After countless hours of trial and error coding and testing and cursing under my breath, I still am not even close to having my website re-build complete. The positive notes are that now I am more familiar with my new software: LightRoom 2.7, Photoshop CS4, DreamWeaver, Fireworks, etc. Now the real work editing my images and processing them, creating the look of my site, to label or not to watermark. There are so many decisions to make. What kinds of galleries do I show? Will I have prints available to order for clients via private galleries? The list goes on and on!
One thing I love about creating projects like this for myself is the intense saturation in the learning process. I could easily have stayed up all night and worked through delirium to the wee hours of the morning, but I chose to get a good night's sleep instead. I woke up slowly thinking about how I want my page to look the whole time, and I've found the brain work is easily as important to my photography as is the actual mechanics of the camera and my computer.
My first image edit of one particular gallery was completed and processed through LR and CS4 and saved ready for web upload last week, and it was a nice surprise to do a second edit last night and cut the gallery down from 24 images to only 11. I also know exactly which images I want to add to it from other folders I haven't even looked at or begun to edit at this point. Once I edit and process the rest of the images I want to show the rest of the re-build will be a piece of cake, and I can add the frosting as I go along. Hmmm, what flavor will the finished project be?
Back to work!
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