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Response to please critique my image site

from Jeff Spirer (jeffs@hyperreal.org)
This may sound a bit harsh...

Your web site is in serious need of help. You have skipped all of the essential steps in web design. Here is what you need to do:

1) Write down your objective for your web site. Write down your top three goals for the web site. Otherwise, you just have a bunch of stuff on the web, which is what you have.

2) Determine what you need to do in the design of your web site to meet your objective and goals.

3) Storyboard the flow of your web site. Look at some others for some good ideas.

4) Storyboard the design of your web site for the home page and for any unique class of pages.

5) Build the site.

From the looks of it, you skipped 1-4. This is fairly common, and it's why there are a lot of ineffective web sites out there. Web sites require as much design as magazine pages

You didn't really succeed at "very simple," and if you go through the above, you will probably see why. It takes too long to get to the images and the organization is, as someone points out above, wrong. (As a side note, whenever I see a site organized by model names, I assume it's something other than a photography site.)

Other than that, try listening to what Tom Meyer says. I do.

(posted 8824 days ago)

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