www.JustAnotherPhotographer.com

[Toad]

I've been off work on vacation for the last few days, and so have been playing around with the design and feel of my web site. Please check it out and let me know what y'all think.
Toad

JustAnotherPhotographer.com

[Jim]

The layout looks nice, but the dark blue font on a black background kinda makes the menu hard to read.

[d2frette]

Here are my brief suggestions:
- set the border to 0 for linked images
- consider a graphical menu
- consider using the menu on all pages, not just the homepage
- remove the two dark background colors (choose one)
- consider using dark text on a light background
- add album headings to your album pages
- remove the strict html icon (I don't think it adds value to your service)
- consider making pages for each image (or a dynamic page for all images) because (1)linking to a .jpg file makes the user use the browser back button, and (2) the rest of your site has a black background
- your page is too heavy at the top, so introduce some white space (or, black space) into your design. It's a good opportunity to use a horizontal menu, a graphical rule, etc.
- turn the negative into the postive. For instance,
"Unfortunately, I haven't worked with any models yet. " could become
"Are you a model looking for professional services? Then this is your opportunity. We're currently looking for a few select models to expand our portfolio. ...."

HTH.

[kamari]

i remember the talk about this domain name a while back. After a few days I got curious to see in anyone had picked it up cuz I liked the sound of it. I checked on it several times and figured nobody liked it after it was brought up but I had to show some TPF etiquitte and I let it go. I second the advice given so far.

[Toad]

Thank you all for your advice.
I didn't do the seperate html pages for each image because that would be a lot of typeing, and I don't know how to write dynamic pages... yet.
Again, thank you all for your advice, especially about the wording for models.
Toad

[d2frette]

Originally Posted by Toad

Thank you all for your advice.
I didn't do the seperate html pages for each image because that would be a lot of typeing, and I don't know how to write dynamic pages... yet.
Again, thank you all for your advice, especially about the wording for models.
Toad

1 - Copy and Paste or
2 - Have all links in the same album point to album.html?imagename.jpg
In the content area, use a IMG tag for the placeholder.
At the end of the page, insert a script that sets the IMG src.

I'm recalling this from memory of 4 years ago, so forgive me if it's a little cryptic. I wrote my own gallery display in one XML file with an XSLT file just to learn some XML stuff. The XML file was a list of all albums with all images for each album. The XSLT file had the HTML, CSS, and javascript embedded. It displayed the thumbnails, displayed the images, and ran a slideshow all in one file (webpage) with content loaded on-demand so as not to load the whole gallery. The only problem was that some albums had a slew of images, and it didn't create seperate subpages for the blocks of thumbnails. Live and learn I guess....

[Toad]

Ok, I've done some updating to my site. How's that?
Toad

[Toad]

Originally Posted by kamari

i remember the talk about this domain name a while back. After a few days I got curious to see in anyone had picked it up cuz I liked the sound of it. I checked on it several times and figured nobody liked it after it was brought up but I had to show some TPF etiquitte and I let it go. I second the advice given so far.

If that was when it was suggested to me, I had purchased it either that night or the next day. It was just a little while before I had done anything to it because I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do.
Toad

[d2frette]

That was a quick update. Good job.

Hey, those kitties look very familiar!! ;)

[Outlaw]

Nice little portfolio site you have going there! Only suggestion I would make for now would be to bring in the width of your page a little bit to fit on 800x600 monitors. Maybe archaic, but you're only about 50 pixels or so away from fitting nicely in an 800x600 window. May as well squeeze it in a bit to fit without horizontal scrolling if you can.