Web site expansion coming
Swimming pool at sunset, Hunt, Texas
My photography web site has gone through a few transitions in the years since it began, but it has never been much more than a catalog of images. There has been almost no text, no explanation, nothing for a search engine to index. Worse: until I switched hosting vendors a couple of months ago, allowing me to adopt Rails, I could only use client side JavaScript to drive the pages; the search engines could only see the home page and could not make any sense of that. Now at least Google knows about 700 pages or so but with little more to match searches against than image titles.
Well, all that’s about to change and starting this blog is just the first step. The new code is written and text content is ready to go. With just a few more evenings to clean up and deploy to the server, the site will have a new home page and the first articles to guide the viewer around 30 years worth of photographs.
The image posted above, taken at a wedding in Hunt, graced the home page of my very first site design but you would have a hard time finding it now if you did not know that it was in a gallery named “Singles 2001 – 2003”, located two thirds of the way down the home page. So I choose this picture to launch my blog and announce the forthcoming web site refresh; I think it deserves a chance to be seen again.
