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- One of 47 entries in the i3m blog (45 before this & 1 since).
A month in the wilderness
- August 2, 2009, 10:10 am
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istockcreative.com upgrade moves on apace
- While we managed a glorious week of high temperatures and sunshine, July has passed us by and unfortunately didn’t raise many opportunities for sun soaked photography here in the heart of rural Hampshire. Fortunately our stock photography service, istockcreative.com, was due a major upgrade and with a backlog of photographs to publish from the last six months, July seemed a good time to put the camera down and get back to coding.
Since our original members stock photography went live two years ago there has been a lot of development in web sites and the code behind them. Most noticeable is the development of libraries, like jQuery, which make it relatively easy to produce some very slick interfaces. As with everything online it one step forward and two back as catering for the non-Javascript visitor or sight impaired visitor mean the code must degrade to still function for these two areas. This is one of the differentiators between a ‘Fred in the Shed’ have a go web developer and an integrated media house. There is no point spending your creative budget on a web site that doesn’t render to all hard won visitors just because it’s not convenient to your web developer.
Anyway, August is upon us and istockcreative.com is now running in its Beta format. There are some major redevelopments still to undertake but two three new major projects kicking off in August mean development will have to take a back seat for a while!
- istockcreative.com gives members and visitors the opportunity to buy, sell and print their own works as well as develop their creative skills in our community
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