This is a brief excerpt from F-Stoppers
A website is one of the most important tools for any professional photographer. A website allows your work to be found through searches, can be used as a great digital portfolio in a pinch, and is an excellent way to interact with your potential clients and fans of your work. However, when I look through others photographers websites, I find a long list of ‘No-No’s’ on a design level. So here are five tips to help improve your website’s presence on the internet.
1.) Avoid Flash at ALL COSTSI cannot echo this enough. Don’t get me wrong, I love flash, and I was one of the photographers who stood by flash when everyone else started abandoning it. It just no longer serves a purpose for photography websites. While it makes a seemingly boring website look pretty, it can also make it load slow, and in many aspects, make your website unavailable to mobile devices.
And the mobile devices is a big thing. Looking at my websites own stats for example, shows that over 40% of the people viewing my website are from a mobile device. Thats a huge segment of viewers that would no longer be able to view …
By: Zach Sutton
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