Thoughts on my website?

[humphreybc]

Hi guys,

For those of you who know me, i've set up a website (I take computing scholarship at school and could have made my own one in Dreamweaver/Photoshop but i'm too busy for that and can't afford hosting space) so I made on on this place called "weebly" - it's pretty cool.

For those of you who don't know me, read "about me" on the front page..

Anyway, feedback on the site? Mainly on the gallery page... I don't know how to go about pricing (whether to list the prices for digital downloads, or whether to find out how much prints are and list those prices or what)

Thanks!

www.benjaminhumphreyphotography.com

[OsmosisStudios]

A couple things: Your gallery works with the blackout technique (image shows up over the page). While that works (rather well), it's terrible to use HTML-resized images as thumbnails. Instead, make dedicated thumbnail images that LINK to the larger sized ones.

I also think that instead of "Contact me to arrange pricing and shipping", just write "Contact me if interested in buying prints"

Other than that, it's not bad. It's clean and simple.

[humphreybc]

Cheers,

Unfortunately I can't change the thumbnails - I would have it linking like you said if I made the website myself, but the Weebly creator makes it quite hard to do that. I think it's possible, but i'll have to have a closer look at it.

Cheers for that, I was unsure about that text at the bottom. I'll change it now.

Anyone else?

[angeleyes216]

My question is whats to stop people copying and printing your work?

[humphreybc]

Hmmm, well.. the relatively low resolution of the prints?

What would you suggest to combat this then, watermarks?

[thecoy]

I guess, as of now watermarking is still the best thing to protect your photos.

Other sites who won't allow right clicking on the images (to save as copy) can still be copied thru print screen or snapshot, but photos with watermarks are not that pleasant to look at even if copied.

[humphreybc]

Hmm. Okay well from now on i'll watermark them, but I don't think there is any need to re-do the current ones - my photos aren't exactly in hot demand! haha

[AristonPhotog]

Originally Posted by thecoy

I guess, as of now watermarking is still the best thing to protect your photos.

Other sites who won't allow right clicking on the images (to save as copy) can still be copied thru print screen or snapshot, but photos with watermarks are not that pleasant to look at even if copied.

Disabling ********** does the same thing since it bypasses the script that disables the right click. You could also look in the cache of your web browser since whenever you visit a website it will cache the page and everything on it.

Watermarking or pure flash is pretty much the only defense.

[Mandy73]

I don't know if anyone has had this problem but I can't get onto your site, it won't load...

[OsmosisStudios]

[QUOTE=AristonPhotog;285722]Disabling **********...QUOTE]

The problem with disabling ********** is that it's SO useful. And it's largely responsible for the whole blackout effect.