Steve Bellayr
Veteran
You have a very narrow market here but maybe you can expand it by notifying Nikon & Leica, etc. camera groups. They still have interests in traditional film. Good Luck. & keep us updated.
vickersdc
Established
@jlw - I'm sorry to hear that you obviously don't like the idea. For sure, it's not going to be for everyone and the whole idea is that I am able to facilitate other photographers to share their experiences and images they have gleaned over the years. In fact, one contributor that has submitted an article has written about film photography from a beginners point of view.
There are many places where one can get information about digital imaging nowadays, and this project is not about that. The name for this project 'Creative Image Maker' came about because of the creativity required to make an image whether it's processing a roll of 35mm in a Jobo ATL processor, coating glass plate negatives, using Polaroid image transfer techniques or whatever.
Please don't mistake me for being anti-digital. I utilise my Nikon D40 quite alot and in particular for my more 'commercial' outpourings seen at http://www.davidvickers.co.uk with film being for my own more personal work.
I hope that you'll at least stop by the website when it goes live and see what is happening; and watch it grow over the weeks and months to come. If you like, stick around; if not, well that's unfortunate, but then I'm not trying to please everyone.
By the way, as this is a community project, there is no advertising. This is not about creating a huge revenue stream. It is about creating somewhere for photographers to share their knowledge and where others can (hopefully) be inspired by what they find on the site. It will thrive on the ideas, comments and support of that community and I hope that I can create the framework that makes it happen. There's several people out there who are helping out in this project and all are volunteering their time and effort to make it work. Without them, it won't happen as I don't have the time and experience to write so many articles on such a diverse range of subjects.
If you get a chance, pop over to http://creativeimagemaker.blogspot.com to find out a bit about the behind-the-scenes stuff if you haven't already.
@gnashings: glad to have you on-board! I hope you'll enjoy the thrill of seeing your work published, whether it's images or articles. There's also a Flickr group (Creative Image Maker) where you can post your images if you'd like. You can PM me here, via FlickrMail or email me at creativeimagemaker at yahoo.co.uk.
Many thanks,
David Vickers.
There are many places where one can get information about digital imaging nowadays, and this project is not about that. The name for this project 'Creative Image Maker' came about because of the creativity required to make an image whether it's processing a roll of 35mm in a Jobo ATL processor, coating glass plate negatives, using Polaroid image transfer techniques or whatever.
Please don't mistake me for being anti-digital. I utilise my Nikon D40 quite alot and in particular for my more 'commercial' outpourings seen at http://www.davidvickers.co.uk with film being for my own more personal work.
I hope that you'll at least stop by the website when it goes live and see what is happening; and watch it grow over the weeks and months to come. If you like, stick around; if not, well that's unfortunate, but then I'm not trying to please everyone.
By the way, as this is a community project, there is no advertising. This is not about creating a huge revenue stream. It is about creating somewhere for photographers to share their knowledge and where others can (hopefully) be inspired by what they find on the site. It will thrive on the ideas, comments and support of that community and I hope that I can create the framework that makes it happen. There's several people out there who are helping out in this project and all are volunteering their time and effort to make it work. Without them, it won't happen as I don't have the time and experience to write so many articles on such a diverse range of subjects.
If you get a chance, pop over to http://creativeimagemaker.blogspot.com to find out a bit about the behind-the-scenes stuff if you haven't already.
@gnashings: glad to have you on-board! I hope you'll enjoy the thrill of seeing your work published, whether it's images or articles. There's also a Flickr group (Creative Image Maker) where you can post your images if you'd like. You can PM me here, via FlickrMail or email me at creativeimagemaker at yahoo.co.uk.
Many thanks,
David Vickers.
vickersdc
Established
Steve Bellayr said:
Hi Steve,
Do you really see it as a narrow market? Interesting comment, but I have to say that I'm not sure I agree with you on that one. Film is enjoying something of a renaissance at the moment as can be seen by the activity of groups such as this, APUG, Large Format Photography forum, Choose-Film, etc.
I realise that sales of digital equipment is far outstripping film equipment, but many people are still enjoying film.
And then there are the myriad of processes, techniques, camera equipment and so on that can be covered. This subject is HUGE
I hope you'll visit the 'proper' website on the 13th January when it goes live and read the first article on the 15th. After that, it's only going to be one article a week, so it's got to be worth spending 10 minutes, once a week, to see what's happening.
Cheers,
David.
eric_lajeunesse
Member
good idee !!!
I will like paticiper has your future project
au plaisir eric
I will like paticiper has your future project
au plaisir eric
MartinP
Veteran
I'm pleased to see the project is alive
May I make one suggestion ? Over the next couple of weeks there will be a lot (we hope) of people curious about the site, so how about a static page explaining about what will be coming - and perhaps giving a link to the blogspot ? At the moment there is an advertisement from the hosting company, why not an advertisement for your publication instead ?!
Keep up the good work, and happy new year etc.
MartinP
May I make one suggestion ? Over the next couple of weeks there will be a lot (we hope) of people curious about the site, so how about a static page explaining about what will be coming - and perhaps giving a link to the blogspot ? At the moment there is an advertisement from the hosting company, why not an advertisement for your publication instead ?!
Keep up the good work, and happy new year etc.
MartinP
vickersdc
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@eric: bonjour monsieur! Vous pouvez ecrire en francais!
@MartinP: thanks for that idea! Been so busy with everything else that I hadn't even checked to see what is currently at the proper web address! I'll take a look and see if I can change it as you suggest. Thank you.
@MartinP: thanks for that idea! Been so busy with everything else that I hadn't even checked to see what is currently at the proper web address! I'll take a look and see if I can change it as you suggest. Thank you.
vickersdc
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To go with the nice shiny new website that's planned, I figured it made sense to have a proper email address - one that ended in creativeimagemaker.co.uk. An email was duly setup and that's where the problems started!
Personally, I'm not too bothered about using the current Yahoo email address - it seems to work fine and there's a couple of other advantages to me in using it. However, I guess that it doesn't look too 'professional' and I can see the advantages in having a 'proper' email address.
Anyhow, I've setup an email address which is info at creativeimagemaker.co.uk which seems to work OK from some email addresses - although, it now appears that emails originating from Yahoo, gmail, hotmail and BT may not be being received by me.
So - can you (and I know this could open the flood gates!) send me a quick email from your accounts so that I can check this properly. I've tried from my Yahoo account (did not work) and from a Vodafone account (did work). If you can make the subject line "Testing Times", then I can easily seperate these test messages out from any others. Remember, email: info at creativeimagemaker.co.uk if you can.
I will reply to each one - so if you don't get a reply within a day or two, it's likely that I didn't receive it.
Apart from this hiccup, the website build continues on apace, with the various sections coming together nicely. Something tells me that January 13th might come round sooner than I expect!
Happy New Year to one and all.
David Vickers.
Personally, I'm not too bothered about using the current Yahoo email address - it seems to work fine and there's a couple of other advantages to me in using it. However, I guess that it doesn't look too 'professional' and I can see the advantages in having a 'proper' email address.
Anyhow, I've setup an email address which is info at creativeimagemaker.co.uk which seems to work OK from some email addresses - although, it now appears that emails originating from Yahoo, gmail, hotmail and BT may not be being received by me.
So - can you (and I know this could open the flood gates!) send me a quick email from your accounts so that I can check this properly. I've tried from my Yahoo account (did not work) and from a Vodafone account (did work). If you can make the subject line "Testing Times", then I can easily seperate these test messages out from any others. Remember, email: info at creativeimagemaker.co.uk if you can.
I will reply to each one - so if you don't get a reply within a day or two, it's likely that I didn't receive it.
Apart from this hiccup, the website build continues on apace, with the various sections coming together nicely. Something tells me that January 13th might come round sooner than I expect!
Happy New Year to one and all.
David Vickers.
vickersdc
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To go along with the new website, there's a new email address (which is active now) if you would like to contact this project. The email address info@creativeimagemaker.co.uk can be used to submit comments, ideas, thoughts, articles and images.
Speaking of images, the first Feature Image has been selected for the website and there's a photo gallery that will need some more images in it too. I'll be looking through the Flickr 'Creative Image Maker' group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/555449@N25/ to select some for the website. Take a look at the group pool of photos if you get a chance - there's some great images.
The first article has also been chosen, but I'm not giving away any more as there needs to be something of a surprise for when it all goes live on the 13th Jan.
Thanks,
David.
Speaking of images, the first Feature Image has been selected for the website and there's a photo gallery that will need some more images in it too. I'll be looking through the Flickr 'Creative Image Maker' group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/555449@N25/ to select some for the website. Take a look at the group pool of photos if you get a chance - there's some great images.
The first article has also been chosen, but I'm not giving away any more as there needs to be something of a surprise for when it all goes live on the 13th Jan.
Thanks,
David.
vickersdc
Established
So Near, So Far.
So Near, So Far.
It's just a couple of days until we go live and I can't wait! There's been a couple of set-backs, but we'll deal with those in a moment.
The site is just about ready - a couple of finishing touches which I'll do Sunday morning, before publishing the site. I'm looking forward to getting it live, as I'd like to spend some time with my wife and daughter!
Now, about those setbacks. One contributor, John Cowie, was going to write an article but is due in hospital thanks to a bad leg. I'm sure you'll wish John a speedy recovery - then he can use that rest and recuperation time to write that article ;-)
The article that I was hoping to lead with has had to be put back one week to give out writer a chance to complete it! I can't wait for this one, and he was always up against it to produce the article against a pretty tight deadline. Not too worry, as it just so happens that I've a couple of spare articles knocking around that have been sent in!
I'd just like to say a huge "Thank You!" to those who have sent in their writings and images, as well as to those who have pledged articles.
Now for the one big setback...
Despite that fact that we haven't actually gone live yet, I'm busy writing a new website. It turns out that the web hosting package that I purchased (that clearly advertised an 'unlimited' number of pages) only had a very limited number of pages - 66 maximum. Whilst that might sound like a lot - it was arranged as 6 top level pages, each with 10 sub-level pages. That's it - no sub-sub-level pages, and no more than 10 pages per top level page.
Considering the number of articles that I'm hoping we can produce throughout the year, we're not going to get too far with that restriction.
So, I've had to start back from scratch, loading up an web-server and Perl language scripts on my laptop. I've had to dust off a few brain-cells from my days as a Systems Administrator working on UNIX systems to create the new site!
So, don't get too comfy with the version 1.0 of the Creative Image Maker site! I reckon we'll be renting that space for about a month whilst I write version 2.0, then we'll switch over.
Anyway, until then, enjoy http://www.creativeimagemaker.co.uk when it goes live on the 13th January (when we'll also launch the competition). The first article will be on the 15th.
Thanks to all those who have helped with advice, work, comments, pictures and to all those who have joined the Creative Image Maker group on Flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/555449@N25/ ).
David Vickers.
So Near, So Far.
It's just a couple of days until we go live and I can't wait! There's been a couple of set-backs, but we'll deal with those in a moment.
The site is just about ready - a couple of finishing touches which I'll do Sunday morning, before publishing the site. I'm looking forward to getting it live, as I'd like to spend some time with my wife and daughter!
Now, about those setbacks. One contributor, John Cowie, was going to write an article but is due in hospital thanks to a bad leg. I'm sure you'll wish John a speedy recovery - then he can use that rest and recuperation time to write that article ;-)
The article that I was hoping to lead with has had to be put back one week to give out writer a chance to complete it! I can't wait for this one, and he was always up against it to produce the article against a pretty tight deadline. Not too worry, as it just so happens that I've a couple of spare articles knocking around that have been sent in!
I'd just like to say a huge "Thank You!" to those who have sent in their writings and images, as well as to those who have pledged articles.
Now for the one big setback...
Despite that fact that we haven't actually gone live yet, I'm busy writing a new website. It turns out that the web hosting package that I purchased (that clearly advertised an 'unlimited' number of pages) only had a very limited number of pages - 66 maximum. Whilst that might sound like a lot - it was arranged as 6 top level pages, each with 10 sub-level pages. That's it - no sub-sub-level pages, and no more than 10 pages per top level page.
Considering the number of articles that I'm hoping we can produce throughout the year, we're not going to get too far with that restriction.
So, I've had to start back from scratch, loading up an web-server and Perl language scripts on my laptop. I've had to dust off a few brain-cells from my days as a Systems Administrator working on UNIX systems to create the new site!
So, don't get too comfy with the version 1.0 of the Creative Image Maker site! I reckon we'll be renting that space for about a month whilst I write version 2.0, then we'll switch over.
Anyway, until then, enjoy http://www.creativeimagemaker.co.uk when it goes live on the 13th January (when we'll also launch the competition). The first article will be on the 15th.
Thanks to all those who have helped with advice, work, comments, pictures and to all those who have joined the Creative Image Maker group on Flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/555449@N25/ ).
David Vickers.
vickersdc
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We're Live!
We're Live!
I've just pressed the 'Publish Site' button, so I guess that means we're now live at http://creativeimagemaker.co.uk.
You might find that there's a slight delay before you actually see the site - don't worry; because of the way the internet works, the changes need to be propagated throughout the web (for those in the know, the Domain Name Servers need to be updated and could take up to 24 hours).
Cheers,
David.
We're Live!
I've just pressed the 'Publish Site' button, so I guess that means we're now live at http://creativeimagemaker.co.uk.
You might find that there's a slight delay before you actually see the site - don't worry; because of the way the internet works, the changes need to be propagated throughout the web (for those in the know, the Domain Name Servers need to be updated and could take up to 24 hours).
Cheers,
David.
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Competition...
Competition...
I'm very pleased to announce that Fotohuis RoVo have sponsored the competition in the Creative Image Maker online magazine.
The winner of the competition, entitled "The Image Within The Image" will win a 'creative film set' in either 135-36 [exposures] or 120 roll-film.
For further details, visit the magazine site at http://creativeimagemaker.co.uk if you get a chance, or the competition sponsors at http://www.fotohuisrovo.nl.
Thank you,
David.
Competition...
I'm very pleased to announce that Fotohuis RoVo have sponsored the competition in the Creative Image Maker online magazine.
The winner of the competition, entitled "The Image Within The Image" will win a 'creative film set' in either 135-36 [exposures] or 120 roll-film.
For further details, visit the magazine site at http://creativeimagemaker.co.uk if you get a chance, or the competition sponsors at http://www.fotohuisrovo.nl.
Thank you,
David.
vickersdc
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Well, we are now one week old and what a success it's been! Thank you all for your support and coming to visit the site at http://creativeimagemaker.co.uk.
There's been a marvellous response and it's been great receiving your mails, with the vast majority seeming to like the new site.
So, how well have we done? Well, in the first seven days there's been just over 750 visits and an amazing 3,615 page views (now, that can't have all been down to my wife). Actually, my wife has still to visit the site so she's still a little perplexed about what it is that takes up my spare time!
There's a new article going up tomorrow (Tuesday 22nd January) which I think you'll find really interesting.
The build of version 2.0 of the site continues apace and I had a bit of a breakthrough over the weekend with how articles will be displayed - nothing fancy, I just wanted a particular look and neat coding! So far, the article archive has been sorted out, as has the competition page, the gallery and featured images - I reckon another couple of weeks should see the new, new site completed and ready for switchover.
Again, thank you for the support you have shown - keep popping by to check out the latest articles and images.
Cheers,
David Vickers.
There's been a marvellous response and it's been great receiving your mails, with the vast majority seeming to like the new site.
So, how well have we done? Well, in the first seven days there's been just over 750 visits and an amazing 3,615 page views (now, that can't have all been down to my wife). Actually, my wife has still to visit the site so she's still a little perplexed about what it is that takes up my spare time!
There's a new article going up tomorrow (Tuesday 22nd January) which I think you'll find really interesting.
The build of version 2.0 of the site continues apace and I had a bit of a breakthrough over the weekend with how articles will be displayed - nothing fancy, I just wanted a particular look and neat coding! So far, the article archive has been sorted out, as has the competition page, the gallery and featured images - I reckon another couple of weeks should see the new, new site completed and ready for switchover.
Again, thank you for the support you have shown - keep popping by to check out the latest articles and images.
Cheers,
David Vickers.
vickersdc
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There are quite a few things to update you all on...
1. The switch to version 2.0 of the website.
2. Paper-based magazine.
3. Up-coming feature images and articles.
4. Other news.
*** Version 2.0 ***
The bulk of the new website is ready, but it's always a bit of a catch-up as each week passes by as I have to upload new items to the current site and then convert them for the version 2.0 site. The quicker we can get the switchover done, the better!
The change to the new site will mean that it will be unavailable for 24-48 hours whilst the changes percolate through the internet. That switchover may well be happening this week once I'm happy that it is sorted with the hosting provider (there are currently 'issues' around finances for this - i.e. I want a refund!).
*** The Paper Magazine ***
It would appear that the idea for a print-on-demand magazine will not be happening. I received the samples from Lightning Source (whom, I must add, were extremely helpful), but the quality of image reproduction just wasn't what I had hoped for.
This is a bit of a blow in the whole plan, but undeterred I have found a good ol' traditional printer who could well save the day! It's likely that there will not be a magazine in April as I had originally hoped, but with luck June may be more realistic - and here is where you can help me... I will need to have a rough idea of how many people are interested in a proper, quality magazine so that I can obtain pricing. You can email me at info@creativeimagemaker.co.uk (subject line "Paper mag") and let me know. It'll give me an idea of whether I'm looking at printing 500 copies, or 5.
*** Future Features ***
There are so many articles in the pipeline that I want to put them all up on the site now! It's becoming hard to choose what should go up and when! This is fabulous and I'd like to thank those that have already been published and all those waiting in the wings for their work to be published. Over the next couple of months we've got...
- An article by Dorothy Kloss about building a darkroom;
- Several article by Christopher Walrath covering a range of subjects (Chris was one of the first people to contribute and he's still waiting to see his work in the magazine - sorry Chris, it's coming, honest!);
- Stan L-B writes about why light matters;
- Jason Brunner, whom some of you may recognise from the APUG forum, has written a piece about the Fotoman 6x17 camera;
- Jim Read tells us about creating cyanotypes;
- Tom Overton provides follow-on information about the use of coffee as a developer;
- Do you buy equipment from eBay? I know I do, and John Sawula has written an article about it;
- Even I am getting in on the act! I've written articles on the Nikon EM camera (a much under-rated camera), and I'll be kicking off the beginners series with a look at the equipment one needs to create your own images...
- ...and I've also got a Polaroid special planned as well (in spite of recent announcements about Polaroid!).
Feature images are going from strength to strength as well - today (10th Feb) will see not one, but two feature images! Thanks to Dennis Cordell and Alan Huntley for their kind permission to use their photographs.
*** Other News ***
As I'm sure you are all aware by now it's been an interesting time in the world of photography. Fuji unveiled their prototype medium format rangefinder - a 6x7 folding camera and we await to see if it actually makes it in to production in the future. Polaroid, on the other hand, have announced the closure of two factories with the loss of several jobs. This is a great shame to those of us who use Polaroid films - especially for image transfers and emulsion lifts as the Fuji film just doesn't work the same way. It's interesting to note that Polaroid is ready to licence the technology and I wonder who will take over the production of Polaroid films - let's hope someone does!
With that, I'll end there. Please stop by the magazine site over the week to see all the new features. It's at... http://creativeimagemaker.co.uk
Thanks,
David.
1. The switch to version 2.0 of the website.
2. Paper-based magazine.
3. Up-coming feature images and articles.
4. Other news.
*** Version 2.0 ***
The bulk of the new website is ready, but it's always a bit of a catch-up as each week passes by as I have to upload new items to the current site and then convert them for the version 2.0 site. The quicker we can get the switchover done, the better!
The change to the new site will mean that it will be unavailable for 24-48 hours whilst the changes percolate through the internet. That switchover may well be happening this week once I'm happy that it is sorted with the hosting provider (there are currently 'issues' around finances for this - i.e. I want a refund!).
*** The Paper Magazine ***
It would appear that the idea for a print-on-demand magazine will not be happening. I received the samples from Lightning Source (whom, I must add, were extremely helpful), but the quality of image reproduction just wasn't what I had hoped for.
This is a bit of a blow in the whole plan, but undeterred I have found a good ol' traditional printer who could well save the day! It's likely that there will not be a magazine in April as I had originally hoped, but with luck June may be more realistic - and here is where you can help me... I will need to have a rough idea of how many people are interested in a proper, quality magazine so that I can obtain pricing. You can email me at info@creativeimagemaker.co.uk (subject line "Paper mag") and let me know. It'll give me an idea of whether I'm looking at printing 500 copies, or 5.
*** Future Features ***
There are so many articles in the pipeline that I want to put them all up on the site now! It's becoming hard to choose what should go up and when! This is fabulous and I'd like to thank those that have already been published and all those waiting in the wings for their work to be published. Over the next couple of months we've got...
- An article by Dorothy Kloss about building a darkroom;
- Several article by Christopher Walrath covering a range of subjects (Chris was one of the first people to contribute and he's still waiting to see his work in the magazine - sorry Chris, it's coming, honest!);
- Stan L-B writes about why light matters;
- Jason Brunner, whom some of you may recognise from the APUG forum, has written a piece about the Fotoman 6x17 camera;
- Jim Read tells us about creating cyanotypes;
- Tom Overton provides follow-on information about the use of coffee as a developer;
- Do you buy equipment from eBay? I know I do, and John Sawula has written an article about it;
- Even I am getting in on the act! I've written articles on the Nikon EM camera (a much under-rated camera), and I'll be kicking off the beginners series with a look at the equipment one needs to create your own images...
- ...and I've also got a Polaroid special planned as well (in spite of recent announcements about Polaroid!).
Feature images are going from strength to strength as well - today (10th Feb) will see not one, but two feature images! Thanks to Dennis Cordell and Alan Huntley for their kind permission to use their photographs.
*** Other News ***
As I'm sure you are all aware by now it's been an interesting time in the world of photography. Fuji unveiled their prototype medium format rangefinder - a 6x7 folding camera and we await to see if it actually makes it in to production in the future. Polaroid, on the other hand, have announced the closure of two factories with the loss of several jobs. This is a great shame to those of us who use Polaroid films - especially for image transfers and emulsion lifts as the Fuji film just doesn't work the same way. It's interesting to note that Polaroid is ready to licence the technology and I wonder who will take over the production of Polaroid films - let's hope someone does!
With that, I'll end there. Please stop by the magazine site over the week to see all the new features. It's at... http://creativeimagemaker.co.uk
Thanks,
David.
vickersdc
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The current Creative Image Maker website will be updated early next week (week commencing 18th Feb) and this will mean a loss of service for a few days.
The current site does not allow us enough room for expansion as there is a limit on the number of pages allowed and it also has a fixed hierarchy of those pages. We are already near the limits on the articles section and so this update is needed. The new site provides us with much more freedom and I'm looking forward to getting it uploaded.
The new site has a familiar feel to it, although there are some minor differences - particularly in the way that articles will be displayed; with the new site, articles will appear in a new window. Navigation remains broadly similar as do the section titles.
The current site will have to be pulled first, before the new site can be uploaded; following that the domain name servers (that allow your computer to go to the site) will need to be updated and that can take 24-48 hours. I'm looking to start this on Monday, with a view to normal service resuming on Wednesday.
As an additional thing, I'm wondering whether it's worth re-instating the Gallery? I definitely want to keep the Feature Images as that seems to be a real hit, but I'm not so sure about the Gallery - especially when there's Flickr, APUG, et al. What do you think?
Also, I haven't been pushing the events / exhibitions / camera club sections as I've been concentrating on getting articles and images - do you feel that this section is worth building up (I'm happy to do it, if you think it's worth it)?
That's all. Remember that it is a magazine for you and I do value your input, we wouldn't be here without it after all!
Cheers,
David.
The current site does not allow us enough room for expansion as there is a limit on the number of pages allowed and it also has a fixed hierarchy of those pages. We are already near the limits on the articles section and so this update is needed. The new site provides us with much more freedom and I'm looking forward to getting it uploaded.
The new site has a familiar feel to it, although there are some minor differences - particularly in the way that articles will be displayed; with the new site, articles will appear in a new window. Navigation remains broadly similar as do the section titles.
The current site will have to be pulled first, before the new site can be uploaded; following that the domain name servers (that allow your computer to go to the site) will need to be updated and that can take 24-48 hours. I'm looking to start this on Monday, with a view to normal service resuming on Wednesday.
As an additional thing, I'm wondering whether it's worth re-instating the Gallery? I definitely want to keep the Feature Images as that seems to be a real hit, but I'm not so sure about the Gallery - especially when there's Flickr, APUG, et al. What do you think?
Also, I haven't been pushing the events / exhibitions / camera club sections as I've been concentrating on getting articles and images - do you feel that this section is worth building up (I'm happy to do it, if you think it's worth it)?
That's all. Remember that it is a magazine for you and I do value your input, we wouldn't be here without it after all!
Cheers,
David.
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
Somehow I missed this before -- sounds and looks very promising.
vickersdc
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KoNickon said:
What! How could you miss it?!
;-)
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
I'm asking myself that same question!
vickersdc
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Site Update...
Site Update...
Finally the site is going through the update process, having been taken down by the service provider.
This was the first step in the process - the original site had to be removed to allow me to get a better web hosting agreement. The new site can then be uploaded and the domain pointed at the new server.
I'm currently waiting for some information about the new server before I can upload the version 2 site. It's slow going this update, but at least we have made some progress!
I'll keep you posted.
David.
Site Update...
Finally the site is going through the update process, having been taken down by the service provider.
This was the first step in the process - the original site had to be removed to allow me to get a better web hosting agreement. The new site can then be uploaded and the domain pointed at the new server.
I'm currently waiting for some information about the new server before I can upload the version 2 site. It's slow going this update, but at least we have made some progress!
I'll keep you posted.
David.
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Still Waiting...
Still Waiting...
As reported on Thursday, the old site has been taken down to make way for the new site. We had to take the old site down first as the service provider could not run two separate hosting services at the same time - as we cannot point the creativeimagemaker.co.uk domain name at two places at once.
As I'm sure you are aware, I've been very unhappy with this hosting provider and when they finally took down the site (four days late), I purchased a hosting plan with their sister company. With the monies out of the account, I got a response from the site that I would be sent information allowing me to start the process of uploading the new site.
By the end of Friday I still had nothing. I sent in a support call and I'm still waiting for a response.
So, as I write this, we have no site up and running, I can't upload the new site as I don't have the server information I need and I'm guessing that I won't get a response until Monday.
I've also asked for a refund as their customer support service is just appalling. I'll try and find a company that actually responds to their customers!
I'm hugely frustrated and disappointed by this setback - but rest assured that the project is still alive and well, and I'll get the magazine back online as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience,
David Vickers.
Still Waiting...
As reported on Thursday, the old site has been taken down to make way for the new site. We had to take the old site down first as the service provider could not run two separate hosting services at the same time - as we cannot point the creativeimagemaker.co.uk domain name at two places at once.
As I'm sure you are aware, I've been very unhappy with this hosting provider and when they finally took down the site (four days late), I purchased a hosting plan with their sister company. With the monies out of the account, I got a response from the site that I would be sent information allowing me to start the process of uploading the new site.
By the end of Friday I still had nothing. I sent in a support call and I'm still waiting for a response.
So, as I write this, we have no site up and running, I can't upload the new site as I don't have the server information I need and I'm guessing that I won't get a response until Monday.
I've also asked for a refund as their customer support service is just appalling. I'll try and find a company that actually responds to their customers!
I'm hugely frustrated and disappointed by this setback - but rest assured that the project is still alive and well, and I'll get the magazine back online as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience,
David Vickers.
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Right... there's a new web provider, new functionality and a new site!
The site is up and running, but is still heavily under construction (still has the virtual scaffolding around it). I have decided to go for a proper content management system that will certainly make life easier for me as we go forward.
It was actually quite a 'difficult' decision to make - I'd already recoded the old website so that I could just upload it, but when I started to think about the project as a long-term proposition, it just didn't make sense to carry on having to hand-code articles.
The new site uses a content management system and it will take me a bit of time to get it looking right and setup for our purpose - but in the meantime, if you don't mind donning your virtual hard-hat and stepping in to the building site, the articles will still be appearing and I've uploaded some of the older articles and posted this weeks Polaroid Special.
As it's set at the moment, you will have to login (top right) of the homepage to get access - just follow the instructions.
Thanks,
David.
The site is up and running, but is still heavily under construction (still has the virtual scaffolding around it). I have decided to go for a proper content management system that will certainly make life easier for me as we go forward.
It was actually quite a 'difficult' decision to make - I'd already recoded the old website so that I could just upload it, but when I started to think about the project as a long-term proposition, it just didn't make sense to carry on having to hand-code articles.
The new site uses a content management system and it will take me a bit of time to get it looking right and setup for our purpose - but in the meantime, if you don't mind donning your virtual hard-hat and stepping in to the building site, the articles will still be appearing and I've uploaded some of the older articles and posted this weeks Polaroid Special.
As it's set at the moment, you will have to login (top right) of the homepage to get access - just follow the instructions.
Thanks,
David.