Karen Hall & Co

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looks great ā€¦ just one thing i dont like. i dont like how it opens up in a full windo ā€¦ j/k

I dont like how the bgpictures (right hand large photos) just disappear when you click on a different menu link. The rest of the site transitions really well but these pictures just disappear. I doesnā€™t seem consistent w/ the ā€œsmoothnessā€ of the rest of the site.

just me

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Hey Simp, Voets nice work guys !! ā€“ looks great - I love the home page ( news area etc the best) ā€¦

One small comment : I would change the line ā€œlaoding XMLā€ to something more friendly and relevant to the site - perhaps loading experience / content etcā€¦ XML only makes sense to coders :):slight_smile:

Apart from that - lovely stuff :slight_smile:

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nice work guys. here are just a few things i noticed and would consider changing:

  • adding a close button for the recent news mc popup
  • moving up the national freelance directory and elite links b/c they get partially blocked on 1024x768 in IE7. possibly add a hover caption to these as well
  • the ā€œview portfolioā€ feature acts a bit funny b/c when you click on a thumbnail to show the enlarged photo, it whips right back to the thumbnails.
  • itā€™s awesome how the photo slides out when you click ā€œnational packagesā€ or ā€œbook onlineā€. i wish the other pages transitioned like that.
  • in ā€œstyleā€, the 03 link doesnā€™t seem to work
  • bridal coordinator is misspelled in recent news>attention brides. also there is a broken link (www.www.wwbyvon.com)
  • maybe itā€™s just my machine, but the transitions lag a bit
  • maybe add a favicon
  • add DOCTYPE and meta tags to the html file
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nice work guys. here are just a few things i noticed and would consider changing:

  • itā€™s awesome when the photos slide out for the transition. doing this site wide could be really nice.
  • i completely missed the ā€œview portfolioā€ feature the first few times i went through the site. it would be great to show it briefly the first time a user goes to the page.
  • the ā€œview portfolioā€ part acts kind of funny in how it whips right back to the thumbnails after youā€™ve selected an image. thereā€™s also no easy way to just view it like a slideshow, which i think is ideal.
  • add DOCTYPE and meta tags to the original html file
  • in recent news>featured referrals, bridal coordinator is misspelled. thereā€™s also a broken link (www.www.wwbyvon.com)
  • in IE7 1024x768, the national freelance directory and elite link images get partially cut off. maybe move them up slightly.
  • maybe itā€™s just me, but the transitions lag slightly.
  • the 03 link in ā€œstyleā€ doesnā€™t seem to work.
  • in ā€œstyleā€, it might be beneficial to move to the next image when the user clicks.
  • maybe add a favicon.

itā€™s funny, normally iā€™m one to not like popups or browser resizes, but iā€™ve always said there are exceptions. and for me, the most important exception is when a site is showing large images, which this one does. so in this case, i do actually think itā€™s appropriate and not really invasive.

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i think its ok, just needs work on transitioning the pics

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thanks guys. pixi i like the suggestion :smiley:

as for the other thingsā€¦ anything text wise and what not is all client stuff. the point of the cms is to keep it outta our hands and put it into theirs, so things like that arenā€™t really my problems.

the slideshow doesnā€™t make sense because itā€™s not a slideshow.

style, 03 doesnā€™t work cause she hasnā€™t uploaded images.

i think that we may move the view portfolio to the upper right instead of lower right. cause of the way the eyes read the screen (soulty mentioned it I think to me b4)

in ie, extra toolbars aside from the original default onesā€¦ ieā€¦ google bar, yahoo barā€¦ etc. it will do that with the banner links.

doctypeā€¦ got yaā€¦ we are actually putting together all the meta information for SEO.

thanks for the feedback :smiley:

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i love the simplicity of it, nicely done menu, cool color combinations, nice fonts, everything is great!
only thing is the transitions lag a bit on my comp

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Absolutely awesome! :thumb:

I really like everything in itā€¦ itā€™s a good thing I declined your request, because I wouldā€™ve brought it way down! (This was the site you asked me about, right?)

Itā€™s really cool. :slight_smile:

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Looking pimp. I love black grey and pink, so thats won me over. Impressive client side if she can maintain it all too :smiley:

My transitions lag a bit too, not sure whyā€¦most other sites run fine on my lil lappy.

I think the portfolio button does need to be a bit more explicit, i missed it the first few times too.

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Thanks again guysā€¦ I may have an idea of what the problem w/ the lag you all seem to have may beā€¦ Iā€™ll talk to voets when I get a chance.

:lol: no this isnā€™t the site. The one I was askin you about was I need about 10 forms that were using tables to be converted into tableless forms based off the xHTML and CSS template that I had put together. I was givin a tight deadline so I was lookin for someone who would do it similtaneously while I was workin on the other parts of the site. But I ended up doin them and gettin it all done in the timeframeā€¦ was just a rush :lol:

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This is a very nice siteā€¦ and with good cms this will rock for the clientā€¦

great jobā€¦ nothing that I think of to comment onā€¦

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Wow this came out really nice sim im loving your transitions. The colors also fit perfectly with the rest of the site and knowing that she can change pretty much anything is definitely impressive.

Great job as always,
Chris

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Iā€™m not a fan of pop up sites OR full screen sitesā€¦ But it is a nice site, good job.

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:lol:

Ah wellā€¦ :stuck_out_tongue:

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but have you and voets thought about adding slideshow functionality? right now, the user basically has to go through four steps for each photo they want to look at:

  1. hover over the large image
  2. find the next thumbnail
  3. click the thumbnail
  4. hover off the large image

that process gets pretty cumbersome, especially if someone wants to view all the photos. adding previous/next buttons would drastically cut down how much the user has to think and act.

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Dare I suggest an autoplay button? It could just fade between images, and then if the user goes to your thumbs section then the autoplay stops and they can chose whatever image they want?

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No, the reason I donā€™t want to put a slideshow function on it is because it would take up to much CPU to crossfade them ALL THE TIME. And quite personally I would think that it would be more annoying to the masses more so than the few that think that this method seems to be cumbersome ;). I personally donā€™t like going to sites that have a predetermined amount of time that Iā€™m allowed to examine a photo, or art. Personally I canā€™t think of any site that I would enjoy watching a slideshow, unless it was for some sort of instructional presentation.

However, more importantlyā€¦ client loves the site :smiley: already got 4 other job offers based off the release of that site soā€¦ seems like itā€™s a success :smiley:

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Congrats man. Good work

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i was using the term slideshow loosely. like you, i hate any site that determines how long i can look at a photo. i was more just referring to a system with previous/next buttons.

haha. iā€™m definitely not surprised. despite my usability tirades and nitpicking, i do like the site. so iā€™ll stop for now and just say nice job.

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No noā€¦ donā€™t need to. I love feedback, itā€™s great for the next up and coming jobs :D. But just as youā€™re adament about wanting to see a possible change, I have to be just as adament about why we chose to do what we did :smiley: :thumb2: so I wasnā€™t takin it in a negative way at all :smiley: