Uh oh - 29 views and no feedback.  Gulp!  Is the tour that bad?? 

Cheers

Steiner

Hi Steiner,

Mate, I looked and it was fine.

Didn't come across any issues at all and I generally liked the tour. I don't go much on your buttons but the rest of your graphics are nice and keep in common and the general theme of your website.

I congratulate you on changing the name of the viewer window from the default "Skin" title. I would think you could also do better than having the applet positioned in the default top left hand corner with a waste of space around the rest of the page. I would also consider making the "radar" less prominent (make it more transparent) annoying things that they are!

These thoughts I would have kept to myself because some people believe it is whinging (which of course it's not!) It's an opinion...... An honest one.

Which we all entitled too!

No offence intended, a great job that could have some improvements to make it stand out from the masses.

Regards, Smooth

The low res works good for me (thanks for thinking of us dial up folks).

I particularly like the tripod cap (that sort of isn't a tripod cap and yet really is!?) in the first panorama. Really good idea I think, nicely executed.

The navigation buttons look nice to me. But a general question that has been bothering me for a long time: does anyone actually ever use buttons to navigate a pano? I doubt it personally. But everyone always seems to include them. Just an observation.

I agree with Smooth, it would be better to size the window and centre it.

Good tour.
Glenn

Hi all

@Smooth - no worries on the constructive criticism buddy - that's exactly what I always look for and you should know by now that I'm not a fragile prima donna! 

Re. the centering/resizing of the window - I have programmed that in but you can only get that by clicking on the button located on the parent page in my personnal website (the tour isn't as yet live on the client site).

@cuetoyou: It's funny you say that, I have also been thinking about the need to keep buttons in the UI.  The only reason I keep them (and make them as large as they are) is mainly out of consideration for either elderly or handicaped users (although I'm sure such visitors will be greatly in the minority). 

Also - as the buttons have Alt tags (or Hints in EasyPano lingo) I'm 'hoping' they will be recognised by browser text readers so that the 'mousless' visitor will be able to navigate through the panos.  Actually - can anyone at EasyPano confirm this?  It's a pretty important accessibility issue.

@inter6300 - the buttons and the UI as a whole were created in PS (Photoshop) and simply exported as the usual slices.

Thanks again and please always feel free to offer suggestions (with me at least).

Cheers

Anthony

I tried to use "JAWS" Job Access With Sound - a text to speech engine for disabled people browsing the internet, and found that JAWS could not read the tour. I know there are a few hundred disability access programs out there that might be able to "read" tourweaver, but i have yet to find any, or hear back from support at easypano.

I personally like to modify the tour movie as they show in the example tours that ship with tourweaver. This way, in addition to the leftrightupdown buttons i also include a play/pause button so the movie can be resumed. And yes, when i find VR tours i do use the nav buttons - sometimes it is nice to not have to click and drag a pano.

Sean.

Thanks for the feedback Sean, I was afraid of that.  I'll have to do some testing to figure this one out.  Nice to hear from EasyPano on this as well.

Cheers

Steiner

did you say you have heard from easypano or that it would be nice to hear from them... if you have heard, i am keenly interested.

do you know if the "hint" text is actually an "alt text" tag or just a java mouseover element?

No sorry - just that it 'would be' nice to hear from them on this. 

EasyPano support - any ideas?