Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: jule on March 13, 2009, 08:09:34 pm
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Well, my website is nearly finished and I would appreciate some feedback. Anything from functionality to appearance - or anything else you would like to mention.
Julie's website (http://www.juliestephenson.net) and also to my blog link (http://www.juliestephenson.net/blog)
Thanks so much,
Julie
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Anyone?
I am keen to have feedback on how it works on different browsers, so would love a bit of feedback please.
Thanks,
Julie
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Anyone?
I am keen to have feedback on how it works on different browsers, so would love a bit of feedback please.
Thanks,
Julie
A little patience please. I'm falling behind with my site critiques due to my last week's cataract operation. With one good eye, and one less so, reading and staring at the monitor for long periods is troublesome. And I'll be out shooting the local St. Pat's Day Parade today, for that I only need one good eye. Happy St. Pat's Day!
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I am keen to have feedback on how it works on different browsers, so would love a bit of feedback please.
It's nice for me, really : clean & sober, as we say in French.
Just one little detail : there may be something in the width of the "news" objects, that makes an unelegant scroll bar appear at the bottom of the "frame".
Conversely, if anyone with IE6 can confirm that the thumbnails are well centerered in my galleries... the link is below, thanks!
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Overall it is nice. Runs fine in Firefox (3.07)
Some observations/questions:
- is one of your intentions to showcase your photographs? If so it is not clear how to get to those. You have some photos under the "Archive" heading which is not an intuitively obvious place to look.
- The "Julie's blog" link takes you to "Photography Artist Books". There is blog-like content down below the photos. So not clear for someone looking for blog content.
- You need to make sure that all pages lead to "Home". I found this in particular with the blog link discussed above, having to use my browser back button to return to your main site (I did find a link back to your main site at the very bottom of the blog page). I think a "Home" link at the top of the page, as you have shown on some (but not all) pages would be helpful.
Regards,
Andrew
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A little patience please. I'm falling behind with my site critiques due to my last week's cataract operation. With one good eye, and one less so, reading and staring at the monitor for long periods is troublesome. And I'll be out shooting the local St. Pat's Day Parade today, for that I only need one good eye. Happy St. Pat's Day!
So sorry Chris. It wasn't personally directed at yourself. I noticed 60 views and not one comment so I thought I would clarify that I was interested in how it worked on different browsers because it had been causing a few problems. Hope your eye heals very quickly.
Julie
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It's nice for me, really : clean & sober, as we say in French.
Just one little detail : there may be something in the width of the "news" objects, that makes an unelegant scroll bar appear at the bottom of the "frame".
Conversely, if anyone with IE6 can confirm that the thumbnails are well centerered in my galleries... the link is below, thanks!
Thank you Niko.
Julie
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Overall it is nice. Runs fine in Firefox (3.07)
Some observations/questions:
- is one of your intentions to showcase your photographs? If so it is not clear how to get to those. You have some photos under the "Archive" heading which is not an intuitively obvious place to look.
- The "Julie's blog" link takes you to "Photography Artist Books". There is blog-like content down below the photos. So not clear for someone looking for blog content.
- You need to make sure that all pages lead to "Home". I found this in particular with the blog link discussed above, having to use my browser back button to return to your main site (I did find a link back to your main site at the very bottom of the blog page). I think a "Home" link at the top of the page, as you have shown on some (but not all) pages would be helpful.
Regards,
Andrew
Thanks Andrew.
The thumbnails on the front page when clicked link to my galleries. perhaps I should have written somewhere an instruction to click to view images.
My Blog site was supposed to open in a new window - so a home page tab or link at the top was not necessary. I will look into this further.
The 'Photography Artist Books " were key words originally intended to encapsulate what I do. It was probably the first thing I did about a year ago in my notes and funnily I didn't ever go back and reassess it. I will do that today.
Thanks again.
Julie
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Julie,
I've been away for a few days, but now I've had a chance to play with your website in Opera 9.64, Firefox 3.0.7, Safari 3.2.2, and IE 7.0.6001, all running under Vista. Almost everything works very well, and the site is clean and very elegant. The tiny glitches I encountered were both in Opera and IE: When viewing a single image in a gallery, the left- and right-arrows for "next" and "previous" image don't appear for some reason (they do in both Firefox and Safari). So in IE and Opera I had to move the mouse around until it happened to hit on "Previous", "Next", and "Close" just below the image. But those are very tiny and so dark they almost disappear into the background until the mouse hovers over them. I would suggest using a little bigger font and a slightly lighter color for those links, so they can be easily spotted even in IE or Opera. A tad larger and brighter still won't detract from the elegance of the page, IMHO.
Also: As someone else suggested, why not use "Galleries" instead of "Archive"?
Finally, I won't get to see the new gallery on April 5, as I will be away for three weeks. But I'll check on it when I get back from Utah in late April.
As I've said before, your work is gorgeous, and the website presents it very nicely.
Regards,
Eric
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I am keen to have feedback on how it works on different browsers, so would love a bit of feedback please.
FWIW, I've "solved" (better said "answered" ) my own visibility problem with IETester :
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage)
It's an IE-based browser that emulates the known bugs and glitches of IE5.5, 6, 7 anrd 8RC1.
Warning : it can be a bit frightening, if like me you've used FireFox and AdBlock for a long time!
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Julie,
I've been away for a few days, but now I've had a chance to play with your website in Opera 9.64, Firefox 3.0.7, Safari 3.2.2, and IE 7.0.6001, all running under Vista. Almost everything works very well, and the site is clean and very elegant. The tiny glitches I encountered were both in Opera and IE: When viewing a single image in a gallery, the left- and right-arrows for "next" and "previous" image don't appear for some reason (they do in both Firefox and Safari). So in IE and Opera I had to move the mouse around until it happened to hit on "Previous", "Next", and "Close" just below the image. But those are very tiny and so dark they almost disappear into the background until the mouse hovers over them. I would suggest using a little bigger font and a slightly lighter color for those links, so they can be easily spotted even in IE or Opera. A tad larger and brighter still won't detract from the elegance of the page, IMHO.
Also: As someone else suggested, why not use "Galleries" instead of "Archive"?
Finally, I won't get to see the new gallery on April 5, as I will be away for three weeks. But I'll check on it when I get back from Utah in late April.
As I've said before, your work is gorgeous, and the website presents it very nicely.
Regards,
Eric
Thanks Eric for your kind words and feedback. Will look into making amendments.
Have a wonderful trip to Utah, and hope the light is perfect and inspiration abundant!
Julie