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As a reminder, all technical information for Eye Photography will now be stored here at EMS to reduce the reading at the main site regarding any changes and reduce the techno babble and lets its users concentrate on the photography.

Once the site reaches v1.0 it should be ‘Golden’ and only require minor updates in relation to WordPress or Gallery2 updates

Some information about the site:

Mobile
The site is Mobile enabled.

Thanks to Alex King, WordPress Mobile Edition is a plugin that shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device.

Mobile browsers are automatically detected, just type in the normal URL.

KIC
KIC is an acronym for “Keep It Clean”

What this means is, Eye Photography operates the site under the following guidelines:

• It only uses ‘Open Source’ software.
• This site powered by WordPress and Gallery2.
• This site does not use any invisible sitetrackers for statistics.
• There are no Google Analytics or hidden Adsense links.
• The only statistics recorded are those provided by the hosting company and are completely private.
• No personal details are passed on to anyone.

Domain names:
Registered on behalf of Eye Photography are:

• eyephotography.co.uk (Main domain)
• eyepl.co.uk (Secondary domain)
• eye-photography.co.uk (Original domain before ‘eyephotography.co.uk’ became available)
• eye-photography.com (Another alternative)
• eyeftp.co.uk (Testing Area)
• eyelibrary.co.uk (A test domain)
• eyemusicservices.co.uk (EMS)

Some may be left to expire in the future as their use is no longer required or benefits Eye in any way (SEO etc….)

PLEASE NOTE* At this point we must make it clear Eye Photography does not use public access picture libraries/galleries, flickr etc…. to promote itself, if a photograph doesn’t originate from here it’s not genuine and may not be licensed.

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Valid CSS level 2.1

The Picture Library is also being updated with new open source software and is being tested at the moment and should be a week or two away from going live, an announcement will be forthcoming as soon as it’s ready.

There’s been a small tidy up of the code (all internal) so doesn’t affect the design of the site and just adds ease of editing from our point of view.

That’s all for now, back soon.

EMS

May 2008 bring prosperity and good health to all.

Eye Photography is back January 31st, stay tuned.

Rather than use another plugin, trying to keep them to a minimum, the switch has just been hard coded into each themes navigation menu at the bottom of the page.

Hover over links to see differences.

[Links removed]

Thank you.

EMS

Amendment. The switch has been removed, please see: Here for more info.

• WordPress (2.2.1)
• Gallery2 (2.2.2)

and

• A double check of all hand coded changes
• The removal of the current public ‘Gallery’
• All images will then be uploaded into the Picture Library (most are already on server waiting)
• A back up (mirror) of the Picture Library is being tested at the moment.
• The Dark on Light theme will also be ready for the changes, had some trouble with the theme switcher so thought it was better to release all the changes at once.

Thank you.

Eye

All files for the Eye Photography site are edited on an Apple Mac and uploaded with Transmit to the ftp servers, we currently do not have access to a PC for testing with other browsers and can only report on any Mac browser related issues at this time, be aware, it may make a difference how you have your browser set up.

If you are using a PC and come across any problems, please do not hesitate to report it.

The site is also best viewed with a monitor resolution of 1600 x 1200.

We are currently testing the main browsers first (as there are approx 129 different ones for Mac, don’t believe us….See here ; )

Currently testing:

OS:
• Mac OSX Panther 10.3.9

Browsers:
• Safari (v1.3.2 (312.6)
  Issue(s):
  a. External link icon is missing from one of the links in the navigation menu on some pages !
• Firefox (v2.0.0.4)
  Issue(s):
  a. External link icon is missing from one of the links in the navigation menu on some pages !
  b. Contact Form does not format correctly, but is still usable.
• Camino (v1.0.3 (2006091101)
  Issue(s):
  a. External link icon is missing from one of the links in the navigation menu on some pages !
• Camino (v1.5 (2007050909)
  Issue(s):
  a. External link icon is missing from one of the links in the navigation menu on some pages !
• Opera (v9.21 (3678)
  Issue(s):
  a. External link icon is missing from one of the links in the navigation menu on some pages !
• Flock (v0.7.14)
  Issue(s):
  a. External link icon is missing from one of the links in the navigation menu on some pages !
  b. Contact Form does not format correctly, but is still usable.
• Vienna (v2.1.2.2110)
  (Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X with built in browser)
  Issue(s):
  a. External link icon is missing from one of the links in the navigation menu on some pages !
• IE (v5.2 (Why not!)
  Issue(s):
  Just laughed at output ! or lack of it.
• OmniWeb (v5.1.3)

*All browsers in italics are still waiting to be tested.

(a) As the external link icon is not limited to one specific browser we think it’s just a glitch in the (WP) code or rather one of the plugins, as it worked until we recently updated some of the plugins for the site, under investigation.

[RESOLVED] It was the code after we changed the footer menus and not a plugin issue, now icon is showing on all pages and posts.

(b) As the only 2 browsers showing this formatting error are built on Mozilla’s code base it must be a CSS rendering problem, under investigation.

The site validates with XHTML and CSS, and is checked after each and any code change or update.

Part 2 will be for OSX Tiger 10.4.9

Should be ready by the end of next week, it will include a theme switcher so at least you have a choice.

We would love to implement the previously mentioned theme (Subtle) as the alternative choice but the effort to change all the code so that the site is fully functional would be too time consuming at this time, so has been put on the back burner until later in the year.

Thanks

EMS

[Addendum: Now complete.]

The update route was painless and we used the excellent files from Mark Jaquith to make life a lot easier, if you have never used Mark’s files before please take note of the ‘Disclaimer’, as with updating anything from any source, precaution and preparation saves a lot of possible headaches in the future if anything goes wrong, as with all technology, inevitably it will.

EMS

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