Thread: New Site For Review

I'm busy with a new website and would love to hear your comments & crits:

Addo Accommodation

Original Directive: Less is more and plenty of pictures to compensate for language barrier... go wild.

just when I think you can't get any better,,,You Do!

Looks really good..top job

I guess these are going to be links when you get around to it?

ADDO ACCOMMODATION RATES | ADDO BED & BREAKFAST | ADDO ELEPHANT NATIONAL PARK | ADDO | SOUTH AFRICA


All the best

Darren

Hi Andrew, another great looking site. Must admit the <h1> tags do feel a bit like a menu & wanted to click on them. All the images look great, but can be a little distracting when trying to read the page info when changing every few seconds.
Not sure if the light grey area at the top of the page is for something to come, but feels like the page could be lifted a touch. But this also might be me with having 4 main menu bars open at the top of my screen.

Good luck.

I like the overall design, and I LOVE the images. That little orange icon is great too.

Some suggestions or things I noticed is that the footer is sort of distracting, I think maybe because it's slightly too big.

As Chris said, I think the images rotate just a little bit too quickly, maybe slow them down a bit? And I wanted to click the headers too lol

Some of the pages load a little slow, (contact page especially for me). I notice there is a lot of images, maybe changing some of the format on them could lessen the file sizes and help speed things up a bit?

Great feeling from the site, felt like Africa (although I haven't been....yet).

Great Site,

Very well done

Congrats

Originally Posted by Collectors-info

Hi Andrew, another great looking site. Must admit the <h1> tags do feel a bit like a menu & wanted to click on them. All the images look great, but can be a little distracting when trying to read the page info when changing every few seconds.
Not sure if the light grey area at the top of the page is for something to come, but feels like the page could be lifted a touch. But this also might be me with having 4 main menu bars open at the top of my screen.

Good luck.

Thanks Chris, slowed down the photo transition. Still havn't decided on top of page area, as I wanted to create the feeling that the page doesn't start at top.

Originally Posted by Hylith

I like the overall design, and I LOVE the images. That little orange icon is great too.

Some suggestions or things I noticed is that the footer is sort of distracting, I think maybe because it's slightly too big.

As Chris said, I think the images rotate just a little bit too quickly, maybe slow them down a bit? And I wanted to click the headers too lol

Some of the pages load a little slow, (contact page especially for me). I notice there is a lot of images, maybe changing some of the format on them could lessen the file sizes and help speed things up a bit?

Great feeling from the site, felt like Africa (although I haven't been....yet).

Thanks Robert,

I'm using plenty of photographs which I've reduced to a avg of 36kb's each, for a slight increase in page load speed I'd rather retain their present picture quality...

Originally Posted by SChajin

just when I think you can't get any better,,,You Do!

Thanks Sharon,

My sites in Addo are always fun, as The Addo Elephant Park is only 30 min drive from home. So when I get 'cabin fever' from too much time in front of the PC I grab the camera and head for the bush...

Hi,
Great site.
Love the pictures. How were you able to slow down the picture transitions? Was that through the image tool or did you have to do it by editing the code? Thanks.

Love your website. Love the look. Love the feel and love your photography.

Well done!!

Ah! The photos feel a lot better at the new pace. Good luck.

Originally Posted by Collectors-info

Ah! The photos feel a lot better at the new pace. Good luck.

Thanks Chris

Originally Posted by qwmrhai

Hi,
Great site.
Love the pictures. How were you able to slow down the picture transitions? Was that through the image tool or did you have to do it by editing the code? Thanks.

Thanks,

The 'slideshow' is javascript, you'd find something similar at Dynamic Drive or one of the other free javascript sources. Keep a look out for a versitile multi or cross browser, pre loading script which allows you to change the transition speed, border size, delay, etc

Hi my friend.
Long time no see. Your site is looking real good (as always). I agree with Chris about that grey strip on top. What about reflecting a thin strip of the footer image on that grey strip as well?

Originally Posted by Tom vR

Hi my friend.
Long time no see. Your site is looking real good (as always). I agree with Chris about that grey strip on top. What about reflecting a thin strip of the footer image on that grey strip as well?

Hey Tom,

Will have look... I went for a footer and no header on this one as I was worried it would clutter a a 'clean look'.