VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Chuck Davis · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:33 am Post subject: New Website

Time to freshen/upgrade the website. Had the job done by an elancer.

www.chuckdaviscreative.com

If anyone runs into any functionalty issues I'd appreciate the heads-up!
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mcm · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:51 am Post subject:

Chuck, it has a nice clean look. A couple of things I noticed: one is that the testimonials rotate faster than the time it takes to read one of them.

The other is that when I navigate to a new page, the testimonials and microphone are still the main things I see, and my first impression is that I'm still at the previous page. I have to scroll down to see the new information. This is undesirable in my opinion.

I like the microphone Smile

brianforrester · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:20 am Post subject:

Hey Chuck,

Nice look.

I noticed on my computer that the pop up images of your studio are positioned at the top of the screen, but only the bottom 2/3 are viewable. The other 1/3 is actually off the top of the screen.

I'm at a screen resolution of 1280 x 800 using IE 7.0.

Take it easy!
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mcm · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:40 am Post subject:

Just to give you another datum - I don't have that problem with IE 6 at 1024 x 768.

Kasbah · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:08 am Post subject:

WOW! Impressive. I want to work in your studio. Very nice. I noticed two things: 1) The testimonials were switching too fast. 2) The studio is in your house and not mine... Shocked

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bobsouer · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:29 am Post subject:

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:50 am Post subject:

hi chuck! a couple of small things: on your front page you say something like " in my 25-years ..." -- i'd toss the hyphen

do you know your contact info, your actual chuck@chuckdaviscreative.com does not default to an email page, but sends viewer to the contact form? may be nice to be able to click on your chuck@ address and email you directly.

wow! how'd you get that bad girl donna summer to say something nice about you ? !!
Laugh

talkin' 'bout a bad girl, bad girl

and finally, how does one turn off the audio (murder intro)? i know people have varied opinions about this, but i was being driven ever-so-slightly crazy by the audio.

overall, it's great (of course) and looks super pro (of course).
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Chuck Davis · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:05 am Post subject:

Thanks everybody for all the feedback.

Diane.."Murder" didn't auto-play on you did it? It's not supposed to.
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:09 am Post subject:

it did, babe.
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bobsouer · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:30 am Post subject:

Chuck,

Did for me, too. Autoplay, I mean.
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melissa eX · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:13 am Post subject:

Hi Chuck:

Autoplayed here too - and the 12 Oaks wouldn't open at all from the Home page. I'm also in the no autoplay camp. If someone opens up a bunch of tabs at once to go through them all later and they're all on autoplay -- ouch! I would just shut the whole browser down to get rid of the cacophony.

Love the clean, easy to read look of the site. I've looked at a lot of sites lately for ideas since I have to put mine up and yours is one of the nicer ones I've seen. Bookmarked now...

Congrats on the A.I.R.'s Has Boston also suspended them? (4 time NYC A.I.R. nominee here - but they've been suspended for the last couple of years. )

What is an elancer?

Dave · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:30 am Post subject:

I like it!

However, a few glitches as I view in Firefox (X Hobo Happy

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Testimonials change more quickly than I can read. (already mentioned but hey my opinion counts too... I think)

Quotation marks (closing mostly) cover part of the text of testimonials.

Pictures of studio etc open out of frame at top of page.

Also, I agree with Mary about the need to scroll to realize you have in fact navigated to a new page. I clicked several times before I figured out what was going on.

Oh by the way, no auto play for me.
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DougVox · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:34 am Post subject:

Chuck,

When you're sending revisions to your Elancer (who did a very nice job, by the way) you might consider including a coupla' grammatical bugaboos I found:

"A.I.R Awards" is missing the period after the "R" both in the headline that's on every page, and in the body copy at the bottom of the home page.

In the body copy on the home page, you could add an "s" so it says "results-generating." (You do want to generate more than 1 result, I assume.)

In Cheryl Kepner's testimonial, there's no period after "consummate pro."

In a couple of places where "12-Oaks Medical Center" appears, you could remove the hyphen.

And no, I was never an English teacher, but my mom was.

Site looks great!
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:43 am Post subject:

small

thread jack commences:

doug, your mom was a better teacher than mine. wonder if it matters that mine taught special ed? or that dad was a principal?
i missed all your revision suggestions,
and boy howdy! i do like the fine-toothed comb!

and that's a threadjack wrap.
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Chuck Davis · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:16 pm Post subject:

Youz guyz's rock. I'm working with my guy to get things fixed up.

Thanks again for all of the feedback!
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