www.whiteweddingalbum.com

[jazlee]

I would love to get some comments on my website. I am hoping to launch next week. Still working out the site.

www.whiteweddingalbum.com

thanks

jaz

[Marko Peric]

I think the site looks great. Good choice of colours for your content, it loads fast on my DSL connection. It's not always right to build a site almost entirely in flash, but it works for this.
A few comments: In your samples, the flip-over pages is a neat feature, I like that simply double clicking also advances the page, or you can actually click and drag. However, when you reach the last page, there is no option to return to the first, so it results in somewhat of an orphaned browser window. That's a minor annoyance, though.

Also, your top nav menu is unconventional in that when you mouseover an option the words, instead of changing colour or dropping, slide upwards. That is different, and a little odd, but I think it's effective. I would have probably gone for dropping down instead of going upwards, but that's just me.

Over all, though, it all looks very good. I imagine the reason no one else has commented so far is that there really isn't much to criticize. :cool:

[jazlee]

thanks for comment. I respect this community so I wanted to get a feel from other people before i start the business. I like you comment about the sample book and the menu. I will consider it.

thanks

jaz

[BCB]

I agree with Marko. I generally dislike sites in all Flash, but it works very well. You did it functionally, not to be "Flashy". It looks very nice.

[bucks]

I too like the site, it loaded very quickly and is easy on the eye with a nice selection of colours.

Just out of curiousty, did you design it from a template ?

[YvetteKuhns]

As it is, your site is invisible. Bots need content to crawl which is indexed for relevancy. Having all your content in a flash movie makes this not possible. If you want to have business traffic, I suggest you move towards a business model website by using HTML, or a combination of flash and HTML.

I agree. I know that Flash may look nice and protect your images, but many people do not use Flash. My sister has a dial up Internet connection and totally skips Flash. The site looks nice, but the text is blurry. The visually impaired cannot resize the text and those using text-to-speech software to read the site will not have any luck here. (I am a self-appointed representative of the visually impaired.)

I thought the website layout was nice and the Flash was well done. The products/services are great. If you are using this website as a portfolio and relying on other forms of advertising to reach your target audience, you may not really want to make any changes.

If you hope to get search engine traffic or cater to the visually impaired which could be the parents of the bride, consider an HTML version of the site and let the visitors choose HTML or Flash when on the home page. Include paragraphs of text that describe your services and define your target audience to let visitors know if they want to stay or go. And this HTML page can be optimized for search engines.