OT: Web Site testers wanted

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Sean Reid

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I'm looking for volunteers to try a web site I just launched just see if any features are not working properly for them. The architecture section still needs to redone entirely so please ignore that but I would like to hear about the functionality of the wedding section. Since this is indeed OT, please feel free to reply to me directly via e-mail if you prefer (sreid@sover.net)

In your response please note your platform, OS version and browser type and version.

http://www.still-photo.net

Many thanks in advance,

Sean
 
I did a quick look at the B&W wedding portfolio and the slide show worked fine. Nav buttons on left seemed to work fine as well but I didn't do a full click-through. Nice pics. Windows XP, Firefox 1.01.
 
Works on My Mac, Jaguar 10.2, T1 line!
Nice pics but it takes a second or two to load.

Todd
 
Thanks guys. Glad to hear that there are no probs. so far. It does take a little to load because the pictures (intentionally) are not very compressed.

Happy to hear from others with various platforms, browsers, etc.

Cheers,

Sean
 
Sean, the site looks great, and everything ran properly for me running Win 98 and IE6. My first question is what equipment do you shoot with, I didn't see it below your name up above? Also, what's up with the "Lady Godiva" blonde with long hair? She looks like she might live out there in the woods!
 
Her name is Jennifer, she's beautiful and, yes, she just magically appeared from the woods before the wedding.... actually, she was a teacher of English in Japan and is now a college instructor I think.

What did I shoot with:

Ireland pictures: Wista 4 x 5 and Schneider 150/5.6

Subway: four different Canon QL-17s, I was often in "iffy" areas at night and didn't want to risk losing a Leica if I was mugged. At one point I think I had 5 - 7 QL17s. That way if I was mugged I could just hand the camera over and grab another one at my apartment.

Traditional wedding: Canon 1Ds

Non-traditional wedding: Canon D30

At present: Epson R-D1 and Canon 1Ds

Cheers,

Sean
 
Anyone else want to test this? Esp. Mac people.

Thanks,

Sean
 
Looks good on:

Safari 1.2.4 on Mac 10.3.8
Opera 7.5.4 on Mac 10.3.8
Firefox 1.0.1 on Mac 10.3.8

The [enter architectural site] and [enter wedding and special event site] are displayed on separate lines on the front page with Internet Explorer 5.2.3 on Mac 10.3.8 although I wouldn't lose to much sleep about it as very few Mac users use IE.
 
Thanks for checking all of those. That was really nice of you. Two questions:

1. Do the slideshows work properly on all of those?
2. On the two pages of the "details" section, do any text lines overlap, do the buttons overlap, etc?

Let me know how I can return the favor.

Thanks,

Sean
 
Sean Reid said:
1. Do the slideshows work properly on all of those?
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The slideshows are Flash so work on all tested browsers.

Sean Reid said:
2. On the two pages of the "details" section, do any text lines overlap, do the buttons overlap, etc?
Click to expand...

Flash again, so also worked on all tested browsers.

Sean Reid said:
Let me know how I can return the favor.
Click to expand...

You can buy me a beer if you come to Japan ;)

Cheers

Kyle
 
Sean,

Windows XP SP2 and IE6 works fine. However, can't get back to the home page from the wedding gallery - back button just recycles back to start of wedding slide show.

Regards

Gid McLean
 
Thumbs up !

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Edit: Noticed that from any section, the browser's back button always brings you to the slideshow then you have to skip intro to go to the main page.
 
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Sean,
Windows 98, I.E. 5.5 & Windows XP, IE6
Both above seem to work fine. No overlaps on Details or Buttons using up to 1200 x 1600 screen resolution. Site and images load quickly on Broadband.
Some excellent pictures here Sean, so I personally would like to see them held a little bit longer at the "fully developed stage" with perhaps a slightly shorter transition in the Flash slide show.

Jim
 
Works great here!

Linux Fedora Core 3, Mozilla Firefox 1.01. I did have a slight struggle with "Adblock" on Firefox - it blocked your Flash and didn't want to let it go, but I think that was me being brain dead - and it works fine now.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Hi Everyone and thanks for the feedback so far,

Thanks so much for all the feedback. Point by point:

Kyle: I'd love to go to Japan and buy you a beer. Thanks for the help. Even though the site is Flash, some Macs seem to have problems with it. We're trying to isolate them (the problems, not the Macs) <G>.

Akalai: Thank you.

Gid: When you hit the back button you're hitting an invisible page that's checking your browser, Flash version, etc. for compatibility with the site. Once the compatibility is confirmed, you're sent to the opening page. I used to think it was meant as a trap, until I learned what was going on. My designer is going to fix this feature as soon as he has time.

Taffer: Thanks.

Jim: I'm experimenting with those timings right now. If you have time to try the slide shows again (opening version plus the four others) let me know how many seconds change you would like to see in each.

Bill: Thanks. How are your wedding photo plans coming along?
 
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