Built my first site

[obnoxiousmom]

How did I do?

I saw on another thread something about meta tags. Did I do that or is it something I need to do? Sorry Im web design illiterate! lol

www.cmstrickland.com

[Palladium]

I don't know what MS silverlight is and won't install it just to view your galleries.

IMHO you may want to rethink having visitors to your site having to install silverlight

[tupper]

+1 on the MS Silverlight,

Also when opening galleries, I really dislike them opening in new windows, sorry just a pet-peeve of mine.

Apart from that its simple, neat and too the point.

[Gibbo]

I don't know what MS silverlight is and won't install it just to view your galleries.

IMHO you may want to rethink having visitors to your site having to install silverlight

Don't comment the thread then.. Pleb :) I don't have MS silverlight and i could view your site fine.

[beano]

Don't comment the thread then.. Pleb :) I don't have MS silverlight and i could view your site fine.

Wow! :rolleyes:


I have silverlight installed, so it wasn't a problem for me.. But if i went to look at someones gallery and was asked to instal software, i would leave.. ;)

Can't help you with meta tags i'm afraid, i'm less web design literate than you!! :D

[obnoxiousmom]

As far as silverlight, its no different than having to install quicktime to view videos etc. I find that some can see my slides just fine with out it and some it requires a small download. For those that do not wish to install a safe and quick download from a trusted author, not much I can do about it. I personally love silverlight :)

[obnoxiousmom]

+1 on the MS Silverlight,

Also when opening galleries, I really dislike them opening in new windows, sorry just a pet-peeve of mine.

Apart from that its simple, neat and too the point.

What do you mean opening in a new window? It doesnt do that when I view it or at least I didnt think it did?

[Hikin Mike]

How did I do?

I saw on another thread something about meta tags. Did I do that or is it something I need to do? Sorry Im web design illiterate! lol

www.cmstrickland.com (http://www.cmstrickland.com)

If you want to be found in Google or any other search engines, then, yes you need to worry about having great meta tags.

An example:

<title>Your city Your State - Your specialties - Your name (70-100 characters long)</title>
<meta name="description" content="A short description about what you do, location etc in about 150 characters." />
<meta name="keywords" content=" about 10 good keywords here " />

I good read:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=472885

[Hikin Mike]

BTW, I didn't have any issues viewing your site using Firefox 3.

[beano]

BTW, I didn't have any issues viewing your site using Firefox 3.

That's interesting, as i'm running Firefox 3 too... Have you got the Silverlight plugin?

[Hikin Mike]

That's interesting, as i'm running Firefox 3 too... Have you got the Silverlight plugin?

Not that I know of.

[Hikin Mike]

Never mind, I didn't click deep enough to see the galleries. Honestly I rarely view the galleries. I'm more interested in the "behind the scenes" (HTML coding, meta tags etc)

So yes, I have to download a plug-in. I DON"T download special programs just to view a website (especially Microsoft stuff)...sorry.

To the OP...you really need to re-think your website. ;)

[obnoxiousmom]

What exactly should I rethink?

[Hikin Mike]

Having your viewers to download a plug-in just to view your site. I'm sure most will just download it, but some, like me, won't and will leave your site....forever.

[obnoxiousmom]

What would I use to show my photos?

[Hikin Mike]

What would I use to show my photos?

Me personally, I designed my own gallery/website.

You can look into SmugMug, Coppermine, ZenFolio etc. :D

[obnoxiousmom]

My issue is I dont want people to navigate away from my page when they are looking at my portfolio. I want it to be internal and I dont want to pay some one to host it for me. Silverlight gallery came with my expressions media suite when I bought it and for its appearance, it seems worth the loss of a few who arent willing to make the download. Maybe Im wrong for feeling that way but until I have the know how to make something better on my own, I dont see any other option

[Hikin Mike]

My issue is I dont want people to navigate away from my page when they are looking at my portfolio. I want it to be internal and I dont want to pay some one to host it for me. Silverlight gallery came with my expressions media suite when I bought it and for its appearance, it seems worth the loss of a few who arent willing to make the download. Maybe Im wrong for feeling that way but until I have the know how to make something better on my own, I dont see any other option

I see three people out of 4 have issues with downloading a plug-in. So far, statistically that's a lot of viewers who would leave.

I assume you've already paid for your domain and somebody to host it? If so, I'm sure you can find some free gallery software and upload it to your server/website. :D

[obnoxiousmom]

Just my domain name. My mom is a web designer so even though I designed my own, its hosted under her plan which is where part of my problem is coming in with meta tags. I have other free web galleries I can use that arent silver light based. I just dont like them. If I could find one that I like that is as plug and play easy as the silver light gallery I have, then I would switch