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f2 Magazine launch and Website
We now have the first edition of f2 Freelance+Digital magazine in print,
and simultaneously opened up a website: http://www.f2photo.co.uk/ Parts of this are supposed to be public, parts are supposed to have a password protection for subscribers only, but it's not proving especially easy to divide the two. We are likely to continue adding screen resolution pdfs of past articles from f2's predecessors (Freelance Photographer and Master Digital Photographer). There's a forum which is my next job to begin to look at, yesterday the only posts were our tests done ages ago, but readers have started arriving at the site. There should be significant freely accessible content for non-subscribers. Our darkroom editor is Colin Dixon. Any suggestions for future content are welcome, along with links or other content which visitors can submit to the site. David Kilpatrick Editor Icon, Scotland |
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f2 Magazine launch and Website
"The lights may be on, but there is nobody home":
http://www.f2photo.co.uk/ first edition of f2 Freelance+Digital magazine in print, If it is like the web site it was a blank sheet of paper with "Magazine goes here" written across it. Never announce too early. -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics. |
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f2 Magazine launch and Website
Nicholas O. Lindan wrote: "The lights may be on, but there is nobody home": http://www.f2photo.co.uk/ first edition of f2 Freelance+Digital magazine in print, If it is like the web site it was a blank sheet of paper with "Magazine goes here" written across it. Never announce too early. The website is intended to be interactive; I can't invent forum postings or other people's links or news or ads. Archive articles are available in the downloads section. Unfortunately it seems the server crashed last week and lost much of this but Richard (who looks after it) is busy replacing those now. I've asked him to flag up the fact that the little panels saying 'no stories yet' don't mean anything and that the pdf archive is accessed through 'Downloads' - doesn't make much sense to me, but we are using something called php nuke which provides the structure for the site. If we can configure this to be more intuitive we will. David |
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f2 Magazine launch and Website
to help anyone:
TOPICS points to news stories and information DOWNLOADS points to archived articles in PDF form I'm going to talk to Richard to find out whether these labels are easy to change as they confuse me - I would expect to find NEWS and ARTICLES or something like that instead. The site allows visitors to submit links, news, reviews or forum posts. It is moderated, so it takes a while for postings to appear. It has search engines but I see we don't appear to have categories for links yet, such as photographer sites, trade, etc. Hopefully it can grow organically. When I created the website PHOTON back in 1995, with the PhotoNet Index (a name subsequently nicked!) the un-searchable, scrolling list of 100 links with catty comments (OK, brief reviews) was very popular. PHOTON disappeared due to the machinations of greedy people; there's little you can do when faced with an ISP jealous of your site's statistics swamping all the rest of their operation. Our 'hosts' were trying to sell their services creating websites but they could not even raise any decent stats to show people as 95 per cent of the traffic in our entire region was created by PHOTON. Not their sites... just a cuckoo in their nest. We have no intention of doing the same with f2... ! David |
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