Interesting your comments about the roll over link, my original idea rolled to a black background with white letter, which I actually prefer. I can’t remember why I ended up like this, but I think this was an easy way out of a CSS conflict I had at the time. Its worth looking again anyway to see if I can run with the original concept.

Thanks for your comments.

Teo things would make it better IMO

1. Bigger images
2. I find the crossing out of links on rollover upsetting for some reason.

I use #333 as my background colour, which is what www.28mm.org started out with, and the background colour I prefer to see my own pictures displayed with online.

I like to keep things simple, uncluttered, so that the image is the focus of attention and not the site style. I use a 500 pixel wide image because I built my site with 800×600 resolutions in mind. Now that resolutions are larger, I have considered offering a bigger image, but so far I have avoided the temptation.

One area of my site that I do plan to develop is the comment pop-up, where I store additional information and links about the image a visitor is viewing, but this will only be to improve the layout/format.

My favourite Photoblog in terms of presentation was Rachael James Mood-Indigo.net now www.brownglasses.com (top of my favourites list). Rachael has a way with websites, the same as she does with her Photography; simple yet breathtaking.

Emma - I agree, some sites with clever designs are frustrating if one does not know where to find the comment button or navigate around.

I have put the image information into the comment box and added a thumbnail of the image within this box too, but that is the extent of my tinkering (well boyfriends tinkering really). Personally I prefer viewing in white or black, so I may add a black option to the site at some stage, other than that I am perfectly happy with it.

As far as other blogs go - as long as the site is simple and does not detract from the image I don’t mind what it looks like. I like to be able to quickly see where to leave a comment and can get frustrated when some things like that can’t be found quickly. I also quite like the way some blogs have all the comments on display actually on the page, I think this works quite well.

Emma

I like a simple layout with a bit of style. Black, white & grey are all good to my eyes, and really display photos nicely. Of course there are exceptions to the rules, but not many.

Dave

I agree with you about scrolling, particularly where I cannot get the whol image on screen however I scroll (I suspect my vertical imaes are a problem for some).

I personaly took the “pepper” version and did a bit a tweaking. http://www.nievesdesign.com/f8/ Just changing the fonts to your liking and some positioning in the layout helps out a great deal to make it your own. It’s all in the details. Color, size, link positioning.

The design does help “ease” the experience. Doen’t need to be flashy. Simple much better than going crazy with too much clutter. You may have beautiful pictures but if your site is a bit annoying to look at and is awful to navigate, cause I keep on having to scroll down to see the previous photo, well, I probably won’t go back unless the photos are exceptional and I really enjoy seeing them.

Just my 2¢.