Updated my site

I got tired of the same old look and I've been shifting focus. I really shouldn't pass myself off as a wedding shooter when I am not really one. I shoot weddings but I don't actively pursue clients. I like being the celebrity second shooter that flew in from Phloston Paradise instead. (it's a joke)

So I inverted it, used a real gallery plug in for Lightroom and ditched Porta. SlideShowPro it is. Works hot. The blog CSS took forever to skin. I will not let it get stale this time. Rotate images more on the html and TRY to update my galleries.

The galleries are a bit weak right now but you all know what it's like to sit in Lightroom and cycle through keywords wondering if it's a good presentable shot.

Any critiques/suggestions from you? Some friends have piped up and I've balanced out their suggestions. What did I miss?

Thx Hoff, Corgi, Guju.

Looks good Jason. I have always considered "analogue" the old fashioned spelling instead on "analog". FWIW, with the reference to digital and the 1010101 background, I would probably use the more modern spelling.

And I am glad the Elmo picture survived the upgrade.

Overall, nice clean look - I like it.

It's actually not modern, it's just good ole' proper Canadian spelling. Like dialogue, programme, colour etc. Elmo made me do it.

Overall I like it as well, I've got a few things I noticed:

-When I view the galleries, I see a white bar at the top and I can't see the controls/other photos at the bottom unless I scroll down. This kinda threw me for a loop the first time I clicked your gallery because I spent 30 seconds trying to figure out if it was going to automatically advance, if I had to click the photo, or if there was only one photo before I realized there was some space I could scroll down to.

-Your galleries load in the same window (fine) and your about me/contact both open in new windows. Your blog loads in the same window. I'm pretty sure you did it this way on purpose, just make sure thats what you want.

-Overall the gallery controls are fairly awkward. The symbols aren't extremely easy to figure out and I just am not that big a fan of it overall.

-I really like your site design and your photos though, so overall I like the site, just pointing out a few things.

Nice site, Jason. Just one thing, on my 1280 resolution Apple laptop the window requires a horizontal scrollbar, which isn't much fun.
Nice to have the smiling image on the bio too But I'm not a fan of telling your bio in the third person, I'd rather have "my" instead of "his". It just sounds better.

Wordpress doesn't allow java popup. I have to find a way to keep the blog loaded and just get the form submittal up. Not fun. The front end popups are fine.

Slappy, the site is optimized for 1280 and higher. And I'm still trying to get the SlideShowPro swf file to go to the top so there is no scroll at 1280. I might have it done tonight. It's little things....

EDIT** found the code and fixed it for 1280. Margin =50. Bah.

Thanks!

Anke wrote in post #5290619
But I'm not a fan of telling your bio in the third person, I'd rather have "my" instead of "his". It just sounds better.

I laboured over this for a long time. It's the norm with photographer sites from what I've seen so I went with the school of fish. I hate bios btw.

**EDIT - If anyone needs to do a javascript popup in wordpress for email form submittal, let me know. I figured out how to do it.

cosworth wrote in post #5290626
I laboured over this for a long time. It's the norm with photographer sites from what I've seen so I went with the school of fish. I hate bios btw.

**EDIT - If anyone needs to do a javascript popup in wordpress for email form submittal, let me know. I figured out how to do it.

Maybe the nitpick regarding the bio could be resolved by changing the link from "my bio" to simply "bio" or something else consistent with a third-person approach. Third person has its perks --- it makes the site appear professionally designed for you rather than by you.

Very nice site!

Good call corgi. done.

slappy sam wrote in post #5290542
-Your galleries load in the same window (fine) and your about me/contact both open in new windows. Your blog loads in the same window. I'm pretty sure you did it this way on purpose, just make sure thats what you want.

I think the child windows are fine the way you've done them. They are only large enough to contain the added data and their size is locked, so it's clear the move was deliberate. If you could make them non-navigable that would be a plus. I've not written anything taking into account IE7 (which is what I'm viewing the site with), so you may have already done this for other browsers.

Again, this is pretty dang nitpicky, and should be a good sign that the site is in good order.

You need to fix the gallery link (The little icon on the bottom left of the slideshow.) When you are in a gallery and you click on it, it should show all of your gallery thumbnails and description, but it only shows the gallery you are in and the thumbnail is really small.

If you dont want to set up that component, then just remove that icon so people dont click on it.

I would also make the overall size of the SSP pages smaller so people dont have to scroll. They dont need to be that big, especially when your images don't take up that much space.

1280 is the resolution that over %75 of people that view my site use. So I think the size is pretty modern. They need to be that size to accommodate portrait size. The size may look wasted but it's used.

800x600 is long dead.