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New athletic team web site evaluation...

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Posted by Tom Hilton on February 19, 2012 at 8:35 PM

My main Photography income/business is from Team Photos.
I'm about to change over to a new Zenfolio photo ordering website.
My Lab (Millers) based web site is moving over to Zenf.
I would appreciate any input from y'all ... I stink at web designs... and I had to start over with this one...
It is just for my Team Photos.
and for a start I have only loaded one team (Ice Hockey) on it.
So if you get a chance - please take a look... from the perspective of a parent ordering photos of their kid.
The site is not active yet, so I can change anything... and I have a few more features to activate...
Any and all feedback will help...

here is the link:

http://hiltonphoto.zenfolio.com/

Thanks a lot
I appreciate any feedback.
Posted by Peter Cross on February 19, 2012 at 10:37 PM
Tom, things look pretty good. I certainly think you have a nice product the plalyers and parent (grandparents) will appreciate. As to the web site, it generally looked and worked okay. On the openning page it said to search for the team you wanted. Looked like search was a link as it was underlined. Took me a bit to notice there was a search box down below to write in the team. Will there be a drop down menu with the team listed? I typed in the team first so I may have missted that. Looks pretty good for scrolling through the images or doing a slide show. I think it will work okay. Do you hand out anything to the athletes at the shoot that would explain how everything works If you get complaints that might be something you could do. I think it will work fine and you really have some nice shots of the kids. Good luck.
Posted by Tom Hilton on February 20, 2012 at 8:10 AM
Peter,
Thanks a LOT for the feed back.
I can see what you mean about the search, I will correct that.
Thanks also for the complements,
I'll be moving more teams over today and your input was very helpful.
I have a flyer that I hand out and that are posted around the athletic part of the school.
But I'm not sure anybody actually reads them. :razz:
Thanks again for your time and suggestions,
Tom H
Posted by Ken Atkinson on February 24, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Tom, I think the site looks very professional. I especially liked the way you provided an assortment of the same photo-some with text and some without. My only suggestion would be to move the search box up on the page. If I hadn't scrolled down to see what info Zen put at the bottom of the page, I would have missed it.

You should do well.