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Jul 04, 2012 16:59 |  #1

So I've recently begun offering City Hall wedding packages during the week, and I've designed a landing page specifically for potential clients who might be interested. Note that the page is not accessible via my site (for obvious reasons).

Here is the page:

City Hall Wedding Photography (external link)

I'd appreciate any help in terms of layout, photos, clarity, rhetorical effect, etc. I'm definitely no web page designer, and I'd appreciate any input offered.

Oh: note that I'm using zenfolio as a host so the header is part of the page whether I want it there or not.

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Jul 04, 2012 17:06 |  #2

The GF just told me she thinks the green is tacky, too green for a background. Perhaps I'm not seeing it's full saturated glory on this macbook...



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Jul 04, 2012 20:27 |  #3

Your GF is right.

It's hard to read because of the light green/white text. Also it is a Zen site, so your stuck with the header. I like to be able to change EVERYTHING, not some template.


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Jul 04, 2012 23:01 |  #4

There is a good article on which colors cause people grief when they look at them and which ones are easy to look at. I'll try and post it if I get a chance.


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Jul 09, 2012 00:54 |  #5

Simple layout and clear information. However, as mentioned above, the background color and text color don't seems to match well.


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Jul 09, 2012 11:33 |  #6

I'm not sure if you have changed it in the past couple of days but the green seems fine now. One thing I noticed though, I would suggest not to have your pricing tab linked to a pdf, sometimes people don't know/want to open it whenever it is saved to their computer. I'm just nitpicking, but I think it will bother some people. Have a page on there instead, with basic pricing and then have a link for them to download your full price sheet.



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Jul 09, 2012 16:38 |  #7

Yep--it was too saturated. I've indeed changed the background to a muted non-patterned green. Still not happy, though--I feel like my pages are incredibly graphically starved.

Good point Oscar--I was borderline about whether or no it was a 'click-away-able' offense to have the menu link go to a pdf. Bah, it's probably better SEO wise anyway to have a proper page set up. Thanks for your suggestion.



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Jul 12, 2012 11:31 |  #8

I agree, you're going to have to sharpen up on you HTML skills lol. Your page is way to long for how little content you have on it. I suggest adjusting that, the size and positioning of your images, will fill the space better.



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