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Website review sought - comments invited
My first impression with Your site was: thumbnails don=B4t work - simple design - the neck of the girl is very nic= e, clear skin. As Abrasha, MBstevens, Peter, and Heinrich have all told you pretty much the exact same thing, and you are choosing to argue instead of listen to advice that could help your site, I will toss in my 2=A2 of advice on the visual aspects of the site....Hey...you asked.... Visually? There are few other ways to politely put this....the site is unappealing. The proportions of the pictures to the page...as noted...are irritating. The design quality of your entire site is unfortunately, unattractive. The neck...as Heinrich said, is quite lovely. So much so, I, like Heinrich found myself looking at the lovely neck instead of the jewelry. In fact, I barely noticed the jewelry at all because the visual of the neck and chin were so much more compelling. Lose the neck. Only photograph the jewelry. The copy on the right is useless. One reads from left to right, so tucking the copy to the far right means that my brain barely registers that the copy is even there after trying to take in in the far too-large photos, the neck and the competing colors. All of the blue framing everywhere is annoying as well. Why blue? Why borders? The blue kills any color in your wife's jewelry. Ditto the cute fonts that you chose. Too cluttered to read. You know....as I am writing this, I realize that I am working way too hard at being polite about your site. Everyone has taken their time to look, and have told you the exact same thing, so why bother asking if you refuse to listen to absolutely everyone here? Seriously...... Spend some time looking at beautiful, well-designed jewelry sites that actually function and take notes. There are lots of them out there. Even looking at the big name sites will help you with layout, font, copy, proportion and how to photograph jewelry. My best advice? Scrap your site and start over. Best, Minkiemink |
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Website review sought - comments invited
wrote in message ... Ditto the cute fonts that you chose. There was a cute font used on this site? Really? I didn't see it... wanna know why? Cause I don't have that specific font loaded in my font file and I suspect that most people wont have that font loaded either. If you want to quote w3 standards, then you should already know that the use of a "special" font in web design is a major No-No. Just because your page validates does not make the format/layout correct - it only means that your code is correct in the manner that you are using it. I'll take Abrasha's web site any day over this one. Better design, better navigation, better content and outstanding jewelry. Too cluttered to read. Scrap your site and start over. I have to agree Lisa. The site has no structure, the content is a jumble of paragraphs that for the most part I didn't read because lets face it, everyone skims the surface until they find something of interest. This site just doesn't hold my interest enough to venture down past the fold. |
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Website review sought - comments invited
When Craig Cockburn put fingers to keys it was 1/15/08 12:43 PM...
http://www.jewelryscotland.com Also, to save on bandwidth I'm using Flickr to host the new images of sterling silver jewellery http://www.flickr.com/groups/joscelin/ although the link is at the page above. Ah. had to go back and look for it. buried in the text. Any suggestions on how to improve the appearance, functionality of the site welcome. For my eye, feel free to keep the lovely neck. The clothing should be a solid color with simple lines, or removed*. The detail in the pattern in the cloth competes with the detail in the beadwork. The blue border is unnecessary. It isolates that section. One of the things I learned from Edward Tufte is that boxed text gets read a whole lot less than regular text. Google Mr. Tufte's name, he has a lot of good stuff to say about the presentation of information. Either use the thumbnails for links to descriptive pages (that are also linked next and previous to each other) or don't use them. If you insist on keeping this layout, do a a name=xxx / a href=#xxxlink from the small rendering to the full-size rendering. Oh, and the argument that the user can look at the thumbnails while the big ones load falls apart entirely when the thumbnails _are_ the big ones, just rendered smaller on the page. By the time the 'thumbnail' is loaded, so's the 'big version'. It's the same file! And don't _tell_ us they're thumbnails, we _know_ that. They're clearly too small for us to appreciate the work, so there _has_ to be a bigger version available. My first move is to mouse over them and watch for the cursor to change and tell me that the picture is a link. No links. OK, I'm getting cranky now. Time to stop. * Some longer necklaces would be nice. -- Carl West http://prospecthillforge.com : The Blacksmithing Classroom Reduce. Reuse. Recover. Refurbish. Repair. Repurpose. Recycle. |
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