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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I'm not reading any of the other reviews thus far so I'm not pulled in one direction or another by other people's comments... If I repeat some comments by other folks... apologies. I'm on a 56k and the page loaded before I made any grunting noises..... so that's a good thing. heh. I'm a little thrown immidiately by the white to purple transition.. but we'll see how it goes when the page loads. Oh.. wonderful logo! I like that a lot. While I'm taking in the view of the entire page, I must say that I'm still not pleased with the tansistioning background. In my opinion it may be worth looking at it with a simple off-white background. Something with a slightly greenish tint like is found in much of the actual website area perhaps. For the background behind the main content area... I thought you could possibly incorperate just a little more to the corners... Little 'squiggley' things that sort of fade off from the top right corner going to the right and going down. Then do the same with the lower right corner... trailing them up and to the left as well. Am I making any sense? Basically this will throw off the (dare i say) plain look to corners with a little bit of subtle spice. In the menu bar I think the separator lines could be a little more distinguished. When someone hovers one of the buttons, the image changes... but if the separator line can't be seen it looks a little cheesy... and not so fluent. This may of course just be me and my eyes being quite tired right now. It might also help if I put my glasses on or my contacts in. =) In the "Services" section just one little suggestion of wordage... "All floral displays are designed collaborating the unique needs of your event, building upon your ideas and will suit your budget." Might be better as, "All floral displays are specifically designed and crafted for the unique qualities of your event. Building upon your ideas and our experience, together we can create something perfectly suitable for under your budget." ~ just a thought. For the "Portfolio" section I have no problems with the pop-up windows. Works well. However, if I were a potential customer, I think it would be much more beneficial to me to see 2 pictures of each one in this section. Yes, you need the close up shot of the arrangement... But I also think a second shot is needed of the room/area as a whole. The angled pictures are good for dynamic purposes of a picture... but I think 2 separate pictures for each event would suit things much better. With the angled shots you're trying to pull off a photo that encompasses both the close up and the entire area... but you're ending up with something in-between... (and might I say... a little less than mediocre in my opinion.) This is your product... make it sell by making it look the best. If two pictures are needed... go with two. (on a side note... i quite like the second arrangement in that section... but still don't like the photo) Keeping all the thumbnails the same size might be something worth trying as well. Small squares usually work well. Overall the thumbnails aren't really making me want to click them. A decent example of what I mean can be found by looking in the speed painting threads in the PS forum...... often times the small thumbnails highlight an interesting area of the painting.... and it just makes you want to click it. Know what I mean? This sort of leaves me at a loss as to why you have both a portfolio and a gallery... But I'm guessing the portfolio will be more along the lines of things that have been used for specific events... and then the gallery would be a slew of images for potential arrangements that have been created but not nessecarily used. Overall I like it. It's light on the eyes and creates a good atmosphere for the subject of the site. It's simple... easy to navigate.. and gets to the point without a whole lotta excess baggage. ----------- additional comments after reading other's replies: - A little blurb about the pop-up window might be a good idea. Even if you had not said anything, I think I would have anticipated it given the design.... but overall it's good practice to make a note of it. - I did the same as Suho.. and clicked 'about us' a couple of times before I realized I was an idiot. I disagree however with his solution. I don't like the look of the 'hover' so I wouldn't like to see that as a de-pressed state. I think the 'hover' should be done away with altogether and mebbe just slip in a little arrow beside the words for whatever page you're on. Overall.. I don't think it's a pressing issue. - I like the quote changing idea as well.... it'd be a nice added feature. - haha... just read reitsma's review.... he's spot on. I'm agreeable to everything he mentioned. =) The contact page is quite nice.. I hadn't mentioned that... But I don't like the scroll bar touching the corner-markers. That's all I've got for the moment. [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/914/] [img]http://formclot.net/asylum/sigamufur1.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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