Finally my new website is here!  Early this spring I decided to do a major overhaul of my website and since then I’ve been working adamantly on it whenever I get the chance.  One of my major goals for the new site was to have a comprehensive stock gallery that would allow me to show off a greater number of my photographs to potential buyers.  In addition to displaying more images, I wanted the stock gallery to be well organized and easy to navigate, and I also wanted it to be optimized for search engines.  I had hoped to have the new website up this summer, but various setbacks (my hard drive crash in March, my time consuming job, and my limited knowledge of HTML coding) delayed the new site’s creation and release until now.  So finally, after many hours and months working on creating the hundreds of individual image pages for my stock gallery, my new website and stock gallery are ready to be seen by the public!

Those of you who have been regular visitors to my new site will notice a few minor changes.  I changed the menu ever so slightly to make its design more compact, I created a new portfolio index page and also changed a few of the images in my portfolios, I updated my resume and stock lists, and I added a new link to my friend Alex Mody’s website.  The big change though, is my the addition of my new stock gallery. 

Designed to be easy to navigate, the stock gallery has multiple image categories and subcategories, each one linked via a thumbnail and paired text.  As you navigate through the galleries, a breadcrumb at the top of the page makes it easy to backtrack.  On individual image pages, arrows allow you to go from photo to photo.  There are currently 443 individual image pages featuring 399 different photographs in the stock gallery, and I plan to add plenty more photos in the upcoming months.

Despite all of the hard labor I have put into my website up to this point, I still have quite a bit of work to do.  My shopping cart and automated checkout are still being developed and as of right now, most of the order print buttons or text featured below each photograph do not work.  I also need to update my alphabetical stock list of flora and fauna species and create links on that page to species galleries.  Please ignore these inconveniences for the time being!

I encourage you to go ahead and browse around my new site (and tell all of your friends about it too).  If you notice any problems other than those I have specifically mentioned, please either email me or leave a comment on this post so that I can fix such errors.  I am also open to constructive feedback and suggestions about the website design and content, so if you have an opinion about it, please share!  Thanks and enjoy the new website.