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PhotoShelter has their own API and I’ve been meaning to play around with it for awhile. I’ve never worked with an API before, and my JavaScript knowledge is “functional” at best, so this meant I’d be facing a learning curve. To get up to speed, I visited Codeacademy and started their JS course. I made it about half way through before I got restless and wanted to start working with the API.

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Earlier this week a coworker complimented me on my website. Excellent! But realizing that people might actually be looking at this site, I decided I should put in a little more effort and improve some of the things that have been on the to-do list for a while. Here are the key improvements:

• Updated the layout to be flexible, not fixed width. It should work well on mobile devices, or at least better than it did before. There’s room for improvement here, but I consider it a major step forward.
• Created a custom WordPress theme to match the rest of my site. It matches very well and maintains the simple layout. The only visual clue you’re on a page served by the blog is the presence of a new sidebar off to the right.  I was already employing a header-content-footer type of layout on my non-blog pages, so it was a fairly straightforward process to adopt this to WordPress.

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I’ve had a very productive last couple of weekends when it comes to websites.

I built a website for my dad back in 2002, mycarinsuranceguide.net, and I have to say it was pretty meager even for it’s time. Hey, I had only just begun making websites, and it was about all I could handle. A couple years later I took another crack at the thing, but mostly just improved the backend structure, leaving the same horrible colors in place. Well, enough is enough. I tore down everything I had built, and in its place erected a WordPress-powered site. It’s cleaner and more robust than ever. The theme still needs a lot more work, as could the featured images, but it’s an excellent start.

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Last monday I started my new job as a Client Services Associate at PhotoShelter.

PhotoShelter is a really cool service that provides the tools for photographers to showcase their business online. One part CMS, one part storefront, one part… magic? Here’s how they describe themselves:

We’re the worldwide leader in photography portfolio websites, photo sales, marketing and archiving tools for photographers. With PhotoShelter you get a customizable website to show off your photography, plus a set of powerful tools that help you attract more website visitors, delight your clients, and make more money from your images. -PhotoShelter

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Man I should probably incorporate lightbox into my site. It would be good for showing off the samples on my resume.

Yep. This is a no brainer. It seems like everything uses this effect for showing off images, and it’s no wonder why… it looks great and is more user-friendly than having to hit the back button. Looks a lot more professional.