New Artists Site

[funhouse0772]

I only have my main page up. That is sort of the theme of it though. There will be 3-5 galleries in the gallery page with about 12 or so pics on each.

http://www.alanklemm.com/

thoughts and overall feelings welcome.

alan

[nuwanpra]

Your idea is great. Nice pic.

If you can add some HTML and CSS to it it will be so creative.

[Doan]

that pretty nice =D did you code it yourself?

[nuwanpra]

Ok. I can see it going great. All the vary best. Your theme is cool.

[patriotseminar72]

Its really well designed. I am not a fan of hover affects, but thats a personal choice
I think its might be too dark and bleak (not a fan of mainly black), but it does seem to go along with some of your art and does provide a contrast, so its a tough choice.
I like how you have kept it simple, a lot of modern web designers will just put too much on their websites and make them very inefficient.
Also, if you want to protect your work, I would (at minimum) add water marks to your pictures or, use a php or flash based gallery for your pictures. The php image gallery called "Gallery" in Softaculous (in cPanel) is supposed to be quite good and has a feature to automagically serve images with watermarks even if you feed it your original photos. A flash based gallery should be able to do the same thing, and it also forces users to have to first copy their screen to copy a photo instead of simply right clicking and copying.

Finally, the last part is that pictures are encased in a large black surrounding frame with a little bit of text. Serving that whole thing is inefficient. You should use a simple picture with just your art and then use CSS to place it where you want it to be. If you want to still use an image for your wording, use CSS to place that as well.

[nuwanpra]

Yeah. Water idea is really wise. Otherwise your pics will go all over the world and someone will sell it back to you.

I think better not to go for Flash. I suggest Jquery or Mootools instead of Flash. If you want any feature rich complex animations well optimized Flash would be great.

[funhouse0772]

Its really well designed. I am not a fan of hover affects, but thats a personal choice
I think its might be too dark and bleak (not a fan of mainly black), but it does seem to go along with some of your art and does provide a contrast, so its a tough choice.
I like how you have kept it simple, a lot of modern web designers will just put too much on their websites and make them very inefficient.
Also, if you want to protect your work, I would (at minimum) add water marks to your pictures or, use a php or flash based gallery for your pictures. The php image gallery called "Gallery" in Softaculous (in cPanel) is supposed to be quite good and has a feature to automagically serve images with watermarks even if you feed it your original photos. A flash based gallery should be able to do the same thing, and it also forces users to have to first copy their screen to copy a photo instead of simply right clicking and copying.

Finally, the last part is that pictures are encased in a large black surrounding frame with a little bit of text. Serving that whole thing is inefficient. You should use a simple picture with just your art and then use CSS to place it where you want it to be. If you want to still use an image for your wording, use CSS to place that as well.

thanks, I will definitely employ the ideas you suggested. I appreciate your advice.
thanks again!

[v4xde]

Hi,
I am using a broadband conection, but there are 2 png files that take a lot longer than others to load.
I think those are the logo and 1st picture.
If you would like to load your site faster, change those to jpg, it may result.
v

[callumacrae]

I like, but it is a bit slow loading. Also, the glowing on mouseover makes it look a bit frontpagey, in my opinion.

~Calum

[dessa12976]

Your site's great! I like it a lot!