My new website

Helpful advice I have found too.

http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/12/wordpress-photography-website-templates....

And so it begins!......

I'm in the process of updating my web-site. I use Dreamweaver for the web pages and Lightroom with TTG Simpleviewer Pro to make the galleries.
TTG Simpleviewer Pro makes flash galleries but also makes a HTML gallery in the background so if loaded on a I-pad, I-phone etc it automatically uses the simplified non-flash gallery, very clever!
As I said I'm in the process of updating now so all the galleries haven't been updated yet. The slideshow banner on my homepage was made with TTG Simpleviewer pro then embedded in the page.
Any feedback would be most welcome.

Oh dear! For what its worth, everything loaded fine, no problem waiting for the photos to load properly and Im afraid I didnt notice any wordiness at all, in fact before I read 'some' of the comments I was going to say - add a little personal detail in 'About' - its nice to know where you are coming from and what inspires etc. Its a nice site and since you are obviously already pleasing some enough for them to buy your photos I would honestly go with what pleases you!

Keep it up - good work!

Clare

hello all I would just like to say Matt the web site looks quite good

but as I've been away quite a bit I would like to know why the split??

I will be joining your new site and will sign up as Pink again as a lot of people know me as pink.

James

if it isn't too simple / plain have you considered weebly ? - it is very easy indeed to use - all drag and drop.

I like sites that are very clear, simple, straightforward. Nice clean , uncluttered interface and look for me every time.

My site, below, is on weebly - it also makes it easy to share via twitter and facebook.

hope you find something/platform that is good fro you and gets enough favourable feedback to make you happy too.

I think Clare makes a good point - like it or not, Matt's site had his personal stamp on it; and of course he should retain that going forward, rather than listen too hard to our personal preferences about websites and marketing. After all it's Matt's creativity which attracts his clients to his work.

Very nice website. Bold background, simple, really nice photos too.

The split, sorry, not quite sure what you mean.

Thanks for the positive input, but I am taking on board all these comments and they have really helped me to open up to what potential a website made properly can have. I don't won't to destroy my photos by putting them onto a site that lacks some type of professionalism. Concluding this post I have looked into the situation and have deided that I need to have a site that functions well, can support large clean images, maintains my simple ideas of advertising and contains all necessary codes, html, bla bla bla, that I have not idea about. So taking suggestions, going to buy a template through Wordpress. This is the template;

http://themeforest.net/item/king-size-fullscreen-background-wordpress-theme/1662...

Would love to know what people think about it, ie functionality, presentation, problems navigating with iPad, iPhones and other devices, etc.

Cheers

Well Matt I like the overall look, it is different, some work has gone into it that's for sure- I dont think it quite works for a photo site though, A little too much going on around the images.

Your use of language is a personal thing- there are people who will like it and those that perhaps find it pretentious- for me the photos speak for themsleves.

ChrisA really did give it to you both barrels eh!?

I'm sure there are no hard feelings , we've all had a glass of wine and had some moments of "clarity".

I think the most revealing comment you made is "I am quite happy with it"

So I say - good for you.

I once set up a web site thruogh WIX. I have since abandoned it as it was too fussy for my taste. Yes it is slow and yes it can be a bit painful to navigate; but honestly, having just read a few of the negative comments made on this web site, I am thoroughly disgusted by the rude - not to mention patronising - responses from so called 'Pro Masters' and others. I thought web sites like this one were supposed to be places where like minded poeple could support each other in their common interest: phoyography. You had to click tice did you? Gee that must have been really tiring for you all. How did you all manage to survive? By all means give straight critism but at least give the person credit for trying to get their stuff out there for people to see. If you are all so well informed about these things, why not suggest other avenues or ways of making the images and poetry better seen and read.

Thanks for the support. I do agree on what you are saying. Sometimes there are many users on this site that just go too far. Its a shame. Currently abboning WIX and moving onto a Zenfolio template and premium package, thanks to Wayne who has kindly mentioned this avenue to me.

As a web designer in a past life having to click more than twice to reach content is a huge turn off.

I have just changed the theme to my WordPress site. Time taken about 5 mins. Upload theme text and leave...

Thought I'd open/close this old forum of mine with my new website. It is still a work in progress. Have a lot of data etc to input in, but you can get the idea. I eventually bit the bullet and paid for website through zenfolio. Using one of their templates really helped to get me started off. Have a look. Any comments greatly appreciated as always.

http://www.mattbishopphotography.com/