Re: website finally up

Well, thanks for the input everyone. I am definitely going to do some
tweaks with page size and image sizes/compression etc based on your
comments. I am still thinking about the whole splash page thing.
Maybe some text instructing the interested viewer to click on the
image would be appropriate. The other idea I had was to make a
mouseover image that makes the door knob glow bright red or
something. That is a little twee though. I dunno. Most people figured
it out, I guess.

One other design issue that I debated with myself was whether to keep
the a 'global' menu on every page once the main part of the site was
loaded. I personally hate having to hit the back arrow button just to
get back to where I started.

Clay
On Sep 6, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Baird, Darryl wrote:

> Kate,
> I think the splash page is a generational thingy. I know a younger
> generation expects web pages to do something, so they always click on
> an image. Older, more "orderly" minds seek a more direct and sensible
> (?) navagation. I remember back a few years when all the rage were
> "games" like Riven and Myst (and an earlier proto-game, Freak Show)
> had absolutely no navagation hints at all... you simply clicked
> throughout the scene until something happened, which set up a set of
> functional expectations for later navagation. I thought it was really
> wacky at the time, but my (much) younger friends thought it sublime.
>
> Also another self-styled guru David Spiegel thought intro or 'splash'
> pages were esential to introduce a well designed web presence.
> (warning, this is from memory) examples from his old, now inactive
> website are at
> http://www.killersites.com/killerSites/2-sites/index.html
>
> Darryl Baird
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kate M [mailto:kateb@paradise.net.nz]
> Sent: Tue 9/6/2005 6:05 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: website finally up
>
> I realize that I have offended by having a "splash page" - but is it
> really all that bad????
> www.katemahoneyphoto.co.nz
>
> Comments???
> Kate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George L Smyth [mailto:glsmyth@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2005 1:20 a.m.
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: website finally up
>
>
> I would also recommend not having a splash page. When I went to the
> site I saw the splash page and then left. When I came back to these
> messages I saw that someone had seen images, so I went back and
> realized that I had to click again to go to the actual site. I would
> recommend just sending people to the content, or at least tell them
> that they need to click once again (note the third comment on the page
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530_comments.html - Jakob Nielsen is
> the expert on website usability).
>
> Cheers -
>
> george
>
>
> --- Clay <wcharmon@wt.net> wrote:
>
>
>> Loris,
>>
>> Thanks for that piece of information. I have a big monitor, so my
>> screen real estate is generous, and that did not even occur to me. I
>>
>
>
>> will see what I can do to fix it.
>>
>> Clay
>> On Sep 6, 2005, at 3:15 AM, Loris Medici wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Site and Photos are beatiful except: I have a screen resolution of
>>>
>
>
>>> 1024x768 and your site doesn't fit on my monitor even when
>>>
> explorer
>
>>> window is "zoomed" (with F11). It's not neat to force guests to
>>> scroll left/right to let them see the menu or other thumbnails.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Loris.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Clay [mailto:wcharmon@wt.net]
>>> Sent: 06 EylYl 2005 Salõ 01:51
>>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>>> Subject: website finally up
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear list people,
>>>
>>> My recent show opening has forced me out of my state of electronic
>>>
>
>
>>> torpor, and I finally have the beginnings of a web site. I would
>>> appreciate any feedback as to look and feel issues, load times and
>>>
>
>
>>> general aesthetics. I have two of my easiest-to-capture groupings
>>>
> of
>
>>> photos up already, and I will be adding more later
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Clay
>>>
>>> www.clayharmon.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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