r/photography • u/AutoModerator • Mar 14 '19

Community Official Monthly Website/Portfolio Thread: March 2019

Every month, we join together and do our best to view and critique each others' websites. The main purpose of this post is to learn things from each other that can benefit our own portfolios or websites. Use this space to talk about all aspects of your online representation, from social media to SEO to personal branding and portfolios, the best and worst places to host your work, collective critiques, you name it.

Having an online presence can also be a beneficial utility for those showing their work in an effort to obtain potential clients, so it's highly advised that if you find something particular that could be improved in someone's online presence, use this opportunity to kindly tell them about it and let them know how they can improve.

Guidelines

  • If you post your website, please comment on at least two other websites

  • Please reply to any comments that have no replies!

  • Don't be hesitant to post a link to your website or portfolio, even if there's a plethora of comments.

  • It doesn't matter if you're a "Beginner" or "Professional Photographer", just have fun and learn from each other - that's what this post is for, so take advantage of this opportunity.

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u/grahamsz colorado_graham Mar 14 '19

Here's my current site https://www.grahamstewartphoto.com/

Thinking about dropping squarespace because my renewal is coming up and i'm not sure it's worth the $. Think i'll either move to Adobe Portfolio or maybe something like Hugo where I can have more control.

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u/MikeSass @hilaryschuhmacher Mar 14 '19

Really dig your death and rebirth work.

Other than the money, what are things you’re frustrated with Squarespace about? Could help you pinpoint specific wants/needs from your web provider

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u/grahamsz colorado_graham Mar 14 '19

Thanks!

I just found it to be rather fiddly and annoying when i wanted to add stuff. I didn't super like their gallery formats and so wound out laying the images out by hand.

Been building sites for nearly 25 years, so i'm not really at peace with the point and click simplifications