This made me chuckle, we started off helping a ‘student’ with his ‘project’ for a photography website and found that we were talking to a freelance website designer that simply didn’t know what he was doing, read and amuse yourself:
[Website Student] am student in uni and doing a project ,website for photography and a gallery page as all photographers have , the main reason am telling u is that i have to get web designer’s opinion about the idea’s which i got for doing a gallery pages. . if you dont mind is ok if i feel free to show my ideas and ask about ur opinion.this is part of research please > > > > please thank you for your help with the photography website
[Delicious Webdesign] Sure we have done a few photographers websites so you have chosen a good company to get an opinion from, feel free to send us details
[Website Student] that’s good then thank you so much, these are ideas which i came up with the idea that i got for gallery page:
first idea – I came up with was that images if the users click on any image it will sort of pop out and on the picture it will have desc of image e.g location and click on image to go next.
second idea – do a gallery in flash with thumbnails at button of a large image at top and users can zoom in and out
third idea – is grid gallery with small size of images and if you click on one it will show the full size (full screen) of that image.
fourth idea – ones like where the image takes up the whole background and you click through a line of images changing the background image using images as navigation
I need your opinion.
[Delicious Webdesign]
Avoid flash (not compatible with non-flash enabled browsers and ipad iphone, not seo friendly, expensive to create and expensive to maintain / add to).
The gallery look depends on the style of the photographer / photography website but attention should be paid the the SEO and the potential for adding to or changing the gallery in the future.
Thoughts welcome
[Website Student] Thank you for ur feedback, as u have designed website for photographer’s were they ur client sif yes can i ask u question please. I have client which am developing website for can u please guide to find his requirements what i should do
[Delicious Webdesign] Sure what is your client ?
[Website Student] My client is a photographer , what else do u need to know? I need ur help with to find out my client requirements so i can do a specification please, or can you do this for me also?
[Delicious Webdesign] Ok give me your clients requirements for this website then I can help
[Website Student] outline here is goes
want a website were he can show his images
images should have different categories for example spots, cities
he wants me to have to different background colors for gallery pages
he wants simply search engine
he wants contact form so people can contact him
if users wants to buy the images they can contact him by contact forum
I can trust u right this stays between me and u please as its for my client hope u can understand thank you
[Delicious Webdesign] ok you have his very basic requirements, do you not feel as if you can deliver this to him? what are your doubts?
[Website Student] lol na i can deliver it. my main question to u was that i want to do specification for him what should i include in that so i can put it in my report, hey can u please tell me how i can do search engine for my website simply one where users can search for the images which are on photographer website please is there any scripts available or ani thing please
[Delicious Webdesign] It sounds like you have taken on a commercial project that you simply have no idea of how to deliver, was looking at photography websites that have been recently asking for website redesign / seo quotes and found the a few websites that we are currently tendering for, its a shame you cant help us with our workload as we need additional developers to build our photography websites to the standard that we have already build the other ones in our portfolio. (playing along now 🙂 )
[Website Student] no its not that i think u have misunderstood me i have done project desgin brief with him and thank you vey much i know how to deliver project
[Delicious Webdesign] I believe you are not a student but work or own a website that is for photography (found out that the email address used is on a photography website !!)
