New Year – New Website
January 1st, 2010
Happy New Year!
As the calendar rolls over to 2010 I’m pleased to launch a fresh update of smileypool.com. The new website also brings with it the launch of this blog and hopefully many more interesting possibilities as we head into a new decade.
The previous incarnation of smileypool.com was built on the super simple and elegant flash platform from by Jayson Singe at Neonsky. The new version is built on WordPress and features integration of a theme by Graph Paper Press with my archive at PhotoShelter.
The folks at both GPP and PhotoShelter created quite a buzz when they announced their partnership a few months back. It came at a time whenI had just started testing a redesign based on GPP and the timing of the announcement couldn’t have been better.
Both companies have shown a commitment to photographers that is welcome and so far I’m thrilled with where they are headed. However, I will be the first to admit that the promise that “Graph Paper Press & PhotoShelter Make It Easy to Integrate Your Blog” has been a bit of a stretch in my experience.
If, like me, you have minimal HTML+CSS skills but you still want to make any changes to the default themes, well it’s not for the faint of heart. But after a few late nights of tweaking code I’ll push ahead and we’ll see how it goes even though there are still some bugs to work out.
It is still a work in progress (especially since I’ve never really spent the time to even edit my portfolio!) but I’m pleased to finally have my portfolio, video, multimedia, blog and archives all under the same roof and excited about the possibilities it presents. So keep checking back here and we’ll see where this fresh new decade leads us.
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