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I'm curious why A4 prints are cheaper than 10x8? Isn't A4 larger (slightly)? Or am I having a blonde moment... ;)

Also, when I clicked on the link for the order form it opened up in a strange way (ie then acrobat) then promptly shut down. I could right click and save it as a file though...

Otherwise a nice clean site...
 
hepburn said:
I'm curious why A4 prints are cheaper than 10x8? Isn't A4 larger (slightly)? Or am I having a blonde moment... ;)

Also, when I clicked on the link for the order form it opened up in a strange way (ie then acrobat) then promptly shut down. I could right click and save it as a file though...

Otherwise a nice clean site...
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8 x 10 has to be cut from A4, therefore more work for me + I supply photo folders with 8 x 10.

Not sure what is happening with the order form, seems OK at this end. Get Firefox, it tends to cure all those niggles. :D
 
spencer said:
Its a good clean site, and very fast to load.
But you have to go through every image, it would be nice to have thumbnails??:shrug:

BTW I'm trying to build myself a site at the moment using Joomla!!:bonk::bang::bonk:

Spence
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Those are just the "Showcase" images. If you look at the events, they will have thumbnails and slideshows. I may well look at adding thumbnails to the "showcase" portfolios though.

Never heard of Joomla, I take it it's not going well.
 
Loads fast and looks relatively clean which is great. Few points:

It is offset to the left corner of the page, have you considered centre aligning it so larger monitors do not suffer a large black background on the right and bottom of the screen?

Some of the images are set at 45 degree angles, why is this? I find it a little disorientating in parts and it leads to excessive wasted space in certain areas.

You don't have a consistent font theme running through the site. The navigation and banner are in a hard to read but artistic font, while on each of the pages there is a combination of Times and Arial dotted about. This really needs sorting. For your navigation go for a simpler font, the banner is fine, but for elements you expect users to interact with - keep it simple.

If I click on the 'prints' link, the 'prints' navigation button at the top disappears.

There you go, a bit of critique. Overall, not a bad website :)
 
It's clear that you are a talented photographer your photographs demonstrate that and the web site is a quite good as a basic portfolio site but I would say your business skills could be significantly improved.

It would be nice to see full electronic ordering (try gallery2 linked with paypal) for the Events section (with perhaps a separate page for this rather than going through the portfolio). Remeber that studies have shown that if a person can find what they want and buy it in 3 clicks or less they are more likely to buy. Relying on a downloadable order form (especially one where there is little room to enter the photo description) is possibly the worst way of selling items online (other than perhaps showing no pricing and asking the client to call you to place the order).

A good site will not only look good (not neccessarily the same), it will function as intended in all the main browsers, expecially in Internet Explorer. Suggesting that a site is designed for a certain browser type is a sure fire way to loose customers.

I take it you print yourself via inkjet? Have you thought about using Loxley Colour's ROES service the 10x8 / A4 price is IIRC £1.90 (about the same as an inkjet print) and the photos are prduced of proper Fuji Professional Photographic Paper so will last signifcantly longer than an inkjet print (you could even make this a sales point). Even with a folder mount (no more than £1.15) and a hard backed envelope of the right size (40p) and Large Letter 1st Class Postage (48p) you'll still be making a decent profit.

I have seen some discussions on another forum about pricing and there is an opinion that you should embed P&P into the print price, with a discount on multiple prints as the customers prefer this (though I have no supporting evidence to this). Assuming you are actually making sales then I would perhaps increase the prices to £24.99 all inclusive using Loxley Colour for printing (making a sales point for the life of the print) and an offer such as 3for2 may be the right approach. The idea being that if you can up sell to those who would normally only buy 1 print in to the 3for2 you'll actually make more money.
 
Thanks for the feedback Tom, very helpful.

TomWilko said:
It is offset to the left corner of the page, have you considered centre aligning it so larger monitors do not suffer a large black background on the right and bottom of the screen?
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I did originally have it that way but feedback originally said it would be better left justified. Beginning to think it was better in the middle myself

Some of the images are set at 45 degree angles, why is this? I find it a little disorientating in parts and it leads to excessive wasted space in certain areas.
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Those are just the "showcase" images, but I see your point.

You don't have a consistent font theme running through the site. The navigation and banner are in a hard to read but artistic font, while on each of the pages there is a combination of Times and Arial dotted about. This really needs sorting. For your navigation go for a simpler font, the banner is fine, but for elements you expect users to interact with - keep it simple.
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Bit confused by this one :thinking: I can only see one font (above the images) other than the navigation and banner, and none appear to be Times. I've checked it in IE, Firefox and Opera and there doesn't appear to be a problem. Which browser are you using?


If I click on the 'prints' link, the 'prints' navigation button at the top disappears.
 
SimonTALM said:
It's clear that you are a talented photographer your photographs demonstrate that and the web site is a quite good as a basic portfolio site but I would say your business skills could be significantly improved.

It would be nice to see full electronic ordering (try gallery2 linked with paypal) for the Events section (with perhaps a separate page for this rather than going through the portfolio). Remeber that studies have shown that if a person can find what they want and buy it in 3 clicks or less they are more likely to buy. Relying on a downloadable order form (especially one where there is little room to enter the photo description) is possibly the worst way of selling items online (other than perhaps showing no pricing and asking the client to call you to place the order).

A good site will not only look good (not neccessarily the same), it will function as intended in all the main browsers, expecially in Internet Explorer. Suggesting that a site is designed for a certain browser type is a sure fire way to loose customers.

I take it you print yourself via inkjet? Have you thought about using Loxley Colour's ROES service the 10x8 / A4 price is IIRC £1.90 (about the same as an inkjet print) and the photos are prduced of proper Fuji Professional Photographic Paper so will last signifcantly longer than an inkjet print (you could even make this a sales point). Even with a folder mount (no more than £1.15) and a hard backed envelope of the right size (40p) and Large Letter 1st Class Postage (48p) you'll still be making a decent profit.

I have seen some discussions on another forum about pricing and there is an opinion that you should embed P&P into the print price, with a discount on multiple prints as the customers prefer this (though I have no supporting evidence to this). Assuming you are actually making sales then I would perhaps increase the prices to £24.99 all inclusive using Loxley Colour for printing (making a sales point for the life of the print) and an offer such as 3for2 may be the right approach. The idea being that if you can up sell to those who would normally only buy 1 print in to the 3for2 you'll actually make more money.
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It's not a business so I'm not too bothered by the selling angle, especially as the prints I do sell are to the people (or parents of the people) in the photographs and it's always been face to face, so the P&P charge has never come into it, But I do take your points should it ever develop that far. :)

BTW, the "Firefox" response was tongue in cheek, I always check the site in IE, Firefox and Opera. ;)
 
marksweb said:
its not to bad - but i hate tables - sorry :(

CSS and Divs - ftw.
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Why do you hate tables?

I am pretty much self taught in Dreamweaver and don't know any coding languages so only use design view (I'm very non techy!) and wouldn't know where to start with "CSS and Divs"
 
fabs said:
It's not a business so I'm not too bothered by the selling angle, especially as the prints I do sell are to the people (or parents of the people) in the photographs and it's always been face to face, so the P&P charge has never come into it, But I do take your points should it ever develop that far. :)

BTW, the "Firefox" response was tongue in cheek, I always check the site in IE, Firefox and Opera. ;)
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Fairy snuff :) I just saw prices and thought business. As a portfolio site it's fine :thumbs:
 
TomWilko said:
IE7, see this:

http://www.meangasoline.co.uk/misc/times.jpg

:)
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Aaaah, gotcha! the links. Hadn't actually looked at that for ages so had forgotten about the font. TBH I've never been happy with that page and have never been able to find a good way of showing them. I initially had graphics of logos but after a short while it started to look horrendous. Will have a rethink. :)
 
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