Working on the archive...

I really like Squarespace for the website and especially the portfolio part. For a photography archive and shop it is less suited. One of the problems is that a large amount of images makes display of a page rather slow. For the shop part there is an additional disadvantage in the sense that every image has to be uploaded and added by hand as a product for sale. And that is not very fast when a large series of pictures has to be made available.

So entry of Photoshelter for the archive and shop part of KnikmanAV. There bulk upload of a lot of pictures is simple and they can be made available in the shop at the same time. For the time being there is of course also a disadvantage... going to the archive, client area or general shop there is a change of site in the background. For returning to the main site that means making use of the menu choice <Home> or the back button of the browser.

Probably I will integrate the two sites in the course of this year.

A new website...

It has been a while that the old website was created. New work was added regularly in several places, but the home page was not updated frequently enough. Most of the time because the way the site was set up on different servers. A hassle, so postponed and postponed and... Not that good for a active website. And the site was showing its age. Navigation was not up to date, buying stuff on the site was a hassle and some other annoying things.

So for some time I have been looking for a way to change the configuration. Some research suggested several options, like building a new one in wordpress myself (oops), to pay (ohh...) for a new one developed by people who knew more of this kind of work, or looking at user-friendly ways to create a site. Squarespace looked good, was financially not too bad and offered enough possibilities to give it a try.

Still a work in progress, but I really like the way its shape is getting somewhere.

To be continued...