New member, new website.

[pwilliams]

Hi everyone,

Im peter from helsinki. I have been working with html for 6 weeks now and have had my website online for three weeks. This field is very new to me and i would appreciate and pointers, suggestions you might make.

I am fairly happy with its visual style and will now concentrate on content. I will make one change to the menu, i have found a fairly simple script that will allow a fold-out menu which i hope will allow a broader scope of content.

So please be honest. I have a very limeted experience with html and scripting.

http://www.williamsphotography.fi

Thanks in advance, Peter

[Phalon]

I like the style, but i do have a personal opinion that you don't have to take. on the home page you could the title Peter Williams Photography a little more interesting, like make the title in a graphics program such as gimp, again you don't have to do this.

As for code, it was half way clean, you could make it neater and more user friendly for yourself if you used a style sheet. as for the galleries you could add a link so you could back out to the group of pictures your currently looking at instead of all the way to the main page.

But the only real annouance i found was your contact link. Instead of having it open the persons email program on their computer, which some people don't use, you could have a php page with a form to send emails that way. If you want to learn php, go to www.php.net, otherwise email me at kloos2000@yahoo.com and i can send you the nessesary code to have that set up.

[pwilliams]

Phalon, thank you so much for the constructive feedback!!

I like the style, but i do have a personal opinion that you don't have to take. on the home page you could the title Peter Williams Photography a little more interesting, like make the title in a graphics program such as gimp, again you don't have to do this.
Im working on this right now in Photoshop, my wife also thought the same, and its true, a bit plain.

As for code, it was half way clean, you could make it neater and more user friendly for yourself if you used a style sheet. as for the galleries you could add a link so you could back out to the group of pictures your currently looking at instead of all the way to the main page.
Thank you for pointing this out, i have being looking so hard that the obvious stuff has taken on a touch of the invisible :eek:

But the only real annouance i found was your contact link. Instead of having it open the persons email program on their computer, which some people don't use, you could have a php page with a form to send emails that way. If you want to learn php, go to www.php.net, otherwise email me at kloos2000@yahoo.com and i can send you the nessesary code to have that set up.

This is a very generous offer Phalon and tempting, however im going to spend some time at the link you provided and see if i can get my head around php. If it seems to be impossible for me it would be great if i could still take you up on your offer. You have been very kind. :)

Best regards, Peter

[KDLA]

Not bad. The homepage looks a little "Edgar Allan Poe" -- which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

You might check this out on a high resolution screen. The homepage's content are spread out pretty far. It doesn't have the "tight" appearance I think you're wanting.

A more dramatic way of displaying your images might be using this integration of CSS and javascripting: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
It's much more user and designer friendly.

The coding of your site isn't that good. You might run it past the validator (http://www.validator.w3.org) and learn better coding methods.

KDLA

[pwilliams]

Not bad. The homepage looks a little "Edgar Allan Poe" -- which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Thanks KDLA, ill take it as a compliment!

You might check this out on a high resolution screen. The homepage's content are spread out pretty far. It doesn't have the "tight" appearance I think you're wanting.

I have been staring at the code to try and find a way to close the gap between the menu items, but nothing sticks out, any ideas?

The coding of your site isn't that good. You might run it past the validator (http://www.validator.w3.org) and learn better coding methods.

Done it and its gonna take time to figure out the plate of pasta the validator produced for me :confused:

KDLA

Thanks for your time and feedback KDLA, you have been really helpful

Kind regards, Peter.

[The Little Guy]

The navigation links on the homepage, could be moved up some, and could be placed on every page as well.

I downsized your company image, it is now about half the KB, and still looks nice. This will speed up loading time for slower computers, and save you bandwidth
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/tec1/webdeveloper/company.gif

Some of your pages don't have a link back to the home page, such as this one: http://www.williamsphotography.fi/livegallery.html
And from the guestbook.

Some of your pages have a lot of code... You could down size that code by more than 50%, such as this page: http://www.williamsphotography.fi/mgallery.html

The homepage is a bit plain, and I feel you should liven it up a little more.

I think you should try a dive into CSS, it will really help you out, and downsize your coding size.

P.S.
If you need a PHP emailer, I can get you an easy to use, easy to modify, to fit your site mailer. The coding is very understandable, and I think you will be able to read it, and understand it.

[pwilliams]

The navigation links on the homepage, could be moved up some, and could be placed on every page as well.

Hi LG, and thanks for the feedback. I have a post in the html forum asking for advice on this very issue.

I downsized your company image, it is now about half the KB, and still looks nice. This will speed up loading time for slower computers, and save you bandwidth
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/tec1/webdeveloper/company.gif

That was a kind thing to do and it does look great!


I think you should try a dive into CSS, it will really help you out, and downsize your coding size. Im on it, thanks.


P.S.
If you need a PHP emailer, I can get you an easy to use, easy to modify, to fit your site mailer. The coding is very understandable, and I think you will be able to read it, and understand it.

Thanks again, i will be able to answer just as soon as i figure out what a php emailer is :confused:

Regards, Peter