Month: August 2006

Nothing looks very different on the website but I have been busy.

Website

I have a way of generating pages for new sketches. The links are working as expected especially between the blog and the main site. The site opens on a random page. All the files have new names with the sketch number included – it was getting a bit messy before.

Printing

Researching the best way of producing high quality prints. Almost there – I can do them on my own machine & they look good, but I am told they will fade. I can get them done on photo paper and they look good too, but different. Now it is between Kodak & Fuji. Looking like Fuji, they seem to rate best, and look better too, but will do more tests.

Reflecting on how a digital item can generate many “views” and each of them different, including the material versions.

It will take a bit of doing to create images on paper that I like. I will only sign ones that are the best I can create from the web versions.

Tools of the trade

I must have a trial copy of every image program there is. I like something about them all, they all do different things.

Sketching

Developing. Seeing anew. Seeing in out line, seeing in light & dark. Taking lots of pix to use for resources. Have sketches to put up. I notice that it is taking longer than I thought. I can easily do 1000 in a year, but not ones I want to send up! A policy is emerging: send up any I rate 5 or more out of 10. Not making it too hard, but at the present rate I’ll be doing more like 10,000 sketches.

To do list.

• Validate the HTML
• Update the page generator
• RSS on the blog
• e-Commerce
• Launch plan
• More sketches!
• Move over the domain to DreamHost (50 days to go due to a restriction in the system)
• Printing plan
• software evaluation
• copyright strategy
• About page
• FAQ

I now have a new host for the site & this blog is there too. No more worries about the terms of service or running out of disk space. Some images are up, and the page design has been updated. Still to do:

• Validate the HTML
• Update the page generator
• RSS on the blog
• e-Commerce
• Launch plan
• More sketches!
• Move over the domain to DreamHost (50 days to go due to a restriction in the system)

I am loving the sketching! I have more to put up, but want to get the systems right so I don’t need to tweak too many files.