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Raymond KW Photographer
Not much left to do other than add more content and tidy things up…
This is the site of a London based Taiwanese freelance photographer who wanted a site to showcase his work, include the usual ‘who i am and what i can do for you’ type information and a feature a blog. The latter will be more of a photo blog, actually.
Halfway through the build he asked for two of the sections to be formatted in such a way to accomodate larger and predominantly landscape orientated photos.
The strategy for creating photo galleries was to have 1 page per photo. It would have been much easier to have 1 page per set, but this way much more content is created for the benefit of search engines and linking.
The blog is designed to accommodate images neatly, including ones that link to existing photos (eg. New set: Zoe & Lawrence) I’m also using a custom field for photo pages to link to relevant blog posts.
Blog categories don’t match exactly the photo sections but there is relationship based on whether it’s commercial work or not. I do use a category field to tell the system whether a post should be associated to a section so I can have a ‘Related blog posts’ links in a section such as Weddings.
As far as plugins are concerned, here’s what I’m using:
asy_wondertag
chh_article_custom
gbp_permanent_links – Very flexible, I do like this one a lot
jk_neighbour
jmd_article_cf
nfe_if_category
rss_suparchive
rvm_if_this_article
smd_slimbox
wm_encode
Code wise, it’s all a bit messy. Oh well.
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#2 2007-12-11 23:18:49
- els
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Re: Raymond KW Photographer
I like the quiet colors and design, that make the photos show to good advantage. And the related blog post/photo page is a good find.
And congratulations on your wedding :)
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Thanks :)
Actually, we’re getting married at the end of the month. It’s tradition in Taiwan to have a photo album avialable to guests at the wedding reception.
As far as the site is concerned, one of the requests I had was to create a second template to accommodate bigger, landscape photos. Out of curiosity, which format do you prefer:
Normal photo page (Normal sized photo, thumbnails)
Landscape photo page (Big photo, no thumbnails)
Thanks.
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I like both versions. But if I had to choose, the one without thumbnails. You could even go bigger to occupy whole width of the screen, right?
Congratulations too.
Jonah Calinawan
www.foodportraits.com
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#5 2007-12-12 18:07:08
- els
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Re: Raymond KW Photographer
JonahC wrote:
You could even go bigger
Only for landscape oriented photos I’d say. My screen is set to 1024 × 768 (and lots of people are still using that) and I hate it when a photo is higher than the screen. Also, when a (landscape) photo fills the screen entirely, you have to scroll to get to the navigation, I don’t much like that either.
I’m not sure which format I prefer. Both look good in my opinion. But I found the change from the smaller format to the other one somewhat confusing at first. For example going from this page to this one made me think the navigation had disappeared, until I realized that there were next/previous links. But that may just be me…
And the advantage of displaying thumbnails is that you know how many are still to come, you don’t know that with just next/previous links.
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Thanks JonahC :)
Els, I agree with with both of your points. I would have kept to the normal sized template for all and perhaps included a slimbox link for larger images.
Landscape photo sets, unlike standard ones, have a ‘home’. That’s a lil bit inconsistent.
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I think it works good for it’s purposes, showing of image albums.
Allthough, adding some line-height to the text might increase it’s readability. And personally in that size I’d probably go with a serif typeface for the text instead of sans serif.
Plugins: ob1_advanced_search 1.032b, ob1_search_score 1.0, ob1_pagination 2.5, ob1_title 4.1, ob1_modified 2.1
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