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Hi All -
I've been putting together a new website the last couple days. Let me know what you think of my layout, colors, etc. There are still a few kinks that I am trying to get worked out.
I know the photos need ALOT of work but this is mostly put together for distant relatives, a few friends and coworkers, nothing extremely professional.
The site and my photography skills are still a work in progress!!
Thanks for looking!
http://dtrociophotography.com
Denise
High Denise, The site looks really good as do the photos. I do have one suggestion---on the opening slideshow, the framing of the photosdo not adjust for photos with different aspect ratio's ----If you only use photos of the same aspect ratio, say 2x3 or 4x6, in the slide show, they will all be framed correctly. If you need to crop a shot for display on your web site, just crop it at the 2x3 or 4x6 ratio.
Another suggestion that will make your worklfow easier if your using Lightroom 3
There is a plugin for light room on the zenfolio site---get it and use it to upload to zenfolio, That way, when you update titles, keywords, etc in lightroom---they are retained from lightroom to your website, it also keeps you from having toexport your edited photographs to a different location--then uploading to zenfolio-----oh, its also free.
You did a very nice job on this website.
Bob
Denise,
I like the website. Great shots too! My wife and I use zenfolio also and have been quite pleased so far.
I also noticed that you are in SE Wisconsin. We lived in Racine from 1993 thru 1996....but we moved back home to Cincy. We were both working for SC Johnson there.
I can see how the lakefront would offer lotsa photo ops.
Cheers,
Jeff
Hi,
first impressions after 60 seconds:
- Makes a good first impression, with one exception:
- Please remove the automatically playing music, that
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Hi Bob -
I did quite the hatchet job on some of the cropping. I am going to go and try and find the raw files and replace them. In the meantime, I am pretty tapped out when it comes to spending more $ on post processing programs right now but I think Lightroom would definitely be beneficial in the future.
Thanks for looking and for the learning experience I had when you were putting yours together!
Denise
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Hi Jeff -
Thanks for the compliments! [:D] It is still in the early stages and I have a few things to work out but it's coming along. I still haven't been able to get the .zenfolio from defaulting in the address.
So for 3 years we were neighbors since I live in Kenosha. Lots has changed here in the last 10 yrs.!
Denise
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Hi Colin -
Thanks for taking a quick look at the site. I like that the music only plays on the first page at least. I like it for now but I'm sure I'll grow tired of it soon and it will go away. I don't know what is up with your error on your IPAD nor how to fix it. I will have to take a closer look at the layout I chose. I did take out the inner border line so it doesn't look quite so strange but will be finding the raw files and undo the cropping of the ones that I can find. As far as the thumbnails, I can't figure that one out yet either. You are right the orange button serves no purpose but it just came with the selected template. I will see if I can change the color to black so it is not visible.
Thanks Much!!!
Denise
Denise,
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-----Standardizing the aspect ratio will fix this.
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This is an indicator that exif info is available--whet you select the photo, you will notice a larger orange square in the upper right corner--if you hover over this, it will reveal available exif data for that photo.
to get rid of it do the following:
1. go to edit visitor view
2. select galleries, select a gallery, select a photo--any will do
3. on the top tab, select "photo page"
4 select page options
5. then select Photo overlay
6then select "hide" for the "full exif over the image"
bada bing---all gone, no more orange dot.
Also, Sorry about the Light Room suggestion, I thought you were using that for PP.
Hope this helps,
Bob
Thank you, Bob!
I did remove the exif data from showing but the orange dot is still there.
Also, no problem with the Lightroom suggestion. It is on my "long" list of things to get hopefully early next spring. To many other things going on at the moment and I shouldn
I bookmarked it and I am looking forward to visiting it in the future!
Denise
Your passion for photography shows in your photos. Very nice work.
On your website, I would recommend you not have your phone listed. You have your e-mail for contact. You may not want all the nuts in the world to have your number.
Mark
Hmmmm, I looked at your website again, and the "yellow square" on the thumbnails is actually a photo # within a specific gallery---the font is just to light colored to see it in the yellow square. also, the pictures I looked at still have the Exif marker on them that is functional when you hover over it.
You may have to go to each gallery and make the changes individually.
Bob
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Thank you! Once I get all the boring details squared away, I can move on to adding more photos ...hopefully soon!
Denise
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Thank you so much, Mark! It means alot to me coming from you, I really respect your opinion!
BTW - phone number is gone now! Very good point you made!
Denise
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Ok, I think all is fixed now! You have been a tremendous help, Bob!
Now if I could just get the domain issue fixed and the search engines working, I will start to be in good shape! I have emailed godaddy & zenfolio and so far I only heard back from zenfolio. They pretty much told me to do what I already did and it's still not working.
Denise
Hi Denise,
Congrats on the new site! It looks great!
The only thing that I would work on, is to try and smooth out the wording on the opening paragraph a little bit.
If you would like some assistance with this, you may contact me privately.
You also have a typo with regards to, "opportunities."
You may also consider thanking people and reminding them to come back only once.., because you mention it in the last paragraph and then you mention it again in the very next sentence, in the closing.
I actually like the music, and I wish it were playing while I was viewing the galleries!
Rich
Thanks, Richard and you have a very good eye! Typo has been fixed and the last sentence was deleted.
I have been working for hours ...actually days on getting the ".zenfolio.com" from showing up in the address bar and getting it to work with and without the "www.", which I finally succeeded in accomplishing tonight!! WOOHOO!!!
Now I can focus more on the other parts!
So far I have 2 votes for the music & 2 votes for without!
Denise