Photography Web Site - Don'ts

Ruidoso Bill

Senior Member
I do some small scale web design in my business, just did one for an author which got me thinking about photography web sites. Found this about some things not to do in web design. There are some really bad sites out there.

Web Site Suggestions

My big pet peeve is a lenghty list of "Equipment used" like anyone really cares what brand, other than other users of that equipment.

Don't forget to click the web sites that suck link, very entertaining.
 
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Browncoat

Senior Member
I'm glad that my photography is starting to pick up as a business. I think if I had to keep doing web design all the time, I would go insane. You're absolutely right, there's some really bad stuff out there. It always cracks me up when people think they can read a "For Dummies" book and come up with a good website LOL.
 

Fen

New member
Most entertaining :)

I still have to do the website design and sometimes I can't believe what my clients ask me to put together. Can take an awful lot of persuasion to get them to see the wrongness of what they ask for!
 
I'm in school for website design - Dreamweaver level 1 class, as well as XHTML/CSS 2 class. It's interesting the little things that can mean so much in website design and layout.
According to the teacher, navigation bars should be made of unordered lists, modified to the horizontal position and laid out properly.
 

Ruidoso Bill

Senior Member
Most entertaining :)

I still have to do the website design and sometimes I can't believe what my clients ask me to put together. Can take an awful lot of persuasion to get them to see the wrongness of what they ask for!

We could start a list: How about clients that are in the "I LOVE ME" mode, those that want music on their site, and those that think more is better when it comes to images. I grow weary explaining download time.

Guess these are right there with the long equipment list on photographers sites.
 
Take a look at Ruby on Rails, which is also great for SEO and is probably a bit faster than jQuery.

I'll take a look at it. In order to make a site which is 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant, as well as something that is searchable when I keyword the images, I want to have the best photo display solution available. I'll look up Ruby on Rails...weird name for a programming language, but if it works, it works.
 
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