A modern, responsive landing page designed to showcase mountaineering photography with a fluid, professional design inspired by high-end portfolio sites.
Mountaineering photographers and adventure enthusiasts need a professional way to showcase their work online, but building a custom portfolio site from scratch is time-consuming and requires extensive web development skills. This project solves that problem by providing a ready-to-use, production-quality landing page that can be customized with your own images and content in minutes, not weeks.
- No coding required: Just replace images and text to make it your own
- Professional design: High-end portfolio aesthetics without hiring a designer
- Mobile-friendly: Works perfectly on all devices out of the box
- Fast setup: Deploy your portfolio in under an hour
- Zero cost: No subscriptions or premium themes needed
- Hero Section: Full-screen parallax background with compelling call-to-action
- Featured Expeditions: Grid layout highlighting your best work
- Portfolio Gallery: Filterable image gallery with categories
- About Section: Professional storytelling with statistics
- Contact Form: Clean, functional contact interface
- Responsive Design: Perfect on all devices from mobile to desktop
- Modern Typography: Playfair Display for headings, Inter for body text
- Smooth Animations: Scroll-triggered animations and hover effects
- Lightbox Gallery: Click images to view in full-screen lightbox
- Parallax Effects: Subtle parallax scrolling for depth
- Color Scheme: Professional mountain-inspired palette
- Mobile Navigation: Hamburger menu for mobile devices
- Gallery Filtering: Filter photos by category (Peaks, Climbing, Landscape)
- Smooth Scrolling: Seamless navigation between sections
- Contact Form: Form submission with validation
- Progress Indicator: Scroll progress bar at top of page
- Animated Statistics: Counter animations for impressive numbers
gallery-app/
├── index.html # Main HTML structure
├── styles.css # All CSS styling and responsive design
├── script.js # JavaScript functionality and interactions
└── README.md # This documentation file
The current site uses Unsplash placeholder images. To use your own photos:
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Replace image URLs in
index.html:- Hero background (line ~119)
- Featured expedition images (lines ~56, 63, 70)
- Gallery images (lines ~89, 96, 103, etc.)
- About section image (line ~173)
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Image requirements:
- Hero: 2070x1380px or larger for best quality
- Gallery: 800x800px (square) for consistent layout
- Featured: Various sizes (large: 2070x1380, others: 800x600)
- Format: JPG or WebP for best performance
- Site title: Change "Peak Moments" in navigation and footer
- Contact details: Update email, phone, and location in contact section
- Social links: Add your actual social media URLs in footer
- Statistics: Update expedition count, countries visited, highest summit
- Bio text: Replace with your personal mountaineering story
- Achievements: Add your specific accomplishments
To add/modify categories:
- Update filter buttons in HTML (lines ~77-80)
- Add corresponding
data-categoryto gallery items - Update filter JavaScript logic if needed
Edit CSS variables in styles.css (lines 8-19):
:root {
--primary-color: #2c3e50; /* Main dark color */
--accent-color: #f39c12; /* Orange accent */
--text-color: #333; /* Body text */
/* ... other colors */
}- Headings: Playfair Display (serif, elegant)
- Body: Inter (sans-serif, clean)
- Change fonts: Update Google Fonts link in HTML head
- Container width: Modify
.containermax-width (line 33) - Section spacing: Adjust padding in section classes
- Grid layouts: Modify grid-template-columns for different layouts
The site is responsive with breakpoints at:
- 768px: Tablet and below
- 480px: Mobile phones
Customize breakpoints in the media queries section of styles.css.
- Modern browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (last 2 versions)
- Mobile browsers: iOS Safari, Chrome Mobile
- Features used: CSS Grid, Flexbox, Intersection Observer
- Optimize images: Use WebP format and compress images
- Lazy loading: Already implemented for below-fold images
- CDN: Consider using a CDN for images
- Minification: Minify CSS and JS for production
Upload all files to any web hosting service:
- GitHub Pages
- Netlify
- Vercel
- Traditional web hosting
- Point your domain to the hosting service
- Update contact information in the site
- Set up SSL certificate (usually automatic)
To add a blog/expedition journal:
- Create new HTML section after gallery
- Add blog post cards with excerpts
- Link to individual blog post pages
The current form is frontend-only. To make it functional:
- Use services like Formspree, Netlify Forms, or EmailJS
- Add form action URL to the form element
- Update JavaScript to handle real submissions
- Add meta descriptions and keywords
- Include Open Graph tags for social sharing
- Create XML sitemap
- Add structured data for photography business
- Check image URLs are accessible
- Verify file paths are correct
- Ensure CORS headers if loading from external domains
- Check JavaScript console for errors
- Verify hamburger click event is bound
- Ensure CSS classes are properly named
- Check browser compatibility
- Reduce motion for accessibility (prefers-reduced-motion)
- Optimize large images that might cause lag
For issues or questions about customizing this template:
- Check browser console for JavaScript errors
- Validate HTML and CSS syntax
- Test on different devices and browsers
Built with ❤️ for mountaineering photographers
Capture the summit, share the journey, inspire the adventure.