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    Default My spanking new website!

    Wasn't sure where to post this so here goes!

    I am launching my new official website today, and would love your feedback as valued BPN members and contributors :)

    Here's the link:
    http://morkelerasmus.com

    Looking forward to your feedback!

    Cheers
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    Great website Morkel. You have taken some really breathtaking scenic and animal photographs. Thanks for sharing the link!

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    Morkel, looks nice, and I enjoyed the images. My only complaint would be about the main site opening a completely new browser window, which I find to be annoying on sites in general. And then if you hit the blog from the main site, you're back in the original browser window again. I'm not trying to be mean with the comment as I know that site redesign is a ton of work (I'm in the middle of redesigning my two websites now and did my blog last year), and I do understand the wish for you to be in control of how people view the site. I just really think you might be turning off quite a few potential viewers with the browser behavior. and that would be a shame because of the nice site you've designed

    I'm on Firefox by the way but I assume the window behavior would be the same in any browser.

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    Like the site. Hope you add more photos soon. Not too many there. Your photo on the site doesn't look like you as in the BPN photo????

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    thanks a lot for the feedback guys!

    Greg I hear what you're saying and it comports with other feedback I have received, will revisit that idea :).
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    Fantastic images. I've mainly seen your bird images before but I really enjoyed seeing also the other areas of your photos. Great work!!!

    On the negative side - I wasn't really keen on the effect used for the image switching !!!

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    Ditto what Greg said about the new window popping up. I also don't have much patience with Flash only presentations and usually close the session rather quickly. Nice pics from what I saw though! :)
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    Great, Morkel. I'm glad the comments were helpful and that you took them in the spirit I meant them. I looked again and liked the stock interface too. If you could get it to be more self-contained, I think you'll have a real winner. Opening a different site or section in a new tab is Ok I think but a new window is a different story. Good luck!

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    Morkel, just happened to take a look and see that you've redone things. My last suggestion would be to have the stock images section available by its own link on the top menu so that it's as easy to find as possible. Also, you might use a CName for the stock images part to make it clear those images are part of your site too, assuming that's the case.

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    I agree, great site wonderful images, but I also hate Flash presentations, a little tweaking and I would willing sign up. :)

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    Wow very nice...I've always enjoyed seeing your photos of Africa in here...

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    Very very nice job Morkel. Working on a satellite link and speed seems to be fine. Well organized galleries.

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    thanks for the varied comments everyone. I am busy preparing the "non-flash" version which is more a mobile-device-friendly version than it is a full HTML web version, should have a new landing page where you can choose between the 2 soon.
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    Morkel, I liked the look-and-feel of the site a lot. Well done.

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    thank you Kaustubh
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    I think the flash transitions are quite slick, like the site and the photos

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    thanks Johan :)
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    I agree with Christopher. That Flash bar is a turn off to me. It really slows things down and detracts from the wonderful images you are presenting.

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