usmanaa Posted May 19, 2003 Posted May 19, 2003 Site finally completed, feeback would be much appreciated!! http://www.drivebuddy.com/store1/default.php PS Thanks for all the help that was given in this forum!
usmanaa Posted May 19, 2003 Author Posted May 19, 2003 By the way the site not live yet!! just going through some testing still!!
Guest Posted May 19, 2003 Posted May 19, 2003 Very nice, straight to the point, fast page load (from Italy), good radio boxes for options. Cool product too! :D
Kinky Clothes Posted May 19, 2003 Posted May 19, 2003 very nice! it's a great site, very easy to navigate, very easy to see whats going on. when u make a new account the image needs some smoothing (http://www.drivebuddy.com/store1/create_account_success.php) not sure if i'm right.... but when u get to the enter card details its not on a secure site? overall damn nice site! good work :)
zlack Posted May 19, 2003 Posted May 19, 2003 very nice site. i love what you did with the images (so the product will turn around) excellent job! It's easier to remember, then to forget
usmanaa Posted May 20, 2003 Author Posted May 20, 2003 Thanks for the feeback.... I've changed the image, I have disabled the SSL at the moment, will enable it when the site goes life.. How can I improve the time it takes to load up my webpage?? any tips would be helpful
Guest Posted May 20, 2003 Posted May 20, 2003 Idea... To make casual visitors more interested in the product, you could add an icon representing a floppy disk with a red cross over it on the front page. You already have great images showing the size and use of the product, if you add one more detailing the benefits it might be useful. Just a thought...
Kinky Clothes Posted May 20, 2003 Posted May 20, 2003 the site loads very quick, to be honest i wouldnt change anything. 56k users expect to wait a little anyway, your site is as good as instant on broadband.
Guest Posted May 20, 2003 Posted May 20, 2003 Very nice looking site - great job! The only thing I would change is the blue background on your product images. At first I though the image was part of the set of back/forward buttons below (where I'd enlarge the arrows too) good luck
Guyver Posted May 21, 2003 Posted May 21, 2003 Lovely gfx, shame about the low quality on your pics, maybe worth looking at uping your colours.... The 'login/my accout' etc fonts look at bit rough, looks like bad a/alias or bad reduction. Apart from that, nice design, good colour combs... etc John
Guest Posted May 22, 2003 Posted May 22, 2003 Great job. Really nice site. I agree with the above - I'd increase the quality of the thumbs on the front page. They are a little over compressed and look a bit messy.
usmanaa Posted May 22, 2003 Author Posted May 22, 2003 Thanks for the feedback, just wondering how bad does the images look?? They look fine on several computers which I have viewed the site on!
Guest Posted May 22, 2003 Posted May 22, 2003 They don't look horrible, just fuzzy and not completely clear. If you look at Amazon, their images are razor sharp. Your images look as if they've been overly compressed. It looks to me like you took edited your photos and saved them at a highly compressed JPG setting - then converted them to a gif. If this is the case, you're loosing quality at two steps. Again, I think your site is great and I hope my next site is as clean and professional as your. :D But the images could be sharpened up a bit.
usmanaa Posted May 22, 2003 Author Posted May 22, 2003 Thanks marklbishop, It looks to me like you took edited your photos and saved them at a highly compressed JPG setting - then converted them to a gif. If this is the case, you're loosing quality at two steps. your spot on about the above, I was trying to reduce the time it took for the page to load up. I'll go and mess about with adobe and see if there better ways of reducing the image size.
Guest Posted May 22, 2003 Posted May 22, 2003 You don't save much file space by doing it in two steps. If you skip the JPG, and save it imediately as a gif, you won't get the lossy compression that going through the jpg step gives you. However, I haven't looked at your images in PhotoShop (i'm not at my work computer right now) but why are you choosing GIF over JPG? Usually for photo images with gradients, I find that jpg has higher quality/size ratio than gifs.
usmanaa Posted May 22, 2003 Author Posted May 22, 2003 When i changed the images from jpgs to gif, they looked fine my computer, the jpgs where 14k, whereas the gif came down to 7k... whats the best way of reducing jpg from 14k??
Guest Posted May 22, 2003 Posted May 22, 2003 Usually, fewer colors=gif, more colors=jpg But the way colors are distributed in the pic can change the above rule. Best thing to do is save as both and compare the output.
Guest Posted May 22, 2003 Posted May 22, 2003 You have to play around with it and it changes depending on the image. What I'd say is start by working with the original image. Resize, edit, make it look like you want it to look like. Now, don't save it as a compressed jpg. Save it as a gif. What I think is happening to your images is you are trying to create highly compressed JPGs, and when you do, you are getting a significant amount of lossy compression which makes the image look fuzzy. Then, you are taking an already fuzzy JPG, and converting it into a smaller GIF - so the gif you end up creating is based on an already fuzzy image. Start with the original photo, and skip the JPG step. After your edits, save it as a gif and play around with the # of colors that you need to make it look good, but still have a small image.
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