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"As far as I am concerned, your people are the smartest in the business and some of the most talented professional photographers in Florida..... "
-Niki, a model from Tampa Bay, Florida

Saturday, July 15, 2006 - Portfolio Adjustment

As of early this morning (12:43 AM), there are over 227 images in our online portfolio. Our NEWEST IMAGES section to the left has 97 image thumbnails leading to some of them, and this is the reason that the site is loading slow for some people. As of now, we are going to update the main portfolio menu and then edit the NEWEST IMAGE thumbnails down to the last 20 (which would only cover around half of what has been uploaded this week). Obviously, now is the appropriate time to fine tune the portfolio section and make final revisions to the format before jumping into hundreds of shoots and thousands of new image uploads.

Presently, we have the normal ability to upload up to 20 images per day, which consists of roughly 160 image files; 80 for the images themselves and 80 for the supporting new image and main thumbnail images. The uploads also require roughly 80 HTML support page files, which totals 240 files in an eight hour editing session. This is a lot of work, as you can see, but it makes for perhaps the best photography and design services marketing web site in the world, and the top one in the Tampa Bay market. Now that we have established upload capacities, it should be noted that we are benefiting from what our web team has learned from designing and maintaining leading modeling resource sites. Simply put, it is not enough to have the most content on a site. To be usable, the content must be organized. Throw hundreds, and eventually thousands, of portfolio images into one big thumbnail menu and you will lose people regardless of how good the photography is and how interested that they are. This is why we are now slowing down uploads enough this weekend to finalize some details and organize what we have so far. We will adding main thumbnails to the main portfolio section, removing a lot of the new image thumbnails to prune it back to a manageable level, and then we will bring most of the portfolio "channels" online. The channels will only have relevant image thumbnails for that section, greatly enhancing the ability of people to find the images that they are looking for and enabling our online portfolio to reach the full potential of the advantages of having thousands of pictures online offers. Our online portfolio will have over 1,200 pictures online by the end of the year, and they will all be easy and fun to look at. By this time next year, we should have over 3,000 pictures online.

With our site designed to handle thousands of organized pictures, continuity of portfolio profile formats will change. Newer profiles will be slightly different than older ones, but they won't be so different that it will become much of an issue. Besides profile pages, other elements of this site are being improved, too. Our thumbnail formats have been improved, and the mouse over actions are noticeably different (and better) than the original format. This is one reason that we are holding off from updating the main thumbnails on the top and on the bottom of every page on this site; we are waiting until enough new thumbnails are added and then we will update selected ones to the new standard.

Next week a lot will be happening. We will be working on this all weekend to be sure that it's ready by Monday

We are now uploading far more than your typical model portfolio, actor and talent head shots, and portrait photograph images. we are now uploading pictures of just about everything and anything that we have, including out take snap shots that may not be up to our quality standards. Effective immediately, we will limit out take type pictures to their relevant portfolio channels and will not use them in our marketing or feature them on this site. Our NEWEST IMAGES section will only include marketable additions and not out take type images (one did slip in yesterday, but it is of excellent quality and will soon be displaced by newer thumbnails). We will not announce or market every image added to our site, and will not publish over 50% of our work here. The NEWEST IMAGES section will also be used to proof selected shoots and our client picks. Since an average six-look model portfolio session may yield our picks of around ten images covering those six looks that were shot, proofing a shoot will only take up around half of the self-imposed 20 NEWEST IMAGES that we have set for ourselves to optimize the performance of the site. Our NEWEST IMAGES will serve as a highlight proof and a que for images to be added to pour main portfolio section and their relevant channels. By the time that image thumbnails are displaced, they should be selectable from our portfolio section and the relevant portfolio channels. At times, we may push the NEWEST IMAGES beyond a 20 limit (let's say that we have more than two model portfolio sessions in a day and want to post more than 20 images from them- even booked up, the 20 images should last at least 72 hours before they are displaced, as we do want to give our clients and chance to look at them and need to give ourselves time to add them to the online portfolio section. In rare chances, we may extend the NEWEST IMAGES over 20, and perhaps as high as 50 in rare situations. Just don't try to use updates to this site as a way of trying to weigh out how much work that we are getting or trying to find out who our clients are so you can shop them. We will never upload anything close to what we are doing, and you'll never get the full picture.

In other news, the 6th Aurora PhotoArts web site is now in development, and it will feature flash graphics and animation, sound, CSS library templates, and will be PHP database driven. It will be the ultimate site for flexibility, presentation, customized visitor experiences, and quick and easy updates. While we may announce it, we also may not, as it is a long way off. This site is just getting started, is proving itself as the best photography services marketing site, and we still have to test some things. Don't expect the new generation Aurora PhotoArts site until at least 2009, and we will guess 2010. Until then, you will get to experience this beautifully designed, refined site, and our never-ending tweaks and upgrades.

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		NEWEST IMAGES NEWS - DEVELOPMENTS AND UPDATES ALERTS - OFFERS Client Testimonial "As far as I am concerned, your people are the smartest in the business and some of the most talented professional photographers in Florida..... " -Niki, a model from Tampa Bay, Florida Saturday, July 15, 2006 - Portfolio Adjustment As of early this morning (12:43 AM), there are over 227 images in our online portfolio. Our NEWEST IMAGES section to the left has 97 image thumbnails leading to some of them, and this is the reason that the site is loading slow for some people. As of now, we are going to update the main portfolio menu and then edit the NEWEST IMAGE thumbnails down to the last 20 (which would only cover around half of what has been uploaded this week). Obviously, now is the appropriate time to fine tune the portfolio section and make final revisions to the format before jumping into hundreds of shoots and thousands of new image uploads. Presently, we have the normal ability to upload up to 20 images per day, which consists of roughly 160 image files; 80 for the images themselves and 80 for the supporting new image and main thumbnail images. The uploads also require roughly 80 HTML support page files, which totals 240 files in an eight hour editing session. This is a lot of work, as you can see, but it makes for perhaps the best photography and design services marketing web site in the world, and the top one in the Tampa Bay market. Now that we have established upload capacities, it should be noted that we are benefiting from what our web team has learned from designing and maintaining leading modeling resource sites. Simply put, it is not enough to have the most content on a site. To be usable, the content must be organized. Throw hundreds, and eventually thousands, of portfolio images into one big thumbnail menu and you will lose people regardless of how good the photography is and how interested that they are. This is why we are now slowing down uploads enough this weekend to finalize some details and organize what we have so far. We will adding main thumbnails to the main portfolio section, removing a lot of the new image thumbnails to prune it back to a manageable level, and then we will bring most of the portfolio "channels" online. The channels will only have relevant image thumbnails for that section, greatly enhancing the ability of people to find the images that they are looking for and enabling our online portfolio to reach the full potential of the advantages of having thousands of pictures online offers. Our online portfolio will have over 1,200 pictures online by the end of the year, and they will all be easy and fun to look at. By this time next year, we should have over 3,000 pictures online. With our site designed to handle thousands of organized pictures, continuity of portfolio profile formats will change. Newer profiles will be slightly different than older ones, but they won't be so different that it will become much of an issue. Besides profile pages, other elements of this site are being improved, too. Our thumbnail formats have been improved, and the mouse over actions are noticeably different (and better) than the original format. This is one reason that we are holding off from updating the main thumbnails on the top and on the bottom of every page on this site; we are waiting until enough new thumbnails are added and then we will update selected ones to the new standard. Next week a lot will be happening. We will be working on this all weekend to be sure that it's ready by Monday We are now uploading far more than your typical model portfolio, actor and talent head shots, and portrait photograph images. we are now uploading pictures of just about everything and anything that we have, including out take snap shots that may not be up to our quality standards. Effective immediately, we will limit out take type pictures to their relevant portfolio channels and will not use them in our marketing or feature them on this site. Our NEWEST IMAGES section will only include marketable additions and not out take type images (one did slip in yesterday, but it is of excellent quality and will soon be displaced by newer thumbnails). We will not announce or market every image added to our site, and will not publish over 50% of our work here. The NEWEST IMAGES section will also be used to proof selected shoots and our client picks. Since an average six-look model portfolio session may yield our picks of around ten images covering those six looks that were shot, proofing a shoot will only take up around half of the self-imposed 20 NEWEST IMAGES that we have set for ourselves to optimize the performance of the site. Our NEWEST IMAGES will serve as a highlight proof and a que for images to be added to pour main portfolio section and their relevant channels. By the time that image thumbnails are displaced, they should be selectable from our portfolio section and the relevant portfolio channels. At times, we may push the NEWEST IMAGES beyond a 20 limit (let's say that we have more than two model portfolio sessions in a day and want to post more than 20 images from them- even booked up, the 20 images should last at least 72 hours before they are displaced, as we do want to give our clients and chance to look at them and need to give ourselves time to add them to the online portfolio section. In rare chances, we may extend the NEWEST IMAGES over 20, and perhaps as high as 50 in rare situations. Just don't try to use updates to this site as a way of trying to weigh out how much work that we are getting or trying to find out who our clients are so you can shop them. We will never upload anything close to what we are doing, and you'll never get the full picture. In other news, the 6th Aurora PhotoArts web site is now in development, and it will feature flash graphics and animation, sound, CSS library templates, and will be PHP database driven. It will be the ultimate site for flexibility, presentation, customized visitor experiences, and quick and easy updates. While we may announce it, we also may not, as it is a long way off. This site is just getting started, is proving itself as the best photography services marketing site, and we still have to test some things. Don't expect the new generation Aurora PhotoArts site until at least 2009, and we will guess 2010. Until then, you will get to experience this beautifully designed, refined site, and our never-ending tweaks and upgrades. NEXT NEWS - PREVIOUS NEWS - NEWS DIRECTORY ______________________________ SPECIAL OFFERS - ALERTS
	IMAGE CREDIT: Client Adrianna Batista, a model from Tampa Bay, Florida

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