Web site update at last

[Mark Hancock]

I've finally got round to updating my web site and would be grateful some of you could check it out to see if it works okay in different browsers.

http://www.markhancock.co.uk

May be asking for trouble but any suggestions/improvements welcomed :lol:

Cheers
Mark

 

[Mike.C]

Mark all I can say is excellent =D>

Cheers

Mike

 

[RogerS]

Do I have to change my password ? :-"

Seriously, I think it looks super. Nice and clean. My only minor criticism is the prose on the About page I found a bit terse...it didn't seem to flow.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Hi Mark,

Nice looking site, very easy to navigate. Seems to work well on Internet Explorer.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[RogerS]

Forgot to say it works fine in Safari, Chrome, Camino and Firefox on a Mac.

Your work is stunning.

 

[Mark Hancock]

Do I have to change my password ? :-"

Seriously, I think it looks super. Nice and clean. My only minor criticism is the prose on the About page I found a bit terse...it didn't seem to flow.

Well spotted Roger...that's the one page that's been copied and pasted from the old site and the one I hate doing...probably take another 3 years to update like the rest of the site took :lol: :lol:

 

[Mark Hancock]

Mike, Roger and Paul

Thanks for the comments.

Good to know it's working well in other browsers, especially Chrome as that appears to be the one most used on the old site.

I'd be interested to know if it's okay on other devices?

Cheers
Mark

 

[CHJ]

Very clean and clear navigation, a presentation worthy of the CV and gallery.

 

[nev]

all good on firefox / linux =D>

lovely work.
only criticism would be
Autoplay on the gallery is tad speedy
and I think your telephone numbers are transposed

all good on Ipad 7.0.3 too

again except for the gallery being too quick. so quick in fact I could not stop it because the close X disappeared or moved too quick.

 

[petermillard]

Displays well on an iPad in Safari, Chrome and Coast (Opera). Nice clean site - did you do it yourself! or is it a 'theme' from somewhere?

Cheers, Pete

 

[Mike.S]

May be asking for trouble but any suggestions/improvements welcomed :lol:

Nitpicky perhaps, but a more consistent alignment/use of white space at the top of each page might make it look even more slick/professional. What I mean is:

'About page' - the heading (your name) appears just above a horizontal line and this is consistent throughout. However, the heading jumps up/down in relation to the menu - flick from 'About' to 'Demonstrations' to see what I mean. I suggest, imho, it would look better if you chose to have the heading and/or line in the same place relative to the menu on every page.

On a similar vein the use of white space under the horizontal line is inconsistent e.g. on 'About' the space is negligible but on 'Demonstrations' it's meaningful (better, imo).

Likewise, the text alignment relative to the neighbouring pictures is awry. Generally, if you aim to have the top of the first capital letter aligned with the top of the adjacent picture it will look cleaner.

Nitpicking aside it looks good and I particularly liked the clickable, pop-up windows for the pictures on the 'Tuition' and 'Gallery' pages.

As others have commented, your work is stunning.

 

[Mark Hancock]

May be asking for trouble but any suggestions/improvements welcomed :lol:

Nitpicky perhaps, but a more consistent alignment/use of white space at the top of each page might make it look even more slick/professional. What I mean is:

'About page' - the heading (your name) appears just above a horizontal line and this is consistent throughout. However, the heading jumps up/down in relation to the menu - flick from 'About' to 'Demonstrations' to see what I mean. I suggest, imho, it would look better if you chose to have the heading and/or line in the same place relative to the menu on every page.

On a similar vein the use of white space under the horizontal line is inconsistent e.g. on 'About' the space is negligible but on 'Demonstrations' it's meaningful (better, imo).

Likewise, the text alignment relative to the neighbouring pictures is awry. Generally, if you aim to have the top of the first capital letter aligned with the top of the adjacent picture it will look cleaner.

Nitpicking aside it looks good and I particularly liked the clickable, pop-up windows for the pictures on the 'Tuition' and 'Gallery' pages.

As others have commented, your work is stunning.

Mike

Not nitpicky at all but exactly the sort of comments I want - I'm always looking for perfection that's why it always takes me so long (3 years in this case to update the web site). I've had too much of it today so I'll sort out those issues tomorrow.

Thank you
Mark

 

[Mark Hancock]

Nev

Thank you for spotting the telephone numbers and I'll have a look at the gallery speed.

Pete

Yes I did do it myself but with some help from Phillip Streeting. I'd been speaking to him about knowing I had to update but that the thought of a complete redesign was putting me off because of the time it had taken to create the original site. He kindly prepared the basic layout based on some ideas we discussed using a more current software then I had and I took it from there.

Chas, Mike S, Nev & Pete

Thank you for the kind words about my work. It wasn't my intention to get such comments but they are much appreciated.

Cheers
Mark

 

[DMF]

Hi,

can't add anything to the technical side of it and this is from the veiwpoint of the random user i am but i would agree with the about page, yes you sound good there but a look at the cv page makes me think you should say a bit more, If i go to that page it's because i want to know exactly what your about. Maybe get 3 or 4 others to write it for you and see what they come up with, if you don't like any of those there's bound to be sentences that you do like or bit's that make you think about it more?

I'd always make it easy for someone to contact me so maybe a self validating email thingy on the contact me page? I can send of a question straight away then rather than remembering / bothering to log in and do it but this is just me being the just about IT literate user that i am!

Mainly though i want to say how good it all looks and if i was in the market for any of that then i'd be thinking now here's a fella that's got it sorted for us

Dean

 

[tekno.mage]

I have some problems viewing the list of demonstration dates on the Demonstrations page (some of the text lines are displayed on top of one and other) and also find the spacing on the navigation list to the top left of the pages is inconsistant (the lines go through the text on some of them) when viewing on my old Mac G5 running Safari 4.1.3 under Mac OSX 10.4.11 These problems do not occur with Safari 5.0.5 running under Mac OSX 10.6.8 on my newer intel Macbook.

I like the gallery pages - and the turnings displayed there are excellent!

 

[Mark Hancock]

Mike S
Spent some time trying to get the alignments right. How does it look now to those sharp eyes of yours?

Nev
I've doubled the time on the gallery page - is that better or does it need more time?
Phone numbers sorted.

Cheers
Mark

 

[Mark Hancock]

Hi,

can't add anything to the technical side of it and this is from the veiwpoint of the random user i am but i would agree with the about page, yes you sound good there but a look at the cv page makes me think you should say a bit more, If i go to that page it's because i want to know exactly what your about. Maybe get 3 or 4 others to write it for you and see what they come up with, if you don't like any of those there's bound to be sentences that you do like or bit's that make you think about it more?

I'd always make it easy for someone to contact me so maybe a self validating email thingy on the contact me page? I can send of a question straight away then rather than remembering / bothering to log in and do it but this is just me being the just about IT literate user that i am!

Mainly though i want to say how good it all looks and if i was in the market for any of that then i'd be thinking now here's a fella that's got it sorted for us

Dean

Thanks for the comments Dean. I'll be sorting the about page out shortly but I was planning on reducing the amount. I tend to be put off when I see very wordy pages.

Regarding email contact I'm not sure what you mean about logging in as I thought if you click on the email Outlook just opens?

Cheers
Mark

 

[Mark Hancock]

I have some problems viewing the list of demonstration dates on the Demonstrations page (some of the text lines are displayed on top of one and other) and also find the spacing on the navigation list to the top left of the pages is inconsistant (the lines go through the text on some of them) when viewing on my old Mac G5 running Safari 4.1.3 under Mac OSX 10.4.11 These problems do not occur with Safari 5.0.5 running under Mac OSX 10.6.8 on my newer intel Macbook.

I like the gallery pages - and the turnings displayed there are excellent!

Hi Kym

Thanks for the comments.

I've no idea about the display problems - sorry

Cheers
Mark

 

[cambournepete]

All works well in Safari on my ipad on 7.03.

The only thing I'm not sure about us the completely different styles for the homepage (menu at the bottom, white text on black) and the rest (menu at the side, black text on white).

But it's nice and simple and doesn't try to be clever, which is good

 

[devonwoody]

Mark, no problems here visiting or navigating. (I/e 10)

I could do with some tuition after visiting your gallery. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: