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Website update - critique please! *LINK*

#1

Website update - critique please! *LINK*

David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA

>Hello all:

First things first - I've been majorly overhauling my website in the past two weeks, adding almost all new photo's, and new writing as well. I would like your opinions: how do the photographs of the bowls look? How well does the site load, w/your dialup, cable or DSL? Are the links working, both web and email? I would appreciate any answers or comments you guys and gals could give me - I've got the site working great for me, but would like some feedback as to how well it works, and how it flows for other "un-biased" viewers. I paid to get rid of a whole pile of ads that were recently piling up, so I hope with that, along with the work I've done, that the website has a much more professional feel to it - what do you think?

And as an aside, I've added a workbench page with a couple of photos, and a couple of links for those of you who have been following my workbench saga - more will come when I get some more work done!

Thanks so much for your time,

David Hammond

My Dad & Me, Inc.


My Dad & Me, Inc.

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Jack Guzman from Maine

Re: Website update - critique please!

Jack Guzman from Maine

>That's a nicely set up website .I have a real slow connection (28.8kbps at the moment,higher than normal)and the pictures load up pretty quickly.I'd say you did good.---Jack

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David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA

>Thanks Jack! I built the site on a 56k modem dial-up connection, so I figured if it loaded decently for me, it should be great for DSL and cable, and just about average for anybody slower than 56k.

Thanks again,

David

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#4

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paul womack

>works pretty well for me.

Coupla' comments on images;

1) They should be saved as "progressive" JPEGs.

2) On some of your graphics it appears (I can't be certain) that when they were scaled for the page, "nearest neighbour" sample was used, as opposed to anything better. I deduce this from the jaggy lines.

http://www.mydadandme.nzfreeservers.com/images/dcp_3464edd.jpg

Your sofware should have options that improve this, e.g. "Linear" or "cubic" (names vary)

BugBear

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#5

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David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA

>Hey BugBear,

Thanks for the comments. I've noticed some of that jaggedness myself, and I don't know what to do about it... ? I'm not sure I follow you about the editing, and the progressive JPG files? I'm using Picture It Express 9 to edit my photos, and I do just resize the image - what should I be doing?

Thanks!

David

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Mike Caldwell

>Very well done and easy to navigate. I very much enjoyed reading your stories and profile. And of course, the work is beautiful.

Good job, and good luck to you and your dad on your business.

Mike Caldwell

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#7

Re: Thanks Mike.

David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA

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paul womack

>Jaggies are created when images are made smaller using a "nearest neighnour" process. More sophosticated techniques such as "linear" and "bicubic" are used to avoid this.

Your software may have this as an option somewhere.

This site gives a good descripion of what's involved.

http://www.designer-info.com/Writing/image_resample.htm

Progressive JPEG - when you save an image as a JPEG, there should be an options/checkbox to enable this.

BugBear

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#9

Re: Thanks!

David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA

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