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First off, be sure you read the whole article, because it contains a glance on the evolution of Julious.fi website and its ancestors. All the way to the year 2003!
A month ago I wrote about updating this blog to the point there was coming smoke out of my ears. As a perfectionist, I anyhow couldn’t settle with just a pretty writing platform – I lusted for even more things to do.
Now I’m finishing a two months’ work of redesigning, testing and adding new content on my portfolios and photo galleries. The functionality of them both is now revised also so that they’d be up to date with the newest trends of web-designing. Big and hi-quality images (HUGE! in the portfolios, actually), minimalistic overlay and easy navigation – those are the classic elements one can rely on.
Of course, the page has to work on a mobile phone too, thus it has no Adobe Flash candies of any sort (Candies ain’t good for your health!). So pretty effects like scrolling descriptions and automatically resizing photos were achieved by using MooTools and jQuery.
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And now as promised, I’ll show you my former homepages backing all the way to my second version called “MY GREAT HOMEPAGE!!!!!111 V.2.00″ … eh.
I know, the first two versions are quite childish. But how many of you had done a website from scratch at the age of 12 anyway? 
Jump into the designs!
(Yes, I code my websites manually… ; )
Hi ya all!
As you have probably already recognised I’m working on my main website where this blog is contained also. (If you haven’t seen the work under construction yet feel free to follow this link: JULIUSPHOTO) Previously I didn’t have much more than just this blog and before even that I was coping with just some pretty links to random galleries and bit of silly biography. (I actually made a post about that update back in the beginning of this blog.) Now I have been really revisioning the whole design of my web page and have put a lot of stress on making it functional, easy browsable and most importantly: enjoyable to view! No more small thumbnail-sized imagery or long waiting for images to be downloaded as image galleries are now scrollable.
Oh, and by the way, I would really like to know how you people like it viewing those galleries in that way actually! Feel free to post your rating of this system by leaving a comment in this post. The image galleries are located here. Thanks in advance!
So where was I …?
Did I already mention there will be 900 pixels wide and 600 pixels high pictures in my future portfolio! That’s a huge improvement over previous situation when one had to squint his or her eyes to see anything, I can tell you that! And may I also highlight that every picture published in my portfolio will be totally reprocessed exclusively for that matter.
And to make my point even clearer I’ll show you one photo from my upcoming portfolio and its stages of post processing. The first picture is straight out of the camera and quite a lackluster as you can see, but it has real hidden potential. The second one is what the photo looks like after I have given it a Lightroom treatment and in the last image I have polished the photo in Photoshop and it’s ready to go!
(By clicking the images you may open them in separate windows for easier comparison.)
So obviously there is something worthful to wait coming and I promise you I’ll be gradually updating the new content online as soon as its finished (as I have done so far too) so keeping an eye on my website may be a good idea.
Thanks for reading and take care!
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