Thread: Please review my site

Hi All
This is my first attempt at a web site, please have a look and give any feedback ( bad or good :)
www.lonelyobject.com

I am yet to work out how to make my email links active i.e when someone clicks on the link and it pops up with an email composition box ?
Other than that I am quite happy with the navigation and design - it is very basic and I am toying with the idea of adding a shopping cart - if anyone can suggest the best way to go here I would appreciate it.
Thanks for your time people.
Best regards
Mark

Hey Mark,
love the opening page.......some points:
The "next" link on Bric-a-Brac 3 doesn't work. I know why...because that's the last page LOL... if you're not going to add any more for a while, maybe take it out?
Ditto with the 2nd. page of "Photos by Mark"
My own personal opinion: I always think "coming soon" rings better than "under construction".....
but in all, nice work,
david
regards to maxy

Use pix resizer for all the images! Takes forever to load and I have good connection.

im a little confused - you have some nice products, but i don't see a price for each item. then you have a payment page that works with paypal. basically you can put a price on each item, and a pay pal add to cart button for each item and if i would like to purchase the item i would pay through pay pal and you then would ship the item. you don't say anything about freight. hope you fill in the blanks for me as I may be interested in some of the items.
i like the lay out and design - i agree with sizing your pictures a bit better but that is the draw back with using light house. what would be the problem with you having your small picture on each page, let's say 90 x 90 pixels and use a pop up when someone clicks on the picture. it will load much better. its up to you - it is your website.

Hey thanks for the replies,
Mrmagoo 1st -
If I were to add each photo separately ( which I am happy to do - sort of :) I would lose the nice interface - back next - I suppose I just have to make a separate full page pic ? - I have tried to keep the sizes down i.e I resized all of them in photoshop as a large and small image - tried to keep them below 30k each and up to 100 on some I think - but I will recheck this.

Thanks for the paypal suggestion - freight would be via post and I will add some info soon - let me know what items you like :) thanks again

Thanks tommyB - as above - I only know ps - but will try and find this, cheers

Finally, many thanks David - I agree and will fix that up.

All the best

Mark

Any web page should be under 200kb & yours is around 1400kb. Best bet is not to use the light box as a gallery as it has not been designed for this particular type of use.

I think the site looks good and I know its been mentioned but I really think you should be able to click on the thumbnail to bring up a bigger image, with a description, a price tag and a way to buy.

Um - please help re pix size etc ? anyone have any suggestions - I use photoshop and have checked my website on several computers with varying connections - they all load ok - if anyone can suggest a better way to display images and make a lightbox style interface it would be appreciated - or should i be looking at a shopping cart - please reply with some example websites if possible
many thanks
m

Please email me at the above address for all questions, transactions & pancake recipes

This is great, made me laugh out loud!

I don't know if someone has mentioned it but your contact and payment pages are untitled.

Love the site, I agree with the above comments.

Originally Posted by adeblov

Um - please help re pix size etc ? anyone have any suggestions - I use photoshop and have checked my website on several computers with varying connections - they all load ok - if anyone can suggest a better way to display images and make a lightbox style interface it would be appreciated - or should i be looking at a shopping cart - please reply with some example websites if possible
many thanks
m

Hi Mark,
don't know if this will help or just add to your "confusion"? LOL...but, a lot of people, including myself, are using i-frames for things like this...it's a little time comsuming when you have a lot of images + text to write with them but....have a look at the effect and see if you think it's worth it. Here's an example of what I have done on one of my pages - scroll down to where you see the Title "Herat" & below "Kandahar" Off to the right is the i-frame. It's possible to have some text included below the images in the i-frame if necessary. As for 'sizing' use PIXresizer (free from VH) - my thumbs are 100 X 100 & the i-frame is 400 X 400
good luck,
david

Thanks David
Where can I download the I-Frame thingy ? :)

If you're using BV11 it's the extreme left tool bar - 3rd. icon down - also check this tutorial
have fun,
david

This might also be a bit of extra help!

Thank you Generals Dave & Chris

I will tackle this soon - looks like a better way than the lightbox - I am still unsure of how or which shopping cart system to use - do either of you have any experience with them or know of a good site to take a look at - whilst my site is not super commercial I am keen to have it work smoothly and actually allow ppl a mechanism to purchase - thank you both for your kindness again.
Regards
Mark