A New Look for JoeyL.com

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I'm very proud and excited to announce my new website and blog, designed and engineered by the very talented Ross and Kostya at Flosites. Although the overall feel is the same, I wanted to bring out the neutral earth tones in my images, so I chose a warm ash gray background and a simple font color scheme to match. A lot of my photo series have narrative and text to go along with the images, but I didn't want to distract the images. I got inspiration from a lot of fine art books, where images go along with minimal text to still tell a story.

Although my new site design is quite simple, the beauty of it is in it’s hidden features. Different browser sizes and ratios scale the main images, as well as manipulate the rows and columns of thumbnails. It’s coded all in HTML5 with a WordPress back end. Why HTML over Flash? Flash is dead in the water. No iOS devices such as iPhone’s or iPads will read Flash (a bold move from Apple), and because of this and many other drawbacks, it’s slowly becoming an outdated technology.

The nicest feature to be added to the site is still being coded, which will be a fully functional store for my tutorial DVDs. The newly designed store should launch in a couple weeks.

There are 2 brand new image galleries now online. Origin, a personal series from the volcanic island of Tanna in Vanuatu, and Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads, a shoot I did for the show in History channel. Both have some interesting side stories to come out of those trips, but I will write about this in future posts.

I hope you enjoy the new site. If you find any bugs (I’m sure there will be a few), please let me know!

JL

  • katerina
    October 31-2011, 02:46 pm
    looks great!
  • Prem Anandh P.
    October 31-2011, 02:47 pm
    That's a welcome move. The new look is better & I could subscribe to the feeds in google reader (which wasn't working for me sometime back). Origin series is beautifully captured. Keep up the good work. Regards Prem Anandh P.
  • Andrey Perepelitsa
    October 31-2011, 07:10 pm
    Love your new site and blog. Flosites did a great job!
  • mode
    November 01-2011, 02:25 am
    Great move, look its better! Keep it up good work!
  • Josh Gruetzmacher
    November 01-2011, 07:18 am
    The new site is sick. It looks and works great on my desktop computer, and also on my iPhone. An A+ for Flosites. The new colors feel right too.
  • Takki
    November 01-2011, 08:10 am
    Congratlulations to your new look! I love the design. Simple but powerful. Brings out the photos even more. The best portfolio site I have seen so far.
  • Andy
    November 06-2011, 05:26 pm
    Great site. Love the new Look! Best wishes Andy.
  • Alim
    November 06-2011, 05:27 pm
    Fantastic!! The site flows so well. Love the simple interface, quick portfolios, and arrow navigation. Origin & Deadliest Roads are some amazing adds. Simply stunning!
  • Andrew Newey
    November 07-2011, 04:53 pm
    A big improvement Joey! Having the portfolio & blog on one site is a good move and the auto scaling is the way to go too! You are right - Flash is dead and prevents SEO, not that you need to worry about that! ;-)
  • Carlos Cabezas
    November 13-2011, 05:12 am
    Amazing website,
  • Tomer Jacobson
    November 22-2011, 07:25 am
    At the end of every Lighting course I show the students few sites for inspiration and your site is a among the sites I show for creative lighting and ideas. I was surprised to see the new site and I find it much better then the old one. Especially the loading time had improved and it looks more modern IMO. Anyways - Good luck and god bless.
  • Simon
    January 05-2012, 11:56 am
    Agree with Tomer, great loading time, hardly any delay and surprisngly, the text against the background is really easy to read. Layout is simple and clear to navigate but it doesn't detract from the images as they really stand out, well done, great job!
  • Elis Alves
    January 10-2012, 09:16 pm
    Love the new look, Joey! Looking forward to hearing the story behind the Ice Road Truckers! All the best to you and a great 2012 with many more adventures and great pictures to come!
  • PERFER
    May 06-2012, 06:01 pm
    Joey exquisite work, greetings from Colombia!
  • Steven McConnell
    September 12-2012, 06:40 am
    I can imagine the functionality to make the images autosize to different screen sizes and browsers really took something. I just made all my images fixed size as a way of avoiding dealing with that problem, but I'm starting to realise I'll need to fix that up soon.
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