(I think it's an issue with all the thumbnail views, not sure if they all come from the same template).
Sorry Starry that I missed your post earlier. Not sure what you are seeing? The link you posted took me to a young girl playing a piano at the "41 pianos" event to kick off the 2015 Pan-Am games in Toronto (gee, that sounds like a PaAm plug-no idea why) Did you mean if you zoom your monitor in/out?
Confused but happy in Toronto
My New Website
After much consternation and gnashing of teeth, I have tweaked, re-tweaked, re-organized and re-named the vast majority of my website and it is finally ready.
After much consternation and gnashing of teeth, I have tweaked, re-tweaked, re-organized and re-named the vast majority of my website and it is finally ready.
I played around with the navigation and organization quite a bit. I wanted it easy for customers, casual observers and family to navigate.
Thanks for taking a look. Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Jake
Wonderful site! Seems like everyone is jumping on the "white" band wagon....your site is unique and the photography is stunning! The site does not "get in the way" of the beautiful images.
My humble non-commercial Smugmug site
Well, here's mine - http://jamesfarrell.smugmug.com (power user account). I LOOK FORWARD TO ANY COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS. Notes: I stuck with the SmugMug gallery design because I thought it best served my gallery descriptions and image captions which in many cases are lengthy. That said, I'm trying to tell a story with each picture.
I will say that despite being with Smugmug for 7 years, I found working with site customization to be very difficult as 'how to" documentation was skimpy as best. I listened to webinars until I was blue in the face. It took awhile, but I think I'm making progress. Not happy with the wasted space to the right of image captions. Looking to learn how to correct that.
I look forward to any comments - good or bad. Thanks.
Well, here's mine - http://jamesfarrell.smugmug.com (power user account). I LOOK FORWARD TO ANY COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS. Notes: I stuck with the SmugMug gallery design because I thought it best served my gallery descriptions and image captions which in many cases are lengthy. That said, I'm trying to tell a story with each picture.
I will say that despite being with Smugmug for 7 years, I found working with site customization to be very difficult as 'how to" documentation was skimpy as best. I listened to webinars until I was blue in the face. It took awhile, but I think I'm making progress. Not happy with the wasted space to the right of image captions. Looking to learn how to correct that.
I look forward to any comments - good or bad. Thanks.
I would like to see some type of feedback (another color) when I hover over a linkable text/image. I'm not a fan of the background colors for each galleries. I thought I went to another site at first. I would keep the background color the same throughout the site.
Wonderful site! Seems like everyone is jumping on the "white" band wagon....your site is unique and the photography is stunning! The site does not "get in the way" of the beautiful images.
Thanks Karen! I played around with quite a few templates light, dark and in between, but settled on black as your eye goes straight to the images.
You have some wonderful images, I especially loved your hummingbird and travel images!
On your website - I like the concept, navigation, but I'm not a fan of rounded corners and the background color distracts from your beautiful images. I'm all for clean and simple. Have you tried black or white?
Best of luck to you with your photography and website.
Thanks,
Jake
Thanks,
Jake
Website: www.frozenshutter.com
"Some people hunt with a rifle, I hunt with a Canon" ~ Gary Jacobson
Thanks, Jake. I appreciate your comments on some of my images. Your thoughts mimic how I'm feeling about the site.
Actually I'm trying to change over to black or white "in the background" without messing up the public view. That's ticklish, because sometimes I end up changing my public view when I'm not ready!
Don't know if the header background image will stay or not.
My old website was very light, actually a pale peach color....
I'm now doubting my choice of design. Perhaps I'm too close to it and should leave it alone for a while. I might even like it again.
BTW SM have just informed me that the keyword content block is limited to 255.
That means a) it's not working and b) that's not going to be enough for me
I'm now doubting my choice of design. Perhaps I'm too close to it and should leave it alone for a while. I might even like it again.
I often find it best to take a break from things and come back to it later. Your layout looks fine to me. If you want to make it a little more appealing (maybe you don't) a page with some brief details about yourself and your photography might help?
I'm now doubting my choice of design. Perhaps I'm too close to it and should leave it alone for a while. I might even like it again.
BTW SM have just informed me that the keyword content block is limited to 255.
That means a) it's not working and b) that's not going to be enough for me
I would like to see some type of feedback (another color) when I hover over a linkable text/image. I'm not a fan of the background colors for each galleries. I thought I went to another site at first. I would keep the background color the same throughout the site.
I agree with the different background colors might be confusing to some folks. That's an easy fix. But I don't quite follow your initial comment about "some type of feedback ... when hovering." Please elaborate. This is not a pro account nor do I have linkable text that I can recall. So that comment has me stumped.
Hello, my website is below, I used the Template Zoe..... I wanted my website to be nice and clean plus easy to navigate for people, nothing too busy also I wanted the layout to look well on phones or tablets. So I edited the template Zoe a bit, also used smugmugs contact me form. My older smugmug site was all black, I went with white this time and love the new smugmug look.
Chiller, you're doing some interesting work. Somewhat dark, no question, but lots of skill and humor going on here as well. Gahan WIlson must have started the same way. I quite like what you're doing. Don't think I'll hire the cellar for sleepovers though. It would be a real add-on for me if you had some captions so we knew where and what was what but it'syour choice and you did well and good to see your in Toronto, too.
Cheers man,
By the way, the cellar is hilarious -did you know- once you get into the cellar thee is no way out. Yikes.
Were most of the abandonments shot in TO?
Thank you so much for your kind words. Been tinkering around all day and working on that getting locked in the cellar bit. I removed a breadcrumb by accident, and forgot how to get it back in there.
Im hoping to start pushing more of my darker horror genre, so I went with a nice dark feel.
Many of the abandoned building are in and around the TO area, and many are from the US.
Im in the works of adding some captions as well. With my abandoned gallery, I tend to stay away from naming places, mostly do to people searching them out and vandalism.
Thanks again for taking the time to check things out. Muchly appreciated.
Thank you so much for your kind words. Been tinkering around all day and working on that getting locked in the cellar bit. I removed a breadcrumb by accident, and forgot how to get it back in there.
Im hoping to start pushing more of my darker horror genre, so I went with a nice dark feel.
Many of the abandoned building are in and around the TO area, and many are from the US.
Im in the works of adding some captions as well. With my abandoned gallery, I tend to stay away from naming places, mostly do to people searching them out and vandalism.
Thanks again for taking the time to check things out. Muchly appreciated.
You created the cellar and you're worried about vandalism? And you're looking for a breadcrum in that cellar? rofl
For breadcrumbs: customize/all folders/galleries/content/wrench/breadcrumbs/show current page+display full (selecting emphasize makes the current page breadcrumb much larger -which, in your cellar might be a good thing):)
Later -good work
I agree with the different background colors might be confusing to some folks. That's an easy fix. But I don't quite follow your initial comment about "some type of feedback ... when hovering." Please elaborate. This is not a pro account nor do I have linkable text that I can recall. So that comment has me stumped.
I was referring to your navigation bar. When you hover over one of your nav links (like 'About Me', 'Costa Rica' etc) there is no change (feedback) of color or underline. I'm not familiar with the other accounts, so maybe you can't add any custom CSS.
Same thing with your gallery thumbnails. I like to see a change when I hover over a thumbnail. A change of opacity or a border change etc.
Your site looks good, but you need to add more images to the home screen. On my 27" screen I am only getting two rows of pictures leaving the bottom half of the screen blank.
Oh! I'll add more photos buddy. Thanks for the review.
Your site looks good, but you need to add more images to the home screen. On my 27" screen I am only getting two rows of pictures leaving the bottom half of the screen blank.
I've seen some great sites posted! Finally got around to giving my site an update. It's something I'd been thinking about long before the "new" SmugMug was released. But, the timing worked out and the new tools are great.
I see that a few folks are indicating which template they are basing their new sites on here but for the most part I am left in the dark guessing what they started with. Is there anyway to cipher that out behind the scenes using 'View Source Code' in my browser?
Hint: - I hope more people will mention that in their 'See My Site' posts.
I see that a few folks are indicating which template they are basing their new sites on here but for the most part I am left in the dark guessing what they started with. Is there anyway to cipher that out behind the scenes using 'View Source Code' in my browser?
Hint: - I hope more people will mention that in their 'See My Site' posts.
Gary
Not sure how useful it would be to know that. I started with the 'dina' theme, but I changed so much that it now bears very little relationship to dina. Of course, if someone doesn't do too much customisation the relationsip to the original theme will be closer.
I see that a few folks are indicating which template they are basing their new sites on here but for the most part I am left in the dark guessing what they started with. Is there anyway to cipher that out behind the scenes using 'View Source Code' in my browser?
Hint: - I hope more people will mention that in their 'See My Site' posts.
Hey, not a bad idea! I would like to know the base themes they all started with as well.
My Smugmug
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
I've seen some great sites posted! Finally got around to giving my site an update. It's something I'd been thinking about long before the "new" SmugMug was released. But, the timing worked out and the new tools are great.
Sorry Starry that I missed your post earlier. Not sure what you are seeing? The link you posted took me to a young girl playing a piano at the "41 pianos" event to kick off the 2015 Pan-Am games in Toronto (gee, that sounds like a PaAm plug-no idea why) Did you mean if you zoom your monitor in/out?
Confused but happy in Toronto
Hi There -- the issue occurs with the thumbnail view for galleries. not sure if the other page was a thumbnail gallery when I viewed it, but perhaps? If you've been working on your galleries?
Seems to still have a version of the problem though not as severely because you don't have more than one page of thumbnail images.
But on an iPad, the thumbs are different sizes if you view the site in portrait and then switch to landscape. On a Mac, the thumbs don't resize properly. This is just style in a gallery with just a small number of pictures but a flaw if there are a lot of pictures Because the thumbs stop matching the preview picture) The other site link shows the problem more severely.
I've seen some great sites posted! Finally got around to giving my site an update. It's something I'd been thinking about long before the "new" SmugMug was released. But, the timing worked out and the new tools are great.
I've seen some great sites posted! Finally got around to giving my site an update. It's something I'd been thinking about long before the "new" SmugMug was released. But, the timing worked out and the new tools are great.
I petty much have the same navigation as where my Legacy site had left off. However, I will be doing some more tweaking/experimenting to improve it from where it's at now.
I don't surf the internet using tablets or cellphones at all, so I have no idea how it looks on those platforms.
I had started off with the "Moss" design and went from there.
I don't surf the internet using tablets or cellphones at all, so I have no idea how it looks on those platforms.
It looks good on my Samsung S3. The only slight thing is the gallery level images are quite big on the screen, whereas mine look much smaller. There's an option in customisation that 'collapses images' for web use. But I can't recall where it is!
I was referring to your navigation bar. When you hover over one of your nav links (like 'About Me', 'Costa Rica' etc) there is no change (feedback) of color or underline. I'm not familiar with the other accounts, so maybe you can't add any custom CSS.
Same thing with your gallery thumbnails. I like to see a change when I hover over a thumbnail. A change of opacity or a border change etc.
Thanks for the continued feedback, Mike. I am not sure that I can do what you suggest (mine is a power account which lacks some of the functionality of the "pro" accounts (I think)). The only "hover" response I've been able to add so far is when one is in a particular gallery, if you hover over the nav bar and the galleries collections listed in the nav bar, a sub-menu of galleries appears. I agree that it would be nice to get the "feedback" you mentioned. Just not sure I can do it at my account level. If others reading this disagree, please let me know. Thanks again for taking the time to look things over.
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Confused but happy in Toronto
Charles
Brampton, Canada
www.charlesdalyphotography.com
After much consternation and gnashing of teeth, I have tweaked, re-tweaked, re-organized and re-named the vast majority of my website and it is finally ready.
Here is my newly converted website: www.frozenshutter.com
I played around with the navigation and organization quite a bit. I wanted it easy for customers, casual observers and family to navigate.
Thanks for taking a look. Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Jake
Jake
Website: www.frozenshutter.com
"Some people hunt with a rifle, I hunt with a Canon" ~ Gary Jacobson
Wonderful site! Seems like everyone is jumping on the "white" band wagon....your site is unique and the photography is stunning! The site does not "get in the way" of the beautiful images.
www.butlerkid.smugmug.com
*edit* - unless this is an issue with Chrome, I noticed that your "back to top" button is a broken link on your gallery pages.
Thank you! I'm still not totally happy with my site....I feel the site design gets in the way of the images....
Truly appreciate the comment and welcome suggestions for improvement.
www.butlerkid.smugmug.com
Well, here's mine - http://jamesfarrell.smugmug.com (power user account). I LOOK FORWARD TO ANY COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS. Notes: I stuck with the SmugMug gallery design because I thought it best served my gallery descriptions and image captions which in many cases are lengthy. That said, I'm trying to tell a story with each picture.
I will say that despite being with Smugmug for 7 years, I found working with site customization to be very difficult as 'how to" documentation was skimpy as best. I listened to webinars until I was blue in the face. It took awhile, but I think I'm making progress. Not happy with the wasted space to the right of image captions. Looking to learn how to correct that.
I look forward to any comments - good or bad. Thanks.
Prescott, AZ
http://jamesfarrell.smugmug.com
I would like to see some type of feedback (another color) when I hover over a linkable text/image. I'm not a fan of the background colors for each galleries. I thought I went to another site at first. I would keep the background color the same throughout the site.
Images in the Backcountry
My SmugMug Customizations | Adding CSS to Your Site | SEO for the Photographer | Locate Your Page/Widget Number | SmugMug Help Desk
Thanks Karen! I played around with quite a few templates light, dark and in between, but settled on black as your eye goes straight to the images.
You have some wonderful images, I especially loved your hummingbird and travel images!
On your website - I like the concept, navigation, but I'm not a fan of rounded corners and the background color distracts from your beautiful images. I'm all for clean and simple. Have you tried black or white?
Best of luck to you with your photography and website.
Thanks,
Jake
Jake
Website: www.frozenshutter.com
"Some people hunt with a rifle, I hunt with a Canon" ~ Gary Jacobson
Actually I'm trying to change over to black or white "in the background" without messing up the public view. That's ticklish, because sometimes I end up changing my public view when I'm not ready!
Don't know if the header background image will stay or not.
My old website was very light, actually a pale peach color....
www.butlerkid.smugmug.com
BTW SM have just informed me that the keyword content block is limited to 255.
That means a) it's not working and b) that's not going to be enough for me
http://www.lostonmarsphotography.com
I often find it best to take a break from things and come back to it later. Your layout looks fine to me. If you want to make it a little more appealing (maybe you don't) a page with some brief details about yourself and your photography might help?
Yep, I do the same thing.
Images in the Backcountry
My SmugMug Customizations | Adding CSS to Your Site | SEO for the Photographer | Locate Your Page/Widget Number | SmugMug Help Desk
I agree with the different background colors might be confusing to some folks. That's an easy fix. But I don't quite follow your initial comment about "some type of feedback ... when hovering." Please elaborate. This is not a pro account nor do I have linkable text that I can recall. So that comment has me stumped.
Prescott, AZ
http://jamesfarrell.smugmug.com
Great site. One question how did you get the large slide show? Thanks
www.rakmilphotography.com
Thank you so much for your kind words. Been tinkering around all day and working on that getting locked in the cellar bit.
Im hoping to start pushing more of my darker horror genre, so I went with a nice dark feel.
Many of the abandoned building are in and around the TO area, and many are from the US.
Im in the works of adding some captions as well. With my abandoned gallery, I tend to stay away from naming places, mostly do to people searching them out and vandalism.
Thanks again for taking the time to check things out. Muchly appreciated.
For breadcrumbs: customize/all folders/galleries/content/wrench/breadcrumbs/show current page+display full (selecting emphasize makes the current page breadcrumb much larger -which, in your cellar might be a good thing):)
Later -good work
Charles
Brampton, Canada
www.charlesdalyphotography.com
I was referring to your navigation bar. When you hover over one of your nav links (like 'About Me', 'Costa Rica' etc) there is no change (feedback) of color or underline. I'm not familiar with the other accounts, so maybe you can't add any custom CSS.
Same thing with your gallery thumbnails. I like to see a change when I hover over a thumbnail. A change of opacity or a border change etc.
Images in the Backcountry
My SmugMug Customizations | Adding CSS to Your Site | SEO for the Photographer | Locate Your Page/Widget Number | SmugMug Help Desk
Oh! I'll add more photos buddy. Thanks for the review.
Hahaha... 'conact' is corrected now
Anyway, here's my site:
www.travisgrahamphotography.com
I'm certain I'll make little changes here and there, but overall I'm pretty happy with it.
Thanks for looking and enjoy!
Hint: - I hope more people will mention that in their 'See My Site' posts.
Gary
Not sure how useful it would be to know that. I started with the 'dina' theme, but I changed so much that it now bears very little relationship to dina. Of course, if someone doesn't do too much customisation the relationsip to the original theme will be closer.
Hey, not a bad idea! I would like to know the base themes they all started with as well.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
Great site. Nice and clean. I suggest you make your blog open up in a new window or tab so that it doesn't navigate away from your website.
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Hi There -- the issue occurs with the thumbnail view for galleries. not sure if the other page was a thumbnail gallery when I viewed it, but perhaps? If you've been working on your galleries?
http://www.charlesdalyphotography.com/Photography/Julie
Seems to still have a version of the problem though not as severely because you don't have more than one page of thumbnail images.
But on an iPad, the thumbs are different sizes if you view the site in portrait and then switch to landscape. On a Mac, the thumbs don't resize properly. This is just style in a gallery with just a small number of pictures but a flaw if there are a lot of pictures Because the thumbs stop matching the preview picture) The other site link shows the problem more severely.
Good job, you've got a nice clean layout and nicely organized. I think I need to reconsider how I have my folders and galleries organized.
http://www.thomasroper.com
Nice layout, and you have kept it simple. Love the pony shot on the homepage, but with all that negative space on the left I think he needs a FRIEND
Great sites here! I just "unveiled" my own site today.
www.pmbimages.com
I petty much have the same navigation as where my Legacy site had left off. However, I will be doing some more tweaking/experimenting to improve it from where it's at now.
I don't surf the internet using tablets or cellphones at all, so I have no idea how it looks on those platforms.
I had started off with the "Moss" design and went from there.
Film/TV Stills Photography
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." ~ Henry J. Kaiser
It looks good on my Samsung S3. The only slight thing is the gallery level images are quite big on the screen, whereas mine look much smaller. There's an option in customisation that 'collapses images' for web use. But I can't recall where it is!
Your photography is very good.
Thanks for the continued feedback, Mike. I am not sure that I can do what you suggest (mine is a power account which lacks some of the functionality of the "pro" accounts (I think)). The only "hover" response I've been able to add so far is when one is in a particular gallery, if you hover over the nav bar and the galleries collections listed in the nav bar, a sub-menu of galleries appears. I agree that it would be nice to get the "feedback" you mentioned. Just not sure I can do it at my account level. If others reading this disagree, please let me know. Thanks again for taking the time to look things over.
Prescott, AZ
http://jamesfarrell.smugmug.com