Website critique please

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Dear all,
I'd be very grateful if you'd have a look at the website I'm building at the moment. Advance warning that it doesn't look quite right text wise in IE6/7/8, works much better in Safari/Firefox/Chrome, but hopefully that will be fixed in the next day or so. A couple of the galleries need filling, but other than that, please let me know what you think, any critique/criticism appreciated. Should I put more pics in the gallery on the home page, I think I have 6 or 7 right now? Also from the portfolio drop down menu, I have galleries under polo, other sports and by event, where the layout is different - in polo there are 8 albums in each page of the gallery and other sports/by event there are 6 albums per page. Does this annoy you?
Thanks in advance,
Liz

Website:
http://lizyong.com

p.s. Currently only works without the www... which should also be fixed pronto!
 
I do like the simplicity but I would certainly promote who you are more..........


Maybe make Liz Yong into a graphic signature, make it stand out.

For the shots, lovely action and art shots, you know how to take a shot. :thumbs:
 
Thanks, I've been trying harder at photography this year. What do you mean by a graphic signature, simply a logo or alternatively text that's more like handwriting, or something else entirely?

Also, do you have any view on how many albums appear when you click on a link to a gallery (portfolio -->polo/other sports/by event)? Does it matter that it's not consistent?
 
I like simple sites, especially for subjects such as photography. Following on from the name comment, perhaps put the title text (your name) into a lozenge or tab (from the top of the screen) reversed out black with white text...I think mono would work well.

Am I correct in thinking the viewer is a Flash component? It seems to have a *very* slow frames per second setting for the homepage (therefore choppy) and fine on the portfolio page.
 
Oops.. somehow it had been set at 7. Back to 31 it goes. Will try out the lozenge/tab idea, thanks.
 
Seems v small on my browser width wise. How wide is it.

It now is really best to design for 1024x768 browser size as v few have sizes below that

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

Nice font choice, but your name doesn't stand out too well, and needs working on, as this site needs to sell you.

Only other comment is I personally think the artistic portfolio is very weak compared to the other, and has no business in a horse photography dominated website. I think you should remove it, or maybe set up another site with this kind of stuff on.

It's an almost there site to me, just needs a few tweaks
 
Its looking good on my netbook on firefox, agree that your name needs to be bigger, I like it being nice and simple, a little bio/profile about you would be good.
 
You're not wrong, it looks mental on IE7 here (at work), only got old Flash too, so that might be it.
 
Liz,
Nice clean site, fresh and simple leaving your great photography to speak for itself. I like the font you've used; clear and easy to read off a screen.
I agree with one of the other replies, you need to make your name stand out a touch more. Nothing too flash, just a classy looking signature that compliments the crisp nature of your site. :) :clap:
 
Thank you all for your replies. In no particular order:

Ding: You're right, it will be removed!
Ajj, Dinsdale, Grotty, Ding and everyone else... Working on a new logo, going to make 3 - a lozenge, a tab and finally thinking of a polo vector with my name and photography on either side of it. Sadly can't find a suitable one on any stock library so am making one.
Craikey: IE is my final problem. I am truly stuck. If I don't fix it by next week then I'm advertising it on a developer/job site for someone to fix.

Thank you all again.
 
I have a Mac and using Firefox, looking good my end ;)

Simple and effective. Name part already mentioned, only crit.

Btw, your shots are fantastic - you really know your subject.
 
To balance it out I've looked on Safari at home and everything works, nice and simple, but not looking empty.

I'd certainly look ad getting a static page to hide behind the flash though.
 
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