Hi,

Ok I am in the stages of developing an online art gallery and was hoping for some feedback from the wonderful guys and gals on webproworld. The site has been in development for a couple of weeks now and still has a fair amount of work to be done on it but I wanted to get some early feedback to guide me now rather than changing later.

So here's the url Gallery Space - Home

Over to you...please be as critical as you like, I have thick skin

Thanks guys

David

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It looks really good, good colors and good depth. Easy to gather what the site is about. For me (my eyes) I don't see the text easily. I see you matched text with bottom text box background color on sample images? I would find something, if not weightier, more contrasted. I don't know what other people see.
Cached reload was pretty instantaneous, first load was slower, no where close to - to slow. I have a pretty speedy connection though. I guess you know how to compress images and you're aware of server needs when you act as host for a gallery. It's a good domain name. Nothing stands out as "bad". Don't know why someone would put pictures there - maybe you could say why - more emphatically. Why here, why you...? Easy uploading, guaranteed up time, wide exposure due to...Price is better than....

Spelling. On all pages "difinitive"? and on contact.asp Alternativly + If your in no rush

Not obvious - slightly smaller, slightly darker, slightly different font with no hover highlight for hyperlinks in the main text.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Spelling errors are now fixed, opps

I take your point about the contrast of the text, and will certainly darken it up a bit to make it more ledgible.

dgswilson, your right the hardest part is going to be convincing people to actually use the site. Hopefully though running it as a free site for a while will generate a decent amount of content with it becoming a paid service later down the line. I think if I can get the visitor numbers up to a respectible level then this should encourage people to submit and display their work.

Again thanks for the comments and I look forward to receiving more.

Thanks

David

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Any more suggestions?

Thanks

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i enjoyed it, where did you get this fine pics. As for me it is to simple, but nice looking, continue working on it and you will get a real good site =)

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I like it overall, but not sure about the reflective bottom on the logo -- the logo itself is creative but the reflection threw me off just a bit

Thanks for the comments guys.

Sokolenko:
The pics are from an artist friend of mine who is acting as a guinea pig for testing.

Can you elaborate a little on how you feel it is too simple? Do you mean in design or functionality?

Melissa:
Yeah I agree the logo is a work in progress at the moment, I'm not particularly happy with it either but I think it's more than just the reflection that is wrong. It's not nearly strong enough, and needs more work.

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Amazing site. Really like it (going to use it for some of my works too).
I noticed you had some test-colors in the style-sheet still left (areas showed ugly green backgrounds before the images loaded).

What is a bit of a turnoff is that you put the "Free for a limited time only" right in my face. Now, I don't know what the business idea behind it is, but I personally rather see scalable accounts (free, a bit less free, not free) - anyway, it's confusing. Until I click the one of the links that gives me more information - but then I might already have left.

Thanks Ladana, you're more than welcome to set up an account. I'm looking into the test colours, I've obviously missed a couple when tidying up.

I agree about the 'free' text actually and will change this to a tiered payment.

Thanks

David

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I liked the logo but have to agree the reflection bit I wasn't crazy about..I'd also make the logo bigger but hey maybe thats just me : )

Good luck with your site!

Just wanted to comment that when I load each page, I'm getting a couple of seconds worth of the 'create your account' black screen. Looks horrible, not sure if this is intentional or not.

I'm using OSX 10.5.8
Safari 4.0.3 - flashes on loading for a few seconds
IE 5.2 - sits there permanently, each page
Firefox 3.52 - seems fine
Opera 9.64 - seems fine

Hope this is helpful.

Thanks for the help it's all very usefull.

Ok after much deliberation I have bowed to the majority and have removed the reflection from the logo and made it a little bigger

Neroli with regards to your comment about the black screen, it is not intentional and only seem to happen on some browsers. It is caused I believe due to the initial rendering of the collapsible panel. To be honest I have no idea why it is doing this and if anyone has any ideas as to the cause and the fix then please let me know.

Thanks

David

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