New look!
I was super excited when WordPress released a new template recently. One that actually allows for bigger images. I have found the constraining factor with free WordPress (or I guess any blogging services, for that matter) is that the vast majority of the available templates only allow the widths of images to be a certain size, most of them under 400px. I like to post my images really HUGE, which has been the deciding factor in selecting a Flash-based Portfolio site (set to launch next month, by the way!). Now, if I were super fancy and really going strong as a business, I would probably consider purchasing hosting space and buying a really nice template. Actually, I shouldn’t say if, I should say when. Some day I will get there. Right now this whole thing is still in it’s infancy- baby steps. Right now it is all about building my branding and I know just how important a website is to define who you are as an entrepreneur. I, of course, still have a lot in front of me, a lot of goals set. I am trying to remain grounded in reality, with the expectation it takes about 2 years to really build a successful business, and I fully plan to give myself that much time. So that makes me all the more glad for this new template- I get to go from 500px wide images to 675px, and I don’t have to incur any additional overhead to achieve that. YEAH!
The lingering question is if I go back and update all my old posts with bigger photos… For those of you with an RSS subscription to this blog, that may mean every single old post might be regurgitated and popping up in your inbox again. Sorry in advanced if I decide to waste spend the time on that update.
Otherwise, what do you think of the re-design? Does it make a difference??
definitely liking the big images. it does make a difference–i always want to click on things to make them bigger. this is a nice improvement.
I like the larger images. I was actually going to email you about the old design, but hadn’t got around to it yet. Probably just something I notice from my web design days, but when pictures are resized by the browser, it never looks very good. For example, on the old design, consider the first picture in the post “Zach and Joann’s E-Session.” On the old design, her hair looked really pixelated and “blocky,” which is too bad, because the texture of her hair is one of the best parts of this photo. It looks bad because the source image is larger than the one displayed in the browser, and the browser does a bad (or makes a tradeoff for quick) resize of the image. I’m using Internet Explorer – I’m not sure if Firefox does a better job of this. The best way to get clear images on the web is to embed the source images in the exact resolution of the source files. This may mean that you have to resize some pictures on photoshop first to “prep” them for the web, but it will produce the best results. Hope that makes sense, I like the site!