Some thoughts on the new facilites.

Hi Alan,

Sorry that was not clear maybe. A picture is worth a thousand words as they say, so the dprenewed front page looks like this on my phone :

I see lots of sections (blue header with the menu, one picture with overlaid title, another picture touching it, a black footer), aggressive colors, a word-art style "forums" button...

The designs by simplejoy I was referring to are, for example:

This is much simpler and cleaner, the logo is plainly visible but not overcrowding, the menu is better integrated in the picture, the button style is more modern, and most of all I feel like the picture is more prominent. But, as said before, this is just another photography website.

And again, what I feel was the most attractive to me at dpreview, was some users (I remember one going by the name of Sabrina, sorry for forgetting the others), providing some of the best, most constructive comments I have seen about others' pictures. Something very hard to find in a local photo club for example. Having and featuring some users like that is extremely valuable, probably even more than editorial content (although I also love good lectures given by good photographers) or award winning photographers only using the site as a display/advertising place.

Best,
Benoit

Thank you Alan,

I like it better already.
Just had a look on my desktop screen, and would add an automatic resizing of the front page picture to fit the available space instead of having to scroll through it.

Best,
Benoit

There's a transparent gradient overlay in the design I suggested, so it should work on every kind of image, depending a bit on how transparent you make it.

There are a couple of usual solutions for integrating portrait-scale images into landscape views. Two of those, as well as a mobile-view attached...

This is a screenshot from my phone (Samsung S20) showing how it appears now after Alan's changes today.
Seems to be look quite good to me and works well enough, for now, especially with a vertically orintated image on a phone held vertically.
You can see the whole image, and zoom in to see all the details in the photo.

Scrolling and zooming works, nothing is hidden and the "annoying" banners, buttons and footers are all gone :-)

When I open a landing page, picture opens at what seems 100% instead of fit to screen. Am I overlooking something?

I see the same, but this is not an whole picture. Shouldn't we see entire picture?

I see the top half of the picture on my computer screen and I have to scroll down to see the bottom HALF of this vertical image .

I have a 27" monitor. Apparently I am not the only one with this problem. Image has to be viewed fully on any screen. I understand this is work in progress and this is something to look at.