New Website is up and running

[scubamarli 5]

Hi all,

 

After many frustrating issues, my new website is up, with lots of new photos from Indonesia and B.C., and reworking of some of my old favorites.

 

It will probably be tweaked from time to time with new additions as they are processed.

 

Marli Wakeling Underwater & Nature Photography

 

Cheers,

Marli

[WanderingBob 2]

Hi all,

 

After many frustrating issues, my new website is up, with lots of new photos from Indonesia and B.C., and reworking of some of my old favorites.

 

It will probably be tweaked from time to time with new additions as they are processed.

 

Marli Wakeling Underwater & Nature Photography

 

Cheers,

Marli

 

Marli,

I have a DSL connection and after 5 minutes of loading, all I could see was you Name at the top left. Does this site laod for anyone else?

[JackConnick 75]

Worked fine for me. Looks to be flash? Maybe you're behind a firewall or don't have the plug-in?

 

Looks fine Marli, nice shots and info.

 

Jack

[Steve Williams 0]

Worked great for me Marli. I really like the featured photos section and the way it works. The gallery split is cool with the verticals. It took me a while to figure out how to get through the images though. I found myself wishing there was a way to go back to the beginning of the selected gallery faster instead of scrolling slowly through the images again. Just a nit though.

 

Very, very nice images. Congrats on getting it finished.

 

Cheers,

Steve

[Mike L 0]

Looks good to me!

[adamhanlon 0]

First of all, worked fine for me!

 

Your green water shots are fantastic and inspirational! The site looks great!

 

Adam

[scubamarli 5]

Thanks, everyone for the nice comments. It is flash based, and so it is best viewed with the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. If you use Firefox and their Ad Block Plus add on, it causes issues (which I discovered when I was building it). I also changed some colours after comments from a friend that uses a Mac and Safari that the colours of some letters were hard to see. Wix is for those of us that don't have a lot of html or background in the the tech stuff, and don't want to rely on a company to produce and update our site. As a result, there are are limitations on what you can do, particularly with photo galleries. Limits placed on the number of images in galleries is frustrating: I had to be a tough self editor.

That being said, it is free, unless you want to include an e-commerce section, with a shopping cart and Paypal connections; then you must upgrade. The major problems that I encountered were in moving around the order of photos. Be warned. Plan ahead, so moving image order isn't needed. Also, EXIF info is not read, so any captions had to be entered by hand. Wix is in BETA, so hopefully improvements will be forthcoming.

 

Cheers,

Marli Wakeling