[xvisionx.com]

[drumguy8800]

Personal photography site. Photos + blog.

[xvisionx.com] (http://xvisionx.com) Rate me!

[the tree]

Timed out.

(Tiscali DSL, England)

[drumguy8800]

I'm having major problems with my server right now. I switched it to run off my own computer because it's much faster, and I'm having trouble getting it to run smoothly. Our DSL kicked last night, so the site has been down, and I've had to reroute the page to a new IP, so the 'master list' or whatever has to have time to update itself. I'm planning on getting a dynamic dns service when i get home so that when ips change, so will my site. sorry for the inconvenience. Currently, it is at http://209.30.31.60

[drumguy8800]

Yeah. well. thanks for all the comments and critique! greatly appreciated.

I'm having issues making my site compatible with Mozilla Firefox. I've made tons of improvements and its working pretty seamlessly now, but there's still one thing that's bugging me: On all my pages, I have a directory (i.e. "Home » Dallas » Downtown" and when you mouseover, the title displays the number of pictures in the folder. The problem is the little hovertext thing shows up way to the bottom right of where it should. I'm not having this problem with any other mouseover text, and its not an issue in Internet Explorer.

The config files for the directory are in http://www.xvisionx.com/master.js under the function dir.

Thanks.

[zingmatter]

It took quite a while to load, dunno if that's because you images are big. The thumbnail images seem quite big byte-wise and could be made much smaller. While it was loading it looked pretty good with a white background. Seemed to be spoiled by the image that loaded in the background (making <<11.3>> in black very hard to read).

Otherwise I thought it a nice site will some nice photography on it. You just need to optimise the delivery to speed things up. You might think about having extra pages rather than loading serveral images in to iframes of the single page.

[baseiber]

It took 1.5 minutes for your page to load using my work connection. The background image makes things hard to read and creates an "amature" impression. I'd get rid of that and let people change that background instead of the outside background.

[gumbystation]

Originally posted by baseiber
It took 1.5 minutes for your page to load using my work connection. The background image makes things hard to read and creates an "amature" impression. I'd get rid of that and let people change that background instead of the outside background.

I second everythign he just said!!!!

[mrmazur]

Great photos. The page just takes WAAAAAYYY too long to load even on a T1 connection. It may just be your DSL connection as the images thumbnails of the images didn't seem to be that big. That background has got to go as it make the «11.3» hard to read/see. You should also have a link to the Home page at the very top of your site (in that black area). That's the first place I went looking for it and then realized you were using breadcrumbs so I got back to it that way. But breadcrumbs should never be a substitute for main navigation items. Keep on going ;)

[spufi]

In a word, cluttered. In a couple more words, scroll bars suck. :) I have a huge pet peeve that there should be one scroll bar and it's the one my browser creates when a page gets too long. Here's what I would to change things around.

List the three to five most recent site updates, and then at the bottom of that section provide a link to more updates. When a person clicks on it, they can weed through your site update archive. Do the same for your featured photos.

This could all be done within a reasonable amount of page space and thus there would be no need to create extra scroll bars. Rethink certain things. I thought the "Customize Background" thing at the top with the different colors did just that. It does nothing for me. You click on a link to sort. Sort how? Your list thumbnails style is going to kill modem users. And I agree with the rest of the people about your background image. Use the image as part of a logo, and change that. You could use a style sheet switcher and really start to play around with things. Personally I wouldn't get too crazy with that idea because I think your site has much more fundamental issues than having multiple CSS versions for the user.

[drumguy8800]

Thanks for all the comments. I agree with the page-loading issue, and I never thought of the update page being a hassle. I'll parse it. One of the main hassles right now is a hidden div loading that has 30 thumbnails in it (the div pops up when you click 'customize' in the main frame) that shows the options for internal backgrounds. I haven't made an attempt to make a customize page independent of the main frame, but I'm going to try and make one tonight. I was going to start a thread asking if there was a way to tell a certain section of a page not to load until you click a link initializing a javascript function, which would eliminate the forced loading of the 30 thumbs.. so if anyone knows how to do that, i'd love some help.

It took 1.5 minutes for your page to load using my work connection. The background image makes things hard to read and creates an "amature" impression. I'd get rid of that and let people change that background instead of the outside background.

The background image can be changed by the user with the customize option in the main frame. I'll change the default to something lighter.