critique my portfolio layout

Chris, I will get rid of the side scrolling. 🙂

Andy, overexposed Portra 160. I overexpose 4-5 stops.

**working on it..site down atm**
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
The website violates one of the cardinal rules of the web: never make a visitor scroll sideways to read/see your content. Ever.
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Not sure about this either..
There are plenty of highly praised designed websites that scroll in all types of directions..
Site design has been starting to change from the vertical, nav on top, logo left, look more and more recently..
Dont see anything wrong with it..
 
Slideshow is ok, though if you're planning on adding more pictures later, try to keep their size (filesize not dimensions) relatively low, maybe reduce the fade time etc.
The point is that they should switch relatively quickly, nothing is worse than a laggy slideshow

I would still like to know why Chris was so strongly opposed to horizontal scrolling.
 
Lauffray said:
Slideshow is ok, though if you're planning on adding more pictures later, try to keep their size (filesize not dimensions) relatively low, maybe reduce the fade time etc.
The point is that they should switch relatively quickly, nothing is worse than a laggy slideshow

I would still like to know why Chris was so strongly opposed to horizontal scrolling.
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Because its bad design that screams "Amateur". Computers are not designed for horizontal scrolling of webpages. Mice have vertical scroll wheels (some do horizontal too but most are vertical only), and the keyboard has page-up, page-down, home and end buttons to quickly scroll up and down through a page. Horizontal scrolling forces the visitor to your site to work harder by moving the cursor to the horizontal scroll bar. The more you make them work, the less time they'll spend on the site. You can argue, stamp your feet, and scream all you want, but these are established facts verified by years of research. The basics of design are the 'basics' for a reason.

I suspect some of you are confusing the horizontal scrolling I am complaining about with sites that use slideshows with horizontal arrow buttons to move to the next images. These are fine as long as the whole layout fits on the screen.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Because its bad design that screams "Amateur".
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According to ?

Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Mice have vertical scroll wheels (some do horizontal too but most are vertical only), and the keyboard has page-up, page-down, home and end buttons to quickly scroll up and down through a page.
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Well on an English based page I expect people to read from left to right, which is more natural ?

Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Horizontal scrolling forces the visitor to your site to work harder by moving the cursor to the horizontal scroll bar. The more you make them work, the less time they'll spend on the site.
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You can bind JS events on page up/down and mouse scroll to make the "defaults" work sideways as well
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Because its bad design that screams "Amateur". Computers are not designed for horizontal scrolling of webpages. Mice have vertical scroll wheels (some do horizontal too but most are vertical only), and the keyboard has page-up, page-down, home and end buttons to quickly scroll up and down through a page. Horizontal scrolling forces the visitor to your site to work harder by moving the cursor to the horizontal scroll bar. The more you make them work, the less time they'll spend on the site. You can argue, stamp your feet, and scream all you want, but these are established facts verified by years of research. The basics of design are the 'basics' for a reason.

I suspect some of you are confusing the horizontal scrolling I am complaining about with sites that use slideshows with horizontal arrow buttons to move to the next images. These are fine as long as the whole layout fits on the screen.
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Dont agree, but ok..
 
Lauffray said:
According to ?


Well on an English based page I expect people to read from left to right, which is more natural ?



You can bind JS events on page up/down and mouse scroll to make the "defaults" work sideways as well
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According to everyone. This is, as I stated, something the web design industry has spent a lot of time and money studying. I do this professionally; I know what I'm talking about. As I often have to tell my students: stop arguing and listen when someone who knows the material is trying to teach you. You might learn something.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
According to everyone. This is, as I stated, something the web design industry has spent a lot of time and money studying. I do this professionally; I know what I'm talking about. As I often have to tell my students: stop arguing and listen when someone who knows the material is trying to teach you. You might learn something.
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The web industry spent years studying this about 10 years ago.. Many things have changed since then...
I also work in the industry..., and also know what I'm talking about.
You might have had a point some time ago, but these rules have been thrown out in recent years, in the industry...
There might be sites were it is smarter to do Vertical, agreed, but not all..
 
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