mrjcall Loc: Woodfin, NC

Check your private messages....

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

I'll have to disagree here, it's not that photo websites are old hat. Physical presence for a photographer has only a small place anymore. A website is still very necessary. The real question is what are you doing to drive people to your website? You really need a 3 or 4 pronged strategy. FB page, that drives people to your website and twitter account. A Twitter that drives people to your website and FB page. Website that drives people to your FB page and Twitter account. You can add anything besides twitter here, could be Pinterest or any other social media site. The point is you need a round robin approach each site you maintain drives people to your other sites.

To accomplish the above you need regular blog posts, regular FB posts and tweets daily. This is a FULL TIME job period, you can't just throw up a site and wait for people to visit it. It goes without saying that you need new and fresh content on a daily basis.

mrjcall Loc: Woodfin, NC

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

First of all - it is not immediately clear that the frame on the right is a pop-out navigation bar - if someone does not scroll their mouse over it they will think there is nothing more to your website than the single photo.

Second - the navigation bar at the top left of the gallery pages is very small.

Third - my gut feeling is that the sale of photographic reprints is something that tends to be spur-of-the-moment - someone sees a print they really like at a fair or on the wall of a restaurant, and they buy it. Seeing a small photo online does not inspire one so much. Also - seeing it online does not let me know anything about the quality of the enlarged print and mounting. And given the gallery has a very wide assortment of photos, you would need to catch and link people when they are looking for very specific things - a specific city, hummingbirds, etc.

Selling your photography services really is a more local effort - you need to use ads in the paper, on TV, in the Yellow Pages, etc., to direct local people to your site for those services.

AND - people want photographic services from a professional usually for very specific occasions - weddings, family get-togethers, family portraits, etc. I do not see examples of that type of work on your site - exactly what kind of photography are you available to travel for? That is unclear to me from the pricing page.

For pricing perhaps you should offer very specific suggestions. Have a "Family Reunions" page, for example - offer sample photos, and suggest that you will come to the reunion for three hours for $X amount of money and provide a specific amount of prints. Another thought - a lot of people do not want to pay a fortune for printing services - a lot of the photos they want will be used on Facebook, etc - so include in your offering price that you will provide fifty web-sized photos on a DVD for their future use.

You need more clarification in exactly what you are offering.

Best wishes!

SonyBug

How many responses would you get with "Naked Golden Granny" I wonder. hahaha what a shot...

GDRoth Loc: Southeast Michigan USA

Navigation is completely awful. What are you really selling?
If I go to the site, I don't want to wade through pictures of cats...........I'd dump the whole thing and move to something like Zenfolio.....and yes, you need the multi-faced approach and personal, daily work to drive visitors.

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

Bottom line- abandon the web site and start over again. The web site is tired and dreary.
I saw some nice images but they were buried under images that would have very little interest to most people. The navigation is painful and organization is practically non existent. And I didn't even get to pricing. Flickr, Fine Art America, Smug Mug and a score of others all have better presentation than your current web site. Good luck and don't despair.

Jwshelton Loc: Denver,CO

Website not exciting; difficult to navigate.
Print material has a distracting background making it difficult to focus on.

Pictures are nice, but would rather see fewer that really pop.

Site doesn't tell me what you really do/want to do.

Sorry

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

I agree with most of the comments. I would start over and I like GoDaddy. GoDaddy has a promotional intro offer at around $3.00 a month for a year.
For me your X is a turnoff and I would leave the site.
Keep your site simple and easy to navigate.

A redo is a MUST

gemlenz Loc: Gilbert Arizona

websites are like phone numbers...everybody has them....I think there needs to be a purpose to pay for a website that serves you. What do you want from it? You can't really count on customers flocking to your site just because you have one. I have had SmugMug for years and pay $60/yr, which is not ridiculous. Still I don't really sell anything from there. I use it for clients to privately see their images. I post my stuff on FB and here.

Wendy2 Loc: California

Web sites are basically for showing that you are professional, if you are a working photographer. If you don't have a web site, people will question if you truly are a professional. If you have a good web site, it will increase peoples confidence but not necessarily increase income.

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

At the $60 price point SmugMug does not allow selling. The OP wants to sell photos. I think either SmugMug or Zenfolio are great sites for selling photos. To add a store to those sites you have to pay the higher price point. I think my Zenfolio costs about $120 yearly.

But this is still just a website, you have to drive people to it.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

I know several people trying to make money selling their wildlife images on the web. One person makes just about enough money to pay for the web services of the site that hosts his web page. The other person was making money selling image to Getty stock but she says their whole buying and selling structure has changed and she makes almost nothing compared to what she used to make. I don't think there's money to be had on this type of work. I know another person that made money printing, framing and selling his images at street fairs etc. But that's a lot of work for little money.

PhotoMan1929 Loc: Virginia, USA

I hate to be negative, but your website turned me off within twenty seconds. There was nothing about it that impelled me to explore further.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

When people go to a website they decide immediately if they want to look at more or leave. Your site shows a bird, are you selling birds? I have a hobby site that lets surfers see immediately if you want to stay or go. Your photographs are better than mine but I get lots of hits and it’s clear that they go beyond the home page.

http://travelwp.com/