New Website looking for feedback
You will not be judged as a photographer by the pictures you take, but by the pictures you show.
- Being a photographer's website, I'd like to see your photography showcased more prominently. My aim would be that when someone sees the site, their first thought is, "This guy is a photographer." Right now it feels more like a general blog, and you have to look around a bit to see that it's a photographer's site.
Suggestion: Since the site appears to be Wordpress-based, consider using a slideshow plugin at the top of the page. - The "Gallery" menu item tries to go to a page if you click on it (
mikeswiechphotography.com/gallery/
) that isn't set up. There are two different solutions I could suggest:
Suggestion 1: Wordpress will allow you to change where any menu item points to. Go into the Menu admin panel, and change the "Gallery" link to a hash mark (#). Then it will only function as a drop-down instead of going to a different page.
Suggestion 2: Put some content on your gallery page - simple images and links that to your individual galleries - The headings with the white text on a black background, at the top of each post, look like they're designed to be used on a white page background instead of grey. It's supposed to have a drop-shadow effect. You might consider either changing your page background color, or editing the image that has the drop shadow effect so that the little white triangle matches the grey color of your page (samples of all three below to show what I mean)
Current:
Changing page color:
(I cut out a little too much of the black bar, but you get the idea)
Changing the background image to match the page color:
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