Sign Injust back after a year & half in africa
did somebody out there who visited my website.I might be off again soon waiting 4 confirmation
my website www.rhemedy.net
kind regards
my website www.rhemedy.net
kind regards
Check out our article about selling to magazines. It might be a good place to start:
http://www.fpme.co.uk/articles/Selling-to-Magazines-11
http://www.fpme.co.uk/articles/Selling-to-Magazines-11
thanks David for your advices & answers by any chance did you ad time to check my website
kind regards
kind regards
.@hemedy - Tried to look at your website, but as soon as I click on the 'home' page picture, there is a message that your sertver has an internal error or is misconfigured :-)
- Hans
- Hans
Sorry Hans!I'll ask my girlfriend to have a look @ it strange because yesterday i was able to visit it.Just try soon again
Hemedy
Hemedy
Hans,
go on google & tape www.rhemedy.net & you'll see africa-rhemedy just click on it!let me know your feedback!
peace
go on google & tape www.rhemedy.net & you'll see africa-rhemedy just click on it!let me know your feedback!
peace
Hi Hemedy,
Seems that something got fixed regarding server access :-). The site reflects your time spend there and is a good documentation. However, here is some critique about the site - but - it refers only to a few technical issues about navigating the site :-).
(1a) The Flash player shows of course the "" inside a picture to navigate to the next or previous picture. That's perfectly normal, but.... the moment you have a picture with a light background, those navigation spots drown out and aren't seen anymore. So, users have to guess where to place the pointer in order to get the next (or previous) shot. Maybe changing the color of those nav markings to red color would help. To simply darken them doesn't help as that repeats the issue when on a dark background. That's even more important for the next issue about those marks (see 1b).
(1b) The navigation "" are set - exactly - for the mouse pointer to navigate. If you're a tiny fraction off in any direction with your mouse pointer, it doesn't work anymore. Check it out yourself, and see when the mouse pointer changes from a finger back to a standard pointer. That selection area should be changed too and made larger around each side.
(2a) The last thing I have to comment about is the vertical navigation on the left side. One thing is that the labels of all sections should be on the same side (either top or bottom) and not some on top and one at the bottom. Nothing irritates a visitor more than looking for the 'missing' navigation as they just used one at the top and then there is nothing when they want to select another one (2nd from the left).
(2b) The navigation strip font looks nice from a point of fancy design, but are difficult to tread. What on earth DOES the 2nd from the left label actually says? They all should have a easily readable font. A "design show off" is fine for a designer but contradicts the usability of the web site. Those 2 fact (design vs. usability) clash too often on a web. If I scratch my head a few times when visiting your web site, then so do others. Take that for granted :-).
(2c) Last but not least, the vertical navigation sections are way too small. It's already hard enough to try to read (visually separating) them, but the moment you try to select one you're lost. It's already difficult enough to select exactly the one you decided on. However, it get's worse when you move the mouse pointer over one and it immediately widens.
That's fine and there's nothing to say about this function, but... those other ones get microscopic small and the only way to navigate to another one is to move the mouse pointer completely out of the navigation and then hit again. The 'strips' need to be at least wide enough that one can move from one to another easily without pain.
Note:
I don't know this exactly and base my next remark only on a practical guess. An explanation for the navigation issues could be that the developer used a relative low resolution (e.g. 800x600) during development. That way it looks fine on a developer's computer but shrinks overall when displayed on a PC with a much higher resolution.
The resolution of 800 x 600 was standard for many years but most computer displays are nowadays set to a much higher res and makes it harder to read or navigate. That goes especially for the increasing use of laptops with (a) a smaller screen than an external monitor and (b) usually with a screen resolution set to well over 1000 for the longest side (e.g. 1600 x 900).
Those (above) critiques came only from visiting your side and are not meant as a bashing :-). The reason for creating your web site is in general to draw users to your side and not drive them away, right?
- Hans
Seems that something got fixed regarding server access :-). The site reflects your time spend there and is a good documentation. However, here is some critique about the site - but - it refers only to a few technical issues about navigating the site :-).
(1a) The Flash player shows of course the "" inside a picture to navigate to the next or previous picture. That's perfectly normal, but.... the moment you have a picture with a light background, those navigation spots drown out and aren't seen anymore. So, users have to guess where to place the pointer in order to get the next (or previous) shot. Maybe changing the color of those nav markings to red color would help. To simply darken them doesn't help as that repeats the issue when on a dark background. That's even more important for the next issue about those marks (see 1b).
(1b) The navigation "" are set - exactly - for the mouse pointer to navigate. If you're a tiny fraction off in any direction with your mouse pointer, it doesn't work anymore. Check it out yourself, and see when the mouse pointer changes from a finger back to a standard pointer. That selection area should be changed too and made larger around each side.
(2a) The last thing I have to comment about is the vertical navigation on the left side. One thing is that the labels of all sections should be on the same side (either top or bottom) and not some on top and one at the bottom. Nothing irritates a visitor more than looking for the 'missing' navigation as they just used one at the top and then there is nothing when they want to select another one (2nd from the left).
(2b) The navigation strip font looks nice from a point of fancy design, but are difficult to tread. What on earth DOES the 2nd from the left label actually says? They all should have a easily readable font. A "design show off" is fine for a designer but contradicts the usability of the web site. Those 2 fact (design vs. usability) clash too often on a web. If I scratch my head a few times when visiting your web site, then so do others. Take that for granted :-).
(2c) Last but not least, the vertical navigation sections are way too small. It's already hard enough to try to read (visually separating) them, but the moment you try to select one you're lost. It's already difficult enough to select exactly the one you decided on. However, it get's worse when you move the mouse pointer over one and it immediately widens.
That's fine and there's nothing to say about this function, but... those other ones get microscopic small and the only way to navigate to another one is to move the mouse pointer completely out of the navigation and then hit again. The 'strips' need to be at least wide enough that one can move from one to another easily without pain.
Note:
I don't know this exactly and base my next remark only on a practical guess. An explanation for the navigation issues could be that the developer used a relative low resolution (e.g. 800x600) during development. That way it looks fine on a developer's computer but shrinks overall when displayed on a PC with a much higher resolution.
The resolution of 800 x 600 was standard for many years but most computer displays are nowadays set to a much higher res and makes it harder to read or navigate. That goes especially for the increasing use of laptops with (a) a smaller screen than an external monitor and (b) usually with a screen resolution set to well over 1000 for the longest side (e.g. 1600 x 900).
Those (above) critiques came only from visiting your side and are not meant as a bashing :-). The reason for creating your web site is in general to draw users to your side and not drive them away, right?
- Hans
Sorry, didn't think about the web not recognizing some special characters when typed here :-). So, when you just see "" then that was meant to display math signs like "less than" or "more than" and refers to the navigation symbols left and right inside the slide show picture.
- Hans
- Hans
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kind regards Hemedy