My new website

[Stagecoach]

Hi Louise,

I have just had another look at your site which appears to have had a few changes since I first viewed it and also read all of the comments, carefully.

The one thing that struck me was the mismatch of image sizes and some there are of a lower IQ standard than others and I do not refer to subject/composition. I suspect the reason for this may be that when setting up a site it's too tempting to just throw an odd selection of images in so that there's something showing rather than having the input examples planned carefully beforehand. This is what I did when setting mine up, rushed, but very soon realised that a standard was needed and changed things.

This comes down to presentation, whether your site is for commercial use or simply sharing with others I believe at an early stage you need to set image standards, size and quality.

If I look at someone else's work and it's not at a decent size (or there is not the option to view at a decent size) the first thing I ask myself is why? If there is not an obvious answer for that question I assume it's because if it was at a decent size it would reveal that it's quality is not too good. Perhaps it's just me but I firmly believe that with today's camera technology serious amateurs and pros have no excuse for publicly displaying poor images, whatever the subject and there are people that call themselves pros that do it.

Anyway, was good to look through your images and some interesting work in the art section. As for the view across Odstock fields I wondered if the hospital was still there, I was the first baby to be born in their new maternity unit way back

Grahame

[William W]

Sorry Bill ... the answer is that . . .

Hi John,
Thanks for answering, but ‘my question’ was not directed to you, but always has been directed to Louise:

Post #5

“What is the purpose of your website?”

Post #13

“I’d still like to know the specific reasons Knowing the reason for the existence of anything, makes it much easier to give targeted feedback on the construction and content.”

WW

[jcuknz]

To Louise's question I thought that the site was I think the term is 'bug-y' which probably comes from being a first webpage created by somebody a little unsure of how to go about things ...I know from experience of numerous webpages the amount of effort required to iron out all the bugs ... but I think the effort is worth it and the images interesting in this case.

So I suggest Louise goes back and put more effort in checking every link and changing those that do not give the right result.

Then there are things which grate and reflect on the artistic attitude of the webmaster such as when there are four images the forth should IMO be centered rather than under the first [left] image. This may be a problem with the site mechanism?

[JR1]

I think stagecoach, williamw and jcuknz have given great advice here

[drjuice]

Good morning -

For starters, one of the things that drives me crazy when I see an image displayed as you have them is that I can't tell going in which of my monitors to switch to when looking at them. I have one set up as portrait and two set up as landscape. Before looking at your site, I took a quick look at the page and saw that they were all landscape oriented. Then I started looking at them and found that a significant number of the images on the front page are portrait oriented.

I don't know whether weebly allows mixing portrait and landscape oriented images on the same gallery page, but most systems for displaying galleries don't. That's why I wrote my own gallery app for the purposes I normally need a gallery page. The images are smaller, but I get 20 images per web page regardless of whether they're portrait/landscape/both which conveniently fits on one page of A4 or 8.5x11 paper.

I looked only at the front page because of the issue with portrait versus landscape images, so the remaining comments are based on looking only at those images. I found some of the images too dark for me to distinguish what they were intended to convey to the viewer. Even taking one of them and seeing what I could do in terms of lightening it up wasn't terribly productive, sorry to say. I do appreciate that, when it was appropriate, you were able to up the contrast such that the colors became more intense. But, I would be cautious about doing that when you're trying to make a point with an image.

Hope this helps.

virginia

[JR1]

Good morning -

I don't know whether weebly allows mixing portrait and landscape oriented images on the same gallery page, but most systems for displaying galleries don't.
virginia

I use weebly and I mix portrait and landscape