Posts Tagged ‘WebDev’

Xtropolis 2010 >> Online

12 February 2010

today, 12 February 2010 my new site is going online. It’s a dynamic website, style sheets, database and all the other stuff. No flash things to display the pictures. What has been funny when launching the old website became soon annoying. What bothered me also was that the flash contents could not be displayed on the iPhone, I had to go via the Fotocommunity or the Model-Kartei.

Apart from that, it seems that there are still some people who haven’t installed Flash yet and also some others who did not want to wait for the animation before a picture was shown. After some time, even I thought that my website was boring.   As I already mentioned, a typical one-way road, no possibilities for exchange between fans and angry critics. No possibility for mashing, no possibility to connect to social networks and ‘to be reached’ is essential in today’s modern web age. Anyway, you can’t please everyone and so, back then the question was about the ideal screen definition of the site or browser optimizations, but today it is first of all about the available features.

The most important part on Xtropolis is still its pictures. I think it’s great and there was a whole lot of work to do. Maybe you do like it as well? If so, please tell me, if not, tell me anyway. Cheers! :)

Some of you possibly like to load several pictures up to MySpace or to your Facebook profile.

Social networks can nowadays more or less be seen as the galleries of the modern age. As Sudeep and me were experimenting a bit on the code of new website, there had to be a possibility to spread some photo news.

We spend some time to find out a solution. We turned off the Ajax stuff and you’ll now find a „share“ button above the photos. If you wish to share a picture on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter etc. Click on it and have fun :)

Blogging via cellphone

30 January 2010

Yes! It works. Thank you, Apple.
Blogging isn’t twittering, at least not directly, although you can certainly handle it the way you want.

Ladies and Gentlemen, in order to be prepared for any odd moments, this precise test-posting had to be done. I couldn’t forgive myself for not being able to spontaneously post a picture of Brat Pit and Mrs. Jolie strolling through the Mauerpark carrying a six-pack of Astra.

Xtropolis Reloaded

18 December 2009

xtropolis.de needs to be redesigned! 12550 visitors since May/2006, okay it isn’t that much but, you know, it’s quality that matters, not quantity. I decided to begin a new era and start a complete redesign, based on wordpress. Static HTML websites are more and more outdatet and flash elements on a website are funny as long as you change these gimmicks frequently. Anyway. My priority is photography and I think wordpress won the race concerning web marketing. The setup should be easy, but… (to be continued)
Xtropolis.de / Redesign