Facebook/Website suggestions

[hsimmons]

Hey guys, I am currently working on my facebook/website pages for my photography biz that I am trying to grow.

I welcome all comments/suggestions. I'm located in the Tyler area, and thus far have mainly found clients through word of mouth/ recommendation, but I am trying to branch out some with my advertising.

Let me know what ya think!

Hayley Hall Photography | Facebook

Hayley Hall Photography

[JWCustomPhotography]

I know lots of people disagree, but to me, flash fails because of the millions of iPod/iPhone/iPad users.

As such... I cannot view your website.


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[thatsridiculous]

that square white logo is really distracting. you can change the font color to white, then save it as a .png with a transparent background to fix that. plus black and brown... not the best colors to use together. i would do some searching through the web for recommendations on good design color palettes. color is EVERYTHING in site design, and if it immediately brings forth ideas of poo and makes people want to close the browser, your photos never get looked at.

[hue-e]

Originally Posted by JWCustomPhotography

I know lots of people disagree, but to me, flash fails because of the millions of iPod/iPhone/iPad users.

As such... I cannot view your website.


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agreed 100%... flash sites are not only old technology, but are also not easily SEO compliant as with other coding languages.

and for the love of god, I wish people would stop with the animation stuff. it's really just fluff and irritating to those that just want to get to information asap.

also agreed about the logo. I'd get rid of that white box and just reverse the logo on the background... closer to white than blue.

[rhoffart]

Originally Posted by jwcustomphotography

i know lots of people disagree, but to me, flash fails because of the millions of ipod/iphone/ipad users.

As such... I cannot view your website.


Sent from my iphone using tapatalk

x3 blocked at work ... So using taptalk

[hsimmons]

Thanks guys, all good suggestions. I plan on phasing out my flash site and going to a blog site once I get established. For now, I changed up the color scheme on the website and went with a more straightforward design for the time being.

[thatsridiculous]

much better already!!

[PhotoWiz]

I dumped flash on my first site because of SEO. It looks real nice...but its hard for google to appreciate your stuff and rank you. But if you expect most of your traffic to be direct referrals who just need to see a portfolio, its works fine.

[pmirphy]

I think I already am a little late with my comment here but I like the minimalistic characteristic of your web site as it is not like those with really loud images that do not describe what is at hand. Though, the color of the background and the border could be changed that would complement one another. You can try changing the color of the border of the images perhaps so that it could give more emphasis. But I really like your page.

[Arcusmedia]

Was able to view 2 pages before flash crashed go for a non flash website! Check out wordpress!

[J Eddington]

Originally Posted by hsimmons

Thanks guys, all good suggestions. I plan on phasing out my flash site and going to a blog site once I get established. For now, I changed up the color scheme on the website and went with a more straightforward design for the time being.

Don't wait, do it now. You do not need to be established to start with a blog.

[ttruelove]

Hi Haley,

I can only view your main site since I'm blocked from viewing Facebook at work. Some things I noticed with the current design:

Website Title: Put your name in the Website title (what displays at the top of browsers/tabs). The home page currently states your location and type of photography. The <title> tag is used by search engines to help index your site and build page ranks. Plus, each different page title should reflect the content on each page. Elaborate and be specific, but don't over-crowd.
NOTE: I did notice some of the other pages use your name in the title. Make sure the home page does too since it's usually the largest bounce page on the site.

Color: You have a very monochromatic design. Black logo, gray slider background and white website background. However, you introduce color in your nav bar. HOME is teal with beige background. The other items are black with brown rollover container with reverse text and teal text. The issues I see her are easily fixable. First, black text on brown background is never a good idea. The colors by themselves are fine, but together, the contrast is so minimal that low contrast monitors will lose the text.

Teal and brown work well together sometimes, but these colors have not been introduced anywhere else in the site. They seem out of place. If you want to continue using these colors, possibly adding them as 'splashes' or background elements on the pages. Small designs go a long way to connect all the colors.

Dead links: I noticed that 'Galleries' is a dead link. If I were a visitor and I wanted to see all the galleries you have on 1 page, I would expect the link to take me there. Plus, creating this page allows you a 'landing page' to promote in other avenues and direct traffic. In my web rule book, all navigation elements have their own page. It helps with SEO and indexing pages through Google.

Anyway, I've babbled enough. Hope I've helped is some way :)

[rkee]

Went with a Word press site and so glad . Its ranking better in a short time