When I started this current iteration of my photography business the first step was acquiring my LLC license and initial equipment, a sizable investment.

The immediate next step was to develop a website to showcase my work. I had been asking friends to come in and pose for me in my living room as I still did not have a studio space so I had a fairly good selection of portraits and headshots as well as some examples of real estate listing photos to showcase.

I liked the navigation on the first site but never cared for the way mixed vertical and horizontal images displayed. Nothing I tried eliminated the clunky format and it finally became obvious a total new template was in order.

This past week has been an exercise in frustration finally culminating in a new version of my site incorporating a format displaying photos shown larger and tiled side by side in both formats, not scattered over the page in a haphazard patchwork.

I did have to give up the navigation in favor of a small three bar menu icon at the top left corner of the page.. no way to use the one I liked but a compromise I was forced to make in order to get the visuals I wanted.

I’ll rotate out the cover photo periodically.. currently it’s one I have on the site as well as for sale on my metal print site https://ssphotometalprint.com/

Thanks to everyone who has been along with and supportive of my efforts… greatly and humbly appreciated!