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curiousuburb
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: that interweb thing
 
2008-07-07, 20:31

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... Now, my initial reactions before reading everyone else's here...
  • Ticking off the key list
  • Gah! I forgot and the music started again when I hit the back button. DIE DIE DIE.

Going back to read comments here...

Funny, but true!

Honestly, I simply don't think a dark motif is what you want unless you intend to cater to the fringe upper-class goth wedding crowd. When people think weddings, they generally think of whites, creams, and pastels, not blacks and dark reds and greens.

Absolutely.

Meh.
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Wow. Is it still 1998?

Seriously, everything Brad said.
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... If you wouldn't see the typeface on a wedding invitation, it doesn't belong on your website. Same goes for colors and images/graphics.

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If you're gonna do wedding photography as your focus, don't put non-wedding photographs on your site. I wouldn't pay $3k+ to a photographer that looks like they're hedging their bets with other photos.

Also, the wedding shots you've chosen don't really tell the story of a wedding day. Mostly it looks like you've pulled aside friends at weddings and taken shots of them, nice shots, but still. Show some ceremony shots, reception shots, before and after event stuff, getting ready, etc. I would also cut down the number of photos, just show your top 12-15. Or at least don't put up so many shots from a single job. Again, it makes you look like you haven't done as much work, if you're showing so much from one job.

Brad and the others can tell you how to make the HTML/CSS dance.
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Seriously, almost everything those dudes said.

Although to be fair, most wedding invites don't always choose web-friendly or accessible fonts.

Late to the party, but my first impressions of the current design (warning: no punches pulled):
  • does not say 'wedding'
  • does not make me want to hire you

Things you can do:
  • focus on what you want and learn how to market to that goal... or hire an advertising/marketing specialist... best photos up front...
  • rebuild the site with excellent thread advice above... or hire a web specialist...
  • think like a client (refer to both list items above)... search for competitor sites you like and don't (whether high search rank or not is another issue) or find out the big hitters and review why they succeed...
    unless your clients are apples or artsy types, put wedding pics up if you're selling wedding pics, and unless they're substantially better than those on competitors sites that have prices, you'd better provide a ballpark range for S/M/L/Xtreme events and justification why your 'special' is $3k... or expect to lose business to sites that make it clear up front what kind of spending and service customers can expect.
  • perhaps a 'testimonials' page of past client praise for '2nd opinion/reviews'

<offtopicbutcurious> Pronunciation of szajkowski?¿ I'm guessing there's a silent letter or two in there? </offtopicbutcurious>

All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.

Last edited by curiousuburb : 2008-07-07 at 20:50.
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