New Website

I haven't posted much on this forum lately because I have been focusing on getting my site together and business in order. With that said I just launched my website, please check it out and give me some feedback.

http://Brian-Palmer.net

I'm always willing to second shoot.

Thanks,
Brian Palmer

I'm no expert but from a 'man-in-the-street' or should I say 'woman-on-the-net' point of view I found it great...the shots were cool and loaded really quickly, I hate waiting for thumbnails to load and usually clik out of a website if they seem to be taking longer than a nano second! It was concise, to the point and you both seem really warm and friendly.
Did you pay a professional or was it a DIY web builder?? ( I'm only asking because I want to set something up for my pet photography business here in the UK and am having nightmares getting to grips with finding a decent host and user friendly web builder!!)
I hope it brings you plenty of business

Nice portfolio and classy site... I like your "tidbits about us" part... it adds a nice personal touch which I think is important with wedding photography.

rox1e6 wrote in post #8362231
I'm no expert but from a 'man-in-the-street' or should I say 'woman-on-the-net' point of view I found it great...the shots were cool and loaded really quickly, I hate waiting for thumbnails to load and usually clik out of a website if they seem to be taking longer than a nano second! It was concise, to the point and you both seem really warm and friendly.
Did you pay a professional or was it a DIY web builder?? ( I'm only asking because I want to set something up for my pet photography business here in the UK and am having nightmares getting to grips with finding a decent host and user friendly web builder!!)
I hope it brings you plenty of business

Thank you for the feedback Rox,
I actually bought a template and customized myself. Took about a month to get things the way I like them, resize images load them, move them around, color schemes, and setting up hosting, email addresses, ect.

I got the template from http://www.flashpalett​e.com/ , super easy to customize and upload images, and the price is nice! If you decide to get one and need any help let me know.
Brian

Looks great, colors, set up, music...good job!

Tommy wrote in post #8362243
Nice portfolio and classy site... I like your "tidbits about us" part... it adds a nice personal touch which I think is important with wedding photography.

Thanks Tommy,
originally, the whole About Us page gave us the most headaches, once we stopped thinking about it so hard the words started flowing.

Brian

deemarie wrote in post #8362507
Looks great, colors, set up, music...good job!

thank you DeeMarie! We got lucky with having an awesome designer hook us up on the logo and we just went from there.

Brian

That logo is kick-ass!

Thanks John, What can I say, I agree! but I'm bias...

everything looks great!

IMHO - I would have picked a different URL - there are too many Brian Palmer's with websites and not many url's use hyphen.

At the very least I would have tried to pick a URL where your could control the:

.com
.net
.org

The blue links at the top left of the home page are a little small/dark, hard to read (or maybe i need glasses :P)
Other than that, it's a nice site

Good job

Palladium wrote in post #8376941
IMHO - I would have picked a different URL - there are too many Brian Palmer's with websites and not many url's use hyphen.

At the very least I would have tried to pick a URL where your could control the:

.com
.net
.org

I actually agree. it sucks having such a common name. My site had been completed for some time I was just trying to get an angle on the URL. We are still looking at options for the URL, that's for the suggestion on controlling the .net and .org

benesotor wrote in post #8377235
The blue links at the top left of the home page are a little small/dark, hard to read (or maybe i need glasses :P)
Other than that, it's a nice site

thanks, i'll look at the code and see about increasing the size and how that would look.