comments for my website. please?

[DanChung]

Hi, I was wondering if anybody could give me a critique on my website. My last one was too "dark". I was told lighter is more commercial. Tell me what you think. www.danchungphoto.com.

 

[fdi]

For the most part I like it. This is my personal opinion but on your portfolio page, I think the text pointers clutter the page and are unnecessary since when you mouse over the pictures they announce the same information.

You have some keywords in your meta tags however, google will ignore them unless they actually appear in your site. Right now the spiders cant even see the phrase “Dan Chung” in your site, just the meta title and fortunately Google doesn’t completely ignore that. You might consider adding a paragraph at the bottom of the page where you have all the search terms you are interested in. I suspect if you do that you will eventually move closer to the top of the Google search for “dan chung photograph” (assuming you include that in the text.

 

[bjorke]

There are some redundancies, like using text to read "Black and White" on what is obviously a B&W photo. Or having a "contact" link next to the email link. I would also move "portfolio" before "bio" because that's what the site should focus on it it's intended to be commercial. The pictures first. Bio, to a buyer, is often a who-cares issue.

Who is your intended audience? Publishing buyers, or individual print buyers (or other photographers, who oddly enough are a lot of buyers)? The answer will have an effect, surely, on which pictures you show first, to draw them in. Magazine buyers rarely give a hoot about landscape, go with the people.

 

[Bruce Osgood]

I noticed in the discription of your prints the term 'pigment prints', does this mean they are made via a digital printer rather than an analog darkroom?

 

[mark]

I noticed that too Bruce. If they are then you might want to put that somewhere besides buried in the ordering info. My belief is be up front about this stuff.

Other than that I agree with the comments above.