Any comments or thoughts?

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Larry_Trupp
Sep 1, 2004
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I just put together this web site using Photoshop and Image Ready. The images were taken with A canon D60.
<http://members.shaw.ca/larryvt/>
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Trevor_Morris
Sep 1, 2004
Some beautiful photos there. Site is simple and easy to navigate. Nice. But why are you using the Netscape FavIcon for your site?
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Larry_Trupp
Sep 1, 2004
What are or is a Netscape FavIcon?
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Trevor_Morris
Sep 1, 2004
I briefly checked your code and you have not assigned a FavIcon (www.favicon.com), so this is obviously a FireFox (www.mozilla.org) bug. BTW, your site looks fine in Firefox, but has a large black rectangle above your name when viewed in IE.
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Krazy Kat
Sep 1, 2004
Very nice shots. I would consider putting some kind of water mark or such on the images to hinder peoples ability to use the images. Being for web they wouldn’t necessarily be printable in any meaningful capacity. Still, maybe a signature or something in a corner.

cheers
Gato Loco

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:18:46 -0700, wrote:

I just put together this web site using Photoshop and Image Ready. The images were taken with A canon D60.
<http://members.shaw.ca/larryvt/>
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YrbkMgr
Sep 1, 2004
When I veiwed it in IE, it looked fine. It took me a while to see what Trevor meant about the Favicon, but I wouldn’t have noticed it had he not pointed it out.

What are or is a Netscape FavIcon?

When the page is displayed using Mozilla/FireFox browsers, the icon used to represent the page either via bookmarks or in browser tabs is a generic Netscape Icon.

Displays fine in both FF and IE as far as I could tell.

Absolutely engaging photos though. Very nice work. The layout works, easy to navigate.

You might want to include a DOCTYPE < http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#idx-document_t ype_declaration-3> declaration in your pages to make sure that they are W3C compliant. There is a free Validator <http://validator.w3.org/> that you can use to test your pages.

But overall, very nice work.
JH
Jake_Hannam
Sep 1, 2004
Larry,

Great photos! I also liked your ‘water reflection’ effect for the main menu. However, I have a few suggestions:

1. Put an ‘alt’ tag on your photos so when the cursor is over the photo, the user will get some type of textual feedback., click for larger image, Photo: Desert scenery, etc.

2. Put a Back and/or Home button so users can go back to your home page with one click rather than having to use the ‘Back’ button in IE or Netscape and cycling repeatedly through each page.

My IE 6 displayed your pages just fine and did not notice the black rectangle Trevor mentioned.

Jake
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YrbkMgr
Sep 1, 2004
Put an ‘alt’ tag on your photos so when the cursor is over the photo, the user will get some type of textual feedback., click for larger image, Photo: Desert scenery, etc.

No, that is improper use of the Alt tag. The alt tag is used for when the image won’t render – a text alternative. While IE will show this when you hover over an image, browsers compliant with HTML standards won’t. The proper tag to use is Title.

Peace,
Tony
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John Joslin
Sep 1, 2004
Very nice pictures and not run of the mill.

Nice clean gallery – I need to improve mine <http://www.johnjoslin.co.uk/Photogallery.htm> a bit!

Cheers – John
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Photo_Help
Sep 1, 2004
Lary,

At first glance everything looks clean, a nice uncluttered site.

The main page uses a table that isn’t necessary.

The table on the portfolio page is a mess, You need to do some cleanup there. The thumbnail drop shadow could be re used to make the file sizes smaller. The copyright should be plain text, not images, if you want to keep it an image make it a single un sliced image so you can reuse it on all the pages that contain it.

The enlarged image view could use some table design work as well. Again the shadow can be re used to reduce image sizes.

In general try to reuse images that are constant on all pages. For example you have a "one_previous-image" a "two_previous-image", etc…

You also have a lot of white space place holders which are small files, but they are not needed.

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