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FINALLY starting to build a real photo website for myself...

I know you do photography as a pro, so if you haven't already, buy the domain names for victorlin.com and victorlinphotography.com as well just to cover your bases. Lots of squatters and sometimes they park questionable content onto these blank pages hoping to get a few ad hits.

I think you should move the picture with the camera, the one with the word "landscape" on it as your banner. The camera in that picture is the main focus of your web site. I like the barrenness of it and the eyes are naturally drawn to the subject, which is the camera and photography in general.

Love the photo in the contact page. The title on the top of the web browser (not the web page, but the browser app) shows up as "Andrew Gransden Photography | Contact" so maybe you need to edit that with your own name.

Victor Lin Photography is contemporary photography of the very highest standard. His photographs capture the essence of the moment whether it be one of nature's wonderlands, human metropoleis, or one's home.
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Remove the "very" in the first sentence. Add in "one" in the second sentence. Metropolises instead of metropoleis, less confusion that way.

Victor Lin Photography is contemporary photography of the highest standard. His photographs capture the essence of the moment whether it be one of nature's wonderlands, human metropolises, or one's home.
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One other thing is to keep the text blurbs in the photos consistent. Try not to move them around in the different pages. I'd keep them in the lower left side like you have on the front page. Specifically the text in the real estate section's banner.
 
Originally posted by: akugami
I know you do photography as a pro, so if you haven't already, buy the domain names for victorlin.com and victorlinphotography.com as well just to cover your bases. Lots of squatters and sometimes they park questionable content onto these blank pages hoping to get a few ad hits.

I think you should move the picture with the camera, the one with the word "landscape" on it as your banner. The camera in that picture is the main focus of your web site. I like the barrenness of it and the eyes are naturally drawn to the subject, which is the camera and photography in general.

Love the photo in the contact page. The title on the top of the web browser (not the web page, but the browser app) shows up as "Andrew Gransden Photography | Contact" so maybe you need to edit that with your own name.

Victor Lin Photography is contemporary photography of the very highest standard. His photographs capture the essence of the moment whether it be one of nature's wonderlands, human metropoleis, or one's home.
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Remove the "very" in the first sentence. Add in "one" in the second sentence. Metropolises instead of metropoleis, less confusion that way.

Victor Lin Photography is contemporary photography of the highest standard. His photographs capture the essence of the moment whether it be one of nature's wonderlands, human metropolises, or one's home.
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One other thing is to keep the text blurbs in the photos consistent. Try not to move them around in the different pages. I'd keep them in the lower left side like you have on the front page. Specifically the text in the real estate section's banner.
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Changed. Now there shouldn't be any more dead links. The real estate section should be ok for now. The landscape and cityscape sections are open but under construction.

1. Need to make the gallery better in the real estate portfolio.
2. Need to figure out this email form. On the template I used, the php contact form had action="contact.php#form". Uhhh... what? Shouldn't the action= something like mailer.php? It linked back to itself... and there's no PHP code on the page...
 
Originally posted by: randomlinh
why kill smugmug? I say you integrate them with this. Smugmug Pro is around the corner too, so it might prove to be useful.
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I'll look into the integration.
 
Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Originally posted by: randomlinh
why kill smugmug? I say you integrate them with this. Smugmug Pro is around the corner too, so it might prove to be useful.
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I'll look into the integration.
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my comment mostly stands if you want to give clients private access to galleries and such.. easier to manage. and more importantly, if you want them to purchase prints. It's a costly venture yearly, but I really like the smugmug guys.

If this is purely portfolio stuff, smugmug probably is overkill/not really matching.
 
I like it.

But I am a sucker for wanting no vertical scrolling on a home page. I think I would re-package, re-size all images to eliminate that.

And aren't you using Nikon now?

Edit: I am using a 19" LCD running 1280x1024.
 
also seems like you have too many menus in the real estate home page. consider a drop down menu system to consolidate the sub menus under the three main categories.
 
One other thing, on the front page, change "highest standard" to "highest standards" which should make it sound just a tad better. You're holding yourself up to multiple standards rather than just one standard. 🙂

Also, consider cropping the image with the camera & tripod to make the camera and tripod just a tad larger.
 
I can only hope that I can acquire the business acumen and the street smarts to convert what used to be a passionate hobby into a passionate business.
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This statement doesn't exude much confidence. It screams "I am a rookie".

Beyond that "street smarts" has little or no translation to anything of value in the client's eyes.

If you are sending clients to this site.. you really need to change your whole "passion" statement.

Treat it like it is... a business.

 
Excellent start! I would suggest keeping the banner picture for each section the same size, they all vary and can get frustrating when clicking through to different sections. Have you thought about doing a flash based website? Its not that difficult to learn for building just a basic website such as yours.
 
You should really get into the wedding photography business as well if you wanna make some real money. What those guys get to charge ($2000+) for one or two days of pictures and a couple of days of post-processing astounds me!
 
It's a great start, but your navigation isn't that intuitive. Why are the triangles pointing down? It seems like they should be pointing up. They could indicate that the content below belongs to the indicated section, but you should use color delineate the sections. The same goes for the subnavigation. It just seems to float there, there is no visual connection to what main section it is supposed to be part of. I think you should reconsider how the main navigation, the subnavigation, and content relate to each other.

Maybe get rid of the arrows completely and use an underline instead, or a different color text? I think the best way may be to put a bold color band behind the main navigation, then a tint of that color as the subnav, so that they look related to each other. Heck if you wanted to keep to the monochromatic theme, you could make the band behind the main nav black, and the subnav gray.....Just a thought.
 
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