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Ray Still
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p.1 #1 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Got my first website online today. I really have to thank FM regular Keith Kapple for taking the time and designing the site for me and putting up with my ignorance when it comes to web design.

Suggestions, Feedback on the best way to design Galleries would greatly be appreciated as of right now I just have one main gallery but want to add and have sub galleries as well any input is appreciated.

Thanks for taking time to look and Thanks again to Keith Kapple for his great work here.

Ray Still

http://northweststillphotography.com/

Nov 04, 2009 at 10:31 PM

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p.1 #2 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

I like it!

Clean looking, easy to use, simple. Perfect.

If anything I might suggest having larger images in your gallery... They seem pretty small, but I am looking at them on a 24" monitor.

Nice site though!

Tim

Nov 04, 2009 at 10:43 PM

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p.1 #3 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Hi Ray, looks good to me, all seems to be working well...I recognise a few of those images! I look forward to watching it develop
cheers Andrew

PS how much to come over and photograph our cat?!!

Nov 04, 2009 at 10:49 PM

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p.1 #4 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

I'm a complete amateur but the website looks good to me- I like that it's relatively simple, and browsing the gallery worked well for me. I really enjoyed seeing all the great images you have there.

I'm ignorant about web design myself so I can't help you on sub-gallery design, but I have a couple of small suggestions:

I found the slideshow on your main page just a little bit fast (I felt like I didn't have enough time to take in each image before it had moved on).

And I'm probably being a bit of a stickler about this, but on your "Services" page, I feel like you need to reformat your paragrapsh (since the first sentence of the 2nd paragraph is not about pet portraits, it seems like it belongs in the first paragraph).

Otherwise, the website seems really nice. Good luck!
best,
k

Nov 04, 2009 at 10:52 PM

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p.1 #5 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Hello Ray, yep, uncluttered and intuitive to use. Good work. I agree with Tim that slightly larger images wouldn't hurt.

For image management I use Gallery. It's shareware, and most web hosts will install it for you.

http://gallery.menalto.com

Here's a link to my instance:

www.lightechos.com/gallery2

Let me know if you have questions.

hugh

Nov 04, 2009 at 10:53 PM

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p.1 #6 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Hello Ray, you have some beautiful collections there. I also thought about the size of the images s. A slightly larger images make them much easier to sell?

Wonderful gallery and website.

Steve

Nov 04, 2009 at 11:09 PM

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p.1 #7 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Overall is pretty good.
My nitpick, when i am looking your pics, thumbnails are still showing around photos.
Maybe make pics a little bigger to cover thumbnails ?

You have some great shots.

Nov 04, 2009 at 11:12 PM

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p.1 #8 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Cool Site Ray. Very clean, colorful and well organized. Now fill that sucker with images!

Nov 05, 2009 at 12:01 AM

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p.1 #9 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Thanks guys I appreciate the feedback

Ray Still

Nov 05, 2009 at 08:17 AM

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p.1 #10 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Ray, nice website, but the images are very small.

Nov 05, 2009 at 08:24 AM

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p.1 #11 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Ray, very nice. Funny I was thinking the same thing about the images needing to be bigger while I was viewing them. Looks like a good start to a fine business endeavor. Rick

Nov 06, 2009 at 05:11 AM

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p.1 #12 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

When developing a web site one must keep in mind who is going to be the audience. If you were to view this on a typical uncalibrated smallish monitor your site would work nicely. But here, with this crowd, with their mega screens, size matters

No offense guys.
Small images do protect against rip=off, but watermarks can help keep those shots in the family.
So, having said that, with my kick-ass hugh screen, make the images bigger and slow down the slide show by a second or two..

Nov 06, 2009 at 05:50 AM

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p.1 #13 · First Website Feedback Appreciated

Excellent! Very nice and simple, and easy to navigate. Good work.

Barry

Nov 06, 2009 at 01:52 PM


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