First Website Critique

[oojosheoo]

Good afternoon POTN!

Well I finally launched my first website. Let me know what you guys think. Also I'm still working on putting more photos up and desiging the "About" page. Other than that it should be a good start :)

www.jyuphotos.com

ENJOY!!

[oojosheoo]

Must be really bad >.<

[SwitchBlade]

Yup, it is. Just tells me that I need flash player.

[1Twist]

My two cents ...
fast image viewing +
easy layout +
great colors +
but I don't know anything
i like it

[elysium]

My only crits are when I hover over information, why do I then need to click on About us? Wouldnt it be more straightforward to have about there instead? Unless you plan to add more stuff later. You also mention "US" but from the site name, its one person so I would prob reword that.

The site felt a bit empty on the initial load/home page. I was expecting something so maybe speed up the transitions or add some text. I like to be welcomed to a site thats warm. Its nearly there but just an adjustment.

Apart from that, the site loads fine and no issues with speed. Good content overall.

[philwillmedia]

For me, theres some really great photos there but there just isn't enough of them.
When you go live with a website, you need to have a decent amount of photos for people to view.
One wedding and three images of a model and a handful of another simply are not enough.
People want to see a decent sample of your work so they can make a balanced judgement on whether or not to book you.
Saying that you've got more to add doesn't help someone looking at your site now.

I like your "about us" being in the third person - it sounds a lot better than "I did this" and "I did that" - less pretentious. The only thing with it is that the font could be a little bit bigger as it's a bit hard to read.

I also think that the images could load a little bit quicker but they're not the slowest to load that I've encountered.

Hope this helps

[oojosheoo]

Thank you all for the comments. Being my first website, hopefully it will go up from here. :)

I will take each advice to make the site flow better. Thanks again you guys.

[stillinamerica]

People on here are over critical...because we see stuff from our artistic eyes, so take what you need and run with it.

I think many photos is important. U show me you have had 3 clients.

I do not like having to wait 5-7 seconds in firefox for ur webpage to open

In your "About US" You talk about yourself in the third person....why?

Also No pricing and I only find out what general services you offer if I bother readin your entire "about US" page.

[Karl Johnston]

Looks amazing for me, took 3 seconds to load.
Need to combine the fashion galleries into one single one.
Looks like a portfolio, simple clean is the way to go.

Skip the About me section, save it for the blog - you need to take images from that and put it in your website.

Instead of the about section put info about pricing and packages you offer, nothing too complex, just straight forward.
Options, that kind of thing.

Lose the third person, you're not a corporation or a small company, just a photographer.

I like the design, where did you get it done?

[Faolan]

20 seconds load time for the Flash. Oh and Apple hates your site, well Iphone/Ipad does.

Front page? JYU photos, OK what do you do? Pretty pics but where are you? No welcome mat here...

Blog breaks navigation, you should really host your own creates a more professional image.

The text on About Us is difficult to read as it's fuzzy.

Top menu options should link to pages, minor UI point though.

Overall the feel is a canned template no different from many, many other photographers and does nothing to brand you or your business. Your page also has broken mark up and is not web standards compliant.