Website Review : Tessa

I was looking for links to websites, and I came upon Tessas new website, and I thought I'd give it a review.

I like the homepage; It's very sleek, clean, fast-loading, and the photograph feels very welcoming, almost like it's inviting you in to view more.

The gallery page is very clean-cut and simple, and the yellow background compliments the photographs well. The script-ish font is a very nice touch, adding another more personal detail to the site. Each gallery page is well laid out, especially the arrangements of the photographs.

I understand that the "Mountains" page might have been taken near the mountains,but I don't actually see any mountains in the photographs, which is a little confusing. They're beautiful photos, I just don't think "mountains" does an adequate job of summarizing the subject.

I love the photographs of water, especially the one with the neon-blue ice. Its eye-popping, and subtly contrasts with the other very subtly and subdued-color photographs on the page. I did notice a few empty table cells along the edges that don't seem to have anything in them.

I really like the photographs, and I'd love to be able to see some of them a little bit larger. I know posting very high-res images isn't a good idea, but maybe larger lower-resolution images would work?

I'm not sure how I feel about the gallery page being yellow, while all the other pages are purple. I like the purple better as a background color, but having only one yellow page makes it a bit more noticeable. It might be better if you replaced the bright purple on your bio page with the yellow from your photography page; This would give two yellow pages, and make the bio page a LOT easier to read.

I also really like how easy your site is to navigate. On each page there's a link back to the main page. There's no constant clicking of the back button at all.