Samo Vidic - Photography
http://www.onlysamo.com
comments please
thanks

nicely done, i like the button sound effects
also the font is really nice
which one is it? ive been looking for that type of font for a while now

I like it. The site is well executed, intuative, nicely arranged and the
dark-red and grey works really well (I think it works best with black and
white though :) .

I don't know who your target audience is but if it is picture editors, I
have a couple of very minor criticisms.

Picture editors just want to see the images bam,bam,bam as quickly as
possible, and loading each image sepperately interupts this quite
significantly. Why not try loading the whole feature at once or loading some
images in the background - by the time you have looked at each image,
another could have loaded in the background - even for the most cursory of
glances.

The lightbox-style menu bar looks and feels very nice but I felt that the
images should possibly be 110-120% bigger for the bar to be useful as a
lightbox... (Although its quite possible that I'm just becoming a blind old
git and need my eyes tested!)

The only other thing is a pet gripe of mine which relates to pixel fonts
especially capitalized pixel fonts. I think pixel fonts are very effective
when used as a title or menu button label, but when used in blocks of text,
pixel fonts only make it more difficult to read. - The eye finds it easier
to recognise and scan lower case letters. Capitalised pixel fonts are very
similar, from character to character. Whilst this similarity lends itself
very well to clean lines and aesthetically pleasing paragraphs, the eye has
to work harder to differentiate between each letter and so cannot scan the
text as fast. In short, function is being sacrificed for aesthetics.

Anyway, which ever way you look at it, your site is crisp, cohesive and
inviting. Good job!

ATB

Ed Massey

Every thing is well done, but one thing I never felt comfortable with is hav
e a
button that opens the site in a separate window, because the other window wi
ll
still be open and I just get a fuss of closing it, anyways, good job.

Very nicely done.  As a photographer I would like to compliment you on the
content, very crisp, original work.  As for the site design, it was also wel
l
done.  Easy to navigate and well laid out.  My only two concerns would be th
at
the sound effects, which are cool when you start, get very annoying by the e
nd
of viewing all of your photos.  I also have concerns about entire sites bein
g
done in flash, because there are still some people who are on dial up, but t
hat
depends on your target audience I guess.  Overall, I found it very enjoyable
.