A clean style photography Drupal site

Posted by tuthanh on March 11, 2010 at 3:32am

Photographers do not usually use Drupal for their showcase website. Preferable choices would be a blogging software or flash.

We have convinced Noogen Photography to select Drupal over other choices for future advanced features such as photo selling or community involvement. It has a very clean style, very few decoration to lighten up the photo themselves. Views Galleriffic module (http://drupal.org/project/views_galleriffic) is used to nicely display photos with thumbnails.

The website is here: http://noogenphotography.com

Your comments are really appreciated.

Comments

Really liked your site- great impact

Posted by Thomasr976 on March 11, 2010 at 4:00am

Wow, the photos are amazing and bring back great memories of a recent trip to Maui and the Big Island. However, it took me a while to figure out if this was a business or just a place to show off great photos. Here are some suggestions:

1. The speed of the photos loading on the home page was way to fast for me. I never had time to read the captions until I clicked on the photos.
2. The About me is interesting, but I think you have to weave in the content that was on the packages page. For example "Noo.gen Photography is based on Oahu, Hawaii and we offer different types of wedding packages to fit your budget and timeline." Then tell me about you.
3. The contact page needs a telephone number so people can reach you directly. Of course if you have a shop that can be included as well. You can easily put that information in the description of the form so it will appear right before the fields in your webform.
4. I know you are based in Oahu, but i wondered whether you would come to the Big Island or Maui to do work. Others might have the same question.
5. Last but not least, the graphic and font and tag line are small in relation to the photos on the frontpage. The shadow on NG and the tag line is also very hard to read. Make them larger so they stand out some and separate that tag line "Photography and graphic design services in Hawaii" from

Good luck

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Thanks for the constructive comments!

Posted by noogen on March 11, 2010 at 11:26am

Hey Thomas! thanks for spending time on the comments. Really appreciate it, great thoughts! I'm the photographer and tuthanh, the web designer is my friend. Those comments are definitely helpful for my website.
Hey next time if you plan to hit the beach in Hawaii and need a photographer, you know where to find me ;) I will definitely give you discount for those comments you gave.
Mahalo!

Somewhere over the Hawaii rainbow

Galleries

Posted by spendonlife on March 12, 2010 at 8:54pm

I love the way the galleries are layed out. The navigation is super clean. I wonder if you might be able to hide the other categories until you have photographs in them?