Alex Sullivan
Website Design
I chose to build a
photography website to gain exposure and display my photography in a
professional setting. The website is clean and professional looking website
that allows the images to be the main focus for the audience. The visitors of
the site will be potential clients, customers looking to buy a print or
possible employers looking at the portfolio of photos. I believe they will see
that I’m organized and professional and have an eye for photography through the
way the website is presented.
The
images that were chose to be used on the website are some of the best photos I
have taken from action sports to landscape and travel photos. The images take
up most of each page, giving the attention to the primarily to the images. As
for the emotional and aesthetic qualities the images show the adventure and
action photography that I capture. They create a feeling of wanting to be there
and experience the moment that is captured.
As
for fonts used on the website there are three different types that are used
throughout the site. The font colors are brown, teal and black on some pages
with text. Besides the photos and fonts the website is a simple white to give
it a clean professional feel. A website that is similar to mine is www.grantgunderson.com. The website is
simple, and allows the photos be the main focus of the website just like mine.
The font and text is more simple and just black compared to the more colorful
and lively text I used.
One problem I faced was adding
a custom font on wordpress. I had to install a cufon plug-in (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cufon/)
on wordpress. I then had to convert the font into a JavaScript on this website:
www.cufon.com. Then I went to my hosting site and uploaded a font folder with
the converted font into the WP-Content folder. I then put in the Cufon
replacement code into the Cufon box that is under the appearance tab on the
wordpress menu. The Cufon code then finds the header or text you want to
replace and changes it for you.
Another problem I ran into was with
the shopping cart. I tried many different shopping carts, but there was always
one thing or another that each of them lacked. Then I found the plugin called
Image Store, which had everything I was looking for. The plugin is fully
customizable and allows many options for pricing and features for the product,
including dimensions and material.
I will market my website through
social media such as Facebook and Tumblr.
I find that other photographers market their websites and prints through
Facebook or social media to gain traffic. I also will market my website on my
resume and business card to gain a more professional reputation and to gain
traffic through that way.
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