Nice site, Petr, even though I couldn't read a word of it!
I assume you're paying for a premium site? If you are, then I'd suggest you eliminate the SmugMug header -- it just confuses the branding.
Good work!
From a look & feel perspective I would remove some of the empty space above your logo. The more space used like this the less is available to view your photos, forcing your viewers to scroll.
You should change the largest display size to something other than Original. Allowing access to the Original images means you are making your images available for free. I know, you have right click protection turned on. That is a poorly named feature - it doesn't protect anything. If an image is viewed in a browser it is in the browser cache and can be easily grabbed. See ORIGINALS = a gateway to free photos, & right click protection is NOT PROTECTION.
The text on your contact form is not readable. You might want to change the color to something lighter; dark gray against black doesn't work.
It looks like you have only uploaded small images but you have allowed access to the Originals. You might want to block access to the originals unless you were intending to allow downloads of the images.
I'd really appreciate some critique on my newly formed website built by me;
Any suggestion on how to improve it would be welcomed www.photographicunique.com
Nice site, Gary. Just a couple of very small points:
In the text for weddings, you use "I"; in the text for events, you use "We". That made me a little confused about your business -- are you one photographer, or a group of them?
Everything but Events and Portfolio is centered in the page; those two are left aligned. Doesn't seem quite consistent.
On the Portfolios page, you've got a "Gallery is Empty" on the bottom. I would get rid of that.
From everything I can tell, you are one person, but on several pages, you use the plural, e.g., "Photographic Unique are. . .". Unless you really are a collective, I think it would make more sense to use the singular.
Tomoscott, really valid points, that's why I like to ask for critique.
Not sure how to remove the empty gallery as below the portfolio. If I'm honest, I've had a nightmare putting this together!
Just about there with my site now, happy to receive contructive comments - www.snrmac.com. Only thing left for me to do is work out why I can't insert a footer that stays at the bottom of my homepage.
Hello everyone,
Just unveiled my updated site: www.jimgucciardo.com, and seeking any feedback and answers to a few questions if anyone can help...
1- Favicon still not showing up
2- I used a different "preview image" for a video on my homepage. it works when viewed on a desk/ or laptop, but not when viewed on an ipad.
3- Does anyone know if there has been changes to the video compression within smugmug, because to me it doesn't seem the same as the old one.
4- How can I add a downloadable PDF resume?
5- Is there a way to make all the video containers on my site the same size?
Hello everyone,
Just unveiled my updated site: www.jimgucciardo.com, and seeking any feedback and answers to a few questions if anyone can help...
1- Favicon still not showing up
2- I used a different "preview image" for a video on my homepage. it works when viewed on a desk/ or laptop, but not when viewed on an ipad.
3- Does anyone know if there has been changes to the video compression within smugmug, because to me it doesn't seem the same as the old one.
4- How can I add a downloadable PDF resume?
5- Is there a way to make all the video containers on my site the same size?
First of all, Beautiful work and I like the nice, clean & simple design of your site.
-The Favicon is showing up on Google Chrome and Fire Fox. I think IE has issues with favicons.
-The video player is different than the old one and in my opinion worse. My videos have a lot of glitches and freezes during playback.
-To change the containers on the site click on the little triangle thing on the blue window while you are in customize mode.
Thank you!
Dear David,
Thank you very much for taking the time and for the response, very much appreciate it.
Not sure what to do about the video issue. i'll drop the "heroes" a note and see what they say. I'm going to go and play with the boz sizes too. I've tried it but it acts a bit weird, maybe I just have to play with it a bit.
First of all, Beautiful work and I like the nice, clean & simple design of your site.
-The Favicon is showing up on Google Chrome and Fire Fox. I think IE has issues with favicons.
-The video player is different than the old one and in my opinion worse. My videos have a lot of glitches and freezes during playback.
-To change the containers on the site click on the little triangle thing on the blue window while you are in customize mode.
Hi.
Here is my New Smugmug Customized Site http://www.freezetimephoto.com/. The discussions in this forum have helped me a lot in doing many of the advanced customizations for my website. Thanks to everyone who is a part of this forum answering the queries.
I would be glad to get feeedbacks and improvement suggestions from the experts here
Very nice! It has a clean, finished look. A couple of very small points:
On the home page, you might want to right-align the "Photo Sharing by Smugmug" instead of having it intrude on your menu. Or, if you want to break the "rules", you can get rid of it completely -- just do a search in this forum.
Any reason why there's no search function? Using tags and having a search is a good way for people to find images they've forgotten, or to filter out favorites.
Hello everyone! I have slowly created my site at http://www.photospaced.com and am not sure if i like it.....I'm really wanting to create a new banner across the top with links but am not sure where to go to. So any input or guidance would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!! And I take constructive criticism pretty damn well! haha thanks everyone
Hello everyone! I have slowly created my site at http://www.photospaced.com and am not sure if i like it.....I'm really wanting to create a new banner across the top with links but am not sure where to go to. So any input or guidance would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!! And I take constructive criticism pretty damn well! haha thanks everyone
I created mine in CS6, not so fancy but best I could do
There are alot of guides on the internet so try to google some and you find some nice guides in creating watermarks, banners ect..
I think the fake wood background gives your site a dated look. I would recommend removing it.
You have "Your text here" at the bottom of the page. Why?
Are you aware you can remove the smugmug footer?
At least one of your galleries is set to hide owner = yes. This removes all traces of your customization. Are you sure that's what you want?
--- Denise
ok so this is what I've done so far.....removed the "your text here" (I was trying to add a "back to top" link but could not completely figure it out), I removed the header, and I did it before but the "log in" link disappeared before so i put it back on. And I found the gallery that had the hide owner as yes and clicked no, but what do you mean it removes all traces of the customization?? thanks for your input by the way, i'm going to mess around with themes regarding the background.
I long resisted converting to the new SmugMug, because I had done much customizing to numerous galleries over time. I wasn't looking forward to having to go through all that again, and I was troubled by the loss of JavaScript and embed support. Nevertheless, tired of the hoops I had to jump through to continue to use my legacy site, and propelled by the hint from the heroes that legacy would be DC'd in "many months", not years, I finally took the plunge.
I have spent the last two weeks creating and tweaking customizations to my site and various galleries. I'm neither a professional photographer, nor web-designer, so nothing fancy, but here it is: snoupi's studio
And one gallery I individually customized "just because": Autumn's Child
Other than missing the JavaScript and embed options, I'm pretty happy with the customizations I was able to accomplish -- and in a fairly short time, compared to the first time around. In that respect, the new SmugMug is certainly an improvement.
snoupi "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
I have spent the last two weeks creating and tweaking customizations to my site and various galleries. I'm neither a professional photographer, nor web-designer, so nothing fancy, but here it is: snoupi's studio
I have also individually customized several galleries to match, (more or less,) the websites and blogs with which they are associated. Below are links to one example of each:
You have a nice clean approach to your smug site.
The method you've used to match galleries to your other sites you have left your viewer without a path back to your smugmug site. That means in order to view other galleries the viewer must remember the original URL in order to get back to the starting point. That works nicely if your viewer started from the other site but it does not if your viewer started from your smugmug site. Do you want your viewers to transfer permanently to the other site or do you want to support further viewing of your smugmug site?
The method you've used to match galleries to your other sites you have left your viewer without a path back to your smugmug site. That means in order to view other galleries the viewer must remember the original URL in order to get back to the starting point. That works nicely if your viewer started from the other site but it does not if your viewer started from your smugmug site. Do you want your viewers to transfer permanently to the other site or do you want to support further viewing of your smugmug site?
--- Denise
Thank you, Denise. As you saw, I removed the breadcrumbs on those pages, because I thought they would be confusing to the viewer who arrived via the associated sites. There are links a Smugmug viewer can follow to other galleries within the folder from which they arrived, and I did add a link on all of them, "Galleries hosted on snoupi's SmugMug studio," to my SmugMug 'Browse' page, (which, interestingly, never shows up on breadcrumbs!)
snoupi "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
Feedback on new site
I just published a separate site off my main page. Its for the school basketball team, so kids and family are the viewers. I customized the folder, school colors, etc... There is a folder password - sfhs - 4 letters. There is a linkage back to my main smugmug site thru the home icon in the breadcrum. That will ask for a different pw. Ignore that linkage. The site i would like feedback on is at http://hewitt.smugmug.com/SFHS-Varsity. Any feedback welcome. If there is more I can do for social media for the kids, letmeknow. I had several earlier questions on a variety of things. Thanks for all the feedback on those questions.
I have become a real fan of yours. I am very impressed with your photography and website. You have an excellent aesthetic eye!
Question for you - "Where do you put the CSS for the rounded corners. I have tried on Homepage and Galleries to no avail. How did you get it going.
Your site is very good. Clean simple look in pale colours. Your images are very good, especially the people shots. You are fortunate to live in Venice - it must present great opportunities for photography. I do also like your 'about'. Very simple and to the point. I never know what to write in those things.
The CSS code for my lightbox is as follows. Send me a message if you get stuck
/* Round image corners and displayed in the Lightbox */
.sm-lightbox-image {
border:1px solid #c2c2c4;
border-radius:8px; /* round off the corners*/
max-width: 90%;
box-shadow: 8px 20px 18px -10px rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
}
Bill Hough Bonita Photos Capturing the beauty around us
I was looking for a clean look with simple navigations. I hope I managed, altho there are still some things I'd like to change a bit, but I can't (the way lightbox shows photos for example).
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I assume you're paying for a premium site? If you are, then I'd suggest you eliminate the SmugMug header -- it just confuses the branding.
Good work!
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www.carosu.com
I'd really appreciate some critique on my newly formed website built by me;
Any suggestion on how to improve it would be welcomed
www.photographicunique.com
All the best,
Gary
From a look & feel perspective I would remove some of the empty space above your logo. The more space used like this the less is available to view your photos, forcing your viewers to scroll.
You should change the largest display size to something other than Original. Allowing access to the Original images means you are making your images available for free. I know, you have right click protection turned on. That is a poorly named feature - it doesn't protect anything. If an image is viewed in a browser it is in the browser cache and can be easily grabbed. See ORIGINALS = a gateway to free photos, & right click protection is NOT PROTECTION.
The text on your contact form is not readable. You might want to change the color to something lighter; dark gray against black doesn't work.
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
It looks like you have only uploaded small images but you have allowed access to the Originals. You might want to block access to the originals unless you were intending to allow downloads of the images.
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
Nice site, Gary. Just a couple of very small points:
- In the text for weddings, you use "I"; in the text for events, you use "We". That made me a little confused about your business -- are you one photographer, or a group of them?
- Everything but Events and Portfolio is centered in the page; those two are left aligned. Doesn't seem quite consistent.
- On the Portfolios page, you've got a "Gallery is Empty" on the bottom. I would get rid of that.
- From everything I can tell, you are one person, but on several pages, you use the plural, e.g., "Photographic Unique are. . .". Unless you really are a collective, I think it would make more sense to use the singular.
Like I say, these are all minor points.Instagram Twitter Facebook
Not sure how to remove the empty gallery as below the portfolio. If I'm honest, I've had a nightmare putting this together!
Thanks for e pointers though everyone!
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Just unveiled my updated site: www.jimgucciardo.com, and seeking any feedback and answers to a few questions if anyone can help...
1- Favicon still not showing up
2- I used a different "preview image" for a video on my homepage. it works when viewed on a desk/ or laptop, but not when viewed on an ipad.
3- Does anyone know if there has been changes to the video compression within smugmug, because to me it doesn't seem the same as the old one.
4- How can I add a downloadable PDF resume?
5- Is there a way to make all the video containers on my site the same size?
Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you
Jim
www.jimgucciardo.com
First of all, Beautiful work and I like the nice, clean & simple design of your site.
-The Favicon is showing up on Google Chrome and Fire Fox. I think IE has issues with favicons.
-The video player is different than the old one and in my opinion worse. My videos have a lot of glitches and freezes during playback.
-To change the containers on the site click on the little triangle thing on the blue window while you are in customize mode.
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Dear David,
Thank you very much for taking the time and for the response, very much appreciate it.
Not sure what to do about the video issue. i'll drop the "heroes" a note and see what they say. I'm going to go and play with the boz sizes too. I've tried it but it acts a bit weird, maybe I just have to play with it a bit.
Hello everyone,
I just unveiled my new updated site: www.jimgucciardo.com. Any comments, suggestions, or feedback appreciated.
Thanks!
Jim
I've taken the option off my site now, but have a look here http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=239083&highlight=brochure
Here is my New Smugmug Customized Site http://www.freezetimephoto.com/. The discussions in this forum have helped me a lot in doing many of the advanced customizations for my website. Thanks to everyone who is a part of this forum answering the queries.
I would be glad to get feeedbacks and improvement suggestions from the experts here
Regards,
Murali
What is the color code for your green text, looks nice.
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
I re designed my website. please have a look and thank you for any feedback.
http://www.sebastienphotography.com
Thanks.
Seb
Very nice! It has a clean, finished look. A couple of very small points:
- On the home page, you might want to right-align the "Photo Sharing by Smugmug" instead of having it intrude on your menu. Or, if you want to break the "rules", you can get rid of it completely -- just do a search in this forum.
- Any reason why there's no search function? Using tags and having a search is a good way for people to find images they've forgotten, or to filter out favorites.
- No "About" page?
Small points, I know.Instagram Twitter Facebook
Newbie in Action
http://www.photospaced.com
I created mine in CS6, not so fancy but best I could do
There are alot of guides on the internet so try to google some and you find some nice guides in creating watermarks, banners ect..
Edit: Nvm I was thinking about something else lol
www.carosu.com
I think the fake wood background gives your site a dated look. I would recommend removing it.
You have "Your text here" at the bottom of the page. Why?
Are you aware you can remove the smugmug footer?
At least one of your galleries is set to hide owner = yes. This removes all traces of your customization. Are you sure that's what you want?
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
ok so this is what I've done so far.....removed the "your text here" (I was trying to add a "back to top" link but could not completely figure it out), I removed the header, and I did it before but the "log in" link disappeared before so i put it back on. And I found the gallery that had the hide owner as yes and clicked no, but what do you mean it removes all traces of the customization?? thanks for your input by the way, i'm going to mess around with themes regarding the background.
Newbie in Action
http://www.photospaced.com
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
You're the best! I did not know that. Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.
Newbie in Action
http://www.photospaced.com
I have spent the last two weeks creating and tweaking customizations to my site and various galleries. I'm neither a professional photographer, nor web-designer, so nothing fancy, but here it is: snoupi's studio
I have also individually customized several galleries to match, (more or less,) the websites and blogs with which they are associated. Below are links to one example of each:
Ma Normandie - http://snoupis-studio.smugmug.com/Ma-Normandie/Avranches/Avranches/
The Jealous Sea - http://snoupis-studio.smugmug.com/The-Jealous-Sea/Seascapes/
Tony's Music - http://snoupis-studio.smugmug.com/TonysMusic/Photo-Gallery/
À Pied à Cheval et à Vélo - http://snoupis-studio.smugmug.com/A-Pied-a-Cheval-et-a-Velo/a-Velo/Cape-Ann-9-18-2010/
Hideaway Galleries - http://snoupis-studio.smugmug.com/HideawayMeadows/Back-in-the-Day/
And one gallery I individually customized "just because": Autumn's Child
Other than missing the JavaScript and embed options, I'm pretty happy with the customizations I was able to accomplish -- and in a fairly short time, compared to the first time around. In that respect, the new SmugMug is certainly an improvement.
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
The method you've used to match galleries to your other sites you have left your viewer without a path back to your smugmug site. That means in order to view other galleries the viewer must remember the original URL in order to get back to the starting point. That works nicely if your viewer started from the other site but it does not if your viewer started from your smugmug site. Do you want your viewers to transfer permanently to the other site or do you want to support further viewing of your smugmug site?
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
I just published a separate site off my main page. Its for the school basketball team, so kids and family are the viewers. I customized the folder, school colors, etc... There is a folder password - sfhs - 4 letters. There is a linkage back to my main smugmug site thru the home icon in the breadcrum. That will ask for a different pw. Ignore that linkage. The site i would like feedback on is at http://hewitt.smugmug.com/SFHS-Varsity. Any feedback welcome. If there is more I can do for social media for the kids, letmeknow. I had several earlier questions on a variety of things. Thanks for all the feedback on those questions.
Hi Rob,
I have become a real fan of yours. I am very impressed with your photography and website. You have an excellent aesthetic eye!
Question for you - "Where do you put the CSS for the rounded corners. I have tried on Homepage and Galleries to no avail. How did you get it going.
Thanks.
Bill
Still using Legacy at www.bonitaphotos.com
bill@bonitaphotos.com
Bonita Photos
Capturing the beauty around us
http://www.bonitaphotos.com
I was looking for a clean look with simple navigations. I hope I managed, altho there are still some things I'd like to change a bit, but I can't (the way lightbox shows photos for example).