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Posted August 14, 2009 - 7:38am by zeedaam

Folly has been working hard the past few weeks promoting the site, mainly on Facebook. We now have 100 fans!! We have also, without any form of paid advertisement yet, managed to get new artist posting here too.

I'll be sending out an email shortly concerning the test site, but in the meantime, check it out. www.zeedaam.us. You will see me (admin) and my army of browser test users, Firefox, Explorer, Opera, and Safari on there throughout the day tweaking and adding new stuff.

Once the new site goes live, we will be promoting and paying for external advertisement to build the community and to get more people here to see your artwork.

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LosdaBear's picture
by LosdaBear - Aug 14 2009 - 1:22pm
Things are looking good Zee. It's about time ;) Wish I could get to 100 fans as fast as you have. I hope you add in a next/previous button so when browsing images you don't have to return to the gallery after each image. Maybe something like next/previous in that certain gallery and next/previous random? But you have probably thought of that... Carl

Carl

fd3rd's picture
by fd3rd - Aug 14 2009 - 2:27pm
New site is looking good! Will everything transfer over when it goes live?
zeedaam's picture
by zeedaam - Aug 14 2009 - 2:29pm
Yeah, everything will transfer over. And a next/previous button is something I want to add.
zeedaam's picture
by zeedaam - Aug 14 2009 - 8:26pm
You're right it's about time. I've had Artalyst in the back of my mind for years. I just wished I could get it done, but its sooooo much work. I really had no idea just how much work I had in front of me. In the past couple of months I've spent countless hours over countless days sitting here at the computer coding and designing to get it to this point. Looking back, I honestly doubt it would have ever gotten done if I hadn't lost my job. But now Artalyst is my full-time job and not just a hobby on the side. And I think it will show, when people log in and play around. There's so much to do.
LosdaBear's picture
by LosdaBear - Aug 15 2009 - 4:49pm
Well it's good to see the way Artalyst is progressing Zee. Carl

Carl

mac16's picture
by mac16 - Aug 17 2009 - 2:36am
I can not tell you how excited I am. I have always had a special fondness for Artalyst, this site, and the members of it, helped me grow so much as a photographer. I absolutely love the new site & can not wait to hang out at the new digs!
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by dollyllama - Aug 18 2009 - 10:24am
This is really exciting, Zee. The site looks really nice. I got the impression from your email that I could set up my user account (or a test one) but I'm not able to, did I misinterpret? This really looks great, I'm so looking forward to it.
zeedaam's picture
by zeedaam - Aug 18 2009 - 10:29am
You can't create an account on the test site?
dollyllama's picture
by dollyllama - Aug 18 2009 - 12:03pm
No. The box to input username is yellow, when I click on it I get a drop-down full of names, mine included but I can't add my name. Firefox 3.5 if that helps.
zeedaam's picture
by zeedaam - Aug 18 2009 - 12:40pm
Oh, create a new account, your existing info isn't on the test site.
dollyllama's picture
by dollyllama - Aug 18 2009 - 1:11pm
I tried, that's what I get when I try.
zeedaam's picture
by zeedaam - Aug 18 2009 - 2:25pm
Heh, I can't reproduce it. Weird. So I used Firefox to create your account, you should be getting an email about it soon.
dollyllama's picture
by dollyllama - Aug 18 2009 - 2:40pm
Ok, I'll wait for it and if it doesn't arrive I'll let you know. If it still doesn't work, I'll get you screenshots. And, Thank you! :)
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by dollyllama - Aug 18 2009 - 3:09pm
Got an email from the magical internet wizard :) It worked, though it wanted my email but wouldn't let me type it in, still I was able to change the pw and surf around. Looks great! Clean, clear and easy to navigate. Nice work!
jimt's picture
by jimt - Aug 24 2009 - 4:47pm
nice Z..will there be a "search" window "abc,ect" to find artist or node# image finders?
zeedaam's picture
by zeedaam - Aug 25 2009 - 6:49am
Yeah, the search is coming soon. I also have added the prints to the images that are for sale. All just for test of course. You can add to your shopping cart and even checkout. There's no way you can accidentally buy anything though, so don't worry about that.
zeedaam's picture
by zeedaam - Sep 3 2009 - 11:29am
140 fans now!! Thanks Folly! Also, I'm working on moving all the users and images and comments over to the new site. We should have the new core framework (as seen in the test site) live. Then we'll start promoting the site, and get new people here.