Lots of updating and housecleaning going on around here lately, the most fun being the launch of our new site here at www.chasejarvis.com.
As such, I wanted to invite you to poke around our new digs. Lots of new photos–twenty something new galleries, there’s finally a video page, and…well..a lot more. And we’re continuing to update and transform the site into a smooth machine over the coming week. That said, your feedback is incredibly valuable to us. We’re listening – so thanks in advance. We know there’s still a lot to work on, especially with the blog and the mobile version. (There’s still flash in there, but, we’re evolving and will continue to…). At any rate please hit up whatever needs addressing in the comments. Or if it’s time sensitive and something’s busted, ping @dartanyon.
Huge thanks to my crew for the hard work – especially amidst all the other work we are lucky enough to be buried in. And we’d be remiss to not thank the great team at Livebooks.com – Matt, Dale, Adam, and Jericho. Thanks a mil for the collaborative process in creating our new site.
I’ll be on the Twit.tv Photo show at 1:30PM today talking about the new site, and photography in general. Tune in.
And again, thank YOU for visiting.
Hi Chase!
I love the new work and I know that a new website is a lot of work and you probably have many reasons behind every choice, but just a few thoughts:
1. I really really hate flash sites. I hate the way flash compresses images and on a big screen I think the quality is not as good as it should. I can see there’s a good image there, somewhere behind those artifacts.
2. I probably would like a line or two explaining what I’m going to see, for the videos. Maybe that’s just me, though. It’s also a pity that you don’t cross content. I’d probably be more interested in watching the Seattle 100 video with the photos and the book or somehow being able to navigate back and forth sections, which now seems not possible. It seems like you’re forcing me to follow a navigation path instead of going where I feel like going.
3. I like to scroll through the blog. I read yours via RSS feed, but if I ended up here and wanted to go through your archive (which is something totally worth doing) you’d force me to click a lot.
4. the typewriter font is a bit ’90s, but the ’90s are back and you’re from Seattle so OWN it!
Yesterday I viewed this on my iPad and it was a completely different experience. That disappoints me. The PC version is much richer. I’m surprised you didn’t choose a platform that embraces and exploits the iPad as a medium.
where is the crew page? 😐
Yeah!?
Love the site, love the work!
Let’s swim the English Channel! 😀
First off all congrats for the new website.
I found 2 small….lets call it bugs, that are easy to solve:
1 – Here on the blog, if you are filling the fields to leave a reply, and change from Website field to text with the help of the Tab Button, you actually change to the search textbox;
2 – The copyright text at the bottom of the page ((c)Chase Jarvis 2011 Powered by liveBooks) sometimes is above text (About Section) or above controls (Photo Section);
Continue with the great work
Samuel Jesus