www.lamonicaproductions.com. bash away. please contact peronal e-mail addy listed or else my producer wil get the e-mail and she has a short fuse for that. Good thread. Thanks for your comments. -ml
Wow that is some of the best, most original flash work ive ever seen!! Might have to call that guy to get him to do my website when i become rich and famous.
jason roehner wrote:
Holy crap, two of my now-favorite photo sites, thanks for the recommendations medialedger.
No prob - I'm just a very amateur photographer, but web design is what I do professionally. There are a lot of great photography portfolio sites out there - those are two of my favorites.
There is a splash page, but it's only a single anim and you don't need to wait for it.
Navigation IMO is simple, and no broken links. Done mostly by hand.
I can't help but wonder how much business you might be losing because of the need to enable the "referrer." I evidently don't have it enabled, because I can't see your photos, and frankly, I'm not going to bother.
I'd bet you have potential customers who say the same thing.
I think I know more about web design than I do about photography at the moment. I don't believe you can rule out the use of Flash. More recently, Flash files as small as 30K have been created to handle photos which can now be loaded as .jpg files from a folder. If it's done right, downloading photos in Flash does not take any longer than downloading from an HTML page. And who crops all their photos to exactly 640x480 anyway?
This is a project that I have been working on. I know the thumbnails are too small and I am still working on the code. But all I do is drop new photos into a folder and update a page in Notepad with the name of the file and its dimensions. It doesn't get any easier than that.
Wow, James, i really like your design and how everything is centralized/moves dynamically around the image. It really gives good focus on the pictures themselves!
Couple suggestions. If there was a way you could pre-load the images so you dont have to wait for each picture to load as you click on its thumbnail. Also i would shorten the white bursting that happens once the photo has been loaded, as i noticed that the tag that follows the mouse lags a bit until that white bursting has finished its cycle. (on my powerbook, at least)
It changed a lot since the beginning:
- no more flash
- simple menu structure
- no extra windows open (unless the javascript to see an individual foto in large format)
- no more fancy colors. Pics go best with a white or black background.
I can't help but wonder how much business you might be losing because of the need to enable the "referrer." I evidently don't have it enabled, because I can't see your photos, and frankly, I'm not going to bother.
I'd bet you have potential customers who say the same thing.
Just my 2 cents.
Don
Don, et. al,
I would like for you to view a small demonstration I have put together on my webserver regarding the security of my pages, and the percieved security you think you have in your web browser.
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The page will only be online for 2 days. Only those reading this thread will know that it's there.
While creating this page, I did find it may be possible to use cookies, but those would have to be enabled as well. Search engines and search strings were the only valid reasons I saw to hide your referrer.
I don't mean to offend. Please, anyone, PM me if you want to discuss further.
Best regards,
Edward
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