Photography Website and Blog Mistakes

Quick ReferenceV НOTOGRAPН BIGGEST MISTAKES Website & Blog Design COLOURS DO NOT CONTRAST ENOUGH Sherry's Wedding Photography Blog Check that the contrast of the colour scheme is readable. accesskeys.org/tools will help assess your site for colour contrast. WHERE AM I? WHERE AM 1GOING? HOW DO1 GET THERE? Never go public without thoroughly testing your site's navigation! WHY MUSIC ON WEBSITES & BLOGS IS BAD... of visitors to photography sites are already listening to music or other media. 80 % Sites with music interrupt or overlap media already playing. BAD! Photography sites are already image-heavy. Music only adds to loading time. Performance suffers big time and turns visitors away. Increasingly, service providers are imposing bandwidth caps (especially on cell phones). Music on sites can actually cost your visitors money! Music is subjective. Don't expect a visitor to love your images if they hate your song choice. Are you happy turning away visitors because you are following a bad design trend? Tell visitors that you love photography and you shoot EVERYTHING! Don't include 90% location information of visitors click "ABOUT" SIGNS OF A BAD "ABOUT" PAGE Don't tell visitors how you can help them Tell visitors ALL about your kids and spouse and how they inspire you Don't say what makes your services unique CANADIAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS CWPNETWORK twitter.com/cwpnetwork NETWORK Connect • Learn • Grow M [email protected] CWPNETWORK.COM “ABOUT" PAGE COLOURS & NAVIGAITON MUSIC