Review "The community of Estonian photographers"

Hi, welcome to digitalpoint.

The site looks good. There are a few niggly things like:

1. Who are we?
   This doesn't really answer the question. I don't have a feel for how organised your site is.
   • is it just one person promoting their photographer buddies?
   • Is it the face of a professional organisation?
   • How can I get involved?
   • What do you need help with?
   • When should photo submissions be submitted by each week/month for consideration in your photo of the week selection?
   • Do you have meetings? in person? online?
2. the cookies notice being covered by the ads.
   
3. I didn't like the merch buttons and they're kind of cute the way you can play with them but I'm not sure they actually add any value. I also wouldn't put merch on your homepage unless it was really cute and the kind of thing people would wear even if they had no ties to the website. "The coolest merch in the world" is a bit much.
   
   
   
4. Don't use ads as a stepping stone as the user clicks through to a new page. It really doesn't pay to look too desperate for ad revenue.
   
   
5. Photographer of the week
   https://eestifotograafid.ee/nadala-fotograaf/10-nadala-fotograaf-2022/
   Wow, what a photo!
   
   Google translates the heading to "# 10 Week Photographer 2022" but the post is about the photo and not the photographer. When you do mention the photographer it's just to give a username with no link to the person. It would be nice to see a photo of the photographer and know if they're available for hire, who they work for, and a short bio.
   
   The layout is all wrong on desktop and on mobile could do with a bit of space in the margins
   
   The same for tablets
   
   
6. Missed opportunities
   You could use the camera, lens, settings as tags that the user can click on to see other photos taken with the same settings, camera etc. You would need to set up custom taxonomies to be able to split them out the way you have in point #5, more on how to do that at https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/categories-tags-custom-taxonomies/ and if you don't want to write code there is probably a plugin to do it for you. (Pro-tip, avoid unnecessary plugins)
   
   
7. https://eestifotograafid.ee/kuufotograaf/ - don't darken photos when the user hovers their mouse over it. It's natural for the mouse to follow the user's gaze so while I'm looking at that cute fox the image suddenly gets blacked out. That might be fine if the photo was just illustrating a topic, in your case the photo is the topic.

One. of the things I love about this section of the forum is having a look at other countries. I'd never realised Estonia was so tiny compared to NZ - or that you got the Northern Lights. I need to come and visit.


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