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[TheNevadanStig]

Jason Lighthall Photography - Specializing In Sports Photography

 

[TheNevadanStig]

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[D-B-J]

For me, it's a bit cluttered. There's 2 or 3 locations for choosing what page I want, and the galleries aren't the easiest to navigate. Also, I'm not a huge fan of that motocross photo dominating every single page. Sure it's nice and all, but keep it on the homepage.

What did you use to create it? I found squarespace to be really really user friendly, and have had great success. The link to mine is in my sig (and I have zero website creating experience).

Cheers!
Jake

 

[TheNevadanStig]

For me, it's a bit cluttered. There's 2 or 3 locations for choosing what page I want, and the galleries aren't the easiest to navigate. Also, I'm not a huge fan of that motocross photo dominating every single page. Sure it's nice and all, but keep it on the homepage.

What did you use to create it? I found squarespace to be really really user friendly, and have had great success. The link to mine is in my sig (and I have zero website creating experience).

Cheers!
Jake

I'm using Wordpress. I got a great deal for everything it was like $36 bucks for a whole year, including $200 worth of advertising credits.
I don't like the tabs at the top and bottom either, or how the home page/header photo stays with all tabs either. Thing is I have no idea how to change it. I am not a huge fan of the blue block either. I'll keep at it though, this is only day one.

 

[D-B-J]

For me, it's a bit cluttered. There's 2 or 3 locations for choosing what page I want, and the galleries aren't the easiest to navigate. Also, I'm not a huge fan of that motocross photo dominating every single page. Sure it's nice and all, but keep it on the homepage.

What did you use to create it? I found squarespace to be really really user friendly, and have had great success. The link to mine is in my sig (and I have zero website creating experience).

Cheers!
Jake

I'm using Wordpress. I got a great deal for everything it was like $36 bucks for a whole year, including $200 worth of advertising credits.
I don't like the tabs at the top and bottom either, or how the home page/header photo stays with all tabs either. Thing is I have no idea how to change it. I am not a huge fan of the blue block either. I'll keep at it though, this is only day one.

Oh okay. Yeah, it's easy to spend hours and hours and hours tweaking it.


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[wyogirl]

My only real gripe is that it took a long time to load the picture on the homepage so I didn't bother sticking around to navigate.

 

[AceCo55]

Agree with wyogirl - gave up waiting for it to load.

Your "About Us" page claims:
"Specializing in sports photography, we offer a unique service where other’s can’t. From your child’s first game, to professional competition, both private and commercial, and everything in between, we can deliver outstanding action images taken while in game."
... but you only have ONE gallery and that shows a mixture of two sports ... neither of which involves a "game"
In a specialist sports photography website, I would have expected a RANGE of sports each with their own gallery. Then within each sport a range of galleries.

Are you are willing to travel - if so how far?

What products do you offer? Files/Prints/Cover pages/Posters/Packages
Some idea of costs?

Your header (website name/white space/navigation bar) takes up around 60% of my vertical screen space!!!!!!!!!! (Laptop with 15.6" screen). This means I have to scroll on EVERY new page!! Also makes a big difference with phones and tablets. You might want to use this tool to simulate what your website looks like on different devices: http://quirktools.com/screenfly/

The biggies for me are the limited number of sports, only one gallery of a few mixed photos and LONG load time

 

[tirediron]

Your home-page image is 7.6MB!!!!!!! WTF? Get that down to <500Kb; that's why it's taking a long time to load. I've got a super high-speed connection and I still waited 10-15 seconds. I agree with what the others have said. Combine your services under one tab, explain how my hiring you is going to be 'just like a national magazine', tell me what you can offer as product and give me an idea of what I'm going to pay.

 

[Designer]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but is your gallery only those few shots? Seems a little light in the experience factor.