Ben Locke

It was inevitable that there would be the odd issue here and there to fix after the site went live. Two have emerged so far. The first one was evident on the species list. The page was being rendered too … Read more

The new site is now live! I’ve pushed the button that makes the site public, and at the same time have put forwarding in place on benlockephotography.co.uk and benlockephotography.com. The site has actually been live for a couple of hours … Read more

The process of converting the gallery is very nearly done. All the code is written and fairly thoroughly tested. Around 95% of the data has been converted so far. I’ve also taken another look at the way I was rendering … Read more

I always knew that sorting out the galleries was going to take a long time. It’s taking even longer than I thought. I’ve decided to provide more ways of categorising the images. Whereas before, it was only possible to break … Read more

When I set about converting all my old gallery code to the new site there was one thing I had completely overlooked. They both used completely separate shopping baskets. This means that if a visitor were to want to buy … Read more

I decided to add a bit of extra functionality to the species list. It is now possible to view and use interactive pie charts that represent the distribution of taxonomic classes and orders of the species in the list. I … Read more

The process of converting the existing galleries to the new website is going pretty well. I’ve made a few visual simplifications which make for cleaner pages. I’ve also started paying a bit more attention to testing than perhaps I did … Read more

I’ve been putting it off long enough. I’ve finally started working on the galleries. I always knew it was going to be a big job to re-write the galleries so that they have all the new functionality I want them … Read more

It seems I spoke too soon when I said in my last post that I was now in a position to carry on making progress with the development of this site again. At the same time that I’m working on … Read more

Following the latest (and hopefully final!) server migration, things were looking good. That was until I started to do some testing of purchasing products, and everything went wrong. To cut a very long story short, a day of progress was … Read more