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Old 05-12-2008, 08:52 PM Review my Photography Website
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Frigid Light Photography

I know the gallery2 code doesn't validate, any tips on that?
Any other suggestions/opinions on the site?

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David

(I also know the "About FLM" link produces nothing. I'm working on it.)

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Old 05-12-2008, 09:26 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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Hi David,

All look nice to me - however, although pictures speak thousand words, you need some words - article preferably on your site.

Perhaps, a one sentence description for each photos?

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Old 05-12-2008, 09:40 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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David - I LOVE the design of your gallery. It is just beautiful in its simplicity. The use of whitespace and subtle border for pictures is outstanding. My congratulations on your great-looking site. I don't think you need to change anything, really.
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Old 05-12-2008, 10:09 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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I like simplicity; however it might be to simple. For example when you go to your gallery you don't have any tabs to navigate anywhere else except home.
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Old 05-12-2008, 10:37 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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Thanks for the comments!

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I like simplicity; however it might be to simple. For example when you go to your gallery you don't have any tabs to navigate anywhere else except home.
I'm still working on developing the gallery design and figuring out how the gallery2 system works.
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Old 05-13-2008, 12:06 AM Re: Review my Photography Website
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it looks really good
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Old 05-13-2008, 03:24 AM Re: Review my Photography Website
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it's really good...
but one thing is missing... maybe you should add some comments or just label your pictures...
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Old 05-13-2008, 06:13 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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Content I am still working on, thanks for the comments. ONe thing I just noticed while viewing in IE for the first time since a recent update, the collumns on the right are shifted down to below the large image. Any idea how to fix this or what might be the problem?

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Old 05-13-2008, 06:20 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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At this time i get a page cannot be displayed
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Old 05-14-2008, 04:22 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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Firefox can't find the server at www.frigidlight.com.
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Old 05-14-2008, 09:31 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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What are you trying to achieve with the site; what are your ultimate goals?

You might consider removing the download larger size link, if you'd like to get these into the stock photography market. The watermark on the smaller images is obviously going to be a lot more effective...

I'm looking at one of your images; it's url is http://www.frigidlight.com/gallery/m...serialNumber=4, wrapped up in an area tag. You might want to think about changing that... Probably no matter what you plan to do with your site, you'd like people to look at it, however they can find you? The way your html is coded, you're removing yourself from Google Images. On that note, you'd probably benefit from more meaningful page titles, too, for the individual photo pages.

I like the mouse-over left and right navigation. But it's not very obvious.

These are from northern New England? I'm pretty curious about / interested in geography, myself. I think a lot of people are. You're providing the exif data; you might think about giving a location along the bottom, too, for the curious?

You have a great sense of composition. Most of your photos could do with either more, or less, color, though. It looks like you've converted the Indiana gallery to grayscale. Some of the Lincoln Woods images are calling out for the same treatment; they're practically black and white as it is, but a bit of color changes the viewer's expectations about the whole frame.

This is my favorite of what you've got posted, with this probably playing the second. You seem to do well with the wider, but not quite panoramic, format?
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Old 05-15-2008, 07:39 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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WOW is all i can really say. Such a great looking site with such a simple purpose. Its so simple is really really good. Nothing bad to say about it. Great Job and nice work

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Old 05-15-2008, 09:19 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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I don't like the watermarks over your images.. You cannot enjoy photography that has text all over it. I run a photography section as well.
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Old 05-15-2008, 09:36 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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I'm not really sure what I want for the site right now. I'm not really looking to make any serious money off of it right now, but maybe in the future. I debated over putting the watermarks in, and right now I'm thinking of removing them.

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These are from northern New England? I'm pretty curious about / interested in geography, myself. I think a lot of people are. You're providing the exif data; you might think about giving a location along the bottom, too, for the curious?
I'll add locations to the shots as I upload new ones and work on getting the already uploaded ones location-ed. I was thinking of making a google map wiht the locations of all the images tagged. Would that be a reasonable thing to implement on a site like this?

I am also confused by what you mean with the Area tags, ForrestCroce. I'm using Gallery2 for the gallery section of the site. Do you know how to change this so the images show up in google?

Thanks very much for all the comments.

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Old 05-16-2008, 06:14 AM Re: Review my Photography Website
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The site looks good and its layout is clean and organized. One thing I want to suggest is to add some bright colors to make it look more lively. Try also to add some logo instead of using just a text.
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Old 05-16-2008, 09:01 AM Re: Review my Photography Website
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I don't like the watermarks either. You can still have them but make them smaller or put a javascript code to disable right click of the mouse.
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Old 05-16-2008, 12:20 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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Hi David,

First of all its a beautiful site. Has a distinct blogger feel to it (don't know if thats what you are going for).

Not sure if you know or not but the about.html page is spitting out a nasty 500 error. Might be an idea to use a .htaccess file to make sure all your error pages redirect to a nicer error page that your viewers can then navigate the rest of your site from.

The only other thing is that alot of web users are still on comparitivly slow connections, the front page came out to be 100kb which is a little on the large side. Perhaps think about having a thumbnail and full version of each image on the site, or a web-image version to keep total size down.

Oh, one last thing.... FRIGID LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY is a great name

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Old 05-18-2008, 12:03 AM Re: Review my Photography Website
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thanks for the compliments everyone. I removed the watermarks, figuring that the prints are still available to buy, and if potential viewers were turned off by the watermarks, they were a good thing to get rid of.

And I like the name too.
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Old 05-18-2008, 11:57 AM Re: Review my Photography Website
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Can't reach your website right now, but I visited the site before registrating my account here at webmaster-talk. First of all the name is too hard to remember, but the design is smooth and simple.

Keep up the good work
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Old 05-18-2008, 12:04 PM Re: Review my Photography Website
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I really like the simple layout, it looks good.
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