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In the days of film and dark rooms, successful photographers only required one skill; the ability to take good pictures. Today, however, having an impressive online portfolio carries equal weight. Many website builders provide practically everything needed to create a professional website. Still, with the abundance of flash templates, portfolio website templates and content management systems available, many photographers find creating an online portfolio and deciding what to include daunting. This post looks at 6 current trends in photography web design worth noting.1. Minimalism and SimplicityMinimalism continues to be a big trend in photography web page design. Stripping a landing page of superfluous elements allows your best images to stand out and successfully create homepage interest. By eliminating visual pollution, visitors quickly gain an understanding of what you, not your Website developer, can do. With powerful imagery, you have the capability of whetting your visitors' visual appetites and inspiring them to delve deeper into your website.2. Using HTML5 and CSS3 over FlashiPhones', iPods' and iPads' inability to support or make use of Flash, give rise to an added element of complexity when creating a digital portfolio or web design. Because of this shortcoming, websites designed to use Flash intro, a .. more »

I remember Flash. Believe it or not, Flash was supposed to be just a vector-based web animation program. It was a new way for animators to make animations on the web. It's roots come from a small software company called FutureWave Software. They had a vector-based drawing program for pen-based computers called SmartSketch and once the idea of animation was added, FutureSplash Animator was born. In 1996, Macromedia bought FutureWave and re-released FutureSplash Animator as Macromedia Flash. Then in 2005, Adobe (Macromedia's long-time rival in graphic/web/multimedia design software) acquired Macromedia.Over the years Flash has made enormous advancements and every new version came with new features and technology. With these new tools, web designers used Flash to create certain website elements such as menu bars, banners, photo galleries and even the whole website itself. As a designer back then, it was a lot easier to make a menu bar in Flash compared to making it in Javascript because you didn't have to know Javascript. Shoot, you didn't even need Photoshop to do it because of Flash's built in design tools.Hollywood-style opening intros for websites were the rage, animators were able to create super-slick short films and Flash was the perfect marriage .. more »

Like the last guest at a party, it's time for Adobe's Flash Player to stagger home, never to be heard from again.Flash is a thorn in the side of website owners and visitors alike, even if they don't know it yet. It's inaccessible, inefficient, insecure and expensive to develop.For a medium which is constantly changing, the Internet is pretty sentimental - cultural fads may come and go but the web hates to let go of its old tech. If you're a web developer or you've ever commissioned a website, you'll probably know that Internet Explorer 6 is one fine example of this. IE 6 is now 9 years old and starting to look a little long in the tooth. The problem is, IE6 doesn't display websites the same as other more recent browsers and thus breaks everything it touches. Sadly though, the browser comes with Windows XP which is still prevalent.Adobe Flash Player is a very different kettle of fish - originally it propagated on the basis that there were no alternative technologies that could achieve the same rich media experience. By the time alternative solutions became available (AJAX, jQuery, HTML5), Flash had penetrated every corner of the web and .. more »