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New (first) website

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Posted by Mark Windom on May 2, 2009 at 2:50 PM
After years of proscrastination I finally caved in to the marketing demands of needing your own website. Time will tell if it will even pay for itself. I'm early in the process of adding images to the various galleries but if any of you have time I would appreciate knowing if you see any glitches on your end. Thanks.

www.markwindomphotography.com

BTW, if you are interested in building a site or redesigning the one you already have I highly recommend Rogers-Graphics on Vashon Island. Great to work with and reasonably priced.
Posted by John Williams on May 2, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Nice Mark, good job. It's clean and simple. I like the rotating images on the splash page too. Have you considered a "Personal Favorites" gallery?
Posted by Marc Dilley on May 2, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Looks very professional, Mark. The images are very crisp and brilliant on my monitor. The image "Ripening fields of wheat as viewed from Steptoe butte..." has two thumbs in the Ag section.
Posted by Geoff Shapiro on May 3, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Looks like a very good start for your website, Mark. I too like the site's index page with the rotating images.

You get extra points from me for being a tennis nut (me too). :toast:
Posted by Reed Bowman on May 3, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Mark... really nice. I see you went with SmugMug. I like the customization you've done. Did you work with the SmugMug folks to customize your pages or did you work with the folks you mentioned Rogers Graphics or did you figure it out for yourself? I've got a SmugMug page too but haven't made it look as nice as your yet...

Reed
Posted by Mark Windom on May 3, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Hi Reed,

The only pages that are associated with SmugMug are the gallery pages. The home, bio, and contact pages are with GoDaddy. There was alot of customization done with the SmugMug components, some of which I did myself, but the majority done by someone who knew what he was doing, Richard Rogers.

Thanks, everyone, for the positive feeback.
Posted by Mark Windom on May 3, 2009 at 5:57 PM
John, I like your idea of a Personal Favorites gallery and will give it some thought although I don't know if I have any images that would qualify.... :wink:
Posted by John Williams on May 3, 2009 at 6:09 PM
With quite a few nice images piling up, I think it's important for customers to be able to see your "best" right away, and then branch out as interest holds. You do have great shots; it's always tough to pick the favorites. :smile: .