Website about dragonflies

Wonderful! Only, in my opinion, it is necessary to make all pages of the same type (like this one: http://odonata-chuvashia42.narod.ru/dragonflies-najas.html), and a larger description font.

Good site, I liked it.
In my opinion, some of the photos are a little dark, and it seems that sunny weather is rare in the republic. I probably wanted to open it as soon as possible, and this is understandable. It would also be good to check all the links. But all these are easily fixable little things.
There would be more such sites.

It is very nice to hear your opinions! Especially impressive is that the site is on народе.ги very easy to operate, nice to work with. With the weather, we, like everywhere else in the European part, have enough sunny days. Although, indeed, many photos were taken in cloudy weather. In the evening, I will try to fill in the section about water resources of Chuvashia - there will be photos of lakes, ponds and swamps, with an indication of the dragonfly fauna for some of them.

It seems to me that the actual section "Dragonflies of Chuvashia" should be shifted to the right side. Now, of course, you have it contextually correct, but once you get to the site "Dragonflies of Chuvashia" you are looking primarily for these very dragonflies, and they are the penultimate item in the menu. I think we should put some emphasis on this particular section. Good luck!

The idea is good - imagine if the network will have similar information on different regions of the country, for starters, for the European part of the country and not only on dragonflies. It seems to me that such permanently developing information sites are much more convenient to use than printed publications, which are often difficult to access and represent only a certain time slice in the knowledge of local fauna.
Now for the criticism. You will already decide on the site design, I completely agree with Ilya U - everything should be unified, and after looking at a page with one view, you should know what awaits you on the rest. As for the photos, it has already been said that not all of them are good enough. If there is not enough light-use a flash or additional lighting, if you are shooting collectible specimens-make sure that they are at least spread out, not to mention that torn wings, lopsided abdominals, lack of heads do not leave a very good impression. Have you tried scanning dragonflies? It is optimal to do this until the intravital color has disappeared, but this is rarely possible. Perhaps, if you don't have your normal photos taken in nature yet, you can use other people's photos - ask the authors on this forum about such a resolution. And then some of your pictures do not carry any information load - it is impossible to identify the view from the photo, and sometimes aesthetics suffer. Take an example from the lepidopterologists on the forum - how they carefully spread each specimen.
As far as I understand, there are still not enough materials of our own throughout the republic, mainly in the north, since some mass species (according to the Oligarch) have not yet been caught in your net. In my opinion, the distribution on the territory of Chuvashia should be renamed as Places of Finds of species and a simplified map of the republic should be provided there with only the main settlements, m. b. district borders, if you specify them, and points of finds, and a detailed map of Chuvashia, but with a higher resolution, should be left only on the page About the republic. Otherwise, most of the map is unreadable, but it distracts attention from specific places of discovery.
I hope that all this will make you not give up, but, on the contrary, will serve as an incentive for further work to improve the still "raw" site. Well, so that the wasps do not suffer from this, I wish you success in your future work!

Great website! But here's the design... somewhat repulsive.

Criticism never hurts. Yes, I agree, with the design-it is necessary to unify - for the first time I personally decided to create a website ( about OSS made by a familiar programmer). I decided to experiment with the page formats and background - hence the discrepancy in the list of views. The quality of some photos is really not very good-last summer the photos were taken using Canon Digital Ixus V2 - 2 Megapixels - a little, to put it mildly, too weak for macro photography-hence the corresponding quality of images. Although I am grateful to this model for gaining skills in working on digital devices , but this is a completely different topic. This summer, the images will be taken by Canon Digital Ixus 70-with 7.1 Px. I haven't tried shooting outdoors yet, for obvious reasons, but some collectible photos have been taken, and in my opinion, the quality is quite good. On the site, these are images of Epitheca, Cordulia, and Somatochora. Some samples are quite broken - some dragonfly species I have in single copies (for example, Somatochlora metallica). But over time, all broken samples will be replaced with copies of the appropriate quality. And once again, thank you all for your feedback!

In my opinion, it is not easy to shoot dragonflies and get "good" (where everything is visible) pictures.

vespabellicosus, I would advise you to pay extra and buy something better (I mean a camera). In general, the idea with the site is not bad.

This post was edited by VBoris-30.03.2008 18: 16