I had the chance in the last few days to redo my website. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, gathering ideas, figuring out problems that needed solving. The things I wanted to achieve were:
- Create a clean and modern layout
- Make it easy to maintain and update
- Feature, in detail, some of my favorite photos
- Improve my search engine placement in key areas
- Make the site more business-oriented to make it easier for people to find information about hiring me and licensing my images
- Guide people into the right areas of my full portfolio, which has gotten too big to navigate
- Modernize my full portfolio to make it match the new site
I finally put it all together in a mass of CSS, PHP, Javascript and MySQL. I learned a lot about these things in the last week… probably more than I ever wanted to know. I saved myself a lot of trouble by using Gallery to manage my photos and testimonials. Gallery is great for producing thumbnails and storing the descriptions and photos in a database. All I had to do was learn how to write some code that would pull this info out of the database and put it on the screen so it looks nice.
Anyway, now it’s done. Have a look!
It is awesome!
I love how simple it is and yet how much it has. I love the little blurbs under the images with the links. I think it would be cool if it landed on a random photo every time you load the page. 🙂
yay you’re right hesi about the random photo. a couple of other people had suggested that too. i did a little research and it’s actually very easy to do, so i did it. thanks! 🙂
yaaay awesome 🙂
Screw the redesign, the babes stay just as hot!
Nice work, man. I wish the gallery had the fanciness of the main page, though! But like I said before, Superkev made it Superklean.
maybe some day i’ll redesign the full portfolio. actually, it shouldn’t be hard to do now that i’ve written all the SQL queries and a basic framework. the difficult thing will be to replace the system i have in place for showing clients their proofs (password protected) and maintaining the search engine placement of my photos from that gallery.
You can do it, Kev!