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Title ! One thing I noticed right off the bat is that your images are slow to load. This is because you're using the full sized images that you're sharing as your thumbnails. If you make thumbnails within a separate, specific folder, that have the lowest possible kb and the pixel dimensions you want to display without sacrificing too much optical quality, then make your links within those thumbnail click boxes go to your high-res, larger dimensions folder images, you'll have a much faster image/page load time!
Even the logo (great design by the way!) on your landing page is WAY TOO BIG!!! 1224x1448 at 2321.34KB is SUPER OVERKILL. I would reduce the pixel size by half and the kb's down to 150-300 depending on how it looks and maybe smaller still.
Your header logo, though way too big pixel-wise for how you're using it as your "home button" is much better kb-wise at 53.2, but it too would be smaller still if you reduced the pixel size down to the size you have the image displaying at for the button.
I would also suggest that you could make your high-res images open either in a new window, or a pop-up window. That way your gallery page won't have to reload for your visitors every time they come back from looking at a specific image.
I like your overall layout, and it's nice to see all the images of GRAFLEXes collected together in their different galleries.
Now, one little point of contention, maybe I woke up a little grumpy, maybe it's that as an artist I am exceptionally upset by this subject, and it is not my intention to be aggresive towards you! But I believe this bears saying...
My guess is you're going for historical accuracy for your Replica Hilts page by including them at all, but I would add a footnote to the 89 Sabers section that they're totally bogarting Roman's Graflex Replica's Bottom Stampings at the very least. One review I watched suggested that they were correcting their stamping to look like the ORIGINAL, but I find it most repulsive that they didn't even know what it was that they were 'recasting'. If everyone that was going to make a replica started from their own ORIGINAL GRAFLEX in-hand measurements, etc. that's understandable that all the replicas would look like the ORIGINAL, but when they straight up copy the 'tells' from another replica manufacturer, not only does it draw into question the accuracy of their replica, but their motives for creating it in the first place! Clearly it wasn't to make the most accurate replica ever built. At the very least I would have an asterisk next to their name, and have the footnote read, "Early 89 Sabers replicas and the images of them on the boxes they came in were copies of Roman Empire's Gen.1 Graflex Replica." And I would repeat that in your listing as such too like this...
"Visual Inaccuracies
- Early 89 Sabers replicas and the images of them on the boxes they came in were copies of Roman Empire's Gen.1 Graflex Replica.
Tells
- Early 89 Sabers replicas and the images of them on the boxes they came in were copies of Roman Empire's Gen.1 Graflex Replica and as such have the "R.E." in place of "U.S." within the centerline TRADE MARK stamping."
I'm still very curious about how they 'created' their replica as it smacks of 'Chinese Insider Trading'. I'm not sure whether or not they should be branded forever as 'recasters', but for me, it certainly stains and sullies their reputation. They have no mention of, nor retraction of, nor apology for their use of Roman's Gen.1 part(s) on their website.
Anywho, you can check out that video review here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixCFQUco_A
O.K. then, back to your site's functionality. My only other suggestion is that you make your links to external websites open in new windows as well. You never want your visitors to leave/close your webpage to go somewhere else. If your visitor forgets that your site jumped straight to the link's external website and absentmindedly closes that window instead of having to click back to your website, or worse yet they can't click back far enough because of their browser settings, your potential customer just went bye-bye!
Thank you for your efforts on your website! It's nice to know that there's a gathering point for all the higher-resolution images of our beloved GRAFLEX based Lightsabers.
I hadn't seen the Graflex 3.0 yet, that's neat to see too!