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New Photoblog

  • 17-12-2009 12:07am
    #1
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭


    Well, as much as I dislike the word, I've decided to set up a photoblog to get me back into photography after a long absence, and I'd appreciate a bit of feedback on it with regards the functionality and the layout, and of course the photos.

    I recently had a bit of time to sit down and organise all my photos from the last few years. I had never used Lightroom before and it really made a huge difference when processing them all.

    So I want to build on it, get a new camera, sort out a new flickr account, and start taking photos again, so this photoblog is a good place to start.

    it's at www.pastylegs.com and is made with pixelpost.
    Tagged:


Comments

  • #2
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    I have to say I really like it.

    Clean layout with great photos to boot :)

    Network with your people: https://www.builtinireland.ie/



  • #3
    Trev M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭Trev M


    Have to agree , like the layout.


  • #4
    DotOrg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭DotOrg


    in your links section, you need to put http:// in front of each link

    as they currently don't work because of that.

    otherwise, lovely clean site with great photos


  • #5
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,164 ✭✭✭nilhg


    Very nice work, well done. One thing to look at, when I click the rss link the blog title comes up as pixelpost


  • #6
    qwertz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭qwertz


    Good shots on there but the layout just isn't for me. That doesn't mean it's bad, just not for me.


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  • #7
    dnme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭dnme


    Beautiful, simple and clean layout and great photos. The feedback form didn't work for me however (nothing happens when you click submit)


  • #8
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    thanks for all that, I think I've fixed all those bugs. Appreciate the feedback.


  • #9
    Covey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,368 ✭✭✭Covey


    Well done, welcome to the gang!

    Nice site, simple and clean.

    Just a few observations.

    There is no click through on the photos.
    Some images are a wee bit too big (400-500kb) and load a wee bit slowly.

    Keep it up.

    T.


  • #10
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    Covey wrote: »
    Well done, welcome to the gang!

    Nice site, simple and clean.

    Just a few observations.

    There is no click through on the photos.
    Some images are a wee bit too big (400-500kb) and load a wee bit slowly.

    Keep it up.

    T.

    Cheers. Do you mean that clicking an image doesn't bring you to the next one? I just realised that on the first image, I have it set to disable the foward arrow (as there are no more recent photos), this means half the screen is disabled like you said. I'll have to fix that!


  • #11
    Covey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,368 ✭✭✭Covey


    Yep thats it.

    Bit of a pain going to browse each time !


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  • #12
    rymus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    Nice one. Looks very well. Love that template.


  • #13
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    Covey wrote:
    Yep thats it.

    Bit of a pain going to browse each time !

    cool, just fixed that there, so on the first image you can click anywhere on the image to go backward, while on a normal image, the lefthandside brings you back and righthand side foward like normal. Nice one!

    I'll have a look at compressing the images further, although now that they are uploaded and tagged I don't think I can replace them :(. Maybe pixelpost has an addon for this
    rymus wrote:
    Nice one. Looks very well. Love that template.

    Thanks, it took a while to get right and is completely invalid XHTML so i'll have to work on validating it lol. It's based on one of the standard themes


  • #14
    Covey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,368 ✭✭✭Covey


    It's part of the system no add on needed.


  • #15
    rymus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    TimAy wrote: »
    I'll have a look at compressing the images further, although now that they are uploaded and tagged I don't think I can replace them :(. Maybe pixelpost has an addon for this

    there is an image resize on upload option. Or if you're using lightroom theres a plugin for that so you can export directly from lightroom to pixelpost and lightroom does all the compressing & resizing for you.


  • #16
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    rymus wrote: »
    there is an image resize on upload option. Or if you're using lightroom theres a plugin for that so you can export directly from lightroom to pixelpost and lightroom does all the compressing & resizing for you.

    I was using that plugin, I must have set the quality too high ( I think it was 9 or 10). I might just export the photos again from lightroom to the disk at a lower quality (but same resolution) and then overwrite the images folder in pixelpost on the server, so as not to have to retag everything etc.


  • #17
    Chorcai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Chorcai


    I noticed that your home page gallery starts at the end:confused:


  • #18
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    Chorcai wrote: »
    I noticed that your home page gallery starts at the end:confused:

    The homepage starts at the most recently uploaded photo, which doesn't make much sense when you are starting off as everything is just dumped on in one big mess (nothing to do with photo date). I uploaded what I thought were my best photos last so that they appeared "closest" to the first image of the homepage, if you get what I mean!


  • #19
    Chorcai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Chorcai


    TimAy wrote: »
    The homepage starts at the most recently uploaded photo, which doesn't make much sense when you are starting off as everything is just dumped on in one big mess (nothing to do with photo date). I uploaded what I thought were my best photos last so that they appeared "closest" to the first image of the homepage, if you get what I mean!

    Cool, I just thought it was an error, in that, I had to go back to view images rather than forward ! :D


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