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Website Critique - Photography website

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:13 am
by koskilla
Does anyone care to critique my website for looks and usability? I dont know if anyone has any experience with carts, but I feel like that area could use some improvements. I have some changes I could make, but maybe you guys could provide some advice?

Thanks!
The link is - http://www.apuphoto.com

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:37 pm
by califdon
I'm not an expert, but the site appears attractive to me. I did notice that the Continue Shopping button on the shopping cart page isn't working. I didn't take time to go any further in the ordering process. Some of the page loads seemed rather slow. I wonder if you might consider using some Ajax to make smoother data updates and avoid page loads for some items.

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:42 pm
by Josh1billion
Looks pretty good to me. What I would do to make the site look more appealing is to add some flavor to the links (About, Pricing, Special, etc. and also the Categories links). Perhaps a button-looking image, like the middle ones shown here: http://robcubbon.com/images/shiny-round-buttons.gif

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:31 pm
by koskilla
How do I use AJAX to not load certain things on the page? I don't know anything about it. Can you point me in the right direction?

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:11 pm
by califdon
koskilla wrote:How do I use AJAX to not load certain things on the page? I don't know anything about it. Can you point me in the right direction?
What Ajax does is request data from the server and use it on the web page without reloading the whole page. For example, if you ask a user to register and they enter a username that's already in the database, wouldn't it be nice to have it immediately pop up the error message as soon as the cursor leaves the input box, without waiting until he submits the form? Ajax does that! And if you already know some Javascript and any server side script language (PHP, ASP, Perl), you have nothing new to learn except a little different way of thinking about how web pages are displayed. Check out these tutorials:

http://www.mousewhisperer.co.uk/ajax_page.html
http://www.bestajaxscripts.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/default.asp

Whenever you'd like to display something else in response to user input, but not reload the whole page, that's where Ajax makes a smooth way to do it.

Re: Website Critique - Photography website

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:29 am
by unibul
The template looks out of date to me.

Re: Website Critique - Photography website

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:11 am
by onion2k
The site is ok, but the disabled right click really annoys me. I use right click and then click back in the context menu all the time. It doesn't make the images any more secure either, but disabling Javascript takes 5 seconds and kills your 'security' feature.