Hello everyone,
I have just finished building my first website (Clikpic) could you take a look and give me some honest feedback from a customers point of view.
Dove Studio website
www.dovestudio.co.uk
Please note that this has not had £1000's spent on it
Thanks for taking the time to look
Russ
My First Website
Started by RussellNeal, Dec 10 2008 11:00 AM
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 02:42 PM
Hi, Russel. Okay, I pretended to be a customer and clicked on. I thought the site loaded quickly, as did any picture on which I clicked. I thought that the pictures looked standardly professional, which means the portraits were all super bright, sometimes to the point of blowing highlights. I thought the people in the black & white shots looked unnaturally gray and dull.
Okay, so some things in that group of thoughts might seem negative, but let me flesh them out a bit. First of all, many, many pros out there shoot portraits super bright to the point of blowing highlights. When it's done on purpose, it's a portrait style and is 100% valid, so you don't have to worry there. I've seen tons of pro wedding sites by people lauded as the tops in the field, and there's so much burnout I thought I'd need to wear sunglasses to get through the viewing. Less appealing to me was the quality of the black & white images. The skin tones just didn't seem natural to me, and I was actually turned off by them. If I were a customer, would I be turned away? Don't know about that, because my pretending skills don't take me that far.
One last thing. I didn't feel the pink font of the big letters on the front page looked very professional.
Of course, you asked what I think, and these are my thoughts. I have a long, glorious history of being wrong on many things, so take that into consideration as you dwell.
The best of luck succeeding with your site, wether you choose to change things or not.
Chris
Okay, so some things in that group of thoughts might seem negative, but let me flesh them out a bit. First of all, many, many pros out there shoot portraits super bright to the point of blowing highlights. When it's done on purpose, it's a portrait style and is 100% valid, so you don't have to worry there. I've seen tons of pro wedding sites by people lauded as the tops in the field, and there's so much burnout I thought I'd need to wear sunglasses to get through the viewing. Less appealing to me was the quality of the black & white images. The skin tones just didn't seem natural to me, and I was actually turned off by them. If I were a customer, would I be turned away? Don't know about that, because my pretending skills don't take me that far.
One last thing. I didn't feel the pink font of the big letters on the front page looked very professional.
Of course, you asked what I think, and these are my thoughts. I have a long, glorious history of being wrong on many things, so take that into consideration as you dwell.
The best of luck succeeding with your site, wether you choose to change things or not.
Chris
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Posted 10 December 2008 - 03:37 PM
QUOTE (artfulpics @ Dec 10 2008, 02:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hi, Russel. Okay, I pretended to be a customer and clicked on. I thought the site loaded quickly, as did any picture on which I clicked. I thought that the pictures looked standardly professional, which means the portraits were all super bright, sometimes to the point of blowing highlights. I thought the people in the black & white shots looked unnaturally gray and dull.
Okay, so some things in that group of thoughts might seem negative, but let me flesh them out a bit. First of all, many, many pros out there shoot portraits super bright to the point of blowing highlights. When it's done on purpose, it's a portrait style and is 100% valid, so you don't have to worry there. I've seen tons of pro wedding sites by people lauded as the tops in the field, and there's so much burnout I thought I'd need to wear sunglasses to get through the viewing. Less appealing to me was the quality of the black & white images. The skin tones just didn't seem natural to me, and I was actually turned off by them. If I were a customer, would I be turned away? Don't know about that, because my pretending skills don't take me that far.
One last thing. I didn't feel the pink font of the big letters on the front page looked very professional.
Of course, you asked what I think, and these are my thoughts. I have a long, glorious history of being wrong on many things, so take that into consideration as you dwell.
The best of luck succeeding with your site, wether you choose to change things or not.
Chris
Okay, so some things in that group of thoughts might seem negative, but let me flesh them out a bit. First of all, many, many pros out there shoot portraits super bright to the point of blowing highlights. When it's done on purpose, it's a portrait style and is 100% valid, so you don't have to worry there. I've seen tons of pro wedding sites by people lauded as the tops in the field, and there's so much burnout I thought I'd need to wear sunglasses to get through the viewing. Less appealing to me was the quality of the black & white images. The skin tones just didn't seem natural to me, and I was actually turned off by them. If I were a customer, would I be turned away? Don't know about that, because my pretending skills don't take me that far.
One last thing. I didn't feel the pink font of the big letters on the front page looked very professional.
Of course, you asked what I think, and these are my thoughts. I have a long, glorious history of being wrong on many things, so take that into consideration as you dwell.
The best of luck succeeding with your site, wether you choose to change things or not.
Chris
Thanks Chris,
Honest feedback is the fastest way of getting it right.
With that said i will take out the B&W's and change the font colour immediately.
Thanks again Chris
Russ
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