Would like some site feedback.

I like the overall bright-white style. Nice and simple works so keep it that way! I see you're using a WordPress blog too which is far from a bad thing too. I'd be careful about showing your tweets on your site too (just in case you say something a bit rude!) Only negative things I can say are is that you could do with some more images in your galleries section and that the overall site took a very long time to load. There's a lot of high bandwidth content up there (youtube videos, hi-res images etc) which you could do on cutting down on or lowering their file size where possible.

Only got time for a quick look (it's v. late!) but I hope that helps :)
 
Bendihossan said:
I like the overall bright-white style. Nice and simple works so keep it that way! I see you're using a WordPress blog too which is far from a bad thing too. I'd be careful about showing your tweets on your site too (just in case you say something a bit rude!) Only negative things I can say are is that you could do with some more images in your galleries section and that the overall site took a very long time to load. There's a lot of high bandwidth content up there (youtube videos, hi-res images etc) which you could do on cutting down on or lowering their file size where possible.

Only got time for a quick look (it's v. late!) but I hope that helps :)
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Bendihossan

Many thanks for the quick feed back.... I have just changed one of the settings I did not realise that I have java preloading the header images so that could be one of the main issues. I have ditched that now.

I am in the process of adding more content, only just completed that layout to a stage that I am happy with, now I will start to add more gallery pages, I only have the one gallery up at the moment and that is the landscape set, more to follow.

Many thanks

Nigel
 
I like it, almost newspaper like. Could you smooth the change of pics in the slideshow, I think that would be an improvement?
 
admirable said:
I like it, almost newspaper like. Could you smooth the change of pics in the slideshow, I think that would be an improvement?
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Cheers for the feedback, do you mean the landscape slide show and the flash effect that is being used at the moment.

edit... Changed effect

Regards

Nigel
 
Nice and clean
I would prefer a smooth transition between you pics in the header as oppose to then flicking on and off.
apart from that nothing else to add, except well done ;)
 
dade_f said:
Nice and clean
I would prefer a smooth transition between you pics in the header as oppose to then flicking on and off.
apart from that nothing else to add, except well done ;)
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Cheers Dade

Will look in to that, do you think it is where it is caching the images.

Regards

Nigel
 
Looks good to me Nigel, love the header pictures, and also the transistions.

Hope all is well, not been on the site for a while!

Alex
 
Whittie said:
Looks good to me Nigel, love the header pictures, and also the transistions.

Hope all is well, not been on the site for a while!

Alex
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Cheers Whittie

Thanks for the comments, things bit mad at the moment family member ill but trying to get out and about as much as possible.

Regards

Nigel
 
My initial impressions were, and they're more from a web point of view as that's my day job:

The height of the blocks next to the "latest posts" are different heights and looks untidy.

The change from image to image is too fast and a bit harsh (I prefer jquery transitions).

There is noticeable banding/ blocking in the sky on some images. I was expecting that if I moved my mouse over the image it would stop the image cycling until I moused off.

I dislike the Tweet tag and it obstructs the banner image and navigation in some positions. I prefer a more subtle icon somewhere in the sub-navigation i.e. with the RSS icons.

All IMO :)
 
Shutterman said:
Cheers Dade

Will look in to that, do you think it is where it is caching the images.

Regards

Nigel
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Nigel

I Maybe able to help with the transitions in the header I have on and off been playing with WP and the same theme, and didn't like the transitions.so did a bit of research and found this jquery snippet which fades to the next photo
Works pretty nicely too

What you need to do is edit js.php at line 61 comment out this line, just add // at the start of the line
Code: 
window.onload = RotateHeaderImages;

then add this
Code: 
// Smooth fading code starts here
var fadeInSpeed=2500; // ms
var fadeOutSpeed=2000; // ms

function PrepareRotatingImages() {
	if (document.body){
        if(HeaderImages.length < 2) 
            return; 
		imageContainer = jQuery('#imagecontainer');
        imageContainer.css("background","none"); 
        for(i=0; i < HeaderImages.length; i++) {
            imageContainer.append("<div id=\"himage" + i + "\" style=\"overflow:hidden;display:none;position:absolute;top=0;left=0;width:100%;height:<?php echo $bfa_ata["headerimage_height"]?>px\"><img src=\""+HeaderImages[i]+"\"/></div>");
        }
        jQuery("#himage"+j).fadeIn(fadeInSpeed);
        SmoothRotateHeaderImages();
    }
}

function SmoothRotateHeaderImages() {
    fadeOutImage=jQuery("#himage"+j);
    j+=1; if(j>(HeaderImages.length-1)) j=0;
    fadeInImage=jQuery("#himage"+j);
    fadeInImage.fadeIn(fadeInSpeed);
    fadeOutImage.fadeOut(fadeOutSpeed);
    t = setTimeout('SmoothRotateHeaderImages()', <?php echo $bfa_ata['header_image_javascript']; ?>000);
}

window.onload = PrepareRotatingImages;
// end smooth fading

You can amend these 2 lines to vary the fade in fade out timings
Code: 
var fadeInSpeed=2500; // ms
var fadeOutSpeed=2000; // ms


Save it and reload your page and all should be good

If you need any more info on this give me a shout (y)
 
Mark

Great stuff mate and thanks for taking the time to assist.

Not the most knowledgeable when it comes to HTML and CSS.

I have just sent you a pm with a question, hope you do not mind.

Regards

Nigel

Mark said:
Nigel

I Maybe able to help with the transitions in the header I have on and off been playing with WP and the same theme, and didn't like the transitions.so did a bit of research and found this jquery snippet which fades to the next photo
Works pretty nicely too

What you need to do is edit js.php at line 61 comment out this line, just add // at the start of the line
Code: 
window.onload = RotateHeaderImages;

then add this
Code: 
// Smooth fading code starts here
var fadeInSpeed=2500; // ms
var fadeOutSpeed=2000; // ms

function PrepareRotatingImages() {
	if (document.body){
        if(HeaderImages.length < 2) 
            return; 
		imageContainer = jQuery('#imagecontainer');
        imageContainer.css("background","none"); 
        for(i=0; i < HeaderImages.length; i++) {
            imageContainer.append("<div id=\"himage" + i + "\" style=\"overflow:hidden;display:none;position:absolute;top=0;left=0;width:100%;height:<?php echo $bfa_ata["headerimage_height"]?>px\"><img src=\""+HeaderImages[i]+"\"/></div>");
        }
        jQuery("#himage"+j).fadeIn(fadeInSpeed);
        SmoothRotateHeaderImages();
    }
}

function SmoothRotateHeaderImages() {
    fadeOutImage=jQuery("#himage"+j);
    j+=1; if(j>(HeaderImages.length-1)) j=0;
    fadeInImage=jQuery("#himage"+j);
    fadeInImage.fadeIn(fadeInSpeed);
    fadeOutImage.fadeOut(fadeOutSpeed);
    t = setTimeout('SmoothRotateHeaderImages()', <?php echo $bfa_ata['header_image_javascript']; ?>000);
}

window.onload = PrepareRotatingImages;
// end smooth fading

You can amend these 2 lines to vary the fade in fade out timings
Code: 
var fadeInSpeed=2500; // ms
var fadeOutSpeed=2000; // ms


Save it and reload your page and all should be good

If you need any more info on this give me a shout (y)
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That's it!

Sorted, much better!
 
Nigel

Your welcome

Will get back to you on the other question
 
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