For those who might be interested in this topic:
I thought my information may be a little out of date (as its been about 2 years since I worked in that group) so I asked a few of my ex colleagues who (now) work for major commercial web publishing groups (and used to work at my department), 1000 pixels seems to be what people think of as a maximum in the publishing industry.
To further this a bit of searching on the topic yeilds from this
site:
I know that photographers, artists and developers all tend to have big and multi screen arrangements but just as long as you realise that this is not the norm out there in the "general public" who may be looking at your site.
anyway ... back to normal transmissions now
Must admit it turned out to wide. On the other hand, where I am now, my screen is much smaller (1440 x 900 pixels) and it still fits niceley. Also my audience is may be a bit spoiled with wide screens. As a sculptor I like the design in general of the page as such, looking a bit like a coated steelplate.
I will look into it later, if I can downsize it a bit.
Thanks for your contributions!
Looked in on your website.
- Front pages are very busy, very big, very graphic with lots of punch.
- Galleries seem muted and small.
To my eye this is a bit of a mismatch.
This is true, I was thinking myself the horizontal (landscape mode) pictures are too small. It was related to the fact that I could not find out (yet) how to make the pictures in portrait mode individually smaller. They would turn out too high for most screens. For the rest it is easy to make the Galleries bigger.
I did notice though, looking at other photography sites, that most of them showed the photographs rather small.
Well I am gonne work on it, also I will make use of Joan's suggestion, to bring more uniformity to the Gallerie pages compared to the main pages.
Many thanks all of you for looking into it and your worthwile suggestions.
Funny almost nobody mentioned the photographs themselves. :shocked:
Was a little late in answering due to a little food poisining :scry: :scry: from something I ate in one of those gasstations along the highway.
It is a pity they can 't raise the standards above terrible junkfood level.
Kind regards, Michiel