I'm thinking of redesigning my sagephotoworld website to use it as a shop window rather than the current place-holder that it is at the moment.
I did have a ton of really good photos on display on smugmug but since it cost money to run my smugmug account and it generated rather less income than it cost, unsurprisingly I axed it. In the meantime and until my Permanant Residence card arrived, I had a display of travel snaps on the site.
Now, I'm going to develop it as a photography site, selling my skills etc. I'm thinking of putting several themes on the site:
Travel - so people can see I'm a worldly and experienced fellow.
Landscape - to show that I can take beautiful photos of landscapes.
People - this is a bit sparse at the moment.
Assignments - maybe some aircraft photos and so on - stuff that I've been paid to do before.
I was thinking of doing the site with a little blurb about me, possibly including the photo from my very first photo assignment ever
- partly so people can see how long I've been at it.
Then I'd have the categories with clickable thumbnails of maybe half a dozen photos under each category
The entire site would be done with tables - nothing fancier than that. I'd make the table lines invisible of course but I'm not going to waste time with fancy html etc. I don't think very many people will choose me because I have a website; I think people will choose me because I'll be in the phone book and because they can see samples of my work on my website. In other words - phone book/business card/flyer/recommendation first, website second.
At the bottom I'd have maybe a list of sample rates and contact details.
Opinions?
