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beta test > daniel brock photography

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:30 pm
by figmented
hello! i've finished a site for my photographer friend and was wondering if i could get some beta testers to try breaking something:

http://70.112.160.245/danielbrock.com/ (tested in ie6+, firefox 2+, safari 2+, and opera 9+)

i believe i worked out any timing issues and ensured that no javascript errors pop up. a lot of the pages are blank, because i'm waiting for the photographer to update them (i'll also be posting the CMS web app i've built very soon). thanks for your help!!

Re: beta test > daniel brock photography

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:09 pm
by Scrumpy.Gums
A couple of points you could improve on.
- You could make it fail more gracefully if users have javascript disabled.
- I also like to get to the content straight away, so, the splash is just an annoyance to me. :roll:
- Site doesn't validate

Re: beta test > daniel brock photography

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:11 pm
by Benjamin
Yeah I have javascript disabled so I just ended up viewing a blank page.

It looks nice and clean, but I'm not fond of flash. It seems that a majority of the photography sites are like that though.

Will that show up in any search engines?

Re: beta test > daniel brock photography

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:23 pm
by figmented
Scrumpy.Gums wrote:A couple of points you could improve on.
- You could make it fail more gracefully if users have javascript disabled.
- I also like to get to the content straight away, so, the splash is just an annoyance to me. :roll:
- Site doesn't validate
- can't believe i forgot this one! i created an error page for users who have javascript disabled. i'd create a HTML-only version of the site, but i don't believe enough users have it disabled, and i wasn't paid enough to work out all compatibility issues

- yeah, i hear ya. i've add a "click" feature, so you can just skip the splash

- fixed the validation errors. thanks!

Re: beta test > daniel brock photography

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:41 pm
by figmented
astions wrote:Yeah I have javascript disabled so I just ended up viewing a blank page.

It looks nice and clean, but I'm not fond of flash. It seems that a majority of the photography sites are like that though.

Will that show up in any search engines?
Actually, I'm not fond of Flash either--I believe that html/css/js/lamp has everything you could possibly need for a website. All of the animations were obtained via JavaScript.

Most of the site's content can be indexed by search engines. The only data that is affected by JavaScript is the data that is requested via AJAX.

Does anyone notice any vulnerabilities? Obviously, the site doesn't need a high level of security, but I'd like to know more about this.

Thanks!