New Website!

My website is around 98% finished, so I wanted to see what you guys think.
www.downsphotography.c​om Thanks in advance. I been working on this site for the past 3 weeks.

At least there's no music and your not using a 100% Flash site!

The only thing I can see is a "typo" on your Wedding Packages. I guess it's not a typo as much as a format issue. You use a dash ' - ' for your services, but it's not consistent. Most of the time you use a single space, but other times no space and a few you use double space. It's minor, but I used to be a QC inspector so it's all about details...LOL!

Nice job.

A couple of thoughts ... the first thing I was looking for was a gallery or portfolio - I found lots of photos from recent events in your blog (but that wouldn't be the first place I looked).

Also, I'm not sure about the order you have your pages in ... but maybe you're not finished with that yet. And lastly - this is so minor I even hate to mention it, but you asked for feedback I would take out the phrase "self-taught" in the description of yourself in the About Us section. I don't think most people care how their photographer learned, they just want them to take nice photos.

shazza wrote in post #12553266
Nice job.

A couple of thoughts ... the first thing I was looking for was a gallery or portfolio - I found lots of photos from recent events in your blog (but that wouldn't be the first place I looked).

Also, I'm not sure about the order you have your pages in ... but maybe you're not finished with that yet. And lastly - this is so minor I even hate to mention it, but you asked for feedback I would take out the phrase "self-taught" in the description of yourself in the About Us section. I don't think most people care how their photographer learned, they just want them to take nice photos.

Thanks everyone and Yes it is still not finished.

wow good stuff. im still on zenfolio.. excellent presentation

i like it, did you make it yourself or use a program/template im trying make one, right now useing lightroom and the turning gate but not really happy with it.

bedojo wrote in post #12593833
i like it, did you make it yourself or use a program/template im trying make one, right now useing lightroom and the turning gate but not really happy with it.

It's the Envisioned theme for WordPress.

Nice.

not sure if it is my connection or your hosting but it took AGES to load

you might want to also dump that copy protection plugin, it is probably just slowing the site down and doesn't actually stop anything, I can still right click on the images to check exif or whatever else and the text at the bottom of the page that says it is protected by ... looks awful

nice looking theme, though it is slightly annoying that if you click the white space next to an image, it loads the image up in the browser window, considering it loads them picture the same size in the window, there is no reason for them to even be clickable

loading the pics in the window by clicking on them like that will also just allow anyone to right click save them (even if they don't have disable right click override installed like I do)

oh that is cool, i just made a wordpress for my website the other day because got mad at lightroom ttg webmodule, but useing a different theme. once i got used to it it is pretty easy to use.

Your site took about 15 seconds to load, then the "about" page took another 3 seconds.

loaded instantly for me :O from a computer on campus i never visited his site before on. maybe was a temporary bandwidth problem

your prices seem a bit funky to me, CD is cheaper then prints?

Sorry guys forgot about this thread lol. Thanks for all the tips, I will look up some plug ins to try to make it load faster btw i'm hosting with godaddy. Thanks for all the feedback everyone.

Hikin Mike wrote in post #12547015
At least there's no music and your not using a 100% Flash site!

The only thing I can see is a "typo" on your Wedding Packages. I guess it's not a typo as much as a format issue. You use a dash ' - ' for your services, but it's not consistent. Most of the time you use a single space, but other times no space and a few you use double space. It's minor, but I used to be a QC inspector so it's all about details...LOL!

Thanks for the feedback Mike. I think I fixed that, but I will look again.

shazza wrote in post #12553266
Nice job.

A couple of thoughts ... the first thing I was looking for was a gallery or portfolio - I found lots of photos from recent events in your blog (but that wouldn't be the first place I looked).

Also, I'm not sure about the order you have your pages in ... but maybe you're not finished with that yet. And lastly - this is so minor I even hate to mention it, but you asked for feedback I would take out the phrase "self-taught" in the description of yourself in the About Us section. I don't think most people care how their photographer learned, they just want them to take nice photos.

Fixed Shazza. Thanks again for the feedback.