Feedback wanted please on my new website design please

dinneenp

Hi,

I've spent some time revamping my photography website- http://www.photoblog.ie

It supports fullscreen images and is responsive.

It's not 100% fully finished but any comments, suggestions or feedback would be appreciated so I could take it into consideration before completing it.

Besides general thoughts & feedback here's some specific questions I'd appreciate feedback on are:


1.on the homepage I can add descriptions to the images (e.g. the skateboarder image). Do you like this or does it add 'clutter' to the page and detract?

2.I think a static background image for pages (besides home) is best, otherwise it would be distracting. Agree?

3.I'm trying to decide on a background image for some pages, here are some contenders-a. http://www.photoblog.ie/blog/ maybe too loud b. http://www.photoblog.ie/galleries/ too dull? c. http://www.photoblog.ie/about/

4.Any speficic feedback on the buy prints page would be apprecaited- http://www.photoblog.ie/buy-print/ I get a good amount of hits on that page but no sales.

5.There are different style gallery pages I can have- fullscreen http://www.photoblog.ie/gallery/abstract/ and thumbnail http://www.photoblog.ie/gallery/galway/ Although fullscreen is slightly restrictive (only landscape images fit & does't view best on mobile) is it much more impressive?

6.Any other feedback that you have please.

If you have a site you'd like feedback on in return I'm more than willing.

Thanks in advance,
Pa.

billyduk

Not much change from the original template so there is not much to give from a design perspective that would be useful to anyone but the template developer.

From what you have added:

- Your logo has been cropped on the homepage. Look into resizing the logo or the containing div which has a hidden overflow property.

- Consider keeping the heading style on all pages. You have red headings on the about page when the rest of the site is electric blue.

- Your logo uses serif typeface, while the site uses a sans serif. Consider revising this as it is tricky to get a mix right and it doesn't work here

- Some of the images you have used for backgrounds are a bit sharp and take away from the background. Consider revising to use images with a more earthy softer tone.

Some nice photo's!

dinneenp

billyduk wrote: »

- Some of the images you have used for backgrounds are a bit sharp and take away from the background. Consider revising to use images with a more earthy softer tone.

Some nice photo's!

call me stupis but which page background do you mean? I don't follow.
Thanks.

billyduk

dinneenp wrote: »

call me stupis but which page background do you mean? I don't follow.
Thanks.

Sorry... I didn't phrase that correctly. I meant go for more subtle backgrounds. I think it was the blue plane one that I found to distract me from the content. I found it quite sharp on my eyes and contrasted heavily with the more subtle backgrounds on the other pages... although this may be subjective.

rusnakova

I really like the website - I think in your business everything needs to be visual and yours definitely looks nice to me!

In terms of the Buy prints page, I would suggest a few things:

1. Add more content to it - explain more eg, what format can you deliver, what quality paper, even price ranges etc.
2. Add a call to action which will stand out more - eg Click here to contact me now! - or a direct email addres/phone number..
3. Are you aware that when they click on "contacting me" the page is broken and gives a 404 error message?
4. Maybe a testimonial from somebody who already ordered your prints would be helpful..

Fingers crossed!