Two Months Building Web Gallery
Spending complete two months working on development of my website, I felt sharing few things about developing a web gallery. Having a web gallery gives the freedom to fully exhibit what is you, right from the way you present images. Owning a website, is not very expensive when using the free tools and plugins available today which are easy to integrate in the website.
I have been working on it nearly 18hrs a day, for past couple of months(leaving few days for my photo trip to Bylakuppe). Having an average soft skills, I tried my best to make my web gallery beautiful, attractive and easy to navigate. With the available web blog tools, now a days it is not much difficult to make an artist web gallery. But if one wants a website to be aesthetically pleasing along with e-com facilities, one needs to be careful about the theme, structure and the page design of the website. During the development process I have send the site link to few of my friends and got feedback from them and changed it accordingly. Eventually it has come to the saturation where it meets my present requirement.
In brief, in the website, there is a GALLERY,for showcasing the albums, FINE ART PRINT pages, for selling the prints, and facility of subscribing, upon which user can access their account profile to view Purchase History, Tracking orders & Profile Information, finally guestbook and contact pages.
Presenting the images in Gallery Albums is an other tedious task. Having more than 20,000 exposures, of 5 different countries, it took lot of time selecting, processing & segregating, in to relevant albums, in fact, I have not done this before. I seldom send my images to competitions and etc..So, everything was almost just dumped in a storage device. Maintaining own website inculcates discipline in organizing the collection and presentation.
I hosted my website using wordpress and its themes and related plugins for e-com and other presentations. And I used Slideshow pro for Adobe LightRoom2, which is an other wonderful plugin for creating custom flash slide shows.
Before building a website, it is very much necessary to browswe through various other websites and know Do’s and Don’ts. Summing up my observations together, I put most of the development efforts making the site more simpler and nicer.
After visiting my web gallery, I hope one will feel what I felt one must feel.
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