Due to the encouragement of my beautiful wife, Robin (“The brains of this operation”), we’ve begun to re-do our website. Not that there was anything wrong with our website – in fact, we got a lot of positive responses from it and a great many of our clients found us online and it was our website that helped them choose to use our services. The challenge was that when we wanted to update images in the galleries with more current work, it was a cumbersome enough process that I would drag my feet on doing it. Robin, who designs our albums, has seen how much better my work has gotten over the years and she hated seeing the old stuff on the web when she knew I had better, newer images to display.
So we’ve chosen to work with a new design and hosting company (not that we ever had any problems with our old design/host companies), due primarily to some amazing features that I’ve never seen before. BluDomain will be our new host and their design is amazing! Images will be full frame and galleries will play as a slide show automatically with their own music for each specialty. Our only concern is how image heavy the site is because it may be difficult for potential clients to view unless they have a decent internet connection. We’ve tried it with both a 3.0Mbps and 1.5Mbps service and it seemed to work fine. There were occasional delays in loading, but once the first image comes up, you don’t really notice how long it takes for the next one to come up.
The biggest advantage is how user-friendly the interface is with setting the site up! Changing images is a breeze so I won’t have any more excuses not to get my latest-greatest images online right away. We’re even partnering with an amazing videographer named Bruce with First Sight Pictures to create some video content for the site that will amaze you! Look for that closer to the end of the summer.
Here’s a screen shot of the Splash page that will allow you to go to the main site or this blog. I could add other links but right now I’m trying to keep it simple so we can get it launched as soon as possible. Luckily I’m caught up with editing so I have the time to focus on getting this up and running.
Look for it soon!
