Website Update Feedback Please

bbb · 16 Apr 2012

I've just overhauled my Wordpress based website and would appreciate some feedback on how it comes accross and any technical issues that are present.

http://www.nickgrant.co.uk/

Thanks

bbb · 18 Apr 2012

That bad huh!

neil_g · 18 Apr 2012

Layout wise not bad. Like the feel of the site.

Negative bits....

Colour please, everything in black and white makes it pretty boring looking. It painfully slow on my home adsl, I gave up on the photos page as it took so long to load and that's without trying to load a zoom image..

bbb · 19 Apr 2012

Thanks for the feedback Neil, duly noted

depicted · 19 Apr 2012

I like it, really like the pictures too but agree all b&w on the photo section is boring, looks better in colour on the blog section.

Images do take too long to load though, first one took 15-20 seconds.

bbb · 19 Apr 2012

Thanks.

One of the reasons for changing the design was that I wanted it to look good on a 27" Mac at full screen, hence the large file sizes, I'm guessing that not many people are viewing it at that resolution though LOL

depicted · 19 Apr 2012

bbb said:
Thanks.

One of the reasons for changing the design was that I wanted it to look good on a 27" Mac at full screen, hence the large file sizes, I'm guessing that not many people are viewing it at that resolution though LOL

I don't think it's the large file sizes that are the issue. I think the lightbox plugin tries to load all images before displaying the first, maybe try a different plugin.

neil_g · 19 Apr 2012

even on works 50mb it take ages to load the photos page to the point where you can zoom an image.

shardsta · 21 Apr 2012

I like the bw look, fits the style

nikolarun · 22 Apr 2012

looks good on my 24" screen, photos load quickly, but the background seems to be taking ages to come up. Might want to reduce the size of it

Buck · 24 Apr 2012

Nick

When the photos are scrolling on the home page, the black menu banner on the left blocks out quite a lot of essential parts of some shots so i thought the photos need to be smaller to not underlap the banner or the banner needs to be transparent?

When I clicked the photos link my iPad through me out of the page before all had loaded in - probably a memory issue but a number of visitors/clients might access in this way so one to be mindful of.

Could you have a link for each photo to click for a higher resolution copy perhaps (excuse my knowledge of Wordpress is 0%)

Beav · 25 Apr 2012

Nice site bud. Only problem I found as well is when I click one of the images to enlarge it, it takes a long to show the enlarged image.

Love the chevy truck. I want one for a project/weekend car but I bet there not cheap / easy to work on.

plamen_gb · 27 Apr 2012

with the black and the background image still loading it looked like a funeral agency, no offence but if you change the colour it will be far better unless you are shooting only B&W and the black and white(it needs more white) is intentional