Website check needed please!

[chris.mapey]

I have redone my webiste, and on my PC it looks as I want it to.

I have been merrily sending the web address out, and today I was round at my sisters work doing some printing, and showed them the site.

Disaster - all looks really dark with unreadable text.

(They use Macs running IE)

So.

Please could you spare a moment, and click over to www.apictureofsuffolk.com and have a look at the homepage.

Can you read it OK?

(Also, any feedback gratefully rec'd)

Many, many thanks in advance

Chris

Edited by chris.mapey on Saturday 3rd March 20:35

[GetCarter]

I think your link needs to be: www.apictureofsuffolk.com



I'll have a look.

[GetCarter]

I can read it all fine (some stunning pics there mate). Only comment is that the photos are sometimes falling off the right hand edge (need a wider grey background) and I also REALLY wanted to get a closer view of some of the photos (i.e. link to a bigger pic)

[chris.mapey]

Thanks Steve. Link corrected in the OP.

I am in the process of re-doing the image borders so that they don't "fall off the site"

Also, you should be able to click to a slideshow that is larger of most images.

I'll carry on investigating options to get larger images up.

Many thanks

Chris

[jonathanp]

Some really nice pictures there Chris, although the Aldeburgh slideshow doesn't seem to work for me - gets stuck with a black first image.

We're regular visitors to that part of the coast, will be back in Southwold for some photography (& beer) at Easter...

Jonathan

[beano500]

Readable and all appears to be working from here.


I'm a Firefoxey, though. Don't know what other browsers make of it....

[Rednut05]

Hi,

I agree about the pictures falling off the right hand edge.

For example;
On the index page, is the coastal picture meant to have a black border around all 4 edges, or is the black meant to encroach into the grey backing as I have viewed?

This seems the issue with some of the pictures as Steveo has commented on already.

This problem seems to be corrected on the 'About' page, although this is a portrait picture as opposed to the others which are landscape.

Also is the 'Please have a look at my landscape images' on the index page meant to be in a larger text size or was it intended to just be in bold?


The site looks clean to use and it is easy to view and read the text. I was viewing the website in Firefox.

All in all I think that the website is very well presented, simple, but yet it doesn't need to be complicated.


David

[beano500]

chris.mapey said:

Disaster - all looks really dark with unreadable text.

Ah - slight revision - the pop up price list is a bit dark to read......

[chris.mapey]

Many thanks all.

I think I have implemented the changes

Still working through the images that need borders, have done the front page so far.

Your help is much appreciated.

Chris

[Platinum]

Being picky; the underlining on the larger text sits quite a way below the word itself.

This is only in Firefox though. If I view it in IE then its fine.

[chris.mapey]

Platinum said:

Being picky; the underlining on the larger text sits quite a way below the word itself.

This is only in Firefox though. If I view it in IE then its fine.

I'll raise that issue with the guys that host & provide the back end engine for the site.

Many thanks

[Scraggles]

www.theimagefile.com/web/chrismapey

seems to be the same site, nice host as is the password option

seems u have lots of websites ?

www.thecarpoacher.com
www.mapey.com
www.mapey.co.uk
www.swpp.co.uk/members/Mapey8236.htm
www.hotfroguk.co.uk/Companies/Mapey

overall a nice professional looking site, may well look at the site at the top for image hosting site soon

[Bacardi]

Hi Chris

Had a quick look. Looks fine and readable on Firefox and Safari on a mac.

However, In IE (5.02) on mac the text is black rather than white. The pics look fine but I can't get the slideshows to run. Then again IE for mac hasn't been developed beyond 5.02. I use it only for the (very), occasional site that doesn't display or work in Safari or Firefox.

Some nice pics there .

[chris.mapey]

Scraggles said:

www.theimagefile.com/web/chrismapey

seems to be the same site, nice host as is the password option

seems u have lots of websites ?

www.thecarpoacher.com
www.mapey.com
www.mapey.co.uk
www.swpp.co.uk/members/Mapey8236.htm
www.hotfroguk.co.uk/Companies/Mapey

overall a nice professional looking site, may well look at the site at the top for image hosting site soon

Guilty as charged! I have others as well (via PH's most recommended Register1!)

I have to say that the Image File solution for photographers is ruddy brilliant. It's not the cheapest, but then the ease of use & seamless integration to PhotoBox to auto filfil orders (if you want it) make it ideal for my wedding clients - I host the gallery and then "forget" it, and it "takes care of itself" so to speak.

Feel free to PM me via my profile if you want a more indepth chat.

Chris

[Piglet]

Seems fine to me, PC running Mozilla. Nice pics!

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

Seems fine to me - Mac OSX 10.4 / Safari. Haven't clicked every link but what I tried was OK - some very nice pics!

[V6GTO]

Excellent stuff Chris..that was a very enjoyable 10 minutes.

On the "Ipswich to Felixstowe Run" segment, the third car (red American car)...I'm sure I saw that today on the M25.

Martin.

[chris.mapey]

Many thanks for all your help.

It seems that the fault lies with my Sisters Mac rather than my site - relief!

Thanks all for the comments & kind words. Much appreciated.

( - Keep checking back for updates! )

Chris