Nathan Pask Photography
Nathan Pask Photography
http://nathanpask.com
If you don’t know Nathan’s work then I recommend you check him out, he’s got some crazy good photography skills. In fact it’s also worth reading this interview with him on photographywired which was posted a little while back. I’m lucky enough to know Nathan personally and I’ve had the pleasure of hangin’ with him and his homies on a few occasions. Through various conversations about problems with his old site I ended up with the opportunity to give his site a makeover and I have to say I’m pleased with the results.
Nathan has worked in the design industry for quite some time so compared to most other people I’ve worked on websites for he had a very clear vision of how he wanted his site to look visually (and that was both refreshing and at times challenging 
). He also wanted something which he could easily update which was not where he was at with his current set-up which was purely a flash based gallery. [Read more...]
PhotographyWired
photographywired.com
http://photographywired.com
Photographywired.com was a personal project to give myself and fellow photographer Paul Broome an outlet to blog about our passion for photography. It was important that the design was simple but attractive. We harnessed wordpress and it’s ability to have multiple authors to make the site feel like it had different voices and opinions. I also played on this with the profiles pages and individual flickr feeds that feature on the sites home page.
I set up a unique twitter account and flickr group for the site that have both served really well in pulling traffic to the site and encouraging participation from the readers of the site in addition to standard features such as offering an RSS feed. Initially the site was setup with some affiliate advertising and google adsense areas but it was decided that generating revenue was not as important as the content and positive feedback from visitors. I pulled the advertising as it was seen to be distracting and a burden to administer. [Read more...]
