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I've used a number of different website options over the years but have never found one that really shows off my photos the way I would like.

I want to have my photos displayed with as much detail as possible and to have fast loading time too.

I currently use square space but wondered if anyone has a better suggestion. www.nickelvery.com

I do appreciate that showing my photos on the web will never be the same as seeing them on my screen but wonder if there are better options out there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Wordpress is good because as you own your own site it means you decide exactly on how your photos are displayed. Also you are not sharing a site with 1000's of others so load times will be faster (unless you use super cheap shared hosting)
 
You need your own hosting, as you can host pictue size you want (but you need to think about people who has slow internet connections at home) :)
 
Whats not quick about your current site. Works ok for me, very fast loading considering and it's packed with huge images.
 
Your site seems quick to me and I'm using an old iPad2 on iOS9 beta via an old power line wireless connection out in the garden.
 
Wordpress based on your own hosting, and use the Amazon S3 plug in for offloading your images to the Amazon Cloud. Then just upload your images in full resolution, the basic content gets served from a basic server, the images from the Amazon cloud. That should do the trick. If you then combine that with some retina plugins such that you only serve the high resolution images to those who have screens that can actually appreciate it, it will be a great customer experience.
 
It's good to know it loads fast from your end. Thanks for testing. It actually loads really slowly here but that might be my connection.

I've used Wordpress before but feel is quite in depth for a site that actually needs to be quite simple. Maybe I'll have another play with my squad space site.

Thanks for all your help.
 
I had a wordpress site and think they are poor for the general user. I found myself spending a long time tailoring plugins and themes to my liking, then along comes an update and you regularly have to redo the edits in the code, or often find that one plugin is no longer working as expected.

Wordpress can be amazing, I've seen some great sites, but having looked at your squarespace site, it loads quickly and looks better than 80% of wordpress sites I come across.
 
I've contacted square space to see if they have a best practice for sizing images etc...

If anyone has any insight in to what sizes and dpi etc works for web I would be really grateful.
 
FullyExposed said:
I've contacted square space to see if they have a best practice for sizing images etc...

If anyone has any insight in to what sizes and dpi etc works for web I would be really grateful.
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And there in lies your problem there is no one size fits all. Your site scales nicely, but when I go full screen on my 2560x1600 screen it all gets a bit grainy. Hence I suggest to test the users capability and serve the best image for them.

Failing that look at the visitor statistics and see what resolution the majority of your visitors use and cater for that.
 
It seems that 74% are viewing from a desktop rather than mobile.

That would make sense to optimise it for that then?

If I go for large photo sizes i.e. Large pixels then I will surely run into slow loading times.

Any suggestions?
 
FullyExposed said:
I've contacted square space to see if they have a best practice for sizing images etc...

If anyone has any insight in to what sizes and dpi etc works for web I would be really grateful.
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Squarespace serves images up to 2500 pixels wide. So upload at that width. Personally I export at 75% quality. Here's a detailed article about Lightroom export quality, unfortunately from 2010.

Most of your images look great, e.g. the English Racing #10 looks pin sharp on my screen, but the detail shot on the Ferrari brakes doesn't look so detailed.

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The relevant squarespace article.
 
Rapscallion said:
Squarespace serves images up to 2500 pixels wide. So upload at that width. Personally I export at 75% quality. Here's a detailed article about Lightroom export quality, unfortunately from 2010.

Most of your images look great, e.g. the English Racing #10 looks pin sharp on my screen, but the detail shot on the Ferrari brakes doesn't look so detailed.

EDIT
The relevant squarespace article.
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There you go then, best to follow that article. I would upload at 2500 width for those images that you set to go full screen.
 
Great feedback guys, thanks for sharing the article, I've now changed my images to 2500 wide.

If you get a second to take a look I would love to know whether the images seem any sharper and if the load times are still fast.

Thanks to everyone for helping out. :)
 
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