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[edd1e19]

Hi there,

I have just designed a website for my client, just a few bits of content to input into the site.

Could everyone please give a review of the website, for example comments on the graphics, animation etc etc.

Also could everyone please give the site a mark out of 10, 10 being the best.

Thanks very much

Edd

 

[edd1e19]

http://www.enigmaphotography.net

 

[glenmac]

You need more for the home page I'd say, all I see is "home" and a blank gray screen.You have to scroll at 600/800 resolution to see anything but gray and the links. I would consider looking into anther Logo the e p doesn't look very professional or at least move it away from the links bar as it makes you want to click on it where it is . On the contact screen the picture looks like a "mug Shot". Not trying to be overly negative but I'm not a big fan of flash either. Hope that helps. 5/10

Glen

http://lantzvillecomputers.ca

 

[edd1e19]

Thanks for your reply.

Just to point out, i said in my first post "just to add a few bits more of content into the site".

Edd

 

[ChrisHunt]

I think it looks OK visually, agree with Glen about the logo and mug shot - I wouldn't want this guy taking my portrait if that's the best he can do for himself. Still, maybe they're both out of your control.

I don't like that fancy scrolling picture gallery thing. It's hard to get the pictures to stand still long enough to get a good look at them, and they're too small and (on my monitor anyway) way too dark to discern much detail. A more traditional arrangement of thumbnails leading to larger static images would be better IMO.

There are one or two problems with your copy - accepting that it isn't finished yet. I'd be inclined to talk about transparencies and negatives rather than "trannies and negs", the latter sit rather uncomfortably in the fairly formal language of the site (the word "trannies" has alternative meanings too... ). Review the use of headings on the "Services" page - You have a tiny "Photography Workshops" as one of your bullet points, then big titles for the workshops themselves. It just looks odd. On your About page, you say

Enigma Photography has been involved in the Film v Digital debate for years and considers that they 'both play an essential role in the medium of photography, and both have their good and bad points and like it or not digital is here to stay'

This is the only place on the page where you talk about "Enigma Photography" rather than Stuart. It sticks out rather, and the grammar could be better too. I suggest:

"Stuart has been involved in the Film v Digital debate for years and considers that they both play an essential role in the medium of photography, both have their good and bad points and that, like it or not, digital is here to stay"

Technically, your markup looks OK, but you should really declare a DOCTYPE to help ensure consistency across browsers.

Where you're falling down big-time is in search engine optimisation. For a start, you need to have better page titles than "index", "about", etc. Remember that the title is the first (and maybe only) thing someone sees in search engine results. More importantly, your use of <iframe>s to house the actual page content means that the search engine will see nothing to index on the page itself. Try running the site through

http://www.seotoolkit.co.uk/spider_viewer.asp

and you'll see what I mean. This is going to make it difficult to achieve a decent ranking, and may result in whatever hits you get being directed to pages like

http://www.enigmaphotography.net/index2.html

. If you want to keep that fixed-height, scrolling area look, try doing it with CSS instead.

I hope that's enough to be going on with. Marks out of 10? I'll give you 6.

-- Chris Hunt

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