Posted by Adam Kavalunas on January 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM
The all new Plateau Visions Photography website! This is the first website I've ever built, and I wrote the whole mark-up myself. It was quite daunting at first having no HTML experience what so ever, but I'm pretty pleased with the result. I welcome any and all critiques. I'm sure I've made a few mistakes here and there, so if you see anything that appears out of place or incorrect, please let me know. There are a few new images as well that I just now got around to processing. I just looked at the new site in Firefox, and for some reason the aligment is messed up. It works fine in Internet Explorer, so I'll have to work on that.
Adam Kavalunas
www.plateauvisions.com
Posted by Adam Kavalunas on January 11, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Ok, well apparently the new site is having compatability issues with everything but IE which is what I used to preview the whole site as I was working on it.
Posted by John Zinn on January 12, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Looks great Adam!! Now where are the rest of your images :-)
John
Posted by Adam Kavalunas on January 12, 2009 at 12:09 AM
John, that's pretty much most of my images that I'll be putting on the site. I tried to keep it around 75 of my best images. As I get newer better ones, i'll have to pick and chose which ones to drop, or maybe add a stock section. By the way, I mentioned you on the "Dawn on the Buttes shot"
Posted by Fred Stearns on January 12, 2009 at 1:02 AM
I just tried looking at your site with Firefox. You are right, there are compatibility problems. The text doesn't line up in many areas. You also need to look at the way that you have your URL set up in your signature. Instead of being directed to www.plateauvisions.com, I am directed to http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/www.plateauvisions.com, which gets me a 404.
Good start! I know that you will get everything straightened out. It takes some doing to write the HTML code yourself and actually have it work. The bugs are a normal part of any programming I have ever seen!
Ok, I think I got all the text formatting fixed. I checked all the pages in Firefox and IE and everything seems to be in order. I knew this wasn't going to be easy.......
Posted by Bill Pelzmann on January 12, 2009 at 1:54 AM
A super collection of images, John. I think your gallery showcases them well.
FWIW:
I find your BW background image distracting. More so with the text, such as your profile.
It's less distracting with the galleries, because of the color contrast.
It was not immediately obvious that some of your portfolios have multiple pages.
I almost didn't see the navigation to the next page. Would have hated to miss those images.
Since I'm using a high resolution screen, the numbers are probably much smaller.
When viewing an image, I have to use the browser button to get back to the portfolio.
Looks great, and the photographjy is VERY impressive too!
Posted by Adam Kavalunas on January 12, 2009 at 12:04 PM
By the way Bill, its Adam, not John. Thanks for the suggestion, I've had a couple people say the same thing.
Posted by Todd Caudle on January 12, 2009 at 12:11 PM
So with all that html goodness behind you, you couldn't include a hyperlink to your site so we don't have to cut and paste? Oy! http://www.plateauvisions.com
Posted by Bill Pelzmann on January 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Sorry, Adam, browsing yoiur site kept me up too late..
Posted by Laurent Baig on January 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Looks good, Adam. A next button to click between images would be nice. Also, I'd spell out OCE. I have no idea who they are.
Posted by Adam Kavalunas on January 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM
My bad, sorry Todd I'm working on that fix Laurent. I've had numerous requests for that.
Posted by Don Grall on January 12, 2009 at 2:56 PM
Your site seems to be working quite well in Firefox now. Great images. You may want to check your Mesa Arch and Horseshoe Bend images; on my monitor they appear to be needing some sharpening applied. The other images are plenty sharp.
Posted by Jim Caffrey on January 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Great job Adam. I viewed the site in Safari, and the only glitch I saw was on the home page, "Please feel free..." is placed on top of the preceding text. Your work is fantastic.
Posted by Kalin Wilson on January 12, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Nice job on the site and congrats on the wonderful images! I agree that navigation between images and back to the portfolio page would be nice.
Ok, I've added the "next image" link to each image page and a portfolios link to the last image in each portfolio. I think I may have it all tweaked now.........fingers crossed
Beautiful site Adam. Just a few tweaks and it will be perfect. Just a great collection of images.
Posted by John Zinn on January 13, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Adam,
At first I didn't see the page 2 and page 3 options, so I finally did find the rest of your images. Thanks for the mention on "Dawn on the Buttes" too.
Posted by John Mumaw on January 13, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Looks really, really good to me, Adam. No nits whatsover in IE.
I've always admired your work from this neck of the woods and am glad to finally see it displayed in such a professional format.
Posted by Jesse Speer on January 13, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Amazing job for a first-timer at HTML/CSS!
You could probably go a bit darker on the background, to help with type readability. Not a huge problem though.
Discussion
20 repliesAdam Kavalunas
www.plateauvisions.com
John
Good start! I know that you will get everything straightened out. It takes some doing to write the HTML code yourself and actually have it work. The bugs are a normal part of any programming I have ever seen!
FWIW:
I find your BW background image distracting. More so with the text, such as your profile.
It's less distracting with the galleries, because of the color contrast.
It was not immediately obvious that some of your portfolios have multiple pages.
I almost didn't see the navigation to the next page. Would have hated to miss those images.
Since I'm using a high resolution screen, the numbers are probably much smaller.
When viewing an image, I have to use the browser button to get back to the portfolio.
http://www.plateauvisions.com
At first I didn't see the page 2 and page 3 options, so I finally did find the rest of your images.
John
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I've always admired your work from this neck of the woods and am glad to finally see it displayed in such a professional format.
You could probably go a bit darker on the background, to help with type readability. Not a huge problem though.
Good work.