Critique of newly revamp website

Marlene · July 27, 2011

Just got the site reworked with the help of dgrin. I am interested in hearing how the site runs on differing machines. I went to local apple store and tried it there. Now I am ready for a general test on all kinds of machines.

Anything pop out that isn't working? Any suggestions? Anything missing? Can you help make it better

www.marlenefrankel.com

or

www.paxpetphotography.com

:noob

Marlene · July 29, 2011

Any improvements to suggest?

dbveto · July 29, 2011

Looks great to me.

denisegoldberg · July 30, 2011

Marlene wrote: »

Any improvements to suggest?

I have a couple of suggestions.

Your navbar would look better in a slightly larger font size and without the underscores. Adding a hover underscore or change of color would be good, but in my mind underscores on navbar links don't look good.

You are using the built-in homepage slideshow. You would get a much better look by switching to the JFriend HTML5 Slideshow.

I'd also recommend switching your thumbs to be 4-across with the title under the thumb. To do that, see # 10 in the ADVANCED Customization FAQ. If you'd like to take that one step further and extend the thumbs across the page, also add the code from this post.

--- Denise

Marlene · July 30, 2011

Thanks for your suggestions. Changed the Navbar links without underline, and font size increased. My links change colors but don't remain the green color.

Changed the galleries About Pax and Clients to 4 across. Could not change the Galleries page. What am I doing wrong?

Will work on slideshow another night. I also would like a green thin line border on my homeslide show page, as I have it in my galleries page.

Thanks again,

Mark Dickinson · August 8, 2011

I'd try to remove breadcrumbs? where it shows. Smugmugsite>galleries>gallery

denisegoldberg · August 8, 2011

Mark Dickinson wrote: »

I'd try to remove breadcrumbs? where it shows. Smugmugsite>galleries>gallery

Removing the breadcrumbtrail without replacing it with something else gives the site viewer no hint of what gallery they are viewing. See my thoughts at Are you really sure you want to hide the breadcrumb? Think of your viewers!

The code to remove it is in the first post of that thread if that's what is desired.

--- Denise

denisegoldberg · August 8, 2011

Marlene wrote: »

Changed the galleries About Pax and Clients to 4 across. Could not change the Galleries page. What am I doing wrong?

You have an error in your CSS. Change this:

[B][FONT=Courier New][/B]/* ==================================================== */
/* == FAQ #18, Line up boxes with titles underneath === */
/* ============== Current as of 13 Feb 07 ============= */
/* ==================================================== */
.miniBox {width:122px; text-align:center; height:210px; margin:0 28px;}
  .miniBox .photo {float:none; width:122px; height:auto; _height:1px;}
  .miniBox .albumTitle {width:122px;}
  .miniBox .description {width:122px;}
  .miniBox .updated {width:122px;}

To this:

/* ==================================================== */
/* == FAQ #18, Line up boxes with titles underneath === */
/* ============== Current as of 13 Feb 07 ============= */
/* ==================================================== */
.miniBox {width:122px; text-align:center; height:210px; margin:0 28px;}
  .miniBox .photo {float:none; width:122px; height:auto; _height:1px;}
  .miniBox .albumTitle {width:122px;}
  .miniBox .description {width:122px;}
  .miniBox .updated {width:122px;}

--- Denise

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