After working on new marketing materials for months now I have a new logo (visible at the top of this blog), new website and blog, new business cards and stationary – basically a whole new unified look for Michael Clark Photography. The new website is a faster version of the old website with images that are much larger and load even faster than the smaller images on my old website. After four years with the old look it was time for a change.
Of course I still held onto the understated and clean look of my old website. For the website, I used a template offered by Rob Haggart’s company aphotofolio.com after looking at several of his websites on a 30-inch monitor and wondering how the images could be so huge and load so quickly. One of the other features of the new website is the “Fullscreen” option which is awesome (for lack of a better word). You can find this in the lower left corner of the website. It will basically fill up your entire screen with the website and you can turn it on and off at any time. Surprisingly, even though it is a Flash based website, all of the text carried over quite well and there is an html site running in the background that shows up on iPhones and on any other non-Flash compliant devices.
Below are several screenshots of the new website. And of course if you are here then you are already looking at the new blog. Instead of looking at these tiny screenshots, I invite you to check out the website itself at www.michaelclarkphoto.com.
Looks great. I use aphotofolio too and Rob and his team offer a superb and personal service which in my opinion sets them apart. Living in Asia but dealing with a company on the opposite side of the planet has never been a problem when I needed assistance, even with the time differences. Plus, it looks so slick!
Michael,
I really dig the new logo and website/blog. It was definitely a good choice to unify the visuals of the blog and website.
I noticed the Adventure book was hard to find on the Books page. Of course, that was the first thing I looked for, proud editor that I am. 🙂
Anyway, good luck with the new “identity”–hope it does good things for you going forward!
Matt
Matt –
Yeah, that was just the way the menus work on this template I used to build the new website – the Adventure Book is there of course (link is at the top, near the title) but I decided to have the digital workflow book come up first since I wanted folks to be able to find that easily.
I wish the template folks would make it so all the links were drop down but for some strange reason the galleries are drop down menus and the other pages have the links up next to the title which is a bit weird.
Thanks for the great feedback!
The new site is looking good Michael. Nice job.
I usually despise flash websites, but it’s a relief to see you have a normal version underneath. I dig the clean look overall. I’m all about simple layouts. I think it’s great that you more of your work posted too! Good job!