Coded 2 customized FBML pages for our Facebook page.
Completed a two page FBML addition and customization to our main FB page!
Added a customized landing page complete with social media icon bar, and a custom portfolio page.
What a pain that was to do !!! Have a peek at the results here:
http://www.facebook.com/pauerstock
pauerstock.com undergoes a facelift!
After attending the PhotoShelter webinar on how to “Build a Better Online Portfolio” with Stella Kramer and what buyers prefer,
The pauer stock site has undergone a major re-write and cosmetic facelift!
Bringing you bigger portfolio images, annoying watermarks gone, easier to view backgrounds and text, easier navigation!
Working on methods of image organization and sequencing within the portfolio, and the creation of more portfolios!
Site Updates
Slight blog rearrangement performed.
With several plugin update and new widgets done in preparation of a full WordPress upgrade.
Which went off without a hitch this time!
The work of re-targeting the primary site has begun and will continue over the next few weeks.
That was fun, not
Completed a recovery of our main 1 terabyte work drive that took many days.
Thanks to regular Acronis backups, to raid drives and disk copies to DVD.
As well as a great utility called RescuePRO that came with one of our SanDisk Extreme cards.
We were able to successfully recover may years of digital images.
Not pleased with the not even year so old hard drive, the “green” series might save on power consumption but it does not last long in the process.
It has been replaced with 2 normal 1 terabyte drives and contents are now duped over nightly to the second drive. As well as the weekly backups.
Another night another upgrade.
Whew did the upgraded to the latest wordpress 3.0.1, feels like we just did an upgrade a few nights ago.
Wait we did, this stuff is never ending it seems.
At lest this one was fast and painless.
The night of the upgrade.
Whew did the upgraded to the latest wordpress 3 and also updated to a new version of the nextgengallery plugin.
Which ended up making us do a lot of recoding on our site theme to make it work correctly again.
And took a LOT longer than planned or expected!
In the process we completed the transfer of all photography related functions to our fully eCommerce enabled http://pauerstock.com image bank.
Also added a few social media widgets to help people share what they like.
image bank
The ePortal to our image bank is coming along nicely!
Most basic site and commerce setup are complete with the agency. As are the customizations to integrate its look and feel into our current main site layout.
The rather arduous task of combing through all the digital image files for image selection, prep, upload and key-wording will soon begin for not only digital files but the many chromes that are waiting to be scanned.
To see images currently available for Rights Managed licensing or as prints through our parent stock agency
Shopping cart being tested
Testing out a new shopping cart system.
To see if online sales of fine art can be handled.
Test mode for now only, still need to work out how payment interface with banking would work.
Site upgraded to new code level
Site appears to have successfully updated to wordpress 2.7!
It was an almost painless process!
We also note that the Akismet anti spam plugin is working out very well.
It is busily nailing every attempt at spamming this blog.
Internal naming cleanup
Converted the cryptic database ID’s for all the pages and posts to human readable names.
Should make navigation easier!.