C&c about my site

[artekphoto]

Suggestions, comments and critisism all welcome. Tell me what do you think.

Thanks

Arthur

http://www.artekphoto.com (http://www.artekphoto.com/)

[spuddevans]

I think it's a very nice and well put together website. I cannot offer any critisism other than to say "well done", it's very pro looking.


Tim

[Faolan]

Very clean and professional looking.

The code is decent, though I'm curious why you haven't done a table-less design? Though that's probably a NetObjects issue.

I would prefer to see a bit of text welcoming a visitor to your site, having a single image whilst creating a strong impression doesn't really give the visitor an idea of what you do. In fact if I just saw that image I would have thought three things: 1) a framing services 2) printing service 3) Photographer.

Another comment based on the above is that you're obviously a big company however you've got nothing about your company anywhere on the site.

Booking a wedding/etc is all but invisible at the bottom of the weddings page I didn't realise I had to scroll down to see it and I'm using a 1024x768 monitor on this system. Speaking of which I would not offer a .DOC format for a contract this is for two reasons one it's prone to virii infection and/or allows the client to think they can change it. It would be better to offer it as a PDF format.

Also your gallery doesn't show the rest of your 'folio just the wedding work?

Interesting Flash component for your galleries, it's a nice bit o' work. However I would embed the component on the page rather than using frames it's more secure and also people can then book mark it. Frames are bad and rarely do any good on the 'Net.

[artekphoto]

Very clean and professional looking.

The code is decent, though I'm curious why you haven't done a table-less design? Though that's probably a NetObjects issue.


Thank you for constructive criticism. Tables are part of NetObjects, it's basically a wysiwg program and it dose all the coding for you.

I would prefer to see a bit of text welcoming a visitor to your site, having a single image whilst creating a strong impression doesn't really give the visitor an idea of what you do. In fact if I just saw that image I would have thought three things: 1) a framing services 2) printing service 3) Photographer.

Very good point, I'll think it over.

Another comment based on the above is that you're obviously a big company however you've got nothing about your company anywhere on the site.

Another good point, actually this is my personal business and I'm the only photographer. I opted to name my company after my first name only Arthur (in polish Artek is like Bill to William) since my last name is polish and is hard to remember and pronounce.


Booking a wedding/etc is all but invisible at the bottom of the weddings page I didn't realise I had to scroll down to see it and I'm using a 1024x768 monitor on this system. Speaking of which I would not offer a .DOC format for a contract this is for two reasons one it's prone to virii infection and/or allows the client to think they can change it. It would be better to offer it as a PDF format.

I'll moved those links to the upper part of the page, good suggestion on using pdf.

Also your gallery doesn't show the rest of your 'folio just the wedding work?

This is work in progress. I just uploaded gallery two days ago, still trying to work out the kinks.

Interesting Flash component for your galleries, it's a nice bit o' work. However I would embed the component on the page rather than using frames it's more secure and also people can then book mark it. Frames are bad and rarely do any good on the 'Net.

Gallery is a Jalbum http://jalbum.net/ with lightflow skin, and I think it's Java script not flash. Actually it's easy, once you read support forums as the manual is not very clear/missing crucial info. I'm aware of issues with iframe, I'm still looking for a way to without it.


Thank you again

Arthur

[Faolan]

If you're using ImageFlow (what Lightflow is based on) on your site then you may need the authors permission as it's a commercial site. Just a heads up for you to look into it.

There is similar extensions for Flash hence the confusion on my part.

Regards to integrating the gallery this the problem of WYSIWYG programs when you add third party programs it makes it harder to integrate the functionality. You should be able to add the code at the end of the table construct but you'll be mixing tables with a table-less design and that will cause headaches.