My website has officially launched!

[Rockfreak300]

Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce that my personal photography website has finally officially publicly launched! It has been a lot of work but well worth it! I finally have something to represent my name with when I am out shooting!

I would heavily appreciate it if you guys were to check it out from one photographer to another.

Thank you all in advance.

Here is my website:

http://chrisgrosserphotography.com

If you enjoy it feel free to pass it onto others. Word of mouth is a fantastic thing and I appreciate every click of support!

- Chris

[Sisters_photography]

Great site. I like it. did you do it or have someone do it for you?

[Rockfreak300]

Great site. I like it. did you do it or have someone do it for you?

Thanks for the support! :) I am fortunate enough to have 2 best friends where one is a web designer and the other is a computer programmer. I forced them to team up and finally build me a site. :lol:

[Sisters_photography]

Thanks for the support! :) I am fortunate enough to have 2 best friends where one is a web designer and the other is a computer programmer. I forced them to team up and finally build me a site. :lol:


thats so cool. i wish i had friends like that. i need a site soooo bad.

[axe]

You have some great photos. Aerials are very nice.
The home page is wide and I have to scroll to the right - I'm using Explorer with res set on 1024x768. Funny thing but it bugs me to scroll sideways, I don't mind scrolling down though.
Except for that minor hiccup, the site looks good.

[Rockfreak300]

You have some great photos. Aerials are very nice.
The home page is wide and I have to scroll to the right - I'm using Explorer with res set on 1024x768. Funny thing but it bugs me to scroll sideways, I don't mind scrolling down though.
Except for that minor hiccup, the site looks good.

Odd, I will look into that. Thanks for your response, it's appreciated.

I am pretty sure the site is fixed at a set resolution, apparently not 1024x768, although I previously believed that that was the resolution.

I'll look into it, thanks!

[tracknut]

The "inner" part of the site, with your banner, nav, etc, is 1003 pixels wide, which should be good if you're shooting for a 1024 window. But the outer div has a width of 1139 pixels to accomodate the left and right side shading effect. That's what's causing it to put up scroll bars.

Dave

[photoguy6405]

You have some great photos. Aerials are very nice.
The home page is wide and I have to scroll to the right - I'm using Explorer with res set on 1024x768. Funny thing but it bugs me to scroll sideways, I don't mind scrolling down though.
Except for that minor hiccup, the site looks good.

I'm putting together my site right now and I bought a couple books for reference and they all say the same thing... people are usually tolerant of vertical scrolling, but very intolerant of horizontal scrolling. Horizontal scrolling is considered one of the top things to avoid when at all possible.

[V8Rumble]

Makes those previews images smaller. Like 600 to 800 px wide and around 100 KB. Some of your pic are over 300 KB

I also dont think some simple pics of girls that you snapped at a car show are good for the portrait section.

[inthedeck]

I agree about the car show models. Also, the site needs a floating 'back to the top' button/link/etc. As much as I like to scroll up/down :( scrolling down, only to scroll all the way up is a chore...hehe.

Otherwise, lookin' good.

[HuskyKMA]

Visually, it's a very pleasing site. I'm with the others about the car show models in the portrait section, they don't belong there.

And I would make the preview images smaller, maybe half that size and put them two per row? That would help eliminate a lot of the vertical scrolling as well.

[mrerico]

looks good!

[Rockfreak300]

I agree about the car show models. Also, the site needs a floating 'back to the top' button/link/etc. As much as I like to scroll up/down :( scrolling down, only to scroll all the way up is a chore...hehe.

Otherwise, lookin' good.

Thanks for the tip, that's actually a very good idea! I added the button yesterday due to your comment. :)

[Rockfreak300]

Thanks for all the comments / critique everyone!

As for the models, they may not necessarily be the norm for what you would expect for a portrait section but that is one section I am running on with few pictures. I have to make due with what I have! I will switch out the photos with new ones in a few months when I attend Light Pro Expo! ;)

Website updates:

- Deleted various pictures from some of the galleries that I thought were not up to par with what I expect from my work or redundant.

Many people may believe I have too many photos in my automotive section but majority of the work I have shot is event coverage for customers (websites, magazines, forums etc.) so that was kind of the point; have a lot of photos to show for the event for flyers, banners, cards etc.

- Added a "return to top of page button" by request from forum member; great idea, thank you!

- As for the resolution some people were complaining about - there is really nothing I can do. I can't justify making my entire website resized due to one or two people who due to small monitors / resolution settings believe I have HUGE photos. I don't say that out of spite but I have to view the population as a whole and think many more people are running at higher resolutions. (I run at 1680x1050 myself) Although, I will adjust some photos that are just huge. I will attempt to stick with photos < 700pixels in width and call it a day.

Thanks again everyone.

- Chris

[BrantG]

From an SEO stand point, you are serious lacking. All your "text" is part of the image. If you ever want to get some good indexing, I suggestion you make it text and not part of the image.

[mr_e]

- As for the resolution some people were complaining about - there is really nothing I can do. I can't justify making my entire website resized due to one or two people who due to small monitors / resolution settings believe I have HUGE photos. I don't say that out of spite but I have to view the population as a whole and think many more people are running at higher resolutions. (I run at 1680x1050 myself) Although, I will adjust some photos that are just huge. I will attempt to stick with photos < 700pixels in width and call it a day.

Thanks again everyone.

- Chris

About 45% of people still use 1024x768 or smaller, meaning that to about 45% of your visitors your site won't fit and will have vertical and horizontal scroll bars. That's still a good portion of people, in my opinion anyway.

Generally it's good to fit your site to 1024x768 at it's smallest (800x600 is only about 5% of users these days).

Also as BrantG said, you'll be missing out as search engines can't crawl text that's part of an image, which is your whole front page.