Ok I got out my Mac and surfed your site. A few impressions: 1. You might want to not have the audio automatically start upon navigating to each page, that is, default to pause rather than play. This prevents the music from becoming an annoyance as you go back and forth - you keep hearing the beginning of the song. The song is good if there's enough content on the page to hold you there for the duration of the tune, but most are quick click-throughs so far. I like them better on the dedicated music page only.
2. The links to external items, such as the YouTube slide show of charles's stuff, would be better as page embeds than taking you to a new window. Plus your site's music keeps playing while the new content tries to play its own audio at the same time. 3. Captions on the photos so we can figure out who we're looking at. 4. Classified ads page needs simplification - single line listings that are chronologically arranged, linked to details. The flipping pictures thing precludes adding listings easily, if that's your intent. 5. Homepage has a few "click here" hotspots as well as a row of lozenges along the top. The home-about us button has no function, and could be replaced by a link to the music page, which eliminates the need for the victor ii hotspot. The large needle tin pic hotspot blows up the picture, which could just be added to the photo gallery. The facebook logo is a bit too prominent. 5. Why access the link to dismuke and a couple of audio files thru the photo gallery page? Nice start. The wix service is new to me and looks like a fun way to play around with webdesign. Hope this helps. Sent from my iPhone -- Peter [email protected] On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Peter Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll take a peek at the actual site when I have time to go fire up a > computer, but for now, here's my suggestion... > > It would be nice if you could move it to modern web standards by implementing > html5, so more of us can enjoy it, or to at least provide a flash-free > version. As it is configured now, I can't get past whatever the initial > splash page is serving. Most pro pages at least give a link to bypass those > sorts of initial animations (or whatever it is). Past that, I don't know how > much you rely on flash, but again if you could provide a means of bypassing > it, many of us would be grateful. > > Anxious to see what it looks like... > > Sent from my iPad > > -- Peter > [email protected] > > On Oct 11, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Vinyl Visions <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I have re-done our website and need some constructive feedback from you >> guys/girls... >> www.carolinaphonosociety.com >> Also, if you have any events, pictures of collections, events, etc. - that >> you would like to have posted on our site, please let me know. >> Curt >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
