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Lose the music, or at least set the default to silent. Music has to be the best way to get visitors leaping for the 'Back' button 
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Yeah, Think I will do that
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If there's a 'virtual gallery' view for the first one, why not for the second one too? At least, I couldn't find it if there is one ....
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Time Constrants (and lazyness)
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Why the particular layout and placement of images in the virtual gallery? You end up with a huge amount of screen space delivering a few small images - some so small that they're effectively invisible. And why were the ones with a lot of detail but low contrast at the back, whereas ones with not much detail and high contrast at the front?
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Because the image is a real photo, I put the images into the frames. As the gallery is long down, the pictures get smaller.
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Gallery 1? Gallery 2? What are the themes of these galleries? Why would you want to look at one as opposed to the other? It seemed to me like the themes were 'some pictures' and 'some more pictures'. I didn't understand what the collection(s) as a whole were trying to say.
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I might put portrait and landscape as the links instead
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I'd have liked a caption to appear when I moused over a picture with a bit of info about it; title, date, that sort of thing ...
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Good Idea, Wont happen in this version though. Sorry
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... and when I clicked the picture to view in detail I'd also like to see extra info such as materials, size, and perhaps a brief note from the artist putting the picture into some kind of context; describing her initial thoughts when she started the sketching, where her inspiration came from, what emotions she's hoping to convey, that sort of thing.
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Same as before, I cant really ask my artist to produce 26 different statements, or titles. She is busy. Again a good idea if i could do it in time for the deadline
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When you hover your mouse over the detailed images, the pointer turns into a hand over the strip where the 'thumbnails' were.
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Yep, This will be fixed.
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Hate the close buttons at the top left!
Some people will moan about the blue text on graphite background when you mouseover the navigation links at the top.
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Sorry!
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The biography isn't very, err, biographical - I guessed she loved art from the fact she's got an art website - I'd like to know more about how she chooses her subjects, the people she's met through her art, something that'll help us relate her to the images in her gallery.
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Again, same as above. Do not want to ask her for too much. Shes not a professional or student of art either.
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Why the separate Credits and Contact pages - why not just put everything on the Contact page?
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was asked for in assignment
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The images used on the Bio, Credits and Contact pages didn't really seem to reflect the rest of the images in the gallery. There are some really interesting comments about life in 21st centrury UK in the galleries, but in contrast the Bio, Credits and Contact pages seem a bit twee.
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They have easy to extract main part of the Images, or had a background that was white by default. The idea was to include toned down images in those pages so they are not the main part of that page. Its just because it matchs the white ya see.
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Couldn't get the email link to Christine to work at all; the one to you worked but only if I closed Thunderbird first. Otherwise I got an error message 'Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, or restart your system.'I'm using FireFox 2 and Thunderbird 1.5.
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This is in the version I uploaded to the public web. Not the Uni internal one. Just for her privacy. At some point I am going to put a email address there that still sends to me and then i foreward to her. Unless she is ok with her email being on the web.
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However - these are just my personal opinions and not everyone will share them; it looks great, and is 1000% better than anything I could do with Flash - still haven't opened 'Flash 8 For Dummies' yet And I like the art - so the site's achieved it's main goal
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Cheers! Thanks for the long and detailed feedback. I will remove the sound, and think about the names of the gallerys. I will also fix the pointer problem.
The close button is unlikely to be moved and the images are certainly not going to include more information. Both of these I would like but I do have start drawing the project to a close.