Wondering if you still want a website for the business. I was thinking of working on it for part of my senior thesis project (or all of it if the teacher gives the green light). Cheers.The reply:
That sounds like a great idea to me man. Give me a call or email me with what you need from me to get going etc.He sent me links to websites he liked.
flometrics.com
benhulse.com
The rest of the day I spent researching web designs for my portfolio site. The biggest conclusion from all this time researching was WordPress. I played with the idea of using a Content Management System from various different sites such as
- cargocollective.com // but their lack of Search Engine Optimization and sharing tools for social sites outweighed their awesome design templates
- carbonmade.com // but I didn't like the designs and also no sharing tools
- livebooks.com // but I didn't want to pay for it
- photoshelter.com // as my works are primarily photography but decided I couldn't pay for it even though it has such the most amazing tools for images and would also have to figure out something for web based design.
- WordPress // because it is a CMS that is widely used and can transfer my learning of this system to potential client work. The New York Times Lense Blog sealed the deal and was also heavily influenced by the website of Anton Kusters in his portfolio site and magazine BURN.
melina-haase.de // cool home page
rickcollinsphotography.com
blakejorgenson.com
sterlinglorence.com
thepassionatephotographer.blogspot.com
art-dept.com
christianwitkin.com
artandcommerce.com
stretchphotography.com
davewalshphoto.com
olsonfarlow.com
aaronjoelsantos.com
quinnmattingly.com
The biggest thing about most of these sites that threw me off was the spacing between words and images, how small the fonts where, how terrible some of the slideshows where. So a long rant on slideshows:
- Small thumbnails of pictures on the bottom or side of a slideshow which let you choose an image are useless as the picture is too small to be seen and decide if you actually want to see it. It is just taking up space.
- Put how many pictures you are going to show in a particular slideshow so the user knows what they are dealing with as well as what number picture I am looking at within that slideshow.
- Allow some kind of full screen integration to see the images!!!!!!!!!
- Put forward and back bottons on or beside of the image instead of below
- Hate, hate, hate it when a whole new HTML page is created for each image especially when you must scroll down for the next button and the page jumps up every time you click for the next image, create a dynamic site with php or java.
- Really enjoy the pop out flash images, if only they went over the browser window and filled the whole screen
- Must have large fonts
- Design based on 3rds
- Most of all it is overwhelming when photographers or designers have so many choices on a drop down menu for all their work
- Though for some reason I didn't feel overwhelmed with a static list
- Sometimes there was too much content on the site
- Ask permission to go full screen
- Could just do a video format reel of my pictures that people could easily download and distribute
- Really like the design of Adobe Bridge
- In that vein art + commerce option of view all images and can see the thumbnails at a reasonable size was ok.
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