Posted by igor on July 28, 2007, 23:03:56, in reply to "Here's my blog post: How not to/How to... Albefurs" Thank you very much for your post and your constructive critisism. Some changes will be made. But hey, It was my FIRST website! Igor --Previous Message--
Hey Mikhail
: Sometimes it's fun to bash bad websites, but often it isn't. A fresh
: example of the latter case is www.albefurs.com, a link brought to
: us by SSFF regular Hack__Jack.
: Why wouldn't it feel quite the same to unleash our best irony - if
: not sarcasm - on this effort? Most of all - these people have been
: trying very hard. They've forked out for a designer who knows his
: Flash (wow!), there was a really amazing photographer at work and
: the products look promising too, in spite of the website.
: Hold on, in spite of?
: Yes. First of all, people don't come to this website to watch a
: Flash animation, they're looking for furs . There's a 'Skip'
: button, but it takes dangerously long to show up, even on my 3,2
: GHz machine and broadband connection. If internetsurfers have a
: patience span of 20 seconds, Albefurs.com is one foot over the
: edge.
: Secondly, there's the music. If talked about music on websites
: before, and to sum it up, it's almost always an annoyance, be it
: Beethoven or The Ramones. Sadly, Albefurs' music isn't Beethoven
: at all. Even if you have no other music running yourself or if you
: are in a noise-friendly environment, this is the kind of 'music'
: that makes you really, really want to go away after a minute or
: so. It gets to your nerves and it makes you want to smash things
: if you do hang around for longer.
: Thirdly, there's the pictures. I love photography, I love fashion
: and I can tell you, these are wonderful pictures, which is exactly
: why it's a waste and a shame that they're so small, even looking
: at it from the shop's point of view. There used to be time when
: there were reasons to use small pictures on websites, but since
: then, let's say five years ago, things have moved on. No one's
: using a 640 x 480 screen resolution anymore and if there's anyone
: still using a 56K dial-in modem, he or she's probably living
: somewhere in the Third World - not a likely Albefurs customer. On
: the other hand, go to a serious photo gallery and you'll see that
: most if not all pictures are displayed at very large sizes.
: There's reason for that: 'Less if more' doesn't work for the size
: of good pictures. Photos have larger impact on a larger size. Add
: to that for furs: you'll get a much better 'feel' for the fur's
: texture if the picture has a decent size, and the fur's softness
: is obviously a major drool-factor when it comes to selling them.
: The only reason I can think of making the pictures so small: it
: might disturb the page design. Now, the page design would be much
: more important than selling furs, wouldn't it? Whose priorities
: are we talking about here?
:
: Excuse me for getting ironic after all. Some positive suggestions:
: 1. Add plain HTML next to the Flash, if you want to stick to Flash
: at all. Visually challenged surfers will love it too. Just because
: people are blind or have eye-problems, it doesn't mean they can't
: afford or enjoy a fur coat.
: 2. Ditch the music. Delete it. Burn it. Nuke it. Shoot the
: composer. Strangle the guy who told you it would be a good idea to
: put it on the site, and do it real slow. You don't want music if
: you want a people-friendly website.
: 3. Larger pictures. Are you proud of your product? Show it. Even
: better: put your logo on them and make them downloadable. For the
: foreseeable future they're going to do the rounds among online fur
: lovers, saying 'Albefurs-Albefurs-Albefurs'. They're that good,
: and who wouldn't want that?
: Labels: fur fashion marketing webdesign
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: posted by Mikhail's Soft Blog 2:12 AM
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