About this site
Prior to building this site I had used two other pre-built templates. The first was by Clickpic which was good but I found the user interface and customisation menu too cluttered and difficult to use. I then moved on to Photium and found their site excellent, extremely easy to upload photographs and customise, with very good customer support.
So why go to the trouble of building my own? I loved the design of so many other sites and felt restricted with what I had. I definitely couldn't afford to pay someone to do it, so rolled my virtual sleeves up and got stuck into HTML. I had no previous experience whatsoever but found it surprisingly enjoyable, it's like putting together a giant jigsaw and equally frustrating when you can't find that missing piece (of code in this case).
I decided from the beginning that I wanted to learn the 'long hand method' of building a website and it has been built entirely using Textmate and CSSEdit for the Mac, I would highly recommend both.
So what next? I'm now trying to get my head around Javascript to give the site a bit more interest and I'm still not entirely convinced on colours and fonts etc so expect some changes!
About My Photography
Not a lot to say here really! Photographs speak for themselves, what does it matter what camera or lens I used, or how I edit them? You either like them or you don't, but hopefully you do!
That said, if anyone is genuinely interested please get in touch, I'm only too happy to talk photography!