New portfolio website

Hi all,

Would love to hear your comments on my new portfolio site:

http://www.dublindigital.com

It's not really intended to attract business just yet, but just to showcase some of my images. All images were taken with either a D70 or D200.

I would like to hear your thoughts on the images themselves as well as the site as a vehicle for displaying them.

Thanks in advance.

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Éire Abu

The site did not load for me ;(

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• Sergey

http://www.pbase.com/sngreen

but honestly I was not crazy about the site design. It felt like I was at a card game. Also, It wasn't clear that I could select an image before all of the images were displayed. Others may feel differently, but that's my $.02
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Jeff

Dublin said:

Check out my gallery at http://www.jkphotogallery.com

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the first page loads, I can click on one picture but that's it - I can't do anything more after that.

I use Firefox.

Ralph
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http://www.digitalfrog.nl

Dublin said:

Hi all,

Would love to hear your comments on my new portfolio site:

http://www.dublindigital.com

It's not really intended to attract business just yet, but just to
showcase some of my images. All images were taken with either a D70
or D200.

I would like to hear your thoughts on the images themselves as well
as the site as a vehicle for displaying them.

Thanks in advance.

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Éire Abu

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The good news is that it is kind of a cool Flash effect and you have some really nice shots.

I think it would be fine for family photos or some other non-business use but I don't think you are going to find many people other than perhaps family and friends that will tolerate trying to figure out what to click and how many times they have to click.

It is also pretty slow to bring up a clicked photo.

I love the Flash effect as perhaps a single page in the site but I hate it as a way to look at photos. Way too much clicking involved. If you are going to do that I think you should include a slide show option.

You might be able to transform it into some kind of navigation tool if you REALLY are attached to it. Maybe a few less photos flowering out. If you had maybe 5 or 6 obviously larger ones that obviously navigate to other pages it MAY work better.

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Ed C.

Thanks very much for all your comments and suggestions.. plenty of advice there to keep me busy for a while.
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Éire Abu

the concept is awesome. I think it's a great way to see photography since you get a view of all your work. I think it's a bit too much, since you have to wait for all the photos to be thrown out at once. I think you need an initial splash page first that has the same concept in a smaller / quicker form. Then you click into your entire portfolio site that could have categories. Good job though -

Dublin said:

Hi all,

Would love to hear your comments on my new portfolio site:

http://www.dublindigital.com

It's not really intended to attract business just yet, but just to
showcase some of my images. All images were taken with either a D70
or D200.

I would like to hear your thoughts on the images themselves as well
as the site as a vehicle for displaying them.

Thanks in advance.

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Éire Abu

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'Procrastinate now, don't put it off.'

I loved it. A nice change from the standard thumbnail site. It would be very cool if you had a couple of buttons somewhere to allow the images to be rearranged by category. Keep the same layout but shuffle all the people images into one area of the "wreath", plants to another...

Did you purchase the layout or create it yourself?

-Roy

I waited for what seemed like a very long time before anything happened.

After it had loaded I clicked on a picture and nothing. So I popped back in here to make a comment.

I hope this has not taken the wind out of your sails. Perhaps a normal HTML version so people get to see something and give them the option to visit your flash site. Just a suggestion.

Cheers

Very nice portfolio! How did you do that site? it comes very handy to see all the pictures at once.

I love your creativity but the process makes it a jumbled up mess to me. Portfolios and websites should be clean, concise, easy to maneuver and detailed enough to maintain the interest of the viewer. After I watched the growth of your images popping out of the center I was fascinated but had no clue what to look at first or if I even wanted to look at them.

You are obviously a very creative person. I would suggest that you design a website that incorporates your creativity but with the viewer totally in mind. Your objective should be to stimulate viewer activity, not discourage it.

same for me, XP Pro - loaded the first page then selected one pic and the page froze.

I dont thnk the page show off your photos that well. I like the start, but when browsing or looking at the photo, they are really small and cant really see them.
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Al

That's spectacular!

I absolutely love the idea. it's great, and works damn well too!

For a personal website I'd say thumbs up (10/10 cool factor)

For a business website I'd say thumbs down (not efficient & quick enough). Rule #1 above else for a business page is that it has to be fast loading. Any slowdowns is enough to move customers somewhere else.