TheFlyingSquirrel

Hey Everyone, I have overhauled my website based on previous feedback, and was looking for critique on the design, www.bakaraphoto.co.uk - It is a photography website Many Thanks, BK

Here are the things I see wrong with it: I can't read the heading properly The image background obscures the text The stock images are nasty and not very clean White text on a black background is incredibly hard to read It isn't clear what the website's purpose is, reduce the text to what is needed Use a logo instead of a text animation, it is better for your brand A number of other smaller things but 1 to 6 should keep you busy

The jquery ui progressbar is what you, have a look, let me know if you have any queries https://jqueryui.com/progressbar/#indeterminate

I was referring to social sharing buttons such as pin it, tweet, like etc...... These are things I personally like to use however adblock plus removes them from the page so my thinking was if ablock plus is adopted by the majority of users, site and businesses could see a loss in the natural traffic.

Joomla is a nasty cms, I developed in it 8 years ago, never again.

I have started working on my own sharing functionality for my site, and was disgusted to see in addition to removing ads, it removes the possibility for people to share content through their favorite sites by targeting the sharing mechanisms like www.pinterest.com create pin and facebook sharer.php With many users learning about Adblock Plus to combat the horrible changes to Facebook, does this spell the end of social media sharing?

I think it should be about the extra time taken to test a responsive design rather than a standard cost.

Firstly your issue can be solved with jquery and css, this is what I use, jquery adds a current class to the link containing the current page then you use css to recreate the red graphic <script type="text/javascript"> $(function(){ $('a').each(function() { if ($(this).prop('href') == window.location.href) { $(this).addClass('current'); } }); }); </script>

What are you trying to achieve? Is this wordpress?

Thanks for the link but I know this already, my questions was more about to how to incorporate things like a CTA and phone number into my design to increase conversions without making it look out of place. I probably should have been more clear.

I think you should activate mobile viewports because the experience while viewing the designs on my nexus 4 isn't very good. https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/ConfigureViewport The designs do seem a bit dated/bland, maybe inject some brighter colors into it. Also is it possible to reduce the number of links and use visuals to navigate.

So I have just updated my design with my business goals in mind and feedback from my website review thread, however just doesn't seem right, I can't help but think the site isn't really set up for conversions have a look website. The link is WWW.bakaraphoto.co.UK,feedback is most appreciated.

Design 1 is sound, the other two I can find issues with

As long as there is search and content optimisation, SEO will exist. Unknown to most; who falls under this umbrella, the general public? Designers, content creators and web developers always take SEO into some form of consideration.

Thanks for your help thus far, the 2nd revision is up let me know what you think

Hey Chris, the update design is looking good.

~2.5 sec for 1.67MB is very nice time

Recently I got my webpage load speeds down to between a very respectable 0.98s and 1.3s, in a Google video I watched they said eCommerce sites must have a maximum of a 1.5s load time but they personally like webpages that load in 0.5s; this got me thinking what is the fastest load time people have seen?

div container - fixed height img in div width: 100% height: auto does that work for you? Btw the link doesn't work for me

SharePoint is a big market in the UK, plenty of money in it, would cost you for Microsoft certification then you're golden.

Do you mean the site is cached by the browser then when mobile internet is not activate the individual can still access the form? If so I don't think something like that is possible across mobile browsers Have you looked at webpage caching as an alternative: http://www.dashboardjunkie.com/test-of-wp-caching-plugins-w3-total-cache-vs-wp-super-cache-vs-quick-cache

This what you need: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_archives <select name="archive-dropdown" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;"> <option value=""><?php echo esc_attr( __( 'Select Month' ) ); ?></option> <?php wp_get_archives( array( 'type' => 'monthly', 'format' => 'option', 'show_post_count' => 1 ) ); ?> </select>

The options I see: 1. Pay for the software license if the revenue you will generate is worth it. 2. Reverse engineer the free version and create your own plugin.

You just whack this in your header.

This sounds like a scaling issue, do you use the below as recommended by google? <meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" name="viewport"></meta>