The Redesigned Website Is Up !!!!!
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You’ve probably noticed my participation here at Damn Ugly has been sketchy recently, but after a couple of months of all-night design sessions, resizing images and portfolio editing, my new website is up & running!!!
This is the third website design I’ve put up and by far the best. Quite honestly, the format of this site is exactly what I would have wanted years ago, but the technology just wasn’t there. Until now I’ve been using a Livebooks design, but this time I worked with Rob Haggart’s web design company, ‘A Photo Folio’ to implement the changes and we went live over the weekend. While everything about the architecture of the site is new, I incorporated a lot of the basic design elements from my previous site in this new project.
The first major change you will see is that I’m no longer hamstrung with a single, small image window…the images are much higher resolution ands now dynamically resize as you change the size of your browser window, or…even better.…you can click the ‘Full-Screen’ button at the lower left of your monitor and view the biggest, sharpest possible images I can offer! Navigating with the Thumbnail view is also much faster since you can see larger thumbnail images and they pop up ten times faster than the Livebooks version ever did. And I really like being able to navigate forwards and back by simply clicking on the left or right of the image…as you roll your mouse over the image, a ‘+’ or ‘-‘ icon appears and you can click and go! You can also access the thumbnails by placing your mouse in the middle of the screen and clicking when the grid icon appears. I don’t even know why I’m explaining this because the site design is so intuitive it just seems natural! But if you have any problems getting around the site, just ask a five year-old…it’s been years since I’ve met a kid who couldn’t figure out the internet!
Finally, having these hi-rez images allowed me to add a couple of galleries that I plan to have a lotta fun with in the future. My ‘Artificial Portraits’ and ‘Light Tests’ will allow me to show more of those behind the scenes moments that normally get archived to a hard drive, but offer insightful looks at the nuts & bolts of my shoots.
So head on over to www.bradtrent.com and tell me what you think!!!
Brad Trent
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Damn Ugly Photography 
Wow Brad! The new site is some serious eye candy. Nice work!
Congratulations, Brad! I’ve just checked out your new site from Portfolios to your Biography and it is wonderful! The images are spectacular, and instantly popped up on my screen full-size and I’ve just spent the last hour enjoying every minute of it. Take a bow, Love.
I love your new website, Trent!
Congrats on (finally) getting it done!
Cheers!
I just viewed every ‘Artificial Portrait’ and ‘Light Test’ and then laughed when I realized how long you had me stuck sitting at my computer screen. Captivating. I also enjoyed getting to see your assistants in action and the magic gray box. Some of the ‘Artificial Portrait’ versions I enjoyed almost more than the non-artificial…Congrats on your hard work and the improvements are clearly worth it.
Wow! I love the full screen pictures that show up when u 1st get to the site. That is new!
Nice job, Brad! The site looks great. The “Artificial Portrait” section was great.
Congratulations.
WOW Brad!!! LOVE the new site! You are amazing!
Love the look Mr. Trent – it is special.
Congratulations Brad, love the new website 🙂
Just came across your site Brad via strobist link. Great portraits, love them and always good to have a behind the scenes…
Bip