New site ready! What have I missed??

http://www.anitaphotography.nl


I haven't implemented all galleries yet, but please have a look and tell me what you think, did I miss something? What can be improved?

Thnx in advance!

Nice. A little slow on loading but this is a problem with super sites and actually considering this, your site loads pretty fast.

I like what you have done and it works well for me. Very excellent design and creative work. :)

The main thing is that the floating (fixed) navigation is far too large, even on my 1080p laptop screen it takes up a lot of real estate. Perhaps reduce the height.

Nice, but I have a lot of trouble with the font colours. You have white text in some parts with a light gray background that is almost impossible to read. Even the orange type is difficult where the background is a similar colour, like the Contact part. Same with the light orange type on white background - very difficult to read.

The background for the navigation buttons is a ripped page, interesting, but the buttons are simple lines. I find that a bit stark given the ripped page look. I don't have any suggestion, it's just that the button look unfinished.

The bottom is also a ripped page but it is almost imperceptible. I didn't notice at first. Maybe you can move it up a little bit so that it shows up better.

I like the effects and the supersite. I must try this.

John

I don't have problems reading the text (in firefox) but as John mentioned the bottom bar (in the desktop variant) might not be shown if the browser window is not tall enough. And if the visitor is very unlucky with his browser window height the bar will completely overlay the bottom text when fully scrolled down. Maybe you should make it stickie as in the mobile variant.

Thnx so far guys, I have taken your concerns to heart and indeed the mobile variant had a lighter shade of grey in the page background, that is fixed now, and also the bottom navigation bar was sticky as Siran suggested, but it was in the wrong place.

That should also look better now in all windows.

You got it! Much better; I can now read the text. I was using Well done.

John

I really believe you've achieved what you're after, excellent! Personally not a great lover of these changing images as the visitor scrolls down the page, but they are the latest trend and you've managed to do it very well.

The nav bar might be to wide/high for quite a lot of laptops and can appear cut off at the page limits. Not convinced re the roll 'over' png's showing the underlying 'off' png's, it just looks "dirty".

I'd reduce the social network icons sizes a great deal too.

However overall I think you've excelled.

Hi Spitsoor, very nice but I noticed that the nav bar at the bottom of the page does not work.

Ciao

Roly

you mean the info in the footer?? those aren't links.

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you mean the info in the footer?? those aren't links.

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Hi Spitsoor, if not links, what are they then? why is the first one on the top left orange? perhaps none of my business but just curious.

Ciao

Roly

the first is orange because it's the name, the rest are services provided.

I like the site, but I agree with some of the constructive criticism.

Your header navigation and social network strips are bigger than they need to be. Particularly the social networks - it's wasting the screen estate, big time and is out of proportion.

There is a tension between the styles on your site.

You have torn paper strips and 'printed font' navigation and text in places, which clashes with precise rectangles around your navigation buttons and I think that if you want to continue with the torn paper vibe you should lose these straight lines - either by changing the line style, using custom lines to create imperfect rectangles. I would also stop the precise division between pages/sections in the supersite. You could add a graphic to make those separations look ragged.

I think the best idea would be to get rid of the ragged edge and definitely not have boxes around text.

I would combined your site footer that lists the services with your social media icons. You don't need two footers as you have now.

I hate the tiny images in the website section - it's really old-fashioned and you can't see the images well.

You have a set of photographs. Some are with a frame/lined edge, one is clearly and old photogaph set on a white background which frames it - crop the white out and get rid of the edges.

That's my feedback.

Paul

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Thanks for the explanation Spitsoor.

Ciao

Roly

Okay guys, took all your advice to heart, and added some more "ragged outlines and page divides.
I also took out the square site photo's and made a safari inspired "slideshow" instead.
Only thing is, you can't click the arrows too fast, you have to wait about three seconds.
Trying to find an answer to that still....if anyone knows, please do tell!
(it's not actually a slide show, it's popup layers)
I initially wanted to make it with the same slide show widget I used for the galleries, but they don't allow urls in the photos.

I am not changing the size of the torn paper stickies however, on my 27" that looks just fine.... ;-)


thanx everyone for your input so far, it's much appreciated.