Hi. I am a photographer, and I made this website myself using Drupal and a few hours of CSS changes from standard templates. I would like feedback about the visual design/layout and also the functional design of the site including the galleries.

 

http://www.michaelbel.com

 

All feedback is welcome. Thanks for your time.

 

Michael

love it - in every way! nice job - one comment - you dont have a page dedicated to contacting you so you could lose leads without an online form.

love it - in every way! nice job - one comment - you dont have a page dedicated to contacting you so you could lose leads without an online form.

That's a very good point. I do get most of my contacts via direct email, which I have details listed for all over the site. But it couldn't hurt to add a contacts form of some sort. I will look into Drupal plugins and see if they have one.

 

Thank you.

excellent site, I'd love the opportunity to design a site for a photographer one day most are usually really well executed.

Nice website, I'd maybe have a hover colour for the navigation text, and would have a nice patterned background image that is in a similar style to your header's pattern, but almost white.

Nice website, I'd maybe have a hover colour for the navigation text, and would have a nice patterned background image that is in a similar style to your header's pattern, but almost white.

Thank you. I agree about the hover colour for the menus. Changing the background is an interesting idea. I thought about it before but couldn't think how to make it work. Do you think it would be better to then extend the header to full page width (but keep the logo and search and navigation where they are) and have the background image fill the rest of the page? I just worry that having a background image with blank whitepace on the sides would look odd.

 

Please let me know what you think.

 

Michael

Very close to perfect, great images and i love the way you can view them!

Nice site. I would make the menu change color or something when you hover over it.

 

Good job.

Excellent Site. Great Job!

In response to the feedback so far I have added a colour change for hovers over the navigation menu. Contact page/form coming next. Thanks to all so far for suggestions.