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Old April 11th 04, 12:03 AM
GW
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Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on my website.

Thanks in advance.

Gary

http://www.garydwhalen.com

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Old April 11th 04, 10:19 AM
Dennis Bradley
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New website - please reviewGot to be the best collection of images I have ever seen !

As for your website, ..well, I was too busy looking at the images, so I guess it must be doing the job it was intended to.


Dennis
"GW" wrote in message ...
Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on my website.

Thanks in advance.

Gary

http://www.garydwhalen.com
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Old April 11th 04, 03:53 PM
Joe
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On 04/10/2004 07:03 PM, GW said:
Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on my website.

Thanks in advance.

Gary

http://www.garydwhalen.com



Very nice website, and BEAUTIFUL photographs! Your work is really
great - one of the best collections of nature photography I've seen
on the web. Thanks for putting it out there.


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Old April 12th 04, 02:21 AM
Karl Winkler
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GW wrote in message ...
Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on my website.

Thanks in advance.

Gary

http://www.garydwhalen.com

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Very nice photos. They really stand out compared to a lot of online
galleries. Thanks for sharing!

Karl Winkler
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Old April 12th 04, 01:23 PM
GW
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Default New website - please review

Well, all of the pictures WERE taken on travels somewhere. My travel photos
are place specific and "generally" not nature photographs as such. There
are of course landscape images within the travel section and I do have a lot
more images that relate to travel (people, buildings, etc) that I am adding
as I go. But yes there is a little overlap between the two. I don't know
how to avoid that.

Thanks for the input.

Gary

PS I have changed the "comments" page.

GW wrote:

I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on my website.
http://www.garydwhalen.com


Like others have already said, great photos!

On your opening page, how are gallery pics different from travel ones? It's
not clear what the difference is other than one is travel and the other must
be everything else. Except some of the pics in the galleries look like they
were taken on your travels.

The images on your "comments" page aren't as strong as your others. If it
were my site, I'd remove them.

Speaking of your comment page, your page title is almost the same as that
for your main page. I'd also remove this statement: "Most of the images
shown on this site are more the result of traveling to beautiful places than
photographic expertise." It doesn't do anything to add to your site.
Anything that doesn't add should be removed.

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Old April 13th 04, 01:33 PM
cargo
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I'm sorry, but these photos look too post processed to me. Perhaps it
is an effect of my browser or the web but the colours are too bright and
the effect is too saccarrine. More like a postcard than a
put-on-the-wall look.

As for put-on-the-web, well that aesthetic is one that is still being
negotiated. It seems that other respondents are enthusiastic about the
site but I don't think your simple design can do any photography
justice. Particularly not if it is to work as an advertising medium for
you.

I am just starting to toy with some web design myself and there is a
lot to it but here is someone else who posted to this group and it just
blew me away:

a href="http://www.monochromatique.com/" monochromatique a

James

GW wrote:
Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on my website.

Thanks in advance.

Gary

http://www.garydwhalen.com

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Old April 13th 04, 05:31 PM
GW
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Default Gary Whalen

I appreciate your input but I totally disagree with the design of that site
you referenced. It, to me, is way too busy and distracts, not enhances, the
photography. However, to each his own and my opinion is just my opinion.
Thanks for your input, I will take it into consideration.

Gary

I'm sorry, but these photos look too post processed to me. Perhaps it
is an effect of my browser or the web but the colours are too bright and
the effect is too saccarrine. More like a postcard than a
put-on-the-wall look.

As for put-on-the-web, well that aesthetic is one that is still being
negotiated. It seems that other respondents are enthusiastic about the
site but I don't think your simple design can do any photography
justice. Particularly not if it is to work as an advertising medium for
you.

I am just starting to toy with some web design myself and there is a
lot to it but here is someone else who posted to this group and it just
blew me away:

a href="http://www.monochromatique.com/" monochromatique a

James

GW wrote:
Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on my website.

Thanks in advance.

Gary

http://www.garydwhalen.com


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Old April 13th 04, 05:45 PM
Michael Scarpitti
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Default New website - please review

GW wrote in message ...
Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on my website.

Thanks in advance.

Gary

http://www.garydwhalen.com

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Trite crap.
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Old April 13th 04, 06:01 PM
GW
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Default New website - please review

Well at least you gave insight and reasons. I must say that your review is
a tad wordy though.

GW wrote in message
...
Hello all,
I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have on my website.

Thanks in advance.

Gary

http://www.garydwhalen.com

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Trite crap.


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Old April 14th 04, 10:14 AM
Steve
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Default Gary Whalen

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:33:09 +1000, cargo wrote:

I'm sorry, but these photos look too post processed to me.


I'd largely agree with that. Also, the 'thumbnails' on menu pages are not
much smaller that the main pix. I found that, with the browser set to my
preferred window size, I was having to sideways scroll some of the menu
pages. Don't much care for the typography either - too loud. The whole
effect is a bit garish, which is a shame because you have some great
photographs. The layout feels a bit random, too, and the sections are
nested too deep - one menu page after another to get to the actual pix.

I am just starting to toy with some web design myself and there is a
lot to it but here is someone else who posted to this group and it just
blew me away:

a href="http://www.monochromatique.com/" monochromatique a


Disagree with you on this one. I found this site far too busy. It seemed to
be way too eager to impress me with gimmicks. Perhaps it is trying to
distract the visitor from the photographs, which I found somewhat banal. I
left with the impression that the author has a more promising career as a
programmer than as a photographer.
 




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