My upgraded site

[virtualdesign]

Hi Xara users! Please welcome my newest upgraded website:
http://www.virtualdesigndj.com/

P.S: I If you have any question, I'll try to answering ASAP!

[gwpriester]

Nice work. Very professional looking. Loads a bit slow though.

[virtualdesign]

Thank you Gary!

[pauland]

I'm not a fan - mainly because it has so many gradients and grey text leading to very poor contrast of the lettering against the background.

I'm also not a fan of the halos and the black is just so heavy.

I don't know why this kind of colour scheme is so popular in some circles.

There are a lot of big png files causing the pages to ripple/flash as they are loaded.

So, I appreciate your skill in putting it together, but it really needs (if nothing else) some of those images to be jpgs.

The vibe is really not for me. Sorry.

[virtualdesign]

@pauland
Firstly thank you for your opinion!
The texts really looks like blurred before the background colours, maybe the next time I'll get changing of these.
.png pictures need for responsive "retina displays", so If you have iPad or any similar devices, you can zoom into very high quality. (nowadays its a most popular web gadget..)

[pauland]

@pauland
Firstly thank you for your opinion!
The texts really looks like blurred before the background colours, maybe the next time I'll get changing of these.
.png pictures need for responsive "retina displays", so If you have iPad or any similar devices, you can zoom into very high quality. (nowadays its a most popular web gadget..)

Text that is "real" HTML text is pin sharp. It's the text on images that looks slightly blurred in comparison, but I haven't commented on that. Where you are using grey text on a grey gradient, the contrast between them is poor making text harder to read.

PNG has nothing to do with retina displays. I am typing this on a laptop with a retina display and your images are not taking any advantage of it's greater resolution. I also have a retina iPad and for some reason your site would not work properly. Only the community button would work.

A good quality jpg would be better and help stop your pages ripple as they load.


This image (http://www.virtualdesigndj.com/index...v8.0_wall2.bmp) is 170K. It's on the http://www.virtualdesigndj.com/cdj-2000.htm page and is a link through to a non-existent page.

http://www.virtualdesigndj.com/produ..._1000_v2_2.png is 780K! I understand you want good quality and detail, but that's huge. It's one thing using that image as a clickthrough, but you use exactly the same image on http://www.virtualdesigndj.com/plx-1000.htm in a smaller footprint, and that's crazy - for a small image you are using a 780K image. At the bottom of the page you have a 380K image. So way, way over a MB to load that page. When it should probably be a tenth of that size.

These are crazy image sizes. No wonder changing pages is being delayed and rippling as the page builds.

I know you want quality but you are degrading the user experience by using these massive files and you don't need to.

[pauland]

I've been thinking about your quest for high quality and the humungous file sizes.

My suggestion would be to have PDFs with product information. You can put a high-res image inside the PDF and link through to it from the website. The user can then look at the PDF online and/or print it out.

This would then allow you to have less detailed graphics and increase page download speed on the HTML page, plus the user can get a hard copy of information for any product they like.

A longer download time is far more acceptable for a PDF link than a loading delay for the page itself.