Optimisation
The site has so far been well-received by visitors who have given feedback, but it’s been fairly temperamental with regard to its page loading speeds. There are a whole number…
No more unwanted crops
I’ve just fixed a problem that was causing certain photos to be cropped on mobile devices when used in portrait view. Anything with an aspect ratio that wasn’t in a…
Last few bugs
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…
It’s live!
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…
Nearly there…
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…
Galleries again
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…
One basket to rule them all
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…
Species List revisited
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…
Squashing bugs
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…