Topic: Sire Review well ok the front page

Can anyone give me some feed back on my front page, entry link not working yet as site inder heavy maintenance, and Yes the main image is big but i havent optimised it yet as it will be broken up for roll overs etc but needed general feel for what first impressions it gives.

Ta

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Link?

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oops http://www.webfx.cz

Were getting a lot of first posts in this forum as of late. Must be the time of year....

Edit:

Oh, the link's there now... Ok.

Huh? So you really only want us to crit an Image? Well..

Your right, It's too big.

Lets see now.

Lense flares!

First impressions hay..... Well it feels a little cold and arr.. boring. The motion is in contradiction with itself. The colours are very cold without anything to balance it. I think it's mostly that lense flare. It's got some god awful red browns tones which don't fit in with the blues and it's implied motion contradicts the movement of the lightning. I say ditch it.

The disc/circle thing has potential but I think it could look better. Think striking, think contrast. Think blinding light. That's what I'm seeing anyway.

Not bad. Not Brilliant, but quite good. Could be better though.

My 2 peas.


[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 02-23-2002).]

Thx, ok there is an alternative image i was going to use which was http://www.webfx.cz/logo2.jpg

(The boss had a thing for blue)

also if ya have time here is something else i worked on but caution.

its a site i did for a glamour photographer and contains some nudity (over 18's only)
http://www.nudefactory.com (again i apologise for the content, well posting it here)

tomeaglescz: Welcome. As far as I can tell what you are asking for is a critique of your splash screen and, although I don't want to sound like a stuck record, the first thing I'd say is why do you need it? I'm no fan of splash pages as they are completely uneccesary in 98% of the cases I've seen so far (although for what they are the both look OK). If you are doing something with your main pages that bloat them up to such a size you'd need one then I'd question the wisdom of that move too. If your boss/client wants one and you really can't convince them otherwise then fine - either one will do as no-one is going to stick around looking at it instead those that haven't closed your page in fit of pique will hit the enter button annoyed at the fact that you have wasted some of their valuable time by putting an extra uneccesary step between them and your content.

Perhaps I'd better save some of that for the 'why I hate splash screens' thing I'm sketching out (to go with 'why I hate pop ups', 'why I hate iframes' and 'why I dislike tables'!!).

Anyway enough of that they are both OK although things like lens flares only impress people a couple of times are their oveuse makes people a little tired of them by now!! If you want a more detailled critique of the actual graphic then I can move this to the PhotoShop forum.

[edit: Oh and The Nude Factory (nice address!!) - I'm not sure that stuff like this would be OK in the main forum but we should also realise that an awful lot of online work is in the adult sector and they are often pushing the envelope in certain areas so its a legitimate area as any for a review (if not a MS will be along to edit the thread). Anyway my main thought is it seems a little cliched (the film logo and the candy colours) but that may be what your one hand typists out there want from a site - something familiar that isn't too difficult to navigate and the film theme is carried over into other areas which is good. My main concern would be the text done as a graphic - you are in a tough competitve world where search engine rankings are pretty critical actually having text which can be read by a robot and indexed is very important indeed (it also helps correcting the odd typo). I'm also not really sure what the site is for - if it is to showcase someones talents then the contact info isn't prominent. The navigation is confusing and you should never have a picture sitting on its own - embed it into a HTML page and provide forwards and backwards links as well as a link up to the level above and to your copyright and contact information. I should also point out that for glamour photgrpahs they are pretty poor quality (out of focus and poorly framed) and it gives the impression of cheapness. If it is the intention to present a clean professional facade then it could really do with some more work (go and look at the opposition to see what they are doing - some of those sites are award winningly slick) but if it is just to put some nude pictures up on the internet (for an undefined purpose) then it doesn't even do that well as it is difficult to drill down the layers of the site (or get back up to the top again). I just don't feel it works at whatever it is supposed to be doing. What you should do is move that about us up to the top and add more written material as well as copyright notices and better, more consistent navigation.

Emps

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 02-23-2002).]

Emps thanks for the input, the site is a promo for the photographer but i only can work with what he supplied, the nav etc i will work on, and its great to have someone pull aprt the work, thats the main reason why i posted it in here. i was a bbit worried about the main forum area so thats kinda why i left it here. thanks again will post when i have done some serious work on it.

Posting a link like nudefactory.com in the main forum wouldn't really be acceptable (and anything stronger here wouldn't be on) but we've also got to accept that the adult industry pays a lot of web designers wages. Clearly you can only work with what you've been given but a rearrangement would work wonders (bringing the about us bit to the top) and make it obvious that the images are also links so slice them up, make a rollover, add a little click on image link - that kind of thing. The really important thing is to aim for the search engines so not only put in text but put them in structural elements - try and get the word glamour photographer in the title and in the h1 tags and inside a bold/strong/emphsis tag in the main text (and add keyword and description metatags if you haven't). You could probably live without that splash screen but...

Emps

hmmm I dislike the blue sphere flare. I kinda look lika an ***hole...

Hey Olsson, are you from Örnsköldsvik? Nice translation!