New Websites!

Finally, I have a couple of new websites. Some of you have noticed the steady changes over the last few weeks. The new color scheme, the new home page, and even some of you noticed the new wedding website AC Ellis Weddings and now there is also AC Ellis Portraits.

I didn't announce them until now becuase I was finishing up the wedding site and preparing the portrait site. They are now ready for your viewing pleasure. I decided to seperate the two sites so that I could better categorize and show my images. Weddings and portraits are totally different and therefore deserve their own sites. Plus this way I can show a lot more images. I think the old site had a total of about 90-120 images. The two new sites together have almost 600 images between the two of them. And they are BIG, BEAUTIFUL and you are able to enjoy them better. And I do plan on updating it more often so I would expect to see new images there on a regular basis.

Here is the new splash page, where you can make your new home and choose between the wedding or portrait site or the blog. Thank you to Heather Lahtinen for helping me get this together.

And this is the new wedding home page. Did you notice I renamed the bridal sessions couture sessions? You know I dislike the term bridal. AC Ellis Weddings

And the new portrait home page. AC Ellis Portraits

Ok in keeping with my customer appreciation season I'm giving away prints. To any of you who appear on either site. If you look through and see even one image from your session or wedding, (excluding commercial clients) e-mail me which image (portfolio name and slide #, if there are two on the side specify left or right) is your fav and I will send you a print of it. I will randomly select a few of you to send a wall print. All requests must be received by January 24, 2007 send requests to prints@acellis.com

Please let me know what you think about the new sites, blog, colors, logo, etc. I love feedback. Thank you all.

And anyone who tried to use the contact form on the wedding site and didn't hear back from me- well apperantly my e-mail thought it was spam so I just got it working again. I did not ignore you, I just didn't get anything so please contact me again. Sorry.
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For all you photogs out there: I am very happy with the company I went with. They are Livebooks and talk to Jon at 415-295-8410. Yes it is a template site. I didn't want a template site. I actually had already designed my own site over a year ago and went searching for a coder. I hired one in July and was supposed to have a new site in 6 weeks, well when I didn't have much of anything in Dec. I got worried. I stumbled upon Livebooks and made the leap when I noticed that their site was almost exactly like the one I had already designed. So I got the site I wanted, the great backend, great customer service and I'm happy now. If you are looking for a company this is a great one.

Disclaimer: For my local competition- please find another company. Currently I have the only livebooks site in SD and I'd like to keep it that way. If you e-mail I can give you the names of three good template companies. Happy to help, but I just don't want to have the same site or company as you. No offense, it's just my desire to be different, it's who I am, please understand.
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