ReDesigned my Website

Hello,

I redesigned my website yesterday and I would like to share it. C&C are welcome!

Still choosing photos for the galleries...

http://www.angelsotoph​otography.com

Thanks!!!

Okay for I'm going to say I really loved some of your photos, great work. Also overall I do like the website overall.

--I'd like to see the home page slide show go through more images in less time, the slow fade is nice though.

--On my monitor I have to scroll down a tiny bit which I'm not keen on, my resolution is 1440x900. Forgive me if those numbers are wrong but they should be close enough for you to know what I'm on about.

--I was worried when I saw you have a "my walkarounds" gallery, I was like oh no.. snapshots that will drag everything else down... But they were good too so it's not a problem, maybe a more professional name for the gallery?

--In the portfolio section I couldn't go back to the thumbnails or pause the slide show which I'm not that keen on, mostly the not being able to stop the slide show.
I would maybe change the news section to a blog, I dunno. Maybe that's me being super picky. Blog just sounds better to me.

--One other tiny little picky thing I forgot, when you hover over the slide show on the home page the text "slideshow" comes up, I would ditch it.

I know there's some seriously minor stuff in there, most of it is but overall it's a great site in my opinion so it's mostly minor tweaking it needs. And obviously this is all subjective, others might and probably won't agree with me. Also did you do the gallery stuff your self because the way it's set up is really cool.

CallumPhoto wrote in post #11607315
Okay for I'm going to say I really loved some of your photos, great work. Also overall I do like the website overall.

--I'd like to see the home page slide show go through more images in less time, the slow fade is nice though.

--On my monitor I have to scroll down a tiny bit which I'm not keen on, my resolution is 1440x900. Forgive me if those numbers are wrong but they should be close enough for you to know what I'm on about.

--I was worried when I saw you have a "my walkarounds" gallery, I was like oh no.. snapshots that will drag everything else down... But they were good too so it's not a problem, maybe a more professional name for the gallery?

--In the portfolio section I couldn't go back to the thumbnails or pause the slide show which I'm not that keen on, mostly the not being able to stop the slide show.
I would maybe change the news section to a blog, I dunno. Maybe that's me being super picky. Blog just sounds better to me.

--One other tiny little picky thing I forgot, when you hover over the slide show on the home page the text "slideshow" comes up, I would ditch it.

I know there's some seriously minor stuff in there, most of it is but overall it's a great site in my opinion so it's mostly minor tweaking it needs. And obviously this is all subjective, others might and probably won't agree with me. Also did you do the gallery stuff your self because the way it's set up is really cool.

Thank you very much for your comments...

--I will add more photos in the frontpage slideshow.. I was thinking the same thing too. √check

--My monitor resolution is 1440x900 too and yes, I have to scroll a little bit too. I was going to change that but I like to have big photos to display.

--You are right.. I think I can change that gallery's name to something like... "My Favorites" or ""

--Yes, it's kind of confusing but if you move your mouse to the upper left corner of the photo you will see a small menu where you can pause, see the thumbnails or go to another gallery. I found this flash gallery on the web so I'm stuck with the defaults in it.

-- You're right... the news section is better to name it blog or have a blog in there. I would look and see what options I have to install a blog in there. Maybe WordPress or something like that. Can you recommend one?

-- Thanks, I now changed the title in the frontpage's slideshow... cool!!!

Like I said... thanks for your comments.. They helped a lot. I will keep doing few tweaks to make the webpage better and better.

Hopefully I'm not coming across as a douche, I actually do really like your site haha and your photography too but yeah. Just chucking out some potential changes. I should have done a better job with what I said about the front page slide show, I really meant I'd like to see it spend less time on each image. Sorry about that but more images isnt a problem (though my website has very few).

Yeah I get where your coming from about you like to have big images, smaller images/no scroll or bigger images/maybe scroll are both good options.

Yeah, Personal, Favourites, anything like that would do I recon. Again a pretty minor detail.

Oops, I guess that was operator error in the portfolio there.

With the news section, it already looks kinda like a blog to me. But I imagine using wordpress would be easier to update than what you've got set up there (correct me if I'm wrong). If you want check out my blog, it's run through wordpress. There's plenty of themes so if you spend a little time modifying one you like you can get it to fit in with your website which was what my goal was. I really, really like wordpress. It's so easy and so good and free!

Thanks.... I installed the Wordpress in my page and yes, it's better that way. Thanks

Finally got my blog like I wanted...

Cool, looks pretty good. How are you liking wordpress?

CallumPhoto wrote in post #11613538
Cool, looks pretty good. How are you liking wordpress?

It's great... I can make any modification I want. Thanks for the advise!