Home:
Nice clean, modern design here that instantly looks professional. I like the font used for your logo, I like the colours used in the design and I like the way it all sits in the middle of my browser window. Looks good so far.
Perhaps the main area you'll be working in is a little too tall for a 'standard' browser window as it would require a little scroll down, but without knowing what's going to be on the homepage it's difficult to know if that would be a problem.
I'm not sure about the menu bar, although I do like it. I'm just not keen on the way the buttons seem to change from a slight gradient to a solid white and 'grow' a little in the process. I think having a mouseover change is very good, but I'm not totally taken by the way it has been implemented. I do like the fly-out menu under 'Portfolio' but I'd like to see the individual lines being highlighted as I move my mouse down.
About Us:
What's here is fine for now but I'm sure you realise it needs more content and more detail. No complaints about the potential but hard to judge without seeing the finished article, as it were.
Portfolio:
I'm not keen on the main page. I like the idea of the little Polaroid-esque thumbnails but I don't like the spacing and I don't like the ones that have been rotated slightly. I'd prefer a neater, straighter line-up with the thumbnails more evenly-spaced.
Automotive:
There's a very slight delay on entering the gallery but after a second everything seems to load nice and quickly, although I am on a relatively fast connection. Though I wouldn't say I was overly taken with the implementation of the gallery. it's a nice idea but I'm finding the images are changing too quickly and on my 'standard' sized browser I've got to scroll down the page to see the thumbnails. I'd quite like to see them on the right where the text currently sits, but then I'm not sure where you'd put that.
The images themselves are very nice, albeit a little dark in places, but they move so fast it's quite tough to get a good look. And while I appreciate being given the option to pause and adjust the transition speed, I'd probably set the default to somewhere in the region of 7 or 8 seconds.
Oh, and one final thing. Your text doesn't make sense. You say in the strapline you are offering a 'Magazine style shoot*- £25 + Travel' yet you also go on to say the price includes 'Cost for travel to location/s'. it's sort of contradicting itself, although I know what you are trying to say.
Child Portraiture:
No issues here with the actual photography, just with the gallery layout and the speed of transition.
Events:
Same grumbles as before, but an additional one for the explanatory text on the right. It doesn't quite read right and there's a few grammatical errors in there. It also looks a little strange with regards to the alignment of the text being to the left rather than spaced out more evenly, especially with the site being constrained to a certain width, regardless of browser size.
Live Music:
Interestingly this one did take a few seconds to load up. Not sure if that's my browser's cache or just a larger overall pre-load. Same issues as before with the gallery, but none whatsoever with the content.
Packages:
Work in progress?
Blog:
I assume this is another work in progress page, although what I would say is that I'm yet to see a blog implemented successfully alongside a photography portfolio where you're selling to the public. They never seem to mix, but I'll be interested to see how you work this into the site.
Contact:
Ah, the good old Contact Form. How glad I am to see one of those on here. If you'd have left it off it would have looked so out of place, especially given the extremely professional sheen that the rest of the site has.
Perhaps worth removing your mailto link from the top right of the site and just leaving your phone numbers, given that the form is present?
You're the person I was hoping to come on here, and give me some critique, so thank you!
Well, I thought that, but as I designed it on a 1280x1024 pixels screen, I never gave it a though, I just assumed it'd fit right, with the measurements I inputted, but I guess not. I'll have to give that a re-think, and re-design. I was hoping that the top menu, and the main part would fit, but I think it's slightly too much?
The menu bar is annoying me too, as I can't seem to get it right. The button you have selected isn't in-line with the others, so therefore looks odd, and less-professional.
As for the fly-out menu, I used to have a highlighted part when you move the mouse over the icons, but I wasn't too keen on it. Do you think it's much better with one? I've added it back on for you, to have a look.
Yeah, I just added the images on as a temp thing, so if anyone clicks onto Portfolio, it's not a blank page. I have a program called Poladroid, which makes better images, so I'll use that, and write on them in Photoshop with a better font, and also arrange them better.
For all of the galleries, I've not changed all the timings to 8 seconds, as opposed to 3 seconds. I still need to work on the image sizes though, as I want them to be about 50k, but they're all 350k averaged out.
I'll also work on the sizing, so that everything should fit on the screen in a normal browser. Are you on IE/Safari/Firefox etc?
Well, the images I PP are usually dark, so that's the images themselves, as opposed to the site, I think, but I'm on dealing with that.
The text I put up on there for the moment was just another temp thing, so there was something there, but I need it all re-worded, and a better layout.
For the Event page, I've also left aligned the text, as opposed to right aligned. Do you think it looks any better now?
Packages are a work in progress. I'm not sure wether to includes the packages on the pages themselves, or in a seperate section.
Well, for the Blog, I was just going to have one where I can post up a few pictures from each recent project, so people can see what work I've been up to, and there's also more images, which won't be in the galleries on the main pages etc. I wouldn't be personal about it, as such. It'd be a case of saying "A recent shoot that I did for a car... Some pictures, and that's it".
You think? I thought if it has a e-mail address, and telephone numbers, then no matter on what page people were on, they'd be able to click, or call to get in touch.
