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CarminaF
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p.1 #1 · My New Blu Website


Mostly new. I've been working on it for a couple weeks.

http://www.carlafedje.com

Emmanuel template - got it on sale

This site has a LOT of bugs. The people at Blu seem to have selective hearing, and have not been the best about fixing things. Freezing galleries, dead links, mysteriously low res images, analytics not working, images caching and opening behind the gallery (visibly), or gallery images opening up full screen for no reason. A friend of mine is a flash wizard and is going to tinker and customize it for me. I am lucky, don't know what I'd do without him!

I love it in spite of the bugs. I've booked 4 weddings since I put it up. I don't think its a co-incidence!

Any feedback is welcome I have not added my 'about me' or any kind of marketing spiel yet. I've been agonizing over it!

Carla

(oh and ps, this site redo is pretty much a direct reply to the scathing criticisms of my last site. You guys were right. The old site made me look, very, very bad.)


Edited on Aug 30, 2008 at 05:08 PM



Aug 30, 2008 at 04:32 PM
Marcel VanEerd
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p.1 #2 · My New Blu Website


Looking good. I do have a question: I've noticed on flash galleries I've created ( some on my site, others just for testing, not uploaded ) that the quality of the images displayed seems to be directly related to the kind of resizing the gallery software applies. Is it possible that your images too are suffering from a bad / not so great re-sizing that results in fuzzier looking shots? I'd be interested to learn if you can compare your images on your site to what's on your drive, and if you see a loss in sharpness.

Congrats on the new bookings - your work is definitely worth it!



Aug 30, 2008 at 07:47 PM
CarminaF
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p.1 #3 · My New Blu Website


Thanks Marcel.

The fuzzy images are on the blog and details pages. I just uploaded a different image to the details page, and it works. Mysterio. The gallery images are fine, thank goodness!




Aug 30, 2008 at 10:13 PM
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p.1 #4 · My New Blu Website


Carmin, Good choice on the template. I hope you're not hosting with Blu though.

btw, I'm not sure if you're friend will be able to edit anything with your template. Blu doesn't give you the necessary flash files just for that very reason (unless they've changed their policy).

/asim



Aug 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM
CarminaF
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p.1 #5 · My New Blu Website


Thank You asimsoofi - I did not host through Blu.

He said its a pain in the ass, but stuff can be fixed. He has already changed the splash page for me. Much nicer than what blu had.

I cannot wait for it to be fully functional.




Aug 30, 2008 at 11:56 PM





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