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Hi Olli, i just took a look at your site. (for the first time)
It looks great, well done. I especially like the supermarket shot.
As I see a lot of strange words I wonder where do you live (which part of the world)?

 

Olli - I don't recall how it did (or didn't) work before, but it works very well now. The slideshow comes up very quickly on the home page and the images shrink or expand to fit the window. Even if I expand or shrink the window on the fly, while the slide show is playing, it adjusts very quickly to fill the space I give it. I also really like the look and the navigation of your site. I'm thinking of adding either Smugmug or Zenfolio to my existing Flickr stream and the one concern I have about Smugmug is that in the galleries, it doesn't seem possible to view the images any larger than about a medium size - nothing close to a full screen look. I've noticed this on other people's Smugmug accounts also and I'm wondering if its just a constraint of their service or if its something you can set? That's the primary issue that has me leaning toward Zenfolio at the moment. But I love the way yours looks and is laid out until I get to viewing individual photos...

I like Flickr in many ways, but I don't like that anyone can view my whole stream rather than just organizing by galleries or sets. I mean, I do have a number of sets, but anyone can navigate back to my entire flickr stream very easily from ANY flickr shot I link to. I throw a lot of stuff up there that I really don't want as part of a general gallery - for equipment for sale, an example of how NOT to do something, sometimes I'll even do a re-processing of someone else's work from a forum to show them another possible approach (with permission, of course) and I put THAT up there so I can link to it. I'd really like a site just to show my best stuff in a more organized fashion and Flickr isn't cutting it in that regard. So, in your experience, is there a way to show photos larger from your gallery if you choose? Even if I launch a slideshow, it goes into full-screen mode and blacks out my entire monitor, but the images still show pretty small right in the middle of the monitor???

-Ray

 

I like the site Olli - works well, nice and simple. I particularly liked your gallery page and the by camera grouping.

 

I totally agree with the above people. Very well put together and I love the blog section. I myself have a smugmug site that is rather normal looking and Id love to sort of copy your look. And to incorporate my personal writing blog, with my photos all in one place. btw: the slide showw runs very well.

Well done grasshopper.

Pete

 

OK, yeah that more than takes care of that concern. Very nice. Now I just have to compare a bit more and decide if Smugmug is worth the additional cost relative to Zenfolio. Thanks much for your help...

-Ray

 

Looks good to me olli. I have used SmugMug for a couple years and your post reminds me that I still need to do some needed reorganization to my galleries. Doing so is one of my goals for the year (so far not making much progress).

I usually tell people that the best way to see the images is via the slide show option where all the other clutter is removed from the screen. My goal is to get my stuff to look like this site...

Phil Douglis Travel Photography Archive | SmugMug

Phil Douglis had assisted with some photo image quest posts over at mu-4/3s last year, and I like the way he has things laid out.

 

olli, your home page looks really good to me and the speed at which the photos change seems very good... Long enough but not too long for a quick look through. It appears that if one wants to look at an individual photo for a longer period of time one needs to go into the galleries.

Very nicely done.