Originally Posted by denisegoldberg Are you aware that on IE9 your web site generates the attached message on your homepage and galleries page? That gives a very unprofessional look to your site. In addition, when I open a gallery I get multiple occurrences of errors like: curvyObject error: zero-width box, cannot display tag: DIV id: lightBoxDetailsHeader class: nav curvyIgnore Parent tag: DIV Parent ID: lightBoxDetails This combination of errors is more than enough to convince me to close the site. I checked Chrome and Firefox; neither shows the errors. Unfortunately you have no control over which browser your viewers will use. --- Denise

I cannot find what is causing that error "curvyObject error:
zero-width box, cannot display
tag: DIV
id: lightBoxDetailsHeader
class: nav curvyIgnore
Parent tag: DIV
Parent ID: lightBoxDetails"

I had some code for rounded corners but I removed that and still get these errors? I will have to really dig deep.
Dennis

Originally Posted by dbveto I cannot find what is causing that error "curvyObject error: zero-width box, cannot display tag: DIV id: lightBoxDetailsHeader class: nav curvyIgnore Parent tag: DIV Parent ID: lightBoxDetails" I had some code for rounded corners but I removed that and still get these errors? I will have to really dig deep. Dennis

OK I got ride of the errors

But now I broke my slide show

Still working on it, but almost there. www.prismaphotography.com

MAgrelli, my quick .02 would be to pick another color other than yellow for your text on the galleries, it's pretty difficult to see against a white background. Also, might be an over site but some galleries have a white box rounded corner type them while others have a grey box with square corner theme.

Also, your contact link is to a broken gallery.

Great work!
JS

Originally Posted by MAgrelli Still working on it, but almost there. www.prismaphotography.com

Are you aware that when you place your gallery in a community you lose your customizations and you give your viewer and easy way to switch to someone else's site (in that community)?

Your About page goes to your wordpress site without an obvious way to get back to your photography site.

On my laptop when I go to one of your category pages your logo takes up at least 2/3s of the available vertical space. Do you want to highlight your photos or your logo?

--- Denise

Denise, I would love it if you would kindly give me some feedback on my site.

Originally Posted by charlesdaly Denise, I would love it if you would kindly give me some feedback on my site.

I'd be happy to!

Your site has a clean look to it; that's a good start. I was a little surprised to see that you have a nav bar but no logo. I think adding even a simple text logo would give your site more balance.

It appears that you have placed all of your galleries into a category named "Photography". This means that you have removed a level of organization, and that you are showing many different kinds of galleries together. I think you would be better served by using categories to organize your galleries, then showing the categories at the top level rather than showing all of your galleries.

You have set up the pro contact form but you haven't replaced the stock photo on the form. If you set a bio photo your photo will replace the stock photo. See http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93316.

--- Denise

Thanks Denise,
I was pretty surprised when I checked my site (after your comments) and, indeed, found no logo. Yikes, who stole the logo? A week ago or so I was deleting a lot of old copyrite scripts I no longer wanted and of course I must have deleted my logo - baby, bathwater, all gone. I had to redo it and it's back -probably a tad too large but I will fix that. I put my bio shot on my list, way down at the bottom ")
Thanks very much and I like your site BTW

Hi Denise,

I have been working on my site for about a month, piecing code together to create the
look I want, however still wondering if I am missing the obvious, as I am new to this. I am
currently working on cleaning up my portfolio, and would appreciate any feedback you or
the smugmug community have to offer.

Thanks,

www.LeVernDanley.smugmug.com
LeVern Danley
Chicago

Originally Posted by MRLAD2012 www.LeVernDanley.smugmug.com LeVern Danley

Your site has a nice clean look to it but I was a bit surprised to see no logo or site name in the banner.

Your hover color for your navbar makes the nav entry on your home page difficult to read. Dark red against a black background doesn't work for me. It's slightly better on the rest of your site where the background color is light gray.

It looks like you have a pro site but you haven't set up the contact email. When I click the contact link in your footer I am taken to a smugmug help page. That should go to a contact page for you. From the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93382:

fill out the Customer Contact Email section of your Account Settings, found under the Me tab > Profile > My Information. We won't publish this information openly on your site, but messages sent via the "Contact" link in the footer will be forwarded to you there.

You can see what the form looks like by clicking the contact link on my site.

I think your client galleries page would look better with the thumbs above the titles. To do that, see # 10 in the ADVANCED Customization FAQ.

--- Denise

Originally Posted by denisegoldberg Your site has a nice clean look to it but I was a bit surprised to see no logo or site name in the banner. Your hover color for your navbar makes the nav entry on your home page difficult to read. Dark red against a black background doesn't work for me. It's slightly better on the rest of your site where the background color is light gray. It looks like you have a pro site but you haven't set up the contact email. When I click the contact link in your footer I am taken to a smugmug help page. That should go to a contact page for you. From the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93382: You can see what the form looks like by clicking the contact link on my site. I think your client galleries page would look better with the thumbs above the titles. To do that, see # 10 in the ADVANCED Customization FAQ. --- Denise

Thank you for the very helpful advice. I definitely want to add my logo and company name up top. I had hoped to create a banner like this one. http://www.nicolejacobsphotography.com/ by fast line Media. I have been studying their full screen slideshow post, but I can't seem to figure it out. I didn't know about the contact link, I will take care of that right away as well as the hover over color. I will also check our the title placement post.

Thanks again,
LeVern

I think I'm pretty much done with mine now, after a lot of tweaking over the months!

Photography: www.burningbranches.co.uk
Blog (off which the SM theme is based): www.synapticfire.co.uk

Hello
I'm new in here but this is mine http://rad10active.smugmug.com/

Newly redesigned and all shiney!
http://www.simpsonbrothers.net/

Any suggestions?

I've changed up my site recently and would love some feedback. I'm going to replace the pricing page next, but most of the other changes are done. Thanks for any comments or suggestions.

http://www.threeguysphotography.com

Originally Posted by SimpsonBrothers http://www.simpsonbrothers.net/

Overall I like the look. There are two things I would change though. The first is the underlined navbar entries. I think that gives your site a dated look; I'd recommend removing the underscore.

The second? You're removed the breadcrumb without replacing it with something else. This means the viewer always needs to click more than twice to get to the next gallery. More important (in my mind at least) is that you have left your viewers without a clue as to what they are viewing. See Are you really sure you want to hide the breadcrumb? Think of your viewers!

--- Denise

Originally Posted by denisegoldberg Overall I like the look. There are two things I would change though. The first is the underlined navbar entries. I think that gives your site a dated look; I'd recommend removing the underscore. The second? You're removed the breadcrumb without replacing it with something else. This means the viewer always needs to click more than twice to get to the next gallery. More important (in my mind at least) is that you have left your viewers without a clue as to what they are viewing. See Are you really sure you want to hide the breadcrumb? Think of your viewers! --- Denise

I would add the sort of light drop shadows to the left and bottom of the thumbnails give a sort of faux-3D effect, which looks a little dated too, just IMO of course :)

Clean lines is where it's at these days!

Originally Posted by ThreeGuysPhotography I've changed up my site recently and would love some feedback. I'm going to replace the pricing page next, but most of the other changes are done. Thanks for any comments or suggestions. http://www.threeguysphotography.com

The homepage looks superb, I absolutely love the design language.
In Chrome on Windows 7, the top box is ever-so-slightly offset to the left by a few pixels. I had some issues with elements not being in-line on my homepage too. Not sure if it's the case in all browsers.

The portfolio page I think is also brilliant - how did you do that? Is it a custom HTML page or within the SmugMug boundaries?

I love the logo too, really nice work.

The only thing I would say is ... from the About Page (quick glance) there only seems to be two of you?

Originally Posted by LiquidElephant The homepage looks superb, I absolutely love the design language. In Chrome on Windows 7, the top box is ever-so-slightly offset to the left by a few pixels. I had some issues with elements not being in-line on my homepage too. Not sure if it's the case in all browsers. The portfolio page I think is also brilliant - how did you do that? Is it a custom HTML page or within the SmugMug boundaries? I love the logo too, really nice work. The only thing I would say is ... from the About Page (quick glance) there only seems to be two of you?

Thanks! I'm trying to figure out why the Nav bar doesn't line up (it seems to only be with the launch and portfolio pages.

The portfolio page is custom html & javascript:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide the script from old browsers --
img0_on = new Image(186,25);
img0_on.src="MOUSE OVER IMAGE";
img0_off = new Image(186,25);
img0_off.src="BASE IMAGE";
img1_on = new Image(186,25);
img1_on.src="MOUSE OVER IMAGE 2";
img1_off = new Image(186,25);
img1_off.src="BASE IMAGE 2";

function over_image(parm_name)
     {
        document[parm_name].src = eval(parm_name + "_on.src");
     }
function off_image(parm_name)
     {
        document[parm_name].src = eval(parm_name + "_off.src");
     }
// --End Hiding Here -->
</script>
 
<a href="YOUR LINK HERE"; onmouseover="over_image('img0');" onmouseout="off_image('img0')"> <img src="BASE IMAGE" border="0" name="img0"></a></td>
<a href="YOUR LINK HERE 2"; onmouseover="over_image('img1');" onmouseout="off_image('img1')"><img src="BASE IMAGE 2" border="0"  name="img1"></a></td>

This is an example for a couple of them. Just replace your links for BASE IMAGE, MOUSE OVER IMAGE, and YOUR LINK HERE. In my case I put them all into a table with the proper spacing to create the portfolio grid. I hope that helps.

The logo was done by a professional website / graphic designer. It was a trade for prints sort of deal and he is in a few of the portfolio pictures. The rest of the website is my design (using bits and pieces learned on these and other forums.). I code vb.net for a living, but have picked up some web design stuff along the way.

The third guy! We get asked about him a lot. In the end just two of us formed a partnership for the company, but there is a third guy we us for consulting and bigger jobs. He is the guy in the yellow jacked in the personal part of the portfolio.

Thanks for looking and giving your feedback!

I've made a few more changes. I've rounded most of the edges throughout the site. More dramatic on the portfolio grid. And I've changed up the grid to use masonry jquery. Please let my know what you think.

http://www.threeguysphotography.com