World Travel Photography Gallery - Travel Blog layout - Website Improvements & Changes
Photography Gallery - A second page has been added to travel photography page, an all color one. The travel photography page is the one of the most popular pages here, and feedback has been good.
Initial work has already begun on the next step for the gallery. But it will take some time, that said, easy of updating and features not seen anywhere else will be included.
Travel Blog Layout: I have scaled back the look of the The Longest Way Home travel blog to look less clustered. The left side bar notes have been moved to the footer. And, the right side bar's has a lot of affiliate and badge images removed.
Initial feedback has been very positive.
Website Improvements & Changes: The entire website has had a color changes. Gone is the old burnt orange regular text color.
Initial chosen for easy of reading, general feedback was that many people did not like it. So for now, a shade of gray is replacing it.
I am well aware that a black background is easy to write on. I am also aware that it's impossible to please everyone. The charcoal gray will stay for a while unless there is a massive objection.
I have also done some behind the scenes code update to the site as a whole.
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World Travel Photography Gallery - Travel Blog - Journeys - Website Improvements & Changes
Photography Gallery: It's taken nearly a year, but finally the first stage of the new gallery is finished. The link has been redirected to the new gallery and the first of two pages are now live.
Over the next couple of months new photographs will be highlighted on social networks as they appear. At the end of this, the final gallery will have prints available to purchase.
Travel Blog Photographs: The code delivering the enlarged full screen view of select images has been changed. The new one is faster and performs well.
Journeys: In light of a future change to this page, the url has also been changed and redirected.
Website improvements: A lot of code has been changed to increase the websites performance. Already there has been a marked increase in its speed due to the elimination of old menu preload images being removed. Heavy JS code has also been removed from the blog page as mentioned.
Title pop up text has been added to menu items.
Subscribers continue to enjoy the free ebook and it will remain on offer for free.
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Top Places to Travel & Photograph free e-book - Travel Blog Updates - Photography Gallery
Free e-book: 5 Top Places to Travel & Photograph ebook was released on the 1st of March to all e-mail subscribers of my travel blog.
Feedback has been 100% overwhelmingly positive. The largest has been that it should have been a saleable item. This may still happen. Subscribers to The Longest Way Home have been increasing due to this release, and, moreover they are continuing to follow my journey namely due to great travel content.
Charging is not a viable option at this time.
Travel Blog Updates: Over the past few weeks I have focused more on the people I've met via the travel stories series - seeing the unseen.
Feedback has again, been more positive than expected, which is great.
I've also been including some personal view points on travel, travel website's and blog's. This too has been well received. My travel journals will continue after this series is over.
Photography Gallery: I am once again looking at increasing the Travel Photography Gallery. However, although there is a new option, I don't like one aspect to the new layout.
This will require some coding I am not familiar with to solve. What's more, the current travel-photography gallery is still very popular, so I am hesitant to change.
Out of necessity I am, looking at new storage options for photographs which may relate to something new on the gallery front. This is an expected financial cost, which advertising is covering, just about.
Subscriber updates: While still not what I exactly want, subscriber updates since the last post have changed. The new system is a lot more stable. Yet private subscriber only posts are not as well delivered as before. Hopefully in the coming months a new system will be coming online that will allow for better implementation of this.
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Small note: This entry is only available to RSS and email subscribers. It's purpose is to tell of behind the scenes changes to the website, updates, and upcoming features.
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