Web authoring tool

[cojak]

Yup, Wordpress here too.

I haven't had time to pore through CC photo galleries to tart it up, but I have added SlideShare presentations and videos I've created.

 

[Sysman]

This is a friend's site, for the part of his photography business that specialises in architectural photography: UK Architectural Photography | Architecture photography for the UK

All WordPress, all the way; and he strongly dislikes coding, so it's a theme he bought for about $50, and all the content done through WordPress's built-in admin.

Nick, that site is a nightmare if you have broadband as slow as mine. I think it's the image size but without digging into the code I can't tell.

 

[eek]

Nick, that site is a nightmare if you have broadband as slow as mine. I think it's the image size but without digging into the code I can't tell.

Yep a lot of those photos are 500k or so in size and some pages load a lot of them. One thing Wordpress doesn't seem to do well is emphasis how big a photo is....

You don't really notice when you have 150mb but I can see the problem....

 

[NickFitz]

To be fair, the images are large because that's what he's selling. Photographers don't have the luxury of reducing the size of the images on their websites too much because if they did, they'd get no work. Also, this isn't his primary business site: it's a sub-site for a particular area in which he works, and the potential clients who are the primary consumers of it aren't starved for bandwidth.

He is, in fact, an expert at reducing image file size for web use without compromising perceived image quality. If I want guidance on that rather recondite area of expertise, he's the person I'll ask.

Compare his site to almost any other photographer who puts images of that perceived quality on their site, and you'll see that his site is literally megabytes smaller than theirs.

But the OP asked for examples of WP themes being used on real business sites, and that's why I linked to it.

 

[rob s]

wix and squarespace worth a look, but wordpress does it for me

 

[Ticktock]

As someone who hasn't looked at creating a webpage since the early 90s (a page full of drinking games) I was a bit intimidated about creating one now - when I check the code for websites CSS code means nothing to me. I've just downloaded MS Expression Web, as apparently I can build WSYWIG and it will sort the CSS for me.

Waiting to see how badly I can screw it up at the weekend