New website

[ruudvane]

I'm building a website in Designer Premium about photo editing and color grading.
Have a look at http://www.ruudvaneldik.nl

Greetings
Ruud

[Scotty]

Hi,
I can't see anything but Images touched up by Photo editing processes? Is that the extent of you site? No explanation?
Jim

[mikehihn]

Stunning. But I agree with Scotty. You may have a conflict between you as an artist and you as a businessman.

Thinking search engines, you do want to knock their socks off as soon as the see you. But you also need to "sell" them on entering.

I was impressed with the original photo, down in the corner.. Am I right that what you're selling is not the gorgeous photo I see, but YOU are the difference. YOU make that happen.

One compromise might be a full-screen slide show, where where we compare the two but still keep the visual explosion. Consider your business or web address in that top band, and a VERY brief description of what you do. The key selling points should always be "above the fold" (before they have to scroll).

Don't recall where I saw it. But a web landing page is like some gorgeous woman on the streets of Amsterdam. Your heart leaps, just for a moment, but the appreciation needs to be there too -- she has no teeth :-)

I'm sending the link to a few of my fellow (nature) photographers unless you object. Thanls again for the visual treat.

[pauland]

Ruud, I like your design and the colour work is fantastic. I'm left wanting more - particularly a tutorial on the process - I'd even pay a modest amount for it.

Change the index page title!

Paul

[ruudvane]

Thanks for all your replies.

The website is not ment for selling something, but only for showing some examples. But I'm thankfull for the tips from Mike, in case I would ever build a commercial site for selling something.
I have plans to put more information about the subject colorgrading on my site. At this moment I don't have written any tutorials.
So Paul, the best way to get more info and tutorials is to follow the link at the bottem-left on my site. It will take you to the software I use.

Best regards
Ruud

[pauland]

Thanks Ruud - that is some cool software - beatiful images on your site.