This is an invitation to visit my newly remodeled site and comment/
criticize the work there in.

http://www.mswaine.com

Thank you and I look forward to your opinion.
Mike Swaine

"mswaine" <mdswaine@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:aedd7e60-11b0-443e-a015-fe94acd75039@a32g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
It's really pretty/ornate, but I have dialup and it's VERY slow openning.
Maybe you aren't aiming it at people who don't yet have highspeed (I live
in a rural area) but if someone doesn't have it, I thjink they might give up
before they got too far into it. Maybe you could make the graphics lower
resolution or smaller (or thumbnails in some cases)?
I sat here and watched it rain (outside) while waiting for page one to open,
then there was ENTER, and the page that comes up then (red background, name,
etc) is very big. Pretty and detailed, but big. I had to scroll down to see
it all (once it openned)
Maybe it's just me, but when I make websites I try and fit the graphics (at
least when it's one overall picture) on the screen in a concise way, if
possible. I don't mean smaller pictures or thumbnails that one might be
expected to school down to see (all) but one overall picture, like you have,
once it opens, I had to scroll down to see the rest and never saw the
overall picture at one time.
I have a 17" monitor, and I've been old people now (overall) have much
bigger ones, so again, maybe you aren't aiming at people with 17" monitors
and dialup.
But, you never know, there might still be a lot of us and unless we're
also reading a few pages in a book, making coffee or something soemthing
else, not everyone is going to wait for something huge to open, then scroll
up and down to look at the picture on the page.
I waited for the original first page to open (pretty, but the only purpose
of it is to ENTER and get another big, slow opening page)and the page that
opens after ENTER, but after that I gave up and closed it.
Just my feedback, maybe not what you wanted, but I tried to look at it in
an "average person" who found your website, or might be looking for art of
some kind. And, maybe they all DO have high speed and wouldn't have noticed
this or cared.
I found myself getting impatient with the size and slowness of it, and
that got in the way of looking at, and looking for MORE of the pages and
art.

mswaine wrote:
Nice looking work in there, I must say. Loaded fine on my broadband. I
do question your need for a opening page. Get right to the good stuff.
Remember the work is the hero. I appreciate what Carrie notes and that
the navigation through your portfolio could be vastly improved.

Despite any technical shortcomings, stellar work.

Drew

On Jun 3, 11:08*pm, mswaine <mdswa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Your illustrative strengths are evident in your work even the design
samples are very illustrative and flourishy. Collage is a nice
approach to page design depending on the content and the audience. I
think on a few samples it might have been taken too far but for the
majority of the design samples it fits nicely. Some nice calligraphy,
too. I also like how you push the colors a bit and make your
illustrations vibrant. I especially like your illustrations that are a
little looser technique - The Orchard. Your illustration seems
especially suited to book illustration and also advertising.

I was able to navigate fine through your web site to view your
portfolio however you might think about adding a "Contact" link.

Overall, I envy your talent.

Take care
graphicjak

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:15:54 -0400, Drew
<whoisthatmaskedman@hotmail.com> wrote:

But Drew, you make your visitors WAIT nearly 30 seconds to THREE
MINUTES for the good stu-oh, oh yeah right, you don't have any "good
stuff", I gotcha.

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