Hows me site looking????

[kungfukid]

Good day ladies and gents,

I'm just giving my site a facelift, have done the main page and videos so far, still doing battle with the pixelpost templates though (gallery)

I would love to hear what you think of the style I've gone for....

What do you think I'm missing?

www.fuller-photography.com

Thanks for you time

ps I HATE coding websites :( css is a bugger

Will

[EdinburghGary]

Javascript error on the page, the enter button will not work, and I really hate Times New Roman.

Hey my homepage is a mess, so should not really critique yours, but you did ask :D

[kungfukid]

right then, Im using a mac with safari browser,

if your on a pc could you tell me the nature of the javascript error?

what font would you recommend??

and thanks for looking
Will

[Yv]

ps I HATE coding websites :( css is a bugger

Will

I am so loathe to do such things, I use templates where someone else has done the hard work and just adapt them to suit, so you have my every admiration for soldiering on with it :thumbs:

Anyway, liking the look, though I am also not a fan of NTR font, but I can't get past the home page - have you dont more then that that is accessible?


Edit - ok, I only just wroked out the enter bit - maybe a different typeface for that so its more obvious?

I get a single image in a pop up when I click on it, from Firefox, but I cannot scroll to the full image, or make the window bigger, ditto the video link

[EdinburghGary]

Typical the error is gone now :)

I like Verdana 11pt :)

[pxl8]

You've got an Onclick inisde an IMAGE tag, you need to change it to HREF for it to work.

[kungfukid]

Again thankyou for the feedback,

I will try and figure out this href thing and Im not sure why the scrollbars don't do anything They *should* work ???

back to noteped and javascript source then for me.....

oh and is the design a thumbs up or down?

[EdinburghGary]

Again thankyou for the feedback,

I will try and figure out this href thing and Im not sure why the scrollbars don't do anything They *should* work ???

back to noteped and javascript source then for me.....

oh and is the design a thumbs up or down?



Thumbs down for me at the moment, I like your logo and I like the enter button style. I hate all the text and the font. The images should do the talking on a photo site I reckon.

Gary.

[Shane]

Line: 99
Char: 1
Error: Invalid Argument
Code: 0
URL: http://www.fuller-photography.com/

I don't mind Times New Roman but i dont think it suits your site as you're a Contemporary Image Artist.
I think a more contemporary font. How about Verdana?

[cherryrig]

Where have you got this hosted at as I'm thinking of trying out a new host for my site??

[kungfukid]

hosted with dreamhost.com

[Forbiddenbiker]

The mailtoo worked ... :D

No sorry ... I'ts got a nice clean look which i like, nice'n'smart :thumbs: banners cool. :clap:

...sort out your links, keep it simple... left justify all your words and paragraphs (much easier to read)

Good start. :thumbs:

[kungfukid]

updated then font now!

will try left aligned text next!

[Forbiddenbiker]

faster faster ... I want to hear wind noises ... kertishhhh!

[EdinburghGary]

Starting to look better already...

[EdinburghGary]

Will,

Just a quick 5 min "arse around" - I think your text is hugely negative from a sales point of view, so two birds one stone - reduce the size of the text, and keep it positive!!!

What do you think? Click for the larger obviously!!! Your images are fantastic and really should do the talking...


http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/7254/willhomepage02an4.jpg



Larger:
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/1533/willhomepage01rb4.jpg

Cheers,

Gary.

[EdinburghGary]

I chose that image so she can look at your logo.

[EdinburghGary]

Oh and obviously, you would need that design to be "fluid", ie, resize based on screen resolution...

Also, a type in the text - bad cut and pasting, you get the idea though?

[smithphoto]

Clicked on the enter button and........nothing!

[surrealillusions]

Thats some ugly code on your site...

Span should not be used for writing paragraphs (if at all).

Try validating your code, as <small> isn't a html tag (as far as i know). A few tags have been left opened or you're closing tags that aren't open.

The link to the portfolio doesn't look like a link, nor does it 'act' like one when the mouse hovers over. People with javascript disabled wont be able to able to view your portfolio.

The portfolio - theres no obvious way to go through the images. The window isn't re-sizable to allow the links at the bottom to appear. Most people would think thats the only picture, and close the window. Also, some people would look over the first 3 or 4, and then close. Theres no clear indication on how many millions of photos there are in the portfolio. You need to change the copyright at the bottom, it says copyright ©yoursite.com

Many if the inline styles you have can be put into an external stylesheet, saving on bandwidth, loading time and making it easier for search engines to read your page. Your missing a few meta tags which are important to most search engines.

I hate mailto: links for emails, you're better off encrypting it (if you haven't done so) or using a contact form so spam bots cant scrape your email address. I have a contact form script you can have, or can find some encryption methods.

The video popup is too small to view the videos properly.

The phone number is hard to read, best to break it up a bit with spaces inbetween the numbers.

This is wrong

<img style="width: 330px; height: 188px;">

It should be
<img width="330px" height="188px" alt="" src"blahblah.jpg">

The alt text should be something meaningful for those with screen readers and for the search engines. And for those with images disabled, such as those on mobile devices to save on loading times.

hope that helps ;)

[GarynLea]

On the front page ... "If you have an idea for a shoot or what to find out more please contact me." ... change the word 'what' for 'want'

Other than that ... its looking good to me :)

[TomWilko]

Error on line 137 char 1 in IE 7. Haven't made it past the first page, but so far I think there is too much going on in the middle of the page, you could shift a lot of your text to an 'about me' page which people could look at some other time if they want. If it was me, a simple image (like you have) and the enter button - if you insist on having to make users click through to your site.

[kungfukid]

changed the layout again!!!!

what do you think now?

thanks for looking!

Will

[JumboBeef]

The picture doesn't load for me, I just get a white square.

[Ian T]

I think on the whole it looks fine, but you should definitely take in what surrealillusions has written in post #20 above. Remember, if your website doesn't work properly, then it's not making you look very good. Personally I think the text on the front page needs to be a little more confident. It's a cliche thing to say, but sell yourself!

Also, and this by no means a rule, I think that this kind of thing is better written in the third person, i.e. Will Fuller is a fashion and beauty photographer... Not sure what other people think of that, but it might read a little better. Added to that, say you are, not you'd like to be. The layout of the site is very good, I like the photos, and Verdana was indeed a good choice of font. On the whole it's very promising, I just think some of the details need tidying.

[pxl8]

IE7 page is off centre to the left and the flash component doesn't load, ie no pictures and basically broken.

Looks better in Safari, centered and the album loads but the image scaling in the view leaves some rough looking edges which, IMO, gives a poor impression.

[pxl8]

The code for the swf has a nesting error - the OBJECT tag isn't closed before the EMBED tag, I suspect this is why it's failing under IE7

[Janice]

Im not liking the PS bit at the bottom... sounds a kids classroom note!!

Also the blurb sounds that you are not very sure of yourself....... "i have done weddings, portraits etc.. SO FAR"

These might be things youd say over the phone once someone has contacted you but not on your home page. Have the courage of your convictions...........you dont have to say you are the greatest photographer in the world... but dont hum and har and teeter on the fence! Your shots are there for them to see and they are great... so go for it! :thumbs:

[kungfukid]

Wow!

Thank you all so much for helping me, I'm always a little uncertain of my work, I feel a bit of a fraud to say hey I'm a super photographer choose me and I'll knock your socks off!

If anyone has any suggestions how I can rephrase my text or what I should loose then give me a shout.

also Im making this on a mac with software called Nvu so how do I check problems with IE7 ?

I like the flash slideshow but do you think I should loose it and have a static image instead?

The slideshow came from lightroom and I copied some of the code into the table and it showed up !

What I wanted was a slideshow on the frontpage that would auto load pics from a folder on a server but as far I dont know how to do it!

at least I have a new hobby! PHP/HTML/CSS etc OUCH MY BRAIN HURTS!
then when it looks good on your computer someone else says "nar thats c*ap that is nowt works"

.......back to the coding I go!......

[kungfukid]

And no I don't know how to use flash either!

[pxl8]

No idea if Nvu can check for browser compatibility but it's something you need to do, I just checked stats for my own site, the OS/Browser breaks down like this:

1. Internet Explorer / Windows 82.72%
2. Firefox / Windows 10.91%
3. Safari / Macintosh 3.91%
4. Opera / Windows 1.44%
5. Safari / Windows 0.82%
6. Firefox / Linux 0.21%

[frank]

Just getting some txt and a white square on the left which I assume should be a pic. Page only seems to load halfway along the progress bar at bottom of browser then stops. Don't see any links to other pages. Basiclly it appears your website is broken or your hosting service is having problems. I'm using IE7 Vista 64 and a 8mbit broadband connection

[Forbiddenbiker]

Working fine here. :thumbs:

Much improved, like it.:thumbs:


A few suggestions

A little space between the slide show and the words would look cool.

Make the arrow and forward buttons on the slide show smaller ... they kinda dominate.

And if you can sort out your css to make the site complaint...its nearly there, so not much to do if you can get your head around it.

Css basic here (http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/70/css_from_the_ground_up/) .... you've got most stuff in the right place, just some tweaking to do.

[kungfukid]

thanks!

I have no css file now, I don't think I can change the flash file as it comes from lightroom like that :(

I will try and add some space between slideshow and text.

does this work on IE on XP or VISTA now?

tahnks again
Will

[kungfukid]

update!

added a php script for contacting me, can you see it?

thanks
Will

[David Small]

The only way of knowing what it looks like on IE7 is by using a PC. Instead of a flash slideshow you could have a random image using javascript or cgi.

Email form looks good but i would make the opening window a little taller to get rid of the scroll bar.

Flash does not work on IE7 but is fine on safari and firefox.

[surrealillusions]

looking much better

but the code still needs alot of cleaning up...the flash takes a long time to load up (especially in ie6)..past the point where most of the patient people will give up and look elsewhere.

:)

[gazedd]

re name you picture, when "mouseover" it displays the name you saved it as "my sig" over your signiture looks unprofessinal.
Only have names of the images when displaying work

[surrealillusions]

re name you picture, when "mouseover" it displays the name you saved it as "my sig" over your signiture looks unprofessinal.
Only have names of the images when displaying work

that'll be the 'alt' tag, or for explorer, the title tag.

[db247]

It's a lot funkier than mine that's for sure. I weren't sure if it was a little small to begin with but the fact it loaded up immediately kept me on the site.. I switch off after a few seconds, I'm terrible I know. I liked the images too.

I know how much of a nightmare coding is, i'm totally amateur and just tried to make the site simple, clean, easy to navigate.. I'm a long way off making it trendy or perfect but it's bringing in work, which I'm sure yours will too.

And good on you for putting up this thread, I really want to but haven't got the guts!! (So if any geniuses want to pm me what I need to do then that would be awesome, but I appreciate if my lack of guts means you guys just concentrate on will)

All the best with the site Will!

[pxl8]

Autoviewer still isn't working for me, I believe the </OBJECT> tag needs to be before, not after, the <EMBED> for this to be fixed.

[db247]

The autoviewer was working fine a few mins back, tempting me too but if it doesn't work for everyone then I guess that could be a problem.

As a side point then, what's the general consensus on it?

[pxl8]

Autoview is broken for IE7 under Windows - other browsers are a little more forgiving of mis-matched tags.

[db247]

That'll be why then! I think I like things that are forgiving :D

[surrealillusions]

And good on you for putting up this thread, I really want to but haven't got the guts!! (So if any geniuses want to pm me what I need to do then that would be awesome, but I appreciate if my lack of guts means you guys just concentrate on will)

I'll be in touch about your site, got a few recomendations and such after a quick glance.

:)

To properly embed flash, i find this works well

<!--[if !IE]> -->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="flashfile.swf" width="400" height="300">
<!-- <![endif]-->

<!--[if IE]>
<object classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
width="400" height="300">
<param name="movie" value="flashfile.swf" />
<!--><!---->
<param name="loop" value="true" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
</object>
<!-- <![endif]-->


you have to remove the space here - classid="clsid: D27

as it adds a smilie face ;)

[kungfukid]

HEY!

I've been working REALLY HARD on this so................
please give 30secs to see if it works for you!!!!

thanks so much!

Will
HTTP://WWW.FULLER-PHOTOGRAPHY.COM

[dellipher]

First page - first sentance Thisis its not one word :)

[kungfukid]

god dam it!

[dellipher]

sorry x

[kungfukid]

right!
typo sorted....
any more errors?