there.

    And like the other said, having to scroll kinda sucks. If you could reduce the header size I think it would significantly improve the viewers experience.

    Like the photo booth idea, that should be good.

    Under portfolio, you have a subcatergory called professional, then gallery called links. Not sure if you should have that public, based on what is in there.
    "A photo is like a hamburger. You can get one from McDonalds for $1, one from Chili's for $5, or one from Ruth's Chris for $15. You usually get what you pay for, but don't expect a Ruth's Chris burger at a McDonalds price, if you want that, go cook it yourself." - me
  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited March 26, 2008
    I've only looked at your homepage

    The list of actuator buttons is too numerous and the font you chose is too ordinary when contrasted against your title font, which is nice.

    I would choose a cleaner, more contemporary font (maybe even one as simple as Arial) and set them inside a graphic line that extends the width of the page.

    thumb.gif
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  • zack75144zack75144 Registered Users Posts: 261 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2008
    Looks good, but nav bar hangs over the edge of the frame.
    Did you consider using stretchy smugmug? With all the photos squeezed together in your galleries, you have to click through more pages to see them all.

    I say A- overall grade.thumb.gif
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