Relaunch: Murderfly Multimedia
Posted in Business / Photography by CujoOctober 31st, 2006 - 9:31 PM
I redesigned / relaunched my business web site late last week and now I’m announcing it here as I know not everyone checks it out. Anyway the site is smaller, leaner and gets directly to the point.
I create web sites. I perform photography.
It doesn’t get any more straight-forward than that. The site is a simple one pager and I hope to feature my latest works on it and tweak it here and there adding new things as they come along. It may evolve a bit as time elapses but right now it’s pretty much down.
Disclaimer: there are two things that I hate about it right now and I’ve been working on solving since early Thursday morning (and this is why I haven’t announced the site yet). I haven’t been able to solve them so maybe someone reading can help me out.
Problem 1: In Internet Explorer on Windows machines there’s a 1px line undernearth the motto bar. Any idea anyone? We’ve tried lots of things to fix it and nothing has helped. I got this solved. How you ask? Very stupidly. I had to adjust the way the code was formatted in my html removing any space what so ever. Does it make sense? No. Does it work? Yes.
Problem 2: On Windows machines (maybe select but all that I’ve checked so far) the pictures in the galleries become a big jaggy. They look awesome on a Mac. I thought maybe it’s the script but other pictures appear fine using the same script so I’m stumped on that one as well.
Check it out and let me know what you think: Murderfly Multimedia
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November 1st, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Can’t help you on problem 1, but I’m running the new IE 7.0 at work and the pictures look good.
November 1st, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Thanks for checking it out Bryan.
Were you on a CRT or LCD? Just an odd question. I’ve seen it on an LCD at work — although my MBP display is also an LCD but that’s beside the point. It’s just strange.
November 1st, 2006 at 3:13 pm
I’m running IE 6 and the pictures look fine. I like the loading icon inbetween the pictures. The website is more professional looking now. I liked the other version of your website, but this one is alot nicer.
November 1st, 2006 at 3:16 pm
Thanks Sandra. I might actually be changing the loading icon as well. To something better if it works out, similar but better.
Thanks for the compliment.
November 1st, 2006 at 7:17 pm
that’s what you get for laughing at my pain…I said you could call me an idiot, not laugh…jerk…
November 1st, 2006 at 7:19 pm
The site had problems before you fell down… but then again I guess we can say you had problems before the site did
November 1st, 2006 at 7:57 pm
I like the site very much…sorry for leaving that out…
clean looking, easy to navigate, galleries are awesome…good stuff. the only thing I would change is the “web sites. photography. killer results.” …the phrasing just doesn’t seem to flow well…maybe it’s just me…
November 1st, 2006 at 8:09 pm
The flow might just be you
I had a different slogan there before which was a lot worse and changed it to that. It won out so I kept it. The killer results plays off of the murderfly part (in case you nobody could figure that one out). Basically people would only see murder so I thought I’d play that up with the description of my work in a more edgy way instead of saying “our stuff is pretty” or something else in that sense.
It’s not really meant to be a phrase together but more of three quick points, we do web sites, we do photography, we create killer reults.
November 2nd, 2006 at 11:35 am
I don’t know much about web design but here’s my two cents:
The colour scheme is excellent and it works really well, I also really dig the logo.
Like someone mentioned before the slogan seems a bit truncated (maybe throw an “and” or some other word somewhere in there?) and the links aren’t immediately prominant (but maybe that’s what you were going for?)
November 2nd, 2006 at 11:47 am
Perhaps the flow issue could be simply the “staccato” quality of the words….putting the “photography” first could better the word flow…..shortest/short/not so shot……’phography.web sites.killer results”, although I understand that the web site design would be the more prominant aspect of your company. Although, the more I think of it, the more it didn’t really not work for me the other way….hmmm….
Maybe change it to “Beards. No Hair. Pickles.”
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Hmm… more questions on the motto line… seems my test group were either too intuned to what I wanted or just all in t eh same mindset.
Ludger… in regards to the links which ones are you talking about specifically? The web site devel links or the ones inside the photo gallery — did you make it into the photo gallery and was it obvious to click on the pictures? Would the links stand out better if I have them underlined by default?
Thanks for the help guys.
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:02 pm
I was talking about the “I’m a Mac” one and the “Jay Case” and “Big Wheel” ones. I know they become underlined when scrolled over but on first look I found myself wondering where to go. But then again, I am a little slow. They probably would stand out better if they were already underlined but like I said, it’s just my opinion. The photo links were obvious and btw the pics look great. Overall I dig the simplicity.
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Nope, thanks for that.
The fact you pointed it out means other people may run into it as well. If one person has done out others will so there’s a flaw that I should change. I’m going to test pre-underlining them tonight and maybe bolding them on the hover to see how that looks, if it makes it too busy I might take it away.
Thanks for the input though.
November 3rd, 2006 at 12:17 am
Oh, and I think there is a DECIDED lack of cowbell in the site. I’ll have to confer with Ed Young on that, but my first impression is that you simply have failed to provide your audience with enough cow bell and cow bell-related accessories.
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:59 am
Lookin’ good.
Yah, style those links differetnly in the web development section. They don’t look like links.
As for the jaggedness, that’s directly related to the screen resolution you’re using. Thinkbox dose some automatic image resizing if the vertical or horizontal size of the image is larger than the browser’s viewport minus some padding/margins. So take a look at your stats and see what screen res your visitors are using and optimize your images for that. You should be good to go.
November 3rd, 2006 at 9:57 am
Holy crap you’re right. The images do look okay on the work computer where they looked like crap. Before going to the site I maxed my browser and all was cool. Good stuff — it makes me happy.
And now I realized I forgot to add the underline to the links last night. Maybe that’ll be a lunch project.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Pretty slick.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
In fact, if you’ll remember back, you commented on some jagginess on the images on my site, which was caused by the same thing (I still haven’t gotten around to shrinking them).
So, really, I have to give you credit for solving your own problem on this one….. and then promptly forgot that you had.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Mark: thanks
Kelli: Wow, don’t I look smart. I’m going to keep the images their size, I have them at about 525 pixels high (or wide depending on the picture setup) and will take the jaggies on the screens people see jaggies — for now, any smaller and the pics lose appeal I think.