New website layout

looking for comments and advice on new website layout.

Any comment is welcome

www.nathanservi.com

Nathan, I like it very much, clean, tidy and intuitive; everything loads very quickly.

I'd like to see a link that takes you back from a picture to the thumbnail gallery but it isn't essential.

Ken

Looks good indeed.
You could make it a bit wider and/or center it in the screen.

Nathan, the grey text under the images and sub menus could be a bit of a barrier to people with visual impairment.

Hi Nathan, some nice photos, but I think it needs more information, i.e. about you, the services you offer the area you work in etc. have a look at my websites they might give you some ideas or maybe not.

Ahh thank you all soo much!

I have tried to make it wider, but it doesn't seem to be possible

I can definitely darken the grey, although, i have arranged it to go black on mouse rollover. WHat do you think about that?

I have removed all the text from the intro page, and also removed 3 pages, of services, links, and news. All to try and simplify the layout, and just make it easy to the eye.

Any other comments anybody?

Nathan regarding the grey on the mouse rollover, my wife has a visual impairment, so this is a subject close to my heart if you get what I mean. . She would never see the greyed menu options and would sit looking blankly at the screen not knowing where to click.
Nice Images though

It's fast to navigate, opens real quick and contains some very good material.
But.....The white background doesn't work for me.To much restrain on the eyes. But that is very personal. ( Like the Lightroom colour scheme to much.

And when I enter your site, it starts immediately with a slide show.
Personally I would like to have the option instead of being forced. And just see one bigger picture (static), showing the shear quality you are able to deliver.

Martin.

Martin, thank you so much for this.

I am trying to make the homepage bigger, in order to fit more pixels... but i'm really struggling with it.

Great suggestion on the option for the slideshow.

I had it in black first, and charcoal later, so I wanted to go for white!!

Nathan, I do a bit of web design myself, and Ime not a pro or anything but here would be my recomendations...

1) As allready stated the text is a very poor color against the white background, White is a hard color to use for a background because of the glare. Maby you could try a greyed background to reduce the glare and play with text colors if you use a dark enough grey yo may be able to get away with white text!
In regards to this when you have finished maby ask technoblurbs wife if she would mind testing the site for you.

2) Ime not sure how much you know about web design but ime guessing you could centre your page and widen it useing the CSS. Ime not sure this i allowed as it looks like you have brought a template?
Without seeing your CSS I couldnt say for sure but "ubercontainer" looks a good place to start.

Otherwise I would say you have a good site and layout. Just need to sort the color scheme out!

Some good pics and easy navigation!

Remember Navigation is the key element of any site! I know this sounds harsh but youde be amazed how many people cant navigate a simple page!

Hope thats some help to you.

Again, great great suggestions also in PM's, thank you all soo much.

I have changed the colour scheme of the text - made it darker.

Also changed the slideshow settings, it now start at the click of the viewer, and i managed to get rid of the info bar which was annoying.

after another suggestion i changed the wording of the contact page - so that it should be easier to understand and read.

Again, thank you all so much for your help.

Nathan

Thats much beter Nathan.

Ide be tempted to make the text bigger/bolder on the nav tho.
Help those of us with poor eyesight

I have poor eyesight... -6/7 miopia... I think it will be allright!!!

Ure choice my friend just my opinion

Some very cool pics you have on there!

thank you...