My new website

[mattsayle]

First off. A note to the mods. I am sorry if this comes across as a spam thread but it isnt, I want comments on what other people think of it

Second thing, apologys if this the wrong section. As it is my photography website I thoght I would post it in this section

Any problems with this post please email me!!

Anyhow,

My new website:

www.mattsayle.co.uk

Can you tell me what you think of it, whether you find it pleasing on the eye and easy to naviagte and bascally anything else you find wrong/right with it

Not many pictures on there as I am waiting for the 2009 season to start

Thanks
Matt

[leightonjames]

First impressions are ok, nice and intuitive!

Logo needs some work but thats comes with design, play around with lots of ideas! And get suggestions from others! Good luck with it

By the way i really like your sagaris panning shot!

L

[4hero]

Hi Matt,

First off, you have some great shots on there!

On to the site now:

• The size of the site looks tiny on my 1920x1200 resolution

• Not sure if I'm too keen on your logo, looks very pixelated here and drop the drop shadow please

• The site looks quite boring (sorry) which doesn't attract me to view the galleries.

My suggestion would be to:

• Try and make the homepage look slightly different to the other pages? Do you really need a news section? Why not just add the news to the homepage with links in the news story to the appropriate gallery (this means the site will also look like it's updated constantly)?

• Increase the width of the site to fit in 1024. I generally build 970px wide as a standard (or make it fluid if you are feeling brave!).

• Have a photograph of yourself on the about section possibly? It makes the site much more personal.

• Increase the text size percentage or two? As you have very little content larger text would be acceptable. Add some line-height:160% to your p {} to give the text more spacing.

• Try playing around with colour schemes, kuler is an excellent little site!

It's nice to see you using div's and css though, makes a change from nasty tables

Give me a shout if you would like a hand with anything, or if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Neil.

All my opinion of-course

Edited by 4hero on Tuesday 20th January 22:24

[Neek]

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread...

I didn't realise that you were on ph aswell! you need to get out more

George

[mattsayle]

Thank you very much for your replys

I didnt make the site, a friend of mine did

He is a legend for putting with my constant mistakes.

[vetteheadracer]

I have built a website using Shozam and wanted some hosting advice. Who is hosting your site and how much does itcost you?

[Kermit power]

I don't know if it's just me, but I reckon the thumbnails in your gallery are really, really doing you a disservice.

OK, I know they're thumbnails, so they're never going to look as impressive as the full-sized image, but crucially, especially given the subject matter, they look blurred. My first reaction to that was "young chap giving it a go, but sadly a wee bit crap". However, on opening the actual image, the difference is astounding.

As an example, this...




turns in to this...



The difference between the two strikes me as being way more than what I would expect just from the difference in size.

[Landlord]

Kermit power said:

The difference between the two strikes me as being way more than what I would expect just from the difference in size.

I TOTALLY agree. I thought your shots were pretty average if not mediocre (sorry!) but that full size one is fantastic.

You are selling yourself short with the site as it is, IMHO.

That's all meant to be positive by the way - I'm saying you're obviously better than your website implies!

[miniman]

Nice, simple, clean, validates to W3C standards which is rare. Nice darts.

[mattsayle]

Thank you very much for the kind words on my pictures. I havnt sharpend any of the thumbnails so I may do that in future to try and bring out a bit more deatil in them

Thanks guys

[charnock]

I like how simple it is and doesnt distract from the images. But it looks a little unrefined and the thumbnails dont draw you in enough to what are some amazing images. good work!

[Scraggles]

excellent site, strangely enough not worried about the thumbnails, it is common knowledge to most people that thumbnails are not as good as the main pictures

only comment would be to specify the camera kit and lens that is used

[suntiger1965]

photos look good to me, im just trying to work out what the driver has on his head in the golf?? Is it a new type or crash helmet or flight navigation helmet??



Like the site but it needs a little colour or different background

this is mine with a black background

www.pistonheadsphotos.com

good luck

dom

[Kermit power]

Scraggles said:

excellent site, strangely enough not worried about the thumbnails, it is common knowledge to most people that thumbnails are not as good as the main pictures

You're quite right, but usually, they just come out looking small, not blurred! How many times have you seen a picture in small (on the back of your camera, for example) and thought you'd nailed it, only to then see it in full size and realise just how blurred it actually was. I don't think I've ever seen the reverse effect before.