Website Review and Suggestions

**photographyguy** · 07-07-2010, 02:59 AM

Please provide some feedback on my site. any suggestions or tips will be greatly appreciated. thanks.

How to Photography

**SiberForum** · 07-07-2010, 04:17 AM

Nice web site. I'm not professional in web design. But I would leave everything.

**ConnectiveWeb** · 07-07-2010, 04:32 AM

Nice theme. Good amount of content. Maybe work on your branding a bit. Design a nice logo to start with. Looks good though!

**NickH** · 07-07-2010, 08:37 AM

good site, the title seems slightly disjointed but thats your choice with branding

i personally dont like tag clouds

but together the design looks really good and the colours work well together and doesnt cause confusion

**photographyguy** · 07-07-2010, 10:55 AM

Thanks for the feedback. NickH, are you talking about the title "how to photography" seems disjointed?

**Shadrach** · 07-07-2010, 11:30 AM

I think you should turn the 'Beginners' section of your site into a sign up page for an email based beginner's photography course. Create 5 or 7 emails with one piece of advice that they can go out and practice.

If you do that you've established a relationship by getting their contact info which is good for you and also given them some great advice which is good for them. Later I would work on developing a membership site that you can use to offer coaching via videos and articles for a monthly membership fee. You could begin building a qualified list of prospects by giving them a taste with a series of 5 to 7 emails. It would go a long ways to establishing yourself as an expert and someone with much more to teach.

Even if you didn't go the coaching route, getting their contact info in exchange for the series of emails would be worth it.

**hiyatran** · 07-07-2010, 12:53 PM

site looks good. You should have a gallery section, where you can show off some of your or other people's photograph work. Also, when I select on the menu, "real photography" the click on anyone of the image, it just displays the image itself. The image looks very plain cause have only image and white background.

**photographyguy** · 07-07-2010, 01:34 PM

i should make the images go the articles as well instead of showing that image with a white background would be better?

**zomex** · 07-07-2010, 05:23 PM

Your site is very nice and professional looking. I also like the idea of adding a gallery where your customers can submit their photos. You could also pick one photo from the gallery and feature it in your newsletter and/or home page.

May I ask how you made the Amazon store? Is it a plugin or did you use their affiliate tools? I have a blog that could greatly benefit from that

Thanks,
Jack

**photographyguy** · 07-07-2010, 05:42 PM

Thanks zomex. About amazon store, i created that store in the affiliate amazon site and added that to my page in an iframe so it can stay within my site and can scroll all the way down if there are lot of comments.

I also fully customized the original template to fit my needs

**chrishirst** · 07-07-2010, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by photographyguy

Thanks for the feedback. NickH, are you talking about the title "how to photography" seems disjointed?

Because it is NOT grammatically correct.

"Photgraphy -A How To"

would be better

Now if it was a photography section of a larger "how to" site that covered many topics How To - Photography would be perfectly ok

so

How To - Photography
How To - Pig Breeding

And so on.

**photographyguy** · 07-07-2010, 07:00 PM

I admit, it is not grammatically correct. Reason why i chose was because on this keyword "how to photography" there are lots of searches in google per month.

so to make it look correct, on my website, should i put a dash in the tite? would it be okay after that? so Instead of "How to Photography", it will be "How to - Photography" ?

so basically i am concentrating on only one niche which is only photography.

**chrishirst** · 09:05 AM

Yep make grammatically correct

use a hyphen (-) a colon (: ) pipe (|) maybe an exclamation mark

How To! Photography.

SE Bots are NOT your target audience People are!

**photographyguy** · 07-07-2010, 07:30 PM

awesome. so i am deciding between : and !

Help me out

any effects on user or UI by using either?

**photographyguy** · 07-07-2010, 08:23 PM

i saw amazon forum had the same name. how to photography

http://www.amazon.com/tag/how%20to%2...016948-7103755

**chrishirst** · 07-10-2010, 03:54 PM

That's a USER Created page and it just means their grammar wasn't brilliant either.

**chrishirst** · 07-10-2010, 03:59 PM

It's one thing trying to match search terms exactly and a whole different ball game having things looking "odd".

Using punctuation in the titles means you can match terms and NOT look odd. Search engines ignore most punctuation marks, even in quoted phrases.

**moonswamp** · 07-10-2010, 10:09 PM

OK,here's my problem with your site: it looks OK with firefox, but your topmenu was screwed up when I load it with IE(IE7),

and with the IEtester, this same problem there with all the IE6-7 version~~~ IE8 is OK

I think you should check it out,~~~~

**photographyguy** · 07-11-2010, 03:09 PM

Thanks. yeah menu is scewing up in IE7. i will take a look.

**synthesis** · 07-11-2010, 07:09 PM

Nice theme, but I agree with some of the people up here, make your own logo instead of the text at the top make it stand out more!

Easy to do as well just use your <h1> heading and have a background-image and use the text incendent in case the browser fails to load the image