my website

[o_sh4x]

I gotta make a website to promote my work as a photographer and I'd like to have opinions on what I have done so far.

Should I keep going in that direction or does it look silly?

http://www.yannricher.com/

Choose french cause it's the only one working.

[o_dancingfool]

Looks good to me. What kind of photographer?

[o_sh4x]

I'm exploring right now. I don't really know what I'll end up doing exactly as a photographer. And that's one of the problems I have for doing the website design.

I just got recruited by a local mag but haven't done anything for them yet. I'm doing a wedding tomorrow for a friend too. If I like it, I might try to go that direction, dunno.

Or I could try to get contracts for small businesses and the like. Bands that need album covers, model portfolios, etc..

So many options... and I'm completely new to the business of photography. Heck, I just got into photography a year ago, so I'm pretty new to photography itself.

So yeah, I'm just exploring to see what would make me happy the most.

[mervaka]

www.deviantart.com << go there. free picture hosting for photographers. if you subscribe you can sell your shit off, too!

also, be sure to stop off at my page: mervaka.deviantart.com

[o_|404|innoc-tpf-]

Originally Posted by Mervaka

www.deviantart.com << go there. free picture hosting for photographers. if you subscribe you can sell your shit off, too!

also, be sure to stop off at my page: mervaka.deviantart.com

Wow Merv, I like the bench with the storm backdrop. Very nice indeed. It would make awesome wallpaper...is there a high resolution version available?

[mervaka]

the "my favourites" bit is my selection of OTHER users' pictures

EDIT: here are my pics

[o_tennovan]

The site is a bit too gray in my opinion. It could use browns and whites to make it more animate.

EDIT: Just looked through your favs... WOW. http://www.deviantart.com/view/17908194/ it was created in MSPaint.

[o_geokill----->]

MsPaint? That's amazing

Originally Posted by |404|Innoc-TPF-

Wow Merv, I like the bench with the storm backdrop. Very nice indeed. It would make awesome wallpaper...is there a high resolution version available?

I second that

[o_rifle]

I clicked english and it said URL not found.

[o_lithium]

Originally Posted by rifle

I clicked english and it said URL not found.

Learn to read , jesus.

[o_deadly furby]

Really Nice Work, Merv!

Perhaps I'll have you illustrate my upcoming Part III publication of "A Fortress Forever Tale"

[o_zippy]

sh4x take some of the sun sets i love them

[o_qui]

http://www.yannricher.com/fr/home.html

From a design point of view...

Really, really dont like the hover effect on the menu links, making it so you cant read them as you hover over, isnt cool.

The colours are a bit dark and bland too.

Normally for a photographer website, i'd say you want a white background as that will accentuate the colours in your photos.

The code is nasty, but i can appreciate if you cant code, that using dreamweaver is cool. Just make sure when you finish it renders correctly in as many browsers as possible.

Good luck.

[o_robg]

Originally Posted by qui

http://www.yannricher.com/fr/home.html

From a design point of view...

Really, really dont like the hover effect on the menu links, making it so you cant read them as you hover over, isnt cool.

The colours are a bit dark and bland too.

Normally for a photographer website, i'd say you want a white background as that will accentuate the colours in your photos.

The code is nasty, but i can appreciate if you cant code, that using dreamweaver is cool. Just make sure when you finish it renders correctly in as many browsers as possible.

Good luck.

Yeah with the hover effect, you might be better going for something that allows the user to still read the text.

You might want to try this trick:
For each button picture, make a new layer (in Photoshop/GIMP/Fireworks/Paint.NET) and copy the picture's contents into it. Then in that layer, Gaussian blur everything a bit, so it's all smudged, then convert the layer into an additive blend mode (terminology depends on the graphics package, in Paint.NET it's Lighten) and you get a picture with a nice "bloom" effect in it. Looks pretty funky.

[o_tennovan]

Originally Posted by qui

The code is nasty, but i can appreciate if you cant code, that using dreamweaver is cool. Just make sure when you finish it renders correctly in as many browsers as possible.

I wouldn't say its nasty, its just... not neat. Its obvious that imageready or dreamweaver was used since some of that code is standard for their programs (rollover code I think). If you threw that into a seperate javascript file and the styles into a css file, you'd have a lot cleaner code but then again, there's not a lot there yet so we'll have to wait and see. I can try to throw up a little something for ya today, sh4x.

[o_robg]

You only need CSS if you're doing image rollovers.

[o_qui]

Originally Posted by RobG

You only need CSS if you're doing image rollovers.

huh?

[o_sh4x]

Originally Posted by Tennovan

I wouldn't say its nasty, its just... not neat. Its obvious that imageready or dreamweaver was used since some of that code is standard for their programs (rollover code I think). If you threw that into a seperate javascript file and the styles into a css file, you'd have a lot cleaner code but then again, there's not a lot there yet so we'll have to wait and see. I can try to throw up a little something for ya today, sh4x.

I'm not really good with coding of webpages... I understand that using css would improve the web page alot.

Thanks to everyone who commented on the web design... I think I'm going to restart from scratch. I always tought it was a little too bland too.

[o_|404|innoc-tpf-]

Originally Posted by |404|Innoc-TPF-

AFAIK, you don't need CSS to do image rollovers. Simple JS coding tied to onmouseover and you're done.

CSS is a bit broader than simple image rollovers.

Originally Posted by Sh4x

I'm not really good with coding of webpages... I understand that using css would improve the web page alot.

Thanks to everyone who commented on the web design... I think I'm going to restart from scratch. I always tought it was a little too bland too.

Not to rain on your parade but you may find that your brain is hard wired for either structure or creativity. Personally, I am a structure person and I know that whatever I do on the creative side is typically bland and ordered. I think the creative people have a MUCH easier time learning enough structure tosupport their creative work than the structure people do learning enough creativity to dress up their structural work.

[o_dancingfool]

I know that whatever I do on the creative side is horrible and makes your eyes bleed. I'll tell you what though, I draw a mean stick figure yes indeed.