Hi guys,
I've been working on integrating a new template to http://www.nwdanet.com
I hope it improves usabilty and makes navigation a bit easier, next to that I hope that is graphically more appealing. I have set up a little (new) poll on the front page and would love to get some feedback.
a propos feedback:
If you have purchased a tech pack in the past and had good experiences using it, and like the quality of what we provide, please also go to the products page and leave a rating and comment or review. It would be much appreciated :-)
Lastly, I couldn't migrate the old guestbook, so if you feel like it, we're happy to hear from you through that as well :-)
Best regards and thanks in advance,
Frank
Cool! I just bought rocks!
Hi Frank,
Overall vary nice site, one thing though, the green background is a little violent in color terms for my taste, since so much is visible I find it hard to look at for a long time but other than that i like it. ;D
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel
thank you guys, I will apply a few minor tweaks over the next few weeks, and I will also look at the background green color.
Anyone else having issues with the green being too much?
I would also like to just reiterate that I would appreciate ratings and review from customers for the products.
It's easy to fdo: just go to the shop pages and leave a rating and comment there. :)
Cheers,
Frank
site looks great Frank...the green is fine with me, will check again on my 24" imac at home....navigation is much better...but the pages seem to take a bit long to load?....(my Download speed 982 (Kbps))?
Hi Frank,
I'm sure other people may be fine with the green, just a personal observation on my part, nothing major just an observation. :)
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel
I was looking through the gallery yesterday, (thanks for the inspiration) the images go by too quickly. I did use the control, when I noticed it. Could a slideshow speed preference be included with someone's profile?
Quote from: njeneb on August 04, 2009, 10:20:50 AM
I was looking through the gallery yesterday, (thanks for the inspiration) the images go by too quickly. I did use the control, when I noticed it. Could a slideshow speed preference be included with someone's profile?
thanks :)
unfortunately no, I can pre-set the slide speed to either 3, 5 or 10 seconds. Currently it is at 5 seconds. I thought 10 is a bit much, and people can always pause and switch at their own pace.
Frank
Quote from: inkydigit on August 04, 2009, 08:57:25 AM
site looks great Frank...the green is fine with me, will check again on my 24" imac at home....navigation is much better...but the pages seem to take a bit long to load?....(my Download speed 982 (Kbps))?
Thank you Inky :)
The page should load reasonably fast, but the header slide show will take a while, as it's sequentially loading up to 1.3 MByte of images. But that should not slow down the general page loading. Can you check again if the entire page is slow, or just the slide show in the header?
Thanks,
Frank
Looks very Professional Frank. Everything loads fast for me. Of course my speed is 294 Mb/s (sorry Inky ;) )
Only thing missing are the Contest Images that we all worked So hard on?
Quote from: FrankB on August 04, 2009, 11:06:03 AM
Quote from: inkydigit on August 04, 2009, 08:57:25 AM
site looks great Frank...the green is fine with me, will check again on my 24" imac at home....navigation is much better...but the pages seem to take a bit long to load?....(my Download speed 982 (Kbps))?
Thank you Inky :)
The page should load reasonably fast, but the header slide show will take a while, as it's sequentially loading up to 1.3 MByte of images. But that should not slow down the general page loading. Can you check again if the entire page is slow, or just the slide show in the header?
Thanks,
Frank
yes it was just my impatience...the headers initially took a second or two to load...revisited and everything seems quick enough, though obviously not as quick as Jay's!!! ;P
Quote from: buzzzzz1 on August 04, 2009, 11:17:09 AM
Looks very Professional Frank. Everything loads fast for me. Of course my speed is 294 Mb/s (sorry Inky ;) )
Only thing missing are the Contest Images that we all worked So hard on?
they will come, just need a bit time to see to that. ;)
Looks great. I somewhat agree on the green bg being a little distracting. It really depends on what your current window size is. If you full screen it with some huge resolution going on it can get really distracting as it can pull your eyes away from the white content area towards the green bg. But if you only see a few pixels of it on either side in a smaller resolution or windowed mode, looks great :).
Quote from: FrankB on August 04, 2009, 12:02:19 PM
Quote from: buzzzzz1 on August 04, 2009, 11:17:09 AM
Looks very Professional Frank. Everything loads fast for me. Of course my speed is 294 Mb/s (sorry Inky ;) )
Only thing missing are the Contest Images that we all worked So hard on?
they will come, just need a bit time to see to that. ;)
Sounds good Frank! BTW....... the Green is a little distracting at full screen. How about Black?? I re sized the window hiding the green and with the Black border on my desktop and it looked much less distracting.
Wow, looks good, very professional!
I like the green, please keep it!
Navigation is great, very easy.
Just left the new site. The gallery display at the top header is a great idea. It captures the user right off, just to see what is 'this".
Menus are much better as well. The green is not overwhelming. It seems to fit with your products.
Also this wont be an issue for too many people, you might want to be aware that your banner at the top gets blocked and i had to white list your site as on kaspersky's antibanner. because its inside a /banner/ folder. and i could easily see other ad blocking software having similarly odd little wild cards like that blocking what is usual ads.
not really a major issue just a heads up.
Guys, the NWDA contest results are now online at my new site as well: http://www.nwdanet.com/home/26-contest
Also, the cumulus tutorial has now been migrated, under the menu item "tech articles".
Cheers,
Frank
It looks really cool.
The green is good but not just the colour. I like the fact that it has that graininess. The only thing I'd do is try to make it more even, especially horizontally.
thank you, I like that graininess, too :-)
Can you elaborate on what you mean with making it more even horizontally? I don't understand...
Thanks,
Frank
I looked at the picture file. It is obviously wide so you get the grain but I see slight horizontal repeating shapes on my monitor. It it not really just a grain but shapes. However, this is really a very small issue. The site is very good and professional looking.
There is also an issue with the flash banner breaking into images you open full in the gallery. It overlaps them.