My website- Suggestions/ errors/ what do u think?

Nice, but I found it odd that the pics / pages scrolled at different rates over one another, a bit off putting.

Here is a web site from a local video production company that seems to look nice and works well.
http://www.urbancine.com/index.htm

I'm stuck on 96 for more than a minute. I've moved on.

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Gizmo said..

Nice, but I found it odd that the pics / pages scrolled at different rates over one another, a bit off putting.

I paid $40 for said effect Lol.

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Neddero said..
And what's up with the @gmail address, why not use google apps?

GApps costs money now.

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Neddero said..

I like it. I like the overall feel and look. The site makes sense to me in general, it's a portfolio...

The 'buy it now' / 'buy it here' made less sense, but I don't know what you'd write instead for the links... Maybe 'link'

The second two columns under the 'what I can do for you' section need to be reworded, I assume they we written quickly...

I assume the favicon is coming... And what's up with the @gmail address, why not use google apps?



But, generally I thought it looked really good! Nice work!

Wish my site looked that good... I'm in the process of redoing it myself, but I'm not a web guy...

That feedback was really helpful, thanks!
WIll update

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Neddero said..
I'm in the process of redoing it myself, but I'm not a web guy...

I didn't know anything about websites before i started in this last week really.

If you PM me i can make a simple explanation for you , no problemo.

Basically, Wordpress, find a theme (theme forest) Get a domain and host from Godaddy. Voila, website in a couple of days.

There's way too much going on in this website. There's some nice graphics and images but the scrolling does not work very well as it clashes with the background at times and leaves me wondering what I am looking at. I would suggest simplifying it.

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dan111984 said..

There's way too much going on in this website. There's some nice graphics and images but the scrolling does not work very well as it clashes with the background at times and leaves me wondering what I am looking at. I would suggest simplifying it.

Wonder screen res are you using?

I am on a 24" screen at 1920 x 1080 i think maybe smaller screen may be weird...

thanks for feedback though.

Sebastian
I really liked the site.
My observations...
I dominantly use Opera browser - once passed the first page it all worked fine. A refresh and all the scrolling from the front page worked too - I have a strong suspicion this is how the template structure loads - so until the complete data set is downloaded it will not scroll properly. What to do -- well if you make the first page your current second page = a distraction for visual browsing it may give enough time before someone wants to scroll / move further into the site.

If U own the domain why not use your own email structures instead of gmail?

The show all on page 2 - have you tried making the individual pictures smaller not thumb nail but in between the current size gives eye candy but distracts at the same time so probably trying to show too much detail when this is the item/page display's job.

The awards & press page does not scale and forces full screen width to display correctly - an analogy all the pages except this one are portrait this is landscape.

If you want to sell web work keep it simple and clean or 100% schmick = perfection. As a potential client I would wonder if your site is not 100% then what are U likely to give me...

But I really liked the site - a lot for its content (U R a smart guy) - the template ok but the same is achievable without the scroll/rolling.

Cheers
AP

Check this one for ideas

pmmc.com.au/

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FlySurfer said..

Neddero said..
$50/user/year, not a huge cost for most businesses, and so much more professional. If you are a one man band, you can use aliases for alternative addresses such as 'accounts' 'info' etc... and still just pay $50.

Of course you could go Crazy Domains or something for a fraction of the cost, but I guarantee you will lose that saving the first time you need to take and hour or more out of your day to call support when it stops working...

I use Google Apps (email, drive, collaboration), App Engine (host my sites)... I have my domain with "mydomain", it's very easy to play with DNS and usually replicates within an hour; ONLY problem so far are SRV records for Office 365 Lync, and no support for sub subdomain CNames/Aliases eg: sub2.sub1.domain.com, so it makes it impossible to have Office 365 + GApps on the same domain.

My company doesn't pay for Office 365 (E3) or Google Apps/Engine, and Amazon Web Services gives me coupons now and again ... where there's a will there's a way.

Interesting. Heard you could host your site with google, hadn't looked into how... My current site is Wordpress, and I'm in the process of creating a Joomla based site to replace it, so no Google hosting for me...

Why do you want to use 365 and Google apps? I'm curious... For 365 Lync? What is 365 Lync like?

Cheers.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/lync/

I don't use Lync much, but I'm a cloud solutions provider, and Office 365 is a very compelling platform for businesses. $7-$20/month user for Enterprises which gets you 25GB storage/user, Office Web Apps (SkyDrive Pro), Exchange, Lync server, SharePoint 150GB/Web App, Office Pro client, 99,99 SLA (T-Suit is 99,9), etc... companies can't provide this in-house at that cost with that availability.

I help companies migrate to the cloud, integrate on-premises <> in-cloud solutions, federated services,...
My biggest problem apart from stupid slow expensive internet here, is the MS Telstra partnership for providing Office 365 or as they call it T-Suit... but I also offer ways around it , if you don't mind paying in US$, or ?.

BTW: Google App Engine now natively supports PHP, so yes Joomla... (developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/)

Commercially I have much more demand for Office 365, I use Google Apps + App Engine (mostly static content) + Blogger, and since I have very low demand it all falls in the free tier. As a MS Cloud partner I get Office 365 E3 for free.
App Engine lets you have n of apps under your domain...
eg:
joomla.mydomain.com
OpenCms.mydomain.com
etc.mydomain.com
All running in separate memory spaces, but managed centrally.

Whereas Office 365 only supports having your 1 "Public" site under your domain.

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WA71 said..
BTW check my profile

WTF doggie! It's like the Oracle in matrix part 3... did u forget your pw and reg with a bogus email?

Works great on android tablet except that I could not find the windsurfing section???

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Seabreezeb said...

WA71 said..

Check this one for ideas

pmmc.com.au/

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But they are impossible to find in Aus.

I love those posties, i totally want one.

I owned a CT110 when I lived in northbridge, bulletproof little feckers