Design, Layout,, Joomla

Working very, slowly on designs and templates for the gallery site. oh and I've found some Flickr related plug-ins for Joomala eg Flickr4J and Lightbox

Creative Commons Websites

More Art College research

These are some sites that take a different approach to portfolios. Kris Krug is a more personal and incorporates a blog, links to his flickr account, comments from viewers and so on. Static is his studio/professional site. Light Stalkers is a gallery site for photographers. Show Studios is another portfolio site that incorporates rolling, magazine type content. It's worth getting students to think about how they can incorporate their Flickr account or blog into their site design.
www.kriskrug.com/
http://staticphotography.com
www.lightstalkers.org
www.showstudio.com


These are links to websites that allow interaction from users in the form of uploading work or commenting on on other peoples work. JPG Magazine is worth looking at as users of the site can upload work and vote on which images will be used in the printed magazine.
www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
http://jpgmag.com/
http://moblog.co.uk
www.flickr.com
www.everystockphoto.com

Creative Commons

Work I've been doing at Leeds Art College regarding licensing of images online

Hi Jo,
I've attached a draft web based task for the students. For this task I
decided against looking at specific websites, I'll do that briefly on
Thursday and again when I come back after Easter. I will send you a
list of sites I think they should be looking at but I don't want them
getting hung up on designing or analysing sites.

Instead I want them to research Creative Commons licensing as an
alternative way of copyrighting and distributing work online.
Basically Creative Commons lets you share your work under licenses
that ask for an attribution or a web link rather than payment, and
restricts whether people can alter or change your work. This has
particular relevance to students who are uploading work to Flickr,
DeviantArt etc
Links about it here
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/comics1
http://www.creativecommons.org.uk/index.php
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/10/digging_deepercreative_commons.html
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

For the task I want them to research Creative Commons licensing and
how it is being used by photographers as a promotional and
distribution tool.
Then decide how they are going to licence their images they have
created for this brief.

It sounds a bit dull but it's not and it's something they should all
be thinking about if they are putting work online. It raises questions
about ownership of work, traditional distribution versus new
distribution methods, how you market and promote yourself, who uses
your work and what they use it for, how much control you have over
your work, your attitude to other people using your work and so on.

There is also some discussion about what effect Creative Commons
licensing has on traditional stock photo agencies such as Getty
images. There's an article about that here
http://blog.auinteractive.com/its-the-end-of-stock-photography-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine

It would also be interesting to here your opinion on this approach to
copyright and ownership.

The best place to start for background info about Creative Commons
licenses are these links
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/10/digging_deepercreative_commons.html
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/comics1
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

These are examples of sites that search for Creative Commons licensed
images, so you can see how this type of licensing of images works
http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
http://www.everystockphoto.com/index.php

Design Classics: Harry Beck

Design Classics, BBC 4 at 22:00 on Sunday 18th March 2007
London Underground Map.
A look at one of the classic British designs - the map of London's Tube network, originally created in 1931 by Underground employee Harry Beck.

Interesting film about Harry Becks map. Some useful ideas for my own web design.

Image Gallery

Done a little work on this week, started to pull the Zoom Gallery apart. I need to plan the layout of the gallery, get the structure right. I'm going to go back to the floor plans I looked at a couple of months ago.

I've found how to switch image gifs in Zoom so I need to design my own logos and signs.

Art Review

Article in Art Review about Flickr. Some interesting points about everybody having a MySpace or Flickr account and how do you stand out. Also how people are using Flickr as an archive tool for old photo's, negatives and scanned imagees.

There was also a reference to The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by
Walter Benjamin which I'm reading at the moment.

Bookmarks

Current list of MA Bookmarks.

Everything I've looked at over the past few months, far too much to list on here. A wide range of sites, from intial reserach into online community and gallery sites to current research into technical and practical solutions to the MA website.

Joomla Work 3

More work in Joomla. CSS is working, sort of. Needs testing in IE, Safari etc Managed to get the Zoom gallery to work. I needed to fix the PHP code which I could do, hurrah.

So the bare bones are there, at the moment the design is not even started. Zoom Gallery is a horrible looking interface, the lightbox, top ten rated, comments on work are all things I want to use but I need to investigate how you strip away the Zoom aesthetics.

Joomla Work 2

Some more work on the Joomla site. Can't get the footer to work in Firefox but the CSS rollover's are now working and the Joomla modules are being styled.

Joomla work

First attempt at my own Jommla template using CSS. Screenshot as this will change a lot in the next few days. Pretty simple design at the moment, mainly just trying to see how the template alters in Joomla. Also fddling with the PHP in Joomla, the link to the Zoom gallery isn't working yet.

Neil's Gallery

Neil's Gallery

Basic web page template with CSS style sheet, design needs a lot of work but the basic CSS layout is in place. It's strarting to come together in my head, i just need time to to work on it. Next step is to adapt the template so it works with Joomla. That will take some planning and a bit of cutting and pasting with PHP coding from existing templates. But I'll think about that tomorrow.

Tune Glue

Tune Glue

not as good as

Musicovery