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Mike (happyforest)

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Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« on: October 10, 2010, 06:33:48 PM »
Would appreciate your comments on the site.

http://86.30.154.193/film/

Thanks in anticipation.

Mike

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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2010, 06:59:31 PM »
Oh yes... ! I like it a lot. I wish I could use pixelpost as well but my server won't allow me... unless I pay extra of course !
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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2010, 07:05:22 PM »
Looks nice , Mike. Pixelpost is great, you can really make it your own!

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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2010, 08:39:53 PM »
Very nice work Mike..I like it!

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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2010, 11:28:26 PM »
It's a very clean and minimal website and all the better for it. I love most of the images in the various galleries but I have a special soft spot for the optimistically titled "road to somewhere". For some reason, that struck a big chord with me and I wish I had a big print of it hanging on my wall.

Really nice work.

I've had a website for some time but I'm not 100% happy with it:

http://www.pauljenkin.turnpiece.net/

It's fallen into semi-dereliction for the last 12/18 months as I've been mega busy at work and struggling to find time to get my a*se in gear to make it look how I want it. I did a bit of tidying up today.

www.turnpiece.net (the host) is very reasonably priced and extremely helpfil. As I'm a complete muppet insofar as technology is concerned, they've given me a lot of help and are able, at additional cost, to customise to requirements.

It's a mixture of film and digital (more digital, to be honest, but that will change) and I'd be glad of any constructive criticism anyone is happy to give.
« Last Edit: October 10, 2010, 11:33:12 PM by Late Developer »
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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2010, 08:37:42 PM »
Spata\Phil\Diane

Thank you for you kind comments.  I have been playing with Pixelpost for approx 2 years, creating a site, destroying it and restarting from scratch.  This is the simple default template with some modifications, like the slide show.  I think its a really good little program.

This is on a dedicated (old) pc at home but I first set up Pixelpost on my main machine using XAMPP from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html.  Whilst they don't recommend letting this loose in the wild it makes a good test bed and it will fit on a memory stick. Make a good mobile gallery for showing friends\workmates\victims and they don't see it coming like they did when you start getting the slide projector out.  Also something to play with when I didn't have film to scan or pictures to take.

Diana, It was your holgaville site that made me resurrect the Pixelpost project.  I tried a wordpress site but wasn't entirely happy with it so went back to trying with Pixelpost again.

Paul, Interesting that you like the road to somewhere as this is somewhere in cumbria,(from a camping trip 20 issh, years ago), perhaps subconsciously you recognised it.  Your images on this site are lovely, I'm sure I've seen the one with the punt on in Land & Water section somewhere else before. I am conscious that my site has lots of portraits and that I could split these into more sections but with the drop down menu it might start getting messy particularly if I have sub headings.

I know what you mean by saying not 100% happy with a site, hence how long I've been playing with mine.  I prefer film development to web development and I am not sure if this would have ever happened it I had to use paid for hosting.

Thank you all once again for your comments.

Mike

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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2010, 09:46:58 PM »
Such lovely images!

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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2010, 10:08:55 PM »
I have been using Pixelpost for many years now, it is great for customisation and there are many wonderful templates to be downloaded through the forum. I looked for one that I liked and then tweaked it into something that ticked all my boxes. I do need to upgrade though as I do suffer from spam from time to time.

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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2010, 10:20:17 PM »
Nice website, minimal and clean looking, easy to navigate.. nice simple design easy on the eye.. just working my way through your galleries.. nice job!

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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2010, 10:26:22 PM »

I know what you mean by saying not 100% happy with a site, hence how long I've been playing with mine.  I prefer film development to web development and I am not sure if this would have ever happened it I had to use paid for hosting.


Thankfully, I get up to 200Mb for £3 per month - which I think is pretty reasonable - even for my rubbish!
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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2010, 10:32:43 PM »
Nice. Do you know what the domain name will be?  I recommend keeping your site as minimal as possible because otherwise you will bang your head against the wall.

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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2010, 09:15:27 PM »
Suzi\Patois

Thank you.  I have tried to keep the site simple but I can see that as the galleries fill up it could become complicated and want to keep away from this.

I don't have a domain name for this, still hosting at home at present and only out in the wild in the sense that only filmwasters know about the site.

Still very much a slow work in progress.

Mike


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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2010, 02:17:12 AM »
I think it is nice and easy to use, I agree with the minimal is best at least for your website.  If there are too many images it gets to be too much to wade through.  If you want to showcase a ton of images use something like Flickr and put a link from your website.

The only tick I noticed that probably only bothers me would be that some of your images are seen in multiple galleries.  Maybe tweak your gallery themes/titles and create sets that don't have any overlap or just decide to keep images in only one gallery.  Again totally me.

Otherwise some really strong work there. Thanks for sharing.

if anyone has some time I'd love to hear some feedback on my new website. I'll post a new thread so as not to defer from your comments :)

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Re: Finally bitten the bullet and made myself a web site.
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2010, 10:32:16 PM »
Andrew

Thank you for your comments.

Why do you think Flickr is a better place to showcase of large numbers of images?  Personally I find Flickr frustrating when browsing and at present I have no desire to have an account.

Pixelpost does allow me to put images into more that one gallery and you may be right that it would be better to restrict the image to one.  For example I have toyed with the idea on not having the colour, black & white or all galleries.

Likewise I am also thinking about limiting the maximum number of images on show and keeping the site fresher by removing\archiving images and replacing with fresh.

Mike