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March 27, 2008, 10:36:26 AM

Hey everyone, I need help, pretty please...

This is what I am thinking of using for my front page for my new website, please be brutal and tell me what you think.
I am not a website designing pro, but I can do basic html. I am planning on this being an image on the front page and using the image mapping thing to make the links clickable.

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Susie
www.charlesbarnardphotography.com
www.definitionimages.com

Marian Murdoch

Reply #1 - March 27, 2008, 10:53:57 AM

That image is just beautiful, but you might want to touch up her thigh a bit. I see some veins there. Wink

As for the page, your text is very pixely along the edges.

Other than that, it makes ME want to hire you!

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Comments and Harsh Critiques gladly accepted. My photos are ok to edit.

My photos and art: http://wildmaven.org

Ginnypenny

Reply #2 - March 27, 2008, 11:07:27 AM

I am not sure if the pixelation is because I compressed it a bit to post here or not. I will look at that. I will also smooth out her leg. Thanks.

I changed it a bit by adding my phone number at the bottom, I realized how helpful it is to have that on the front page yesterday. I had to call a florist and I pulled up her website and was happy to see her phone number on the front page, I didnt have to search for a contact link.

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www.charlesbarnardphotography.com
www.definitionimages.com

Ginnypenny

Reply #3 - March 27, 2008, 11:26:02 AM

Ok, the pixelation wasn't due to compression, isn't there a way to smooth that easily in Photoshop. I remember there is something that blends the edges of a layer, but I don't remember where it is. It has a little icon that's a yellow flower with a hard edge and one with a blurred edge. Does anyone know what I am talking about and where to find it?

Here is the website, it will obviously be a work in progress: www.definitionimages.com

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Susie
www.charlesbarnardphotography.com
www.definitionimages.com

Marian Murdoch

Reply #4 - March 27, 2008, 11:34:38 AM

I'd like to know the answer to that, too, Susie. Hopefully someone will jump in here.

You should probably put your phone number in text at the bottom, too. Why not have "Charles and Susan Barnard Studios"? Some women are more comfortable with these kinds of shots knowing another woman will be there. Wink

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Ginnypenny

Reply #5 - March 27, 2008, 11:41:43 AM

that's why I put "Boudoir Photography by Susie"... I will explain in the information section that I am the photographer and I will have a female assistant/makeup artist with me and there will be no men on set for the entire shoot. Do you think I should leave off the Charles Barnard Photography thing on the front page? I guess I am trying to give myself some credit that I am with an established studio, make sense? I suppose I don't need to do that.... I don't know.

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Susie
www.charlesbarnardphotography.com
www.definitionimages.com

Ryan Nutt

Reply #6 - March 27, 2008, 12:13:39 PM

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Do you think I should leave off the Charles Barnard Photography thing on the front page?

I think you should leave it off or maybe start calling it Charles & Susie Barnard Photography instead. If I were looking for images like that, and I was female, I would be much more comfortable knowing it would only be other females in the room. More so than I would care if the photographer also had experience with wedding photography.

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Ok, the pixelation wasn't due to compression, isn't there a way to smooth that easily in Photoshop.

There's an anti-aliasing dropdown across the top when you use the text tool. Try that and see if it clears up the pixelation.

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Ginnypenny

Reply #7 - March 27, 2008, 12:39:08 PM

Quote from: Ryan Nutt on March 27, 2008, 12:13:39 PM

More so than I would care if the photographer also had experience with wedding photography.

-Good point, I took it off. My stellar images should show my experience, lol.

The anti alias thing took care of it. I still wish I could find the tool I was talking about, I think it would help Bob with his composite images. It blends the layers seamlessly. I haven't used it forever. It's got to be somewhere though.

Anyway, check out my link again - www.definitionimages.com - I changed a couple things. Thanks for everyone's help!

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Susie
www.charlesbarnardphotography.com
www.definitionimages.com

Ryan Nutt

Reply #8 - March 27, 2008, 01:14:05 PM

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Boudoir images are kept private unless written permission is given

Great idea to have this here, but it ends sort of awkwardly. I'm wondering what comes after "written permission is given..."

You need to have something else between your <title> tags. Even the company name, which I love, written out would be better than the URI.

Why do you have it wrapped in a frameset?

In the footer you're trying to put a copyright symbol with &copy but you forgot the semicolon at the end. It needs to be ©

And I'm not a big fan of the decoration you have on your company name. It makes it hard to read.

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Ginnypenny

Reply #9 - March 27, 2008, 01:30:43 PM

Ok, I am working on these things, but I don't see the frameset.

The problem I am having with the company name is that I think the "f" in Definition looks like a "t".... I will play with different fonts. I didn't want it flat that's why I did the metalic-y thing on it. I will see what I can find that's better.

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www.definitionimages.com

Ryan Nutt

Reply #10 - March 27, 2008, 01:32:20 PM

When I view source it looks like this

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<title>http://www.definitionimages.com </title>
<META name="description" content="Utah Boudoir Photography"><META name="keywords" content="boudoir photography utah">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.charlesbarnardphotography.com/di/index.html" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>




</html>

It's making a frame that fills the entire page loading it from /di/index.html.

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Ginnypenny

Reply #11 - March 27, 2008, 01:38:19 PM

hm, this is the code I have written:

Code:

html>
<head>
<style>

</style>
<title>Definition Images - Boudoir Photography in Utah</title>
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" />
<META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no">
<meta name="keywords" content="glamour photography, lingerie, sexy photos, boudoir photography, wedding gift, anniversary gift, boudoir, glamour, glamour shots, make-over, makeovers, glamour photographer, photography, photos, pictures, pics, photographer, sexy, model, model portfolio, photographers, female photographer, Utah, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Provo, Orem, Ogden, West Jordan">
<meta name="description" content="Definition Images is a boudoir studio with a female photographer in Utah specializing in classy glamour photography for women.">

<center>

<body bgcolor="#000000">
<font color="#bf8442">

<img src="http://www.charlesbarnardphotography.com/di/main.jpg">

<br>
&copy:2008 Charles Barnard Photography. <br>
Boudoir images are kept private unless permission is given in writing.<p>
Definition Images specializes in Boudoir photography for women in Utah.

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Susie
www.charlesbarnardphotography.com
www.definitionimages.com

Ginnypenny

Reply #12 - March 27, 2008, 01:41:12 PM

Ah Ha
I bet it is because I am forwarding the domain name!
I don't have hosting specifically for this website. I am hosting the page at www.charlesbarnardphotography.com/di/index.html.
I figured that out because those were the keywords I typed when I was filling out the masking part of the form to have it forwarded.

Is this going to be a problem?

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Susie
www.charlesbarnardphotography.com
www.definitionimages.com

Ginnypenny

Reply #13 - March 27, 2008, 01:42:07 PM

that's also why the title is my url, rather than what I put in the code.

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www.charlesbarnardphotography.com
www.definitionimages.com

Mike Hodgson

Reply #14 - March 27, 2008, 03:02:32 PM

Do all the work on the image including sharpening and softening first, once all done, type what you need to say.

When resizing for web, do not sharpen the image, the lettering will go jaggy if you do.

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