The Gallery

I appreciate all the feedback that I received the first time that I submitted my site for review, but now I need to know if this little project of mine is a good idea or if I should scrap it. Since I do not like to repeat my jewelry designs, I made a gallery of sorts on my site. Could you review it and tell me if it is a good idea or not?

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The very item I clicked on went to this page: Amber and Chrystal 1 and the image is very fuzzy. Not good.

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Dave Barnes
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sitting in my basement with my iMac

Thanks. I a lot of those were taken of pieces that I no longer have. I found the pics on the computer. I have to find a way to clean them up if possible.

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Just a few things I noticed when I started cycling through the gallery, aside from the above mentioned image quality...

Being that the site is advertising your unique jewelry designs, references to kit pieces may work against you. Rewording these descriptions or removing the earlier pieces and emphasizing your from scratch designs may be helpful, especially since the user starts out in the kit pieces in the current gallery.

The gallery also seems disorganized - pieces that are parts of sets are mixed with reworkings of other pieces in that set. For instance when coming into the gallery you see some iterations of a necklace, then some earrings from the set, followed by another redesign of the necklace. It becomes hard to follow. This could be resolved by combining the images into a single page. Instead of showing large images at every step, show medium size, high resolution images of the final products, with smaller low resolution images of the important iterative stages below if desired, all surrounding the description. Think of it like the chain jewelery stores - the page is like a display case, showing the matched pieces, and the description and additional reference images below. Another approach might be to just show small, high quality images of all the final pieces in a set on one page, with description, and each piece linked to a sub-page focused on that one piece.

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