Tuesday, December 7

Prototyping my own website

Printscreen of my proto-site


You may laugh but if there is something I like to do to relax is to be busy constructing and programming websites... it sounds nerdy isn't it?

I finally started to build my own "commercial" website. I think its time... I have a facebook account, a blog was my last acquisition and now its time to collect all my assignments and publish them with some commercial appeal. My portfolio.

I can program, yes I can! Very quickly, almost everything, since I am 17 years old. I have so much experience with programming that sometimes I believe my thought process is 100% based  on  IF-THEN-ELSEs. Even if I need to open a parentesis on my day, I think its just a "function" I am executing and I will be right back to the main program.

But my creative process with this site has nothing to do with programming. It has everything to do with the quality of the imaging my visitors will get. My site should be pure and the center of the attention must be the pictures: their color, quality, contrast, angle and feeling.

So I made pure options.

But what I liked most, was the way of showing the pictures! I hate galleries full of java and dramatic presentations with rotating pictures! I wanted something simple.. a strip... and I came after the The Turning Gate (TTG) Horizon plugin and I am so happy with the results! It is simple, it is clean and very flexible! 

TTG Horizon its a Lightroom plugin: you install it and activate on Lightroom the ability of creating your own "site". Later on, just upload it and you will be ready. Of course I did not do it so simple :) Although the entire site is white, it is kindoff complicated on the background. 

Never mind. I am the webmaster anyway! Soon it will be ready ;)

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