For years, my home page had nothing but my name and phone number on there... and I kept myself very busy without doing any marketing at all... but I came to the realization that if I want to do the kind of work that I personally want to do - as opposed to what clients' are wanting, I'd have to get more proactive... So my new years resolution was to be more proactive and shoot more of the kinds of photography that instests ME... and get paid to do it! Step one was to get a new home page. (Only a portion of my income is from photography -- but clients need to know that they are getting professional level work and service.)
My view of a home page, btw, is really just a business card -- from the home page I'll link to galleries and client stuff. Having said that, my market research basically led me in two directions... there are great sites that will host galleries (including zenfolio, photoshelter, and countless others). And there are sites that do a nice job with a home page (Clickpics, livebooks, and others). The first group doesn't solve the problem, and the latter group seem frightfully expensive and they create cookie cutter sites that look like cookie cutter sites. Only the really expensive ones allow much customization. So my mission was to start with a blank slate and create something myself -- and something that could be easily attached to either 3rd party galleries, or those I generate myself in Photomechanic, Photoshop, Lightroom... or whatever.
At the moment, I'm more focused on the mechanicals of this rather than the choice of images (and the finish work on the images).
So here is a start...
So... here's my first cut. I welcome and highly value C&C. http://www.ronhiner.com
BTW, this will require Flash version 9. If I like the way the flash version works, I'll create a simplified HTML version as well.
Ron
My view of a home page, btw, is really just a business card -- from the home page I'll link to galleries and client stuff. Having said that, my market research basically led me in two directions... there are great sites that will host galleries (including zenfolio, photoshelter, and countless others). And there are sites that do a nice job with a home page (Clickpics, livebooks, and others). The first group doesn't solve the problem, and the latter group seem frightfully expensive and they create cookie cutter sites that look like cookie cutter sites. Only the really expensive ones allow much customization. So my mission was to start with a blank slate and create something myself -- and something that could be easily attached to either 3rd party galleries, or those I generate myself in Photomechanic, Photoshop, Lightroom... or whatever.
At the moment, I'm more focused on the mechanicals of this rather than the choice of images (and the finish work on the images).
So here is a start...
So... here's my first cut. I welcome and highly value C&C. http://www.ronhiner.com
BTW, this will require Flash version 9. If I like the way the flash version works, I'll create a simplified HTML version as well.
Ron