girldad Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Site URL: https://photographs.williambheller.com Good morning all, I just set up a website for photographs I've taken over the years and I would be grateful for feedback on viewability, organization, and leaving people curious enough about what I might add in future so that they check back from time to time. I am not a professional photographer and I have no plans to try to sell my pictures, but for reasons that I can't explain even to myself (ego? A cry in the pandemic desert?) I want people to see and, hopefully, enjoy them. The earliest images are from 2013. I will be adding more from intervening years as I go through old files and as I take new pictures, so one question is how to highlight new additions---as things stands now (and given how adding images to the Squarespace gallery page seems to work), new additions go at the bottom of the page, which means that return visitors might have to do a lot of scrolling to get past what they've already seen. Would it be a good idea to have a "new additions" page? Thank you very much! Link to comment
derricksrandomviews Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 (edited) Your reasons for having a site a very much like mine. I think yours is well laid out, the galleries are doing the talking for you. Simple grid on a white background. Best way to view images, or thumbnails in my opinion. A new additions is a good idea, if you plan to add many new images. I don't in my galleries, but I do add new stories so they go to the top of my story wall. I really do need to rotate some images in my galleries. I would rather rotate than increase the number to a lot, I also post pictures in my story "blog" lots of slide shows. my random views Edited February 5, 2021 by derricksrandomviews Link to comment
girldad Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 Thank you. I've thought about rotating newly posted images to the top, but at the moment I have images posted chronologically (except for the "people" page, for which I decided for some reason to just post in order of appearance, as it were, with a couple of my favorite pictures leading the way). Nice pictures, by the way. I'd like to see more---maybe sorted into pages for ease of viewing? Link to comment
derricksrandomviews Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Sorted into pages...Tha is a good idea, I would use it but my site is so old that I am on a different personal plan than current one offrered. I have a 20 page limitation but can post code anywhere. I hit the page limit a long time ago, and now I rotate gallery pages in and out of my index, using the disable/enable function. girldad 1 Link to comment
Guest Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 On 2/5/2021 at 11:25 PM, derricksrandomviews said: Your reasons for having a site a very much like mine. I think yours is well laid out, the galleries are doing the talking for you. Simple grid on a white background. Best way to view images, or thumbnails in my opinion. A new additions is a good idea, if you plan to add many new images. I don't in my galleries, but I do add new stories so they go to the top of my story wall. I really do need to rotate some images in my galleries. I would rather rotate than increase the number to a lot, I also post pictures in my story "blog" lots of slide shows. check more Thanks for sharing such amazing thing. I also face this problem. Good work! Link to comment
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