Need more website help . . . Proofreading, spell-check, constructive critisism?

Question

I just revamped my photography website and want your opinions. Can you help!?

Any errors you see, let me know. CONSTRUCTIVE (not negative) critisism welcome too. Spelling errors, grammatical errors, etc...keep your eyes peeled.

And feel free to leave a comment in my guestbook too!

I am not trying to get business through this posting here on Yahoo!... just help. It often helps to see things through other peoples eyes and perspective. Thanks!


http://www.hoodphotography.com

Answer 1

Your website is pretty well built. A comment that i have is that everything is squished into the bottom right hand corner, and that makes it a little confusing. If you spread everything out, it will be better.

Answer 2

Honestly, nix the italic text!
It is to small and/or hard to read.

The banner/Logo you have that says hood photography, is one font and you use another for headings, and change it on different pages.

Keep consistency! Use one font for all of the headings (on all of the pages), one for the body and the font you have for the banner/logo. Keep your heading the same size font.
This will allow people to know they are still at the same site.

Keep to one background color scheme. If you want the all white feel then again, be consistent, and do this all the way through.
Also you may want to place all of your images in a set table and use thumbnails. Have each image open into a new window when you click on the thumbnails. (Like what you have in the Christmas card area. Only have the images "open" a new window.)

You seriously need to rethink your menuing system!
I like the pull down but you move it all over the place.

An older person (60+) would be lost SO fast they will never purchase from you, much less return to the site! I would suggest you place the Menu in the same place on every page, and allow for a dummy menu at the bottom. (It was called Dummy list in the 90's they may have finally re-thunk that name.) You have one on the Index page. (The links to the sign, view guest-book.) Place all links in your 'menu' The links to the guest book, about Hood photography, pricing and contacts are not included. If I went five pages in and I wanted to know more about your business (the about Hood link). I would have to return all the way back to the index page just to click on the link. You also move the link to the home page. You need to keep in one spot, so people will look automatically for it!

Your layout changes for each page, This is highly inconsistent! I would also darken the body text. A website is a multi-audience tool. If you make it only for the young, then choose age appropriate fonts, colors and layout. If you want it cross compatible, then keep neutral fonts, Neutral colors (the white is excellent) and pick Arial or Helvitica (for your sans serif fonts) or Times or Bodoni (for your serif fonts).

Kill the scrolling marquee on the Special Events page It looks cheap. Also some browsers will not show it very well.
Your images are of great quality. You will want to keep the page looking professional and upscale to match!

I love the Sign Guest-book Gif!

Suggestion
The image on the index page of the bride is AWESOME. You may want to add a photoretouching/ recoloring page for these kind of images!

I'm sorry I took so long to type this.
I wanted to peruse your page before I posted any information.
I did click into every page, and I like all of the hard work you have done! These suggestion end up being quick tweaks!

My teacher says "For a big website you really need only three basic types of pages the index (splash) page, the 'catalog' page and the detail page." You can have as many 'copies' of the catalog and detail pages as necessary."

The catalog pages for this service would be listing 'what' you can do and the detail pages can be for pop up windows for each image.

I hope this helps!

Answer 3

I enjoyed looking at the photos. There is some beautiful landscape shots. There were only a few things I didn't like.
The main page is all on the left side which makes it seem crowded. It would look better to use the whole page or center the items.
It would be nice to have the links to your other photos set up where if you like wedding photos you click on the wedding photo instead of the drop down menu.
The last thing is that the Ice photo in capturing nature didn't blow up like the other photos did.
Other than that it lookg alright to me.