I’ve not a new website in the works. I dont want to post a link to it just yet, as it is still missing a lot of stuff, but I like where it’s headed.<\/p>\n
The old website was built to be fast and efficient, but it wasn\u2019t flexible or easy to maintain. With the introduction of tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, and web-enabled gaming consoles, flexibility has become, in my opinion, much more of a priority. And based on the frequency of my updates, making it easier for me to do so is probably going to be a welcome change on my end, because I really hated updating things the old way. The last website was built by hand in a plain text editor. I had no idea what I was doing, and changing one thing meant opening and editing at least 4 separate files. This was a whole lot of very monotonous work, and the urge to procrastinate nearly always overpowered the urge to update.<\/p>\n
This new site is using a lot of ready made components with lots of advanced content management systems; I\u2019m halfway through uploading all the content and I\u2019m still discovering new features that aren\u2019t even advertised by the theme\u2019s creator, Devin Price.<\/p>\n
There is now a master gallery listing of images. Images can be tagged in various ways, and galleries can be created on the fly based on whatever tag you select. That means if I tag things \u201cabstract, 2009, acrylic, Toronto,\u201d, you can click \u201c2009\u2033 and see a gallery of everything I painted in 2009. With just one more click, you can be taken from there to a new gallery depicting toronto, or all my strictly abstract work.<\/p>\n
I think this is a great addition to the website, because it frees people from the rigid organizational scheme I used on the old site, and lets you search for things however you want to search for them.<\/p>\n
As I play around with this website further, I\u2019m sure I will discover more cool new features that have so far gone unnoticed by me. Content from 2006 to 2010 is currently uploaded and tagged, but I still have to go through and update all the information and the availability of each piece. That won\u2019t be a fun job\u2026<\/p>\n
Once I get everything uploaded, tagged, and type up all the important details, I’ll post the link here to let you have a sneak peek at what I’ve done before replacing the old site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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