Welcome comments on new website

[1972Apex]

Bit of background. My wife is a very talented artist who has been painting watercolors, chalkboards etc. for many year. It's always been just a hobby. Almost all of her chalkboards and promotional materials were done for bars and restaurants she managed and her watercolors etc. have been mostly for herself and family and friends.
We've had a lot of comments over the years that she should set up a website, promote her art and sell it. So over the past week, I worked on setting up a website to do just that. It is very preliminary and still under construction, but the target is to have it finalized by the New Year. Also we've really not taken very many good photos of her work over the years, so it took a lot of work to make the photos we did have somewhat acceptable. We'll be taking and uploading a lot more pix over the next month or so. That will mean visiting a few relatives LOL!
Anyway, I would welcome comments or ideas by anyone. Go easy on me as it is the first time I have ever even attempted to do something like this . Enjoy:

http://jillcrosby.synthasite.com/index.php

[jvincent]

Just remember us when you are famous.

You did a pretty good job for a first try. I have a couple of suggestions.

On the "Home" page I find it a little distracting to have to scroll so much to see all the examples.

Since you already have pages for "Watercolours", "Chalkboards", etc. you might consider moving the images onto those pages. On the sample pages a clickable gallery that opens a larger image might be a good idea.

On the "About Jill" page you might consider photoshopping out the character that's second from the right. He's taking away from the pretty ladies in the picture.

[1972Apex]

Just remember us when you are famous.

You did a pretty good job for a first try. I have a couple of suggestions.

On the "Home" page I find it a little distracting to have to scroll so much to see all the examples.

Since you already have pages for "Watercolours", "Chalkboards", etc. you might consider moving the images onto those pages. On the sample pages a clickable gallery that opens a larger image might be a good idea.

On the "About Jill" page you might consider photoshopping out the character that's second from the right. He's taking away from the pretty ladies in the picture.

LOL! Thanks for the feedback!
I agree on the title page. When I did it up, I did not realize at the time I could add other pages, so I put everything on the first page. As I complete construction on the other pages, I am going to modify the first page to reduce it's size and eliminate the duplications that are on the other pages.
BTW, I should mention that Jill has not even seen the website yet. She is visiting our daughters this weekend and I did it all last night (stayed up to 2 in the morning) and then a bit more when I got up today.

[mcgoo]

Whow, what great talent, and a redhead; just goes to show that sandbagging also wins off the course.

PS; I love Barbados Beach Day and Avoka, Quebec

[Marcos]

Double wow,what a talent she is.I cant believe the colours in some of those prints.Very nice.I am no pro. when it comes to painting but I do know what I like.Congrats to the misses Reid.

[1972Apex]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I am of course very proud of her
I've incorporated some of the changes suggested by jvincent and broken the site into tabs to view the various types of artwork. It loads a lot faster now and I think looks a lot better.
Still a work in progress but the basics are there so now it will just be fine tuning.

[1972Apex]

Double wow,what a talent she is.I cant believe the colours in some of those prints.Very nice.I am no pro. when it comes to painting but I do know what I like.Congrats to the misses Reid.

Thanks Marcos

[big mac]

Nice job folks--both of you. I don't know a lot about building a website-except its a lot of work--we are doing one for a High School Reunion (lots of work) A great start---tell the missis her work awesome. Maybe Dan could get her to do a new banner for us

[lms]

Jill is a very talented artist. She would likely do quite well just going around to businesses with samples of her work, and maybe take her work to some of the country markets around the area to get exposure.

As for the website, it is not bad for a first try, but there is a reason many people make a good living doing website development.

Here are some good examples of artists websites:

http://artsites.ca/samples

[The Saint]

I like it! I think Jill has alot of talent. Good luck with the site.

[sharon.gmc]

I like your work. As for the web site, i like it too. . .

[1972Apex]

Thanks very much for the comments. Still a work in progress, but it is coming along.

[sharon.gmc]

OMG . . . very nice!!!

[1972Apex]

OMG . . . very nice!!!

Thanks Sharon!

[BogeyGolf]

Looks good to me. Fantastic works, very talented.

[1972Apex]

Looks good to me. Fantastic works, very talented.

Thanks Bogey. There has been a significant amount of interest in her works from the site since we put it up, which is quite amusing
The Custom Mailboxes in particular, which is a fairly new medium for Jill, seem to be catching the eyes of a lot of people.