What's Snooks up to?

dunedin said:
Some great photos. But one of my pet hates is over complex home pages that consume huge bandwidth.

This one managed to crash the iPad completely which is a first
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Yes, it's a big site, but ran fine on my iPad with a line speed of about 10 meg.

I love the high def pictures. Well done Snooks. Great site, great pictures, great positioning. Don't worry about the dinosaurs. They are never going to be clients anyway.
 
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Thanks everyone! :)

To those who've had problems, I'm sorry, which version iPad are you browsing from?

Sorry about the bandwidth too. I made the call on the file size each is around 800kb iirc. It was a choice between speed and quality. I'd rather have a slow site that shows of my photos well, than a fast site with lower res images. Hopefully my clients will have the facilities to see my website in it's full glory.

I also wanted to show of more than 10 images on the slideshow which effects the speed. but getting 14 years of work to just 10 images was too hard for me, so we went for 15 which also slows the site down.

My work is all about quality, it's what I do and it's something I believe strongly about. I hate seeing blury out of focus images in a magazine, or being supplied to the Art Eds. I'd never let an unsharp image of mine go into Yachting Monthly. I wanted to show off how good my images are. I have nothing to hide any pic can look sharp at 300px wide. My images are good and I want them to be seen big because they have the greatest impact and you can see the detail.

Fwiw on my iPad 1 can view the home page but it crashes on the galleries. Which is why it's possible to download my folio on the oldest iPad.
 
Works fine on my iPad. A little slow to switch pages, but nothing exceptional, wouldn't think about it were it not for this thread. Quite agree that a site about photography needs to have large images.

I can believe that a site could crash a router; a few years ago Channel 4's equivalent of iplayer used to lock up mine. But this is a fault in the router, not the web site.

Pete
 
Hmm I might be tempted to offer a lower res version of the site with option to view higher res images.

I get the quality point of view but un-viewable quality doesn't work.


You need to think about the people who may be accessing mobile or on lower bandwidth. Just because they are, at that moment, doesn't mean they don't appreciate quality and style. Or in fact cannot afford your services.
 
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prv said:
Works fine on my iPad. A little slow to switch pages, but nothing exceptional, wouldn't think about it were it not for this thread. Quite agree that a site about photography needs to have large images.

I can believe that a site could crash a router; a few years ago Channel 4's equivalent of iplayer used to lock up mine. But this is a fault in the router, not the web site.

Pete
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Sounds reasonable, I speak simply from my own experience and claiming no inside or specialised knowledge. Trying to load a lot of info at once cause the router to cease functioning
 
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