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Just wanted to post a thank you to those of you who have so generously helped me fumble my way through making a new responsive site for myself and for my wife’s business. I’m quite happy with the results and very pleased with FW7 as a major update. Of course, things can always be better, but it’s still pretty good.

I’d be happy to hear any comments, good or bad about my site. It’s still on ‘test’ but is all but done. N.B. only the english site for the moment.

http://www.grantsymon.com/test/index.html

Only question I still have at the moment, is if there is a way to increase the font size for CSS Menus but only responsive sites? (I’ve had a couple of comments from photographer chums that it is a bit small on iPhone6).

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I’m coming from content - as the essence of a web-project these days.

I often wonder why “photo-artists” have nothing to say. They simply share their work - eat or die.

Nothing about:

We are … in Mid-West-Town … specialized on Portrait and Industrial things … focused on … love to get in touch

and so on and so on.

Is it so difficult to do?

Because if you do - chances increase of being recognized and honored.

Is the “Splash Page” part of your plan or will it be replaced by something more meaningful?

Current stat - it’s only possible to adjust font-sizes ( for .menus-SourceSansLte-12) - via custom @media for specific breakpoints, added in the head part of the page (e.g.).

BTW: For the above mentioned style, you should remove the color-property cause this is menu-action territory.

Cheers

Thomas

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On 12 Dec 2014, 9:28 am, Thomas Kimmich wrote:

Current stat - it’s only possible to adjust font-sizes ( for .menus-SourceSansLte-12) - via custom @media for specific breakpoints, added in the head part of the page (e.g.).

BTW: For the above mentioned style, you should remove the color-property cause this is menu-action territory.

Thanks for your thoughts Thomas.

I actually will have something about me on the contact page. Currently it’s just latin text. Copy always comes last for photographers. :slight_smile: Perhaps I will add a separate About page, but I find that as I’ve progressed through building the site, I’ve increasingly stripped stuff away to make it cleaner and cleaner.

(Funnily enough, as a photographer, I have the total opposite view to you about the value of text with images. It annoys the hell out of me. I was so delighted to see that in the recently re-opened Picasso gallery in Paris (5 year renovation) the curator took the extraordinary but very welcome step of NOT have those little cards (with a title and short description) next to the works. I hate those, because the vast majority of ‘casual visitors’ who are only there because it’s on the tourist map, walk through the galleries glancing briefly at the work but spending three times as long reading those cards. I wouldn’t care two whatsits about this … except that they always have to walk up to the work to read them and thus, stand in front of anyone actually interested in looking at the work! Hmph! :slight_smile: :slight_smile: ) So the ‘Splash page’ is intended to remain ‘meaningless’ :slight_smile: My potential clients are not the casual visitor, so I don’t need any explicative text, but that said, I’m not absolutely sure about the splash page, so thank you for your comments.

Current stat - it’s only possible to adjust font-sizes ( for .menus-SourceSansLte-12) - via custom @media for specific breakpoints, added in the head part of the page (e.g.).

I don’t understand you here Thomas. Do you mean for the viewer to alter font sizes?

BTW: For the above mentioned style, you should remove the color-property cause this is menu-action territory.

Done.

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(Funnily enough, as a photographer, I have the total opposite view to you about the value of text with images.

Not alongside images - here I have to agree that nobody needs a further description at all. But the way you’re used to work - the philosophy of a current project - the making of a series of whatever indicates much more than - sorry - staring at stupid images of an unknown artist - and in sum you’re all unknown.

Current stat - it’s only possible to adjust font-sizes ( for .menus-SourceSansLte-12) - via custom @media for specific breakpoints, added in the head part of the page (e.g.).

I don’t understand you here Thomas. Do you mean for the viewer to alter font sizes?

No - that’s not what I meant. What I meant is, that behind the responsive web design, there is a concept - which is called defining breakpoints via the @media queries (css property).

Or if you work with Freeway creating breakpoints, you create a set of styles automatically.

For Freeway6 (where we haven’t had the new feature), I taught this to my subscribers the following way:

http://www.kimmich-digitalmedia.com/bib-v6/freeway-box-box-modelpro-v6-x-chapter2-001-lets-start-make-responsive

Changing font-stuff is currently not available - however achievable, hand hacked.

Cheers

Thomas

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I like the site. It’s slick, simple and clear-great!

But I agree with Thomas in one point: I would like to know if I can hire you, if you are exclusively in the food business, if you are looking for clients, what kind of photos you make and which you probably do not make, if and how far you would travel for a job- all that stuff.

In this state it’s not clear if you just want to show you work or if this is an advertising or just a reminder for returning customers…

BTW I felt in love with your portraits because I see a very smart way making interesting photos out of more or less ordinary objects. Well done!!!

Chris

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Wow … thanks Chris. :slight_smile:

I’m touched by your liking of my portraits, which you’ve understood perfectly. :slight_smile:

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