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When visiting any of the gallery pages to look at the art pictures, the image loading time is too long (based on first time visiting). Looking into improving this in any way possible. Potential solutions include

• Image file optimization to compress these files
• Lazy loading of images not in view
• Caching to improve return user interaction

Based on the current way the site is done, the html pages for the three gallery pages could potentially grow very large, and become slightly confusing. It may be better to make some sort of template for the way the images are presented, and fill in the information (image source, paypal button, description/price) but looking at an external file. If the site were to be handed over to someone else, this would make it easy for them to add new pieces to the website, with minimal knowledge of web development.

In the functional, pendants, and non functional pages, carousels should be able to be controlled by the arrow keys. This will make it easier to scroll between sections, rather than using the mouse.

For functional, pendants, and nonfunctional carousels

Though swiping or using the arrow keys is the main way users would probably navigate through the images , fixing the left and right arrow buttons would be add an extra user friendly touch.

Currently, depending on the image size, the arrows get moved up or down as the carousel is scrolled through, which becomes somewhat annoying. In this case the arrows should always be in the same place.

On mobile, if users wants to go to the next or previous page, they have to scroll back to the middle of the page and click the arrow. In this case, the arrows should be fixed to the section visible to the user as they scroll.

When opening the site in firefox, the nav bar doesn't have the organge-ish color chosen to match the company logo. Since most of the testing is done in chrome, this behavior was not double checked. Verify the website behavior is (mostly) uniform across the common browsers.

When in the functional, pendants, or nonfunctional pages, it would be nice if the user could swipe to move between sections of the image carousel on their phones. I naturally want to do this and this is very intuitive.

Though the contact information is presented on the website. It would be nice to have a simple form where the users could write inquiries and send it to the owner's email address. This could just be a simple PHP form.

This is definitely low priority at the moment. But eventually integrating an add to cart option through paypal would look pretty nice on the website, and make it easier to purchase multiple items at once. Paypal developer has pretty extensive documentation to do so.

The paypal buttons are currently using the default style and do not quit match the page. Maybe matching the color of the navigation bar would be a good look.