My new website!

[robertn]

Hey all, I just uploaded my new website and I would love to hear what y'all think about it.
The overall idea was to keep it as simple, clean and straight-forward as I could but still make it look, well, fancy :D. Also, I've tried to make it fit in most browser windows without scrolling but I couldn't go lower than 1024x786 for then the photos would become way too small for those with higher resolutions (and I didn't feel the need to write pages and pages of code too give every screen resolution their own 'correct' photo-size which would obviously take away from the simplicity I wanted to achieve with this website..).

Enough of that, I would love some feedback!

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

Thanks a bunch!

[tracknut]

Hi Robert,

I was waiting for those 1024px photos, and never found them. The largest photos I saw were 640px across, so to me your site looks very narrow - it would fit on an old VGA screen. The photos are nice, though they could have been bigger :) And I notice no copyrights or watermarks on them, so very easy to just drag your photos to my desktop, if you care. The background you're using, including the changing colors, is fairly distracting to my eyes.

Also your code... no doctypes, and VERY non-standard. I could find no reference to where you are located, either in the body of the site or any metadata. That's almost a must if you expect either humans or search engines to connect with you, and also something about what you shoot - "freelance photographer" is a bit wide open.

Dave

[robertn]

Hey, thanks so much for your reply. Firstly, I must've explained the 1024px part a bit to vaguely. What I meant to say was that the whole website would display on a 1024x786 monitor without scrollbars (for what it's worth :)). Given this, the photos in the middle can only be so big, so the whole layout would still fit. I wanted a layout that would fit common-used resolutions (I excluded everything below 1024x786 though) but that also meant displaying smaller photos which I'm fine with actually.
Since the photos are on the smaller side, there's no need for me to copyright or watermark them.

I'm hearing about the doctype and non-standard code stuff. I'm a designer myself and have designed at least half a dozen W3C-validated websites. Since there's really nothing fancy going on in this website I felt no need for it since it renders pretty much the same in every browser in quirks mode (including IE).

I think I should indeed add my location, thanks for that. Lastly, I know freelance photographer is indeed a bit open, but I felt my gallery should give people an idea of what I shoot.

Thanks again!