My new website

Initial thoughts were that you were an IT site, not a photographer/journalist.

You've got a home and welcome link that both take you to the main index page. Personally, i'd lose the welcome tab.

I'd also look at removing the right column competely from all but the blog page, viewers don't need to see the blog archive when viewing your gallery.

On the main page you have the SB/MG logo, remove it. If you want to use look at incorporating it in to your header. Talking about your header, make the SkyBlue Freelance bigger and the line underneath smaller.

Remove the calendar completely unless you really have a need for it, same with the admin section. Of course, this will only effect the blog page :) The blog page has lots of different sized fonts, you need to standardise this.

Is this a business site or a personal site? If its personal, you ABOUT ME page is fine. If its business, it needs a total rewrite. Potential clients don't need to know that you struggle with maths.

Contact me page: make your email a clickable link.

I'd turn off comments for most of the things on your site apart from the blog.

For the gallery, I'd put all the MG TF GT photos on to one page and see if you set the images to load larger when you first click on them, saves having to click on the twice. This will be easier without the right column :)

I know it all sounds harsh but internet users are on the whole, fickle creatures who will rather press the back button than try and persevere with a site.

If you need help with anything ask, i've got a little bit of experience myself and will help if I can :)
 
What country are you in ?

You dont give a clue on the website what country or area your in.. OK if you read through the about me you can get it... but it needs to be far more prominant and not hidden away... anyone not from TP visiting your site wouldnt even know your in england...
 
It does say on my welcome page that I'm in Exeter, Devon. Is that not clear enough?

I'd also look at removing the right column competely from all but the blog page, viewers don't need to see the blog archive when viewing your gallery.

On the main page you have the SB/MG logo, remove it. If you want to use look at incorporating it in to your header. Talking about your header, make the SkyBlue Freelance bigger and the line underneath smaller.

Remove the calendar completely unless you really have a need for it, same with the admin section. Of course, this will only effect the blog page The blog page has lots of different sized fonts, you need to standardise this.
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How do I add the logo to my header? I'll admit I am finding wordpress difficult to use, it's taken me hours to get as far as I have. How do I set it so that the Blog archive doesn't appear on my other pages?

I've got lots of different size fonts on the blog as I've imported it from an old blog on Blogger, and something happened to it as a result. New posts will be all one font size. Again, it's slightly irritating the Wordpress doesn't have the same simple blog interface of Blogger. I'll keep going though.

As for my Gallery, I would like the photos to pop-up and then allow the viewer to scan onto the next picture, previous picture, or close them. Again,I can't seem to implement this.

I want it to be a sort of online portfolio, but fairly friendly and open. I've ammended the About Me bit.

Thanks for the help/advice/feedback
 
Harvey_nikon said:
Initial thoughts were that you were an IT site, not a photographer/journalist.

You've got a home and welcome link that both take you to the main index page. Personally, i'd lose the welcome tab.

I'd also look at removing the right column competely from all but the blog page, viewers don't need to see the blog archive when viewing your gallery.

On the main page you have the SB/MG logo, remove it. If you want to use look at incorporating it in to your header. Talking about your header, make the SkyBlue Freelance bigger and the line underneath smaller.

Remove the calendar completely unless you really have a need for it, same with the admin section. Of course, this will only effect the blog page :) The blog page has lots of different sized fonts, you need to standardise this.

Is this a business site or a personal site? If its personal, you ABOUT ME page is fine. If its business, it needs a total rewrite. Potential clients don't need to know that you struggle with maths.

Contact me page: make your email a clickable link.

I'd turn off comments for most of the things on your site apart from the blog.

For the gallery, I'd put all the MG TF GT photos on to one page and see if you set the images to load larger when you first click on them, saves having to click on the twice. This will be easier without the right column :)

I know it all sounds harsh but internet users are on the whole, fickle creatures who will rather press the back button than try and persevere with a site.

If you need help with anything ask, i've got a little bit of experience myself and will help if I can :)
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IMO the overall design is fine for a motorsport site. However, I'm leaning towards agreeing with Harveys remaining comments. If its a business site I'd change the image of 'me now' and the SB/MG logo.
 
Treesie said:
IMO the overall design is fine for a motorsport site. However, I'm leaning towards agreeing with Harveys remaining comments. If its a business site I'd change the image of 'me now' and the SB/MG logo.
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I've got a friend working on a nice smart logo, but I still don't know how to put it in the header. I will change the photo of me now when I get chance.
 
If it is a business site, you need to adjust the content tone and spelling. If I was looking for a photo journalist, I would expect the text and images to be spot on

Example
http://skybluefreelance.info/drive-sexy-jeez/

Saying a car is crap and an advert is "stupid" is something that a journalist just wouldnt do, or if they did use that phraseology, it would be very very very occasionally

You have dropped the image in the middle of a word and used the Swiss spelling of immensee

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I am one to speak... I am the worst speller ever. But I do understand your target market will be picture editors and newspaper / magazine editors - and they are a fastidious bunch
 
The Blog is meant to be personal though, and I'd like to keep my blog fairly light in tone. The old posts are imported from my old Blogger blog, do people think that's a bad idea?
 
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