Large Canvas Prints

Fotojim

Hi, All I have used RW for many years, I am not a designer but, the ease of use and the many developers that build content for RW make site creation a reality for me...

Please take a look my goal is simplicity and ease of use. Your thoughts.
canvasphotoart.net

TIA

Jim

Pagoda

Hi Jim,

I like the overall presentation, very clean, easy to navigate & pretty palate.

Critiques: you should have examples of the canvas prints on the first page. Otherwise it looks like a photography website & isn't selling your product: canvas prints.

Customer Images: what is this section for? I didn't understand the purpose of the images you had. Are they examples of previous canvases printed? If so, then only show them wrapped as canvas: again, you are selling a product.
If they are images that a client can use / buy to make canvas wraps: then make that clear.
Basically, I did not understand the point of having the customer images page.

Pretty & well set-out website! But, I'd think about emphasizing the product you're selling a little bit more.

Arianne

Lovely website, great design, simple and a pleasure to navigate. I am no web designer either, but I can appreciate and recognise a well designed site when I see one.

Currently tackling my own personal website (I'm a painter/artist) and I would like to know, what gallery plugin did you use for the customer images page? I have bought a lightbox stack already, but have no way of organising my images in a proper, interactive gallery where thumbnails are automatically created. Any advice on what you did there I would really appreciate.

I do agree with @Pagoda , the 'Customer Images' page is not clear in its purpose. Love the website though, really well thought out.

Fotojim

Hi All,

Thank you for your comments, very much appreciated. I can see I need to work on the customer page and make it clear as to what it is.
Arianne,
I have found that just dragging images on to the photo page and then preview helps. Thumb nails are automatically created. I do remember using something I bought maybe Lightbox and that is what I am using on the RW photo page.

Thanks again...

Arianne

Thanks Fotojim for your input. Well done on your website again. I will soon put my own site up for critique (eeek!).

Best,
Arianne

Rusty Wood

Hi Fotojim

Looking good so far .. but to be honest I would reduce the size of the images especially the logo picture which weighs in at about 1.3mb. I found the initial page load time a bit slow due to this..

Just my 2pence

Rusty

Fotojim

Thanks Rusty,

I just changed it I forgot to resize the image.

The War Next Door

Hi Jim,

I think you need to go back and change the folder names of all of your different pages. Right now, the HTML addresses for your pages look like this: canvasphotoart.net/page3/index.html

This is not the most aesthetically pleasing or logical way to organize your website. Here is what I would do instead.

If I were you, I would enable cruftless links. Do this by going to setup > advanced > enable cruftless links.

Then, go to page info > general for each of your pages and rename the folders to the title of the page. For example, rename the pricing page's folder to "pricing"

Once you have done this, your html addresses will look like this instead: canvasphotoart.net/pricing

I like the site though. Keep up the good work!

tsilva

Jim,
If you use cruftless links, don't forget to use hyphens between each word in folder names with multiple words. Also, the file name should simply be index.html or index.php, etc.

Fotojim

The War Next Door, tsilva

Great comments I am currently trying Loghound.com SiteMap I know I should get this going but it is not a drag and drop app. and will take me some time. I did not know about crutless links. Sounds like a great fix for my pages.

Thanks all

tsilva

Fotojim,
Jonathan over at Nimblehost has a superb tutorial on how to set up cruftless links. He explains it very well. Its part of a series of tutorials (all recommended) that he put together. Dig a little and you should find it.

Fotojim

Got it done, the instructions for The War Next Door and your tip was very clear.

Now woking on the SEO stuff not quite as easy...

pbarrera

Nice, clean look but I agree with Pagoda. The home page says "photography" much more than it says "canvas prints". Hey, thanks, The War Next Door, for the tip about cruftless links. I've been wondering how folks do that. Now I know!

Phillip B.
Fort Myers, FL

GerriHayton

Hi Jim,
You have done a wonderful job on your website, and even though I’m not a professional designer I can recognize a well designed website when I see one. I appreciate the work done greatly. The only slight hitch is your site’s initial page takes more time to open, so you need to sort that out.