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New website - please review
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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New website - please review
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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New website - please review
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. -- Joe http://www.joekaz.net/ http://www.cafeshops.com/joekaz |
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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 -- Very nice photos. They really stand out compared to a lot of online galleries. Thanks for sharing! Karl Winkler http://pages.cthome.net/karlwinkler |
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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. -- Eric http://canid.com/ |
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Gary Whalen
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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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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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 -- Trite crap. |
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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 -- Trite crap. |
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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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