My new website...

Eddzz!!

Eddzz!!

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http://reynoldsphoto.co.uk

At the moment, it's just an online photo gallery. I plan to keep a regular blog (we'll see how long that lasts! :p) and eventually organise each subsection with folders of events and individual photo shoots.

Would anyone be willing to lend some advice on the aesthetics of the site? It's all very plain at the moment (which can be a good thing), but I don't want the site to be boring.
 
Very very plain. Personally I do find it boring, but on the other hand if you get some amazing images they might do the talking for you.
 
nass said:
Very very plain. Personally I do find it boring, but on the other hand if you get some amazing images they might do the talking for you.
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That's hopefully the plan. I like minimalist design, though this perhaps too minimal. Not really sure where to go from here.
 
Love it Eddy..I too like the clean minimal look (I have mine much the same) and yours works a treat! I will be checking back regularly.

Robin
 
I don't think some colour would hurt somewhere, even if just a colour background to the logo. Looks very smart though.

I think that the gallery pages should go to the grid view, rather than one image, and that it needs visible left and right arrows to show "click here to go to next image". What did you use to code/build it from, if you don't mind me asking? I do like sites that properly scale to a 1920 wide screen!
The home page images would look better if they were centralised in the right hand pane, like the gallery images.
 
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It's good - I like the simple layout and white background which shows off your work very well - nothing major I would change in the composition
 
Thanks for the feedback guys. I can't take the credit for the aesthetics of the site - I just tinkered with the layout. I made the site through a hosting service called 'Squarespace' - they provide web design tailored to photographers and other small business owners. Very competitively priced actually.
 
SandyMcClure said:
I'd make it centre align rather than left, I have a 27" monitor and it just hides up in the corner as it is.
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That's the main problem I'm having at the moment... Can't seem to make it do that!
 
Are you trying to align the images or the whole page, including the logo, to the centre. Depending on if you have access to the CSS sheets, the home screen images are easy, the whole lot including logo, less so!
 
miker said:
Are you trying to align the images or the whole page, including the logo, to the centre. Depending on if you have access to the CSS sheets, the home screen images are easy, the whole lot including logo, less so!
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I have access to insert custom CSS on each page.
 
SandyMcClure said:
Can't you edit the style.css document? That will create a universal change across the site. Actually just looked at your html, you are using a div wrapper called canvasWrapper, so adding:

.canvasWrapper {
width: 700px ;
margin-left: auto ;
margin-right: auto ;
}

Ought to center it.
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I just added that string to the CSS editor - doesn't seem to have done much! :sulk:
 
SandyMcClure said:
Hmm, delete it and try.

.Body {
width: 700px ;
margin-left: auto ;
margin-right: auto ;
}

Can you see all the css comands in the editior or is it doing everything inline?
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That doesn't seem to have done anything either... It's just an "Add Custom CSS" button.
 
Aaaah, I think that might be your problem. That will add css to your document rather than edit it. The div wrappers that are already in place need editing but the add css button will create a new entry therefore not really doing anything.

Just in case I'm wrong though you could try

.canvas {
width: 700px ;
margin-left: auto ;
margin-right: auto ;
}

What platform are you using? Is there an edit css option or a text based site editor that lets you see the raw code that makes up each element of your website? There has to be a style.css file somewhere, it might just be hard to find from the back end GUI. Do you have root access to your site over FTP?
 
I went hacking about using the element inspector in chrome. I can move the home page image to the centre. Can't align the logo further over dynamically though, it's a separate div tag. Sure it's possible, just not found it yet!
 
SandyMcClure said:
Aaaah, I think that might be your problem. That will add css to your document rather than edit it. The div wrappers that are already in place need editing but the add css button will create a new entry therefore not really doing anything.

Just in case I'm wrong though you could try

.canvas {
width: 700px ;
margin-left: auto ;
margin-right: auto ;
}

What platform are you using? Is there an edit css option or a text based site editor that lets you see the raw code that makes up each element of your website? There has to be a style.css file somewhere, it might just be hard to find from the back end GUI. Do you have root access to your site over FTP?
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That one worked... You can see the difference it has made. http://www.reynoldsphoto.co.uk/
 
If you can gain access to site.css then change:
#canvasWrapper {
max-width: 1200px;
}

to:
#canvasWrapper {
max-width: 1200px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

This centralises the image nicely on my screen. The canvaswrapper tag spans the entire page, the canvas tag doesn't seem to.
 
miker said:
If you can gain access to site.css then change:
#canvasWrapper {
max-width: 1200px;
}

to:
#canvasWrapper {
max-width: 1200px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

This centralises the image nicely on my screen. The canvaswrapper tag spans the entire page, the canvas tag doesn't seem to.
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That seems to have worked! How does that look for everyone else?
 
Looks good to me, images centred nicely.

Interestingly, it doesn't seem to put it IN the CSS file, just tacks it on the bottom!
 
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miker said:
Looks good to me, images centred nicely.

Interestingly, it doesn't seem to put it IN the CSS file, just tacks it on the bottom!
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Hmm, odd! Thanks for the tip though! Now to add some more photos...
 
One comment - the blog section appears to be empty. Personally I'd hide it until you've got something to put in it. But that's just me ;)
We use Squarespace in work (although it's an older version due to the unsuitability of the current styles to our business) and it is absolutely awesome. Just realised I've commented on two separate Squarespace threads tonight -I'm not affiliated with them in anyway or trying to plug them lol. Just coincidence.
Vici
 
Okay, I've made a few new changes... Tidied the gallery pages and added some of my favourite images to an auto-scroll gallery on the homepage. Comments and feedback welcome! :)

http://reynoldsphoto.co.uk

[EDIT] I will be adding a Blog at a later stage!
 
I like the clean, simple design. One thing I'd prefer would be to go straight to thumbnails when viewing a section, because sites that run a slideshow, 1 image at a time really frustrate me (to the point I will go somewhere else). It's good that you have the option for thumbnails too, but I'd make it default.
 
ancient_mariner said:
I like the clean, simple design. One thing I'd prefer would be to go straight to thumbnails when viewing a section, because sites that run a slideshow, 1 image at a time really frustrate me (to the point I will go somewhere else). It's good that you have the option for thumbnails too, but I'd make it default.
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You see I can make my mind up about that! Some people prefer the thumbnails, others prefer one image at a time... :rolleyes:
 
Eddzz!! said:
You see I can make my mind up about that! Some people prefer the thumbnails, others prefer one image at a time... :rolleyes:
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Indeed. Until recently if I saw someone linking to their galleries on Flickr I'd simply ignore them and move on. No images were worth enduring the old 'one at a time' flickr.
 
redlion said:
I had so many tabs open so the current favicon just annoyed me o_O
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Thing is, the camera icon isn't very favicon-friendly ... It doesn't look right at 16x16 pixels. If I just leave it to my uploaded to resize it, it squashes it... So I think I need to come up with a different variation on the logo for my favicon!
 
Mrrikki said:
I have a camera icon in mine, it works ok I think... www.rmtphotos.co.uk

My site isn't that old, still fine tuning it. I replaced it about 6 weeks ago from my old iWeb site.
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I didn't mean camera icons in general, I just meant the specific one that I use. Yours looks great! :)
 
There are loads of favicon friendly icons, I am sure if you can't make our logo work then you can find one that matches close.

I like your website, nice and clean looking, only thing I would have changed is the slideshow to a gallery when you click on the different photo pages.
 
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