My Photography Blog

Hi Rikki,

You’ve got some lovely photos. I really liked the one of the kid sleeping on dad’s chest — took me back to about 12 months ago when we had a newborn:)

I didn’t like the loading thing on the front page; I can see how it’s useful the first time, when no photo has been loaded yet, but when you’re transitioning from one photo to the next, leave it out. Just fade from the first photo to the second photo — the user doesn’t need to know it’s loading.

I really didn’t like the music playing automatically when I went to the blog page — especially that there was no way to turn it off. In my book, that’s an absolute no no. If someone comes to your site who doesn’t feel like listening to your music, you’re giving them no choice but to just click away and leave your site! Plus, if they should happen to click around to a few different pages in your blog, they’ll end up hearing the start of the same song over and over…

Cheers,
Eric

Thanks Eric. The music was actually a new thing I was trying that’s only supposed to load on the slide show but for some reason, loads on all of them…. probably because of the fact that I have 5 articles open at a time. WHen it’s by itself and I move over to the next article, the music goes away. I’m still trying to figure that out.

Not sure I understand what you mean about the front page. Care to expand. Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it!

Rikki

Took your advice and I took out the flash slideshow (via Kimili plugin by the way) and just left the static image.

hey rikki,
I’m a fellow photographer and REALLY love your proofing site. What script are you using? Don’t worry I’m not competition, I’m in New Mexico, hahaha! Is it self maintained, or do you pay a third party to do it? My current is

https://www.mirabalphotography.com/proofing

I’m currently using OsCommerce shopping cart and it seems to be doing ok… but uour is GREAT!

Hi grimmothy. As luck would have it, I am checking and responding to this post here in New Mexico. Albuquerque to be exact. LOL!

I actually use SmugMug as my proofing site. It used to be the main site but static galleries weren’t doing so well so I decided to do it blogstyle. Let me know if you’re interested. I think I haave a $5 off coupon you can use if you want. You can also try them out for 30 days. If you don’t like it, you can always walk away. Let me know.

Cheers!

Rikki