Tag: Site Update

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What’s Occurring?

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Several changes to the site this week that you may or may not have noticed, so I thought I’d give everyone a quick update.

I’ve been doing a lot of work around galleries and photo sets and who sees what the last couple of days.

  • The photo galleries on the right hand menu has changed and been made simpler with just two links to photo sets and full magazines. 
  • New pages for sets and magazines, which show content for both members and non-members depending on who you are. Members now see everything on both pages 🙂
  • Redesigned galleries with no border around thumbnails and much quicker loading 

I’ve also been uploading complete magazines and sets that members can enjoy including the recent addition of Nylon Flash No.19 featuring Sylvia Bayo. I’m also working on Dynamic No.3 (above) featuring Eva Nieman and Exotic No.8 again featuring Sylvia Bayo and several other full magazines, so look out for those over the coming weeks.

I’m also still scanning prints and negatives as they come in, which seems to be never ending but still enjoyable, plus starting to sell off a few things over on eBay if you hadn’t seen.

 

Ah well as a friend says, back to the tits!

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A Quick Site Update

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A quick update on some of the minor changes and tweaks I’ve been making to the site recently, nothing major just me fiddling 🙂

  1. All images posted now are 640 pixels in size both for members and non-members to reduce bandwidth and speed up loading. Members of course still get much larger images when the click on an image and of course no watermarks visible.
  2. I’ve tweaked the right hand menu:
    • Resorted the order, as based on feedback and traffic the models section is by far the most popular, so moved up.
    • Split out Galleries and Cine films into their own sections.
    • Deleted individual models pages from the models menu.
  3. Included a new Cine Films menu that includes published cine films for both Harrison Marks and others plus June Palmer films (members only)
  4. A new Harrison Marks Cine Film database – A searchable database of GHM’s films for Kamera, Maximus Films and others. (Coming Soon!)
  5. Finally I’m experimenting with giving members the ability to download certain images in much larger size, plus maybe the odd film. Still working on this to see what’s possible and if I can set it up, but already done a few pages to see how popular it is. There may be a small admin charge to host the larger images and films for this if it works out?

That’s it really just minor stuff, but do let me know what you think and any feedback is always appreciated.

 

Wonder 🙂

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Site Update

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Just an update on some of the changes to the site since it moved:

  1. I have a new gallery creator and I’ve added a number of new galleries to the gallery page, with more coming – Ann Austin & Angela Duncan added.
  2. New GHM Publications page – Gallery listing of other Harrison Marks publications, with links through to posted images from those publications – Still on-going with a few links working.
  3. Model listing – Updating with new galleries to make it easier to manage and add new models, includes the unknown model page.
  4. Members now see larger images on all posts
  5. Members downloads – I’ve offered a few images for downloads, but experimental to see if this is something people would want?

I’m also working on the following:

  1. A film section of GHM’s films that will provide details of his films and possibly viewable versions.
  2. Updating the ‘other’ vintage magazines page similar to the other galleries.
  3. Updating the Kamera & Solo listings in the new gallery style.

All this as well as continuing to post the fantastic content I have and receive from various sources. If you have any feedback or improvement suggestions then please do leave me feedback.

Enjoy!

W

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Site Hosting Update

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Having slept on and digested the news that I can no longer host The Kamera Club on Google’s free Blogger site due to the content I post I’ve decided the site will continue in some form, but I’m still looking at options.

The reason for doing this site in the first place was for several reasons, I love the subject of glamour photography from back in the 1950’s and 60’s and it still fascinates me today. I want to try and capture this content, the models, magazines and photographers before we lose it and this format is a good way of sharing it with others. I’ve had lots of great feedback and interaction from others that also enjoy the subject now or were part of it back then.  I have made lots of good contacts, that not only provide lots of great information to the site, but original content as well! For all these reasons it seems a shame to stop now.
Now the hard bit! I make no money from the site and do it because I like doing it and want to share the content I have.  A free site made this easy, as I had no overhead costs, other than my time and effort, but now if I want to continue to share the content I need to move the blog and the options I have are:
  • Stop completely – Can’t do it, won’t do it and would be gutted if I had to stop!
  • Use another free hosting site such as Tumblr – I have a matching Tumblr blog for The Kamera Club and it has over 6000 followers, but again it comes back to control. Layout and design is restricted and I again have no control over the content should Tumblr decide it’s unsuitable and delete the account or content!
  • Pay for hosting for a WordPress site – I do this for my Just June site (thanks to a generous donation) and it works well.  I have complete control and freedom to post and do as I wish, the interaction is good and I have great creative control, but at a cost!
Anyway those are my options and I’m moving towards a paid hosted site, but looking at the costing options now.
So a question, would you pay for the content and access to the site? I have always tried to avoid having you to sign up as members to my sites, be it free or paid as I have always believed the content should be free for all to access without restrictions or username and passwords to remember. But would you support the site and keep it free and open with a one off donation?  No fixed fee, just a one off, whatever you can afford payment to help towards the hosting so it can continue?  As you can see with the official Harrison Marks site, even with a one off payment for membership, but restricting content to paid up members the site has struggled and will be closing later this year, a model that I want to avoid.
So what are your thoughts?
I’ll continue to look at the options, but want to thank you all for your support and contributions thus far as it’s been fantastic and long may it continue!
Cheers,
W
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Site Update

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Just to let you know things have changed slightly and hopefully for the better! 🙂 I’ve moved my site from Blogger to my own hosted site using WordPress.

Hopefully this will give me a lot more control over the site and more functionality, but you may see the odd broken link for a while as I work through them.  I’ll continue to publish new June content as I work through the glitches, but please bear with me!

Cheers

Wonder

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I’m Done For Today!

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That’s it post wise today, as if that isn’t enough, but I thought I’d give a quick update on some things that I’ve been doing.

  • General update of the site fixing some broken links etc.
  • Vintage Magazines – Updated and linked to some of the new magazine scans
  • Kamera Specials – Images updated to better resolution and size and update the links, so they link to all the published pages so far.
  • Models Page – Updated and checked all links work
  • Unknown Models – Added those that have been identified and a few new ones that are still unknown


Only a small update 🙂

Cheers,

Wonder

P.S. Keep the great comments, feedback and scans you send coming, it’s really appreciated.
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Site Improvements

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Only a small update this month, but I thought I’d add what’s changed and also a question, but first what’s new!

  • Pamela Green page update – I’ve added direct links to the magazine list, so you are taken to the images and articles relating to that magazine. I’ve also split out the images of Pamela Green into distinct areas for her alter egos Rita Landre and Princess Sonmar H’arricks, so they are easier to find.
  • June Palmer page update – Same again really, links from the magazine list directly to the associated pages and images from that magazine.  June images split into distinct areas for use of use.  So now, you can easily find original images of June, Images of an older June and many more.
  • I’ve removed the ability the right click on images and save them! Sorry, but some unscrupulous people were taking my original images and using them without permission or linking back.  I know this won’t stop them completely, but at least it might deter them!
  • I had a request to set up a mailing list so you could get a daily e-mail with updates and I thought this was a great idea.  You’ll find it at the bottom of the right hand bar, so feel free to sign up!


Finally, anything else you’d like to see with regards to the design of the site and content?  I’m always open to new content, but please bear in mind the original scope of the site.  Anyway any suggestions or ideas please drop me a note via the contact page.

As always thank you for your continued support of the site with all the great comments and content that you provide 🙂

Cheers,

Wonder