Website Upgrade: More Good Stuff
May 6, 2010 All Foto Articles, Foto Website
So another site upgrade has come to pass.
Yay!!
If you haven’t visited in a while (or on your first visit of course),
what’s all this talk of change about then?
- New template (the layout file for any website). Best part of this upgade is it’s easier to spot what is what (and where).
- Moved the menu bar into the header (film strip area), freeing a line of space up top. Is now mucho nice for the eyes too.
- FIXED THE SEARCH! You can now search fotos and words equally.
- More use of the NextGen Gallery plugin to manage fotoss, and show them in style.
- Found a layout for the Foto Words that I can be proud of, as part of this awesome template no less!
- General warm, yet sharp, update of the site ‘feel’. We’re going for a modern retro motif here…
- Retired the sunset banner after 5 years online. The old girl will be fondly missed.
- Got rid of the boxed layout that was somewhat dragging visibility down. Look, rating stars that were there for a month!
- Now 50% more mellow yellow. Mmmmmm, yellow-licious…
- Backstage cleaning of dead pages, optimizing site mechanics, boring admin.
- The Foto Shop is coming, the Foto Shop is coming!
- Added the Facebook ‘like’ button, please do feel free to use it if you happen to … you know, like something.
- Also now a widget for ‘liking’ and easily finding my F’book fan page. Woot indeed.
So, in fact mostly little changes, and a few not so little.
I’m happy to say some of the final touches should be good towards everyone enjoying this site fully. Until moving to a WordPress setup last year, I messily was coding a very large part of my website’s operational history, for no reason other than I speak well with computers. That means this isn’t just an in-and-out jump in quality, but simply another step in getting things across to you the easiest for everyone.
What’s to come?
- Further tweaks to the layout, to be all smooth with that shit.
- A Foto Focus area for expanded projects, books, large happenings.
- Most importantly, improvement of the 2nd menu (bottom) on all pages. Small but critical addon to open up navigation.
- More good things.
Oh, and fotos. Lots and lots and lots of fotos. I *have* been holding out on you.
I’ve been fixing my website…
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