Critique my new photo website

[Natchez802]

I made a new photo website, please critique it:

The portfolio gallery is here: http://www.theothermikenelson.com/

and the daily photo blog is here: http://www.michael-r-nelson.com/photo_blog_2/

thanks
-mike

[futura]

I like the menu system and presentation of your portfolio, however it does take a while to load up and I'm on a broadband connection.

[Visuals]

I made a new photo website, please critique it:

The portfolio gallery is here: http://www.theothermikenelson.com/

and the daily photo blog is here: http://www.michael-r-nelson.com/photo_blog_2/

thanks
-mike

Good work Mike, kinda of urban/abstract. Keep it up:cool:

[BruceC]

I was waiting for a picture to come up in the center, but nothing ever came. Other wise looks good. Maybe a little slow loading.

[floydianslip6]

I like the site. From one web designer to another:
Have SOMETHING open up in that main page I expected something too.
Try saving the images "for the web" in photoshop to help the load time. The EXIF data isn't necessary, expecially since they images are embeded in a flash movie. I can only assume that's what made the portfolio load so long. If the viewer isn't on broadband I can't even imagine!

The design is great, the photos are great. Everything else about the site is amazing.

EDIT: you can make the text in the about section highlightable if you change the text field attribute to "dynamic" in flash. This includes making ur email address a link. Unless it was purposly left un highlightable?

[floydianslip6]

I also really like the daily photoblog awesome idea!

[likophoto]

I really like your pictures. The site is very clean too. My only to recommendations are to have something load in the initial main page, and two, maybe display the thumbnails of all the pictures too.

[Palladium]

Nice site but I'm having trouble with (really I didn't like) the color or the size of the nivigation link to the portfolio photos - I'm 1162 x 864 and the size of the navigation tool are quite small and hard to notice because of their color.

Also the portfolio (1-5) didn't end - they just keep looping when you clicked the next photo arrow. My eyes are fixed on the location of the photos - that easy to do because the location of the next arrow dosn't change - I like the fixed location of the next arrow and it's easy to keep my mouse on the arrow and click through but with only a handful of images in each portfolio after a few clicks I have to go looking to load another portfolio.

My immediate response upon seeing an image a second time was :cry: .

[neil_r]

I have an 8 meg pipe and this site is way too slow

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[johngraham2002]

NICE IDEA AS OTHERS HAVE MENTION ON A 1MEG BROADBAND CONNECTION LOADUP WAS VERY SLOW