Sneak preview of my new website.

[Flibster]

As I seem to be selling more photo's than I'm taking at the moment *which is frankly strange for me* I've decided I need a decent web page to display/sell them from.

As a little sneak preview *and so I can get an idea of what people think*

http://www.sbfphotography.com/index_temp.html

It's only rough at the moment. Will be removing one line of images I think to make it a bit more friendy to lower resolutions. The small images won't be linked through to anything at the moment. Will be working on something though.

You are the first people to see it other than my other half also. I'm designing it on the fly as well - no paper notes or anything. Apart from a couple colour codes noted down.

Have just installed Gallery to have a play with that.
Also found a couple of seemingly good mods for phpBB that I'll be trying along with jAlbum again.

To sell prints I'll just link each image through to the appropriate image on photobox.com tbh. Can't be bothered to process them all manually.

Feel free to rip it apart. :D

Simon/~Flibster

[semi-pro waster]

It looks nice and clear although as you obviously know there isn't much there in the way of things to see or links yet so it is difficult to give a full view. I do like the pictures that I can see though. :)

[Burble]

I browse with Firefox maximised on a 24" screen and it pains me when sites use a small %age of the browser window.

[Flibster]

On my 24" screens I tend to have 2 windows open at a time.

I could make it dynamically resize - but it then look very nasty on widescreens.

I'm trying to make it useable on 800x600 and ideal for 1024x768. I run my 21" at home at 1600x1200 and the 3 rows of images look fine, but would scroll off the bottom of a 1024x768 screen.

It's a pain....

[Burble]

I don't have a problem with dynamic resizing, I think it works quite well. I know that 1920x1200 isn't the usual resolution to browse at, but people are getting bigger monitors these days so I always write html with that in mind.

[petemc]

I browse with Firefox maximised on a 24" screen and it pains me when sites use a small %age of the browser window.

You're in the minority I'd imagine. Designing sites to a fixed with is better as it makes it easier to read. Its the reason why newspaper articles in the Times don't stretch the full width of the paper.

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200504/about_fluid_and_fixed_width_layouts/

As for the site, why not use your own images instead of a stereotypical picture of cameras. You don't need to show people that to prove that you're a photographer. Oh and splash screens are bad :)

[Flibster]

Aaaah. Thats the other bit....
I didn't write the html. :D

Sad to say, but I used Macromedia Contribute 3 to create the main page.

I can't be bothered to learn HTML. I don't intend to do many pages so not knowing any will be fine. :D

Simon/~Flibster