While I am between Contracts I have had the time to tidy up my websites, the first being this one, I took the old one down and started again, all my websites are run on DotNetNuke this is an open source modular website management system, the back end is the Microsoft 2005 SQL database, there are a lot of modules included and many commercial ones that can be added on.
The Logo is new and was designed and purchased from www.inspiredlogos.com at a cost of just under £100, this is quite a good service after paying and giving the website details I received a call to discuss the requirement, they sent 6 designs and I chose one, they were also were good at keeping me informed as to progress, the result is at the top of this page.
www.photographerstripod.com photography is my hobby and this is just a hobby website, it is a Photographic Community website, where photographers can upload images, join groups, network, add events, articles and downloads, the downloads are a set of tool I have created in Visual Studio and Adobe Flash for Image Management, when I am learning or keeping up with a development package, I will look to create a functional application, that is the way I prefer to learn ‘hands on’, I package create a tutorial and make the applications free to download just like the tutorials and downloads on the downloads page here
www.digitalweblogistics.com this website is just a concept idea I am floating to see if it is viable, as photography is my hobby I started to upload to stock imaging website that licence your images and pay you a commission, this is very big business for the stock sites but hard work for the Photographers, each site has a set of requirements and as a Photographer you spend many hours preparing and uploading the same image to many sites, often just to have the image rejected on some websites and accepted on others, which is time wasting and frustrating for both the stock websites and Photographers
The concept of www.digitalweblogistics.com is to standardise the preparation and uploading of an image to one instance, then via a search engine allow the imaging stock website to search for images they would like to include in their library, rather than having Photographers uploading many images that they do not require for their library, the photographers would pay for their own image storage submit a thumbnail and the image data including keywords and pricing band to the search engine, the buyers would pay to access the search engine, these would be micropayments and transactions would be between Photographer and Customer, Agent or Merchant