Website needs an update.

[DamianBPhoto]

Hi all,

I am pretty bored of my website now and I need some inspiration to get me going. I've looked through Google and other resource portals but either, all the websites are built with flash or not stylistic enough with css. So can anyone recommend some good photographer websites to look at that are built on css?

[4hero]

should keep you going a wee while

http://www.harlanerskine.com
http://www.hautstyle.co.uk/
http://www.inkbutter.com/
http://www.angusrshamal.com
http://www.gaapstudio.pl/
http://www.altblog.be/
http://www.aaron.storry.co.uk/
http://www.krop.com/brennanharvey/

also check out smashing magazine, some great stuff on there

[rottie102]

IMO Simple but Wow, just WOW.
http://www.tonychu.com/

[d1d215]

oohh !! hate those left-right scrolls. why are they so popular ? because it looks like a portfolio book ? so hard to use them .

[neilr]

To be fair, scrolling a web page left to right or, right to left (should you get crazy) isn't really that hard is it.

[AndWhyNot]

rottie102 said:

IMO Simple but Wow, just WOW.
http://www.tonychu.com/

Not my cup of tea design wise or photographically.

Damian, have a search back through this section I think there's a thread about inspiration/ ideas/ portfolios that lists lots of top automotive photographers incl a few off here.

[d1d215]

neilr said:

To be fair, scrolling a web page left to right or, right to left (should you get crazy) isn't really that hard is it.

well it's not killing me , just means that I needs to use my other arm as well (mousepad) so that's leaving my comfort zone !

[4hero]

d1d215 said:

neilr said:

To be fair, scrolling a web page left to right or, right to left (should you get crazy) isn't really that hard is it.

well it's not killing me , just means that I needs to use my other arm as well (mousepad) so that's leaving my comfort zone !

The designer of that site was lazy, they should have allowed the user to scroll with the wheel on the mouse, two minute job.

[d1d215]

4hero said:

d1d215 said:

neilr said:

To be fair, scrolling a web page left to right or, right to left (should you get crazy) isn't really that hard is it.

well it's not killing me , just means that I needs to use my other arm as well (mousepad) so that's leaving my comfort zone !

The designer of that site was lazy, they should have allowed the user to scroll with the wheel on the mouse, two minute job.

hmm.. so there is a possibility to do that. is there a simple html code ?

[10JH]

4hero said:

d1d215 said:

neilr said:

To be fair, scrolling a web page left to right or, right to left (should you get crazy) isn't really that hard is it.

well it's not killing me , just means that I needs to use my other arm as well (mousepad) so that's leaving my comfort zone !

The designer of that site was lazy, they should have allowed the user to scroll with the wheel on the mouse, two minute job.

I agree, it's a big usability flaw.

Not a wow website at all imho.

[4hero]

d1d215 said:

4hero said:

d1d215 said:

neilr said:

To be fair, scrolling a web page left to right or, right to left (should you get crazy) isn't really that hard is it.

well it's not killing me , just means that I needs to use my other arm as well (mousepad) so that's leaving my comfort zone !

The designer of that site was lazy, they should have allowed the user to scroll with the wheel on the mouse, two minute job.

hmm.. so there is a possibility to do that. is there a simple html code ?

Pretty straight forward with jquery. One thing you need to do is specify in the css with total width of the container. I've put an example together to let you see. So, you have 10 pictures @ 1200px wide each, the container should be width:12000px in the css

[d1d215]

thanks a lot !! . will check it tmrw. is that your script or w3.org ? closed the link already. I guess you wouldn't write all these notes . ohh !! sleeepyyy .. I can't even understand myself !

[4hero]

It's just jquery, all open source I did write comments in the html, explaining what everything does.

[d1d215]

4hero said:

It's just jquery, all open source I did write comments in the html, explaining what everything does.

oh ! ok. thanks again ! . maybe will base my site around this code

[DamianBPhoto]

We are now updated. What do you think? Still working on certain bits that I am going to need help on but otherwise?

New
http://damianblades.co.uk

Old
http://damianblades.co.uk/oldsite/

[4hero]

I see a table in there

[DamianBPhoto]

4hero said:

I see a table in there

Nothing wrong with tables but as I said I am still working on it. but otherwise what do you think?

[...Mole...]

DamianBPhoto said:

4hero said:

I see a table in there

Nothing wrong with tables but as I said I am still working on it. but otherwise what do you think?

Everything is wrong with tables!

ETA:
Your Logo/Title is slightly confusing, would look better Horizontally aligned with the text the right way round.

Edited by ...Mole... on Friday 7th May 11:38

[4hero]

DamianBPhoto said:

4hero said:

I see a table in there

Nothing wrong with tables but as I said I am still working on it. but otherwise what do you think?

Tables are fine for tabular data, I see no tabular data?

Design wise, did you look at any of the links that were posted above? It's quite dull in my opinion, and the photos are pretty small on my 1920x1280 monitor. Also, site doesn't work on my iphone, do you know how many people use iphones/ipads to browse nowadays? Everything you did in flash can be done with jquery with relative ease. Also, using images for text doesn't help people find your site, I would strongly advise having all your content as text, helps with google indexing the site.

Sorry for being harsh, but you did ask

[...Mole...]

You have an "About Me" section but the content inside it is in the third person, surely it should be "About Us" in that case.