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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: michswiss on July 29, 2012, 11:50:07 pm

Title: Well, I've put up my own website
Post by: michswiss on July 29, 2012, 11:50:07 pm

It remains a work in progress and I fully intend to continue to work on the text and presentation, but I finally have a site under my own name:

http://jmathenyphotography.com/

Title: Re: Well, I've put up my own website
Post by: Farmer on July 30, 2012, 04:32:54 am

I like it.  It's clean and elegant and mostly fast enough (once the galleries load it's very good and that doesn't seem to take long).

Nice work :-)

Title: Re: Well, I've put up my own website
Post by: michswiss on July 31, 2012, 02:33:23 am

Thanks Phil,

I put this together using WordPress with some freely available templates and plugins.  My technical skill are still good enough to get through some of the CSS, XML and all that stuff without too much effort.   I'm not absolutely thrilled with the gallery formatting yet, I'd like to look into getting a lightbox display going in the future.  But not now.   The reason it's slightly slow on load is that it pre-loads all the images.  Once loaded though, image to image transitions are pretty quick.

Title: Re: Well, I've put up my own website
Post by: lfeagan on July 31, 2012, 11:23:56 am

I am amazed by the flexibility of WordPress to be repurposed from a blog to your gallery. Nicely done.

Title: Re: Well, I've put up my own website
Post by: RSL on July 31, 2012, 12:36:57 pm

Congrats, Jennifer. It's a great start, and it's full of some very good work.

Title: Re: Well, I've put up my own website
Post by: BobDavid on July 31, 2012, 03:45:30 pm

Good start. Keep it up!

Title: Re: Well, I've put up my own website
Post by: sdwilsonsct on August 02, 2012, 01:21:06 pm

Clean and engaging. I like it.

Title: Re: Well, I've put up my own website
Post by: michswiss on August 03, 2012, 06:30:51 am

Thanks for having a look.  It's nice to think it's possible to create a photo site without flash or obtuse navigation.  At least those were two of the requirements I gave myself when I started.  I'm going to be letting it rest for a month or two while I get the metadata around the images sorted. Then it's on to figuring out how to rotate new galleries in and out and adding a separate area profiling commissioned stuff.