1. Keep the site elegant
2. integrate a slideshow feature on the landing page
3. integrate a Flash gallery browser
4. provide a way to automatically update his photo galleries.

I decided to choose the WordPress platform because I was impressed with the ease of implementation and breadth of features for this framework. I was pretty sure I would be able to exceed the customer’s expectations by providing additional features with minimum development time.

One example of this is the Shadowbox JS plug-in, enabling visually engaging photo galleries that are easily customizable. See it in action on the site: http://www.photo-ess.com/blog/?page_id=42

I convinced Photo Essence that including a blog would be a great way to get higher rankings on search engines. As the site accumulates more and more content, that content is getting indexed by search engines, and thus, more and more views by potential customers. Blogging is so easy now and there are many applications out there to write and publish blogs including Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Live Writer, or even e-mail to post a blog.

Lastly, I developed tools to enable the client to quickly and easily update galleries with one or two mouse clicks. I wrote a small C# application which uses Photoshop APIs (OK, this is getting technical…) to take his high-resolution photographs and resize them, create thumbnail images in a specific size used in the WordPress photo galleries, save them in .jpg format, and finally, FTP the finished pictures to photo-ess.com. I’m going to write another blog soon on the C# application and PhotoShop scripting features. It’s really pretty awesome.

Below are some screenshots, but please visit the live site: www.photo-ess.com.

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The background image is a photo of the Oregon coast taken at Seaside, Oregon.

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• Building a shopping cart solution and/or adding an online payment service to your web site’s shopping cart
• adding a client portal for presenting protected information or downloads from the business’ web site.
• presenting a way for customers to upload documents to the business.
• Automating tedious, repetitive computing tasks – this doesn’t necessarily need to be web related either. Call Weblash.net for more information (425.220.8273).

Does some of this sound complicated? It is. But I (Allan Brown, Weblash.net founder) am very qualified to handle these scenarios. Here’s a little bit about me:

• I’m a Microsoft Certified Professional. (This means I’ve been professionally trained and have passed some tests to prove I can do this type of work)
• I’ve been designing and developing web sites for 12 years
• I have a BS degree in Industrial Design (for those who don’t know – this is loosely defined as the field of user interaction – or “how a person uses technology through design”)

Lastly, I give all my customers a free web site assessment, so call Weblash.net if you need a new “web guy”. Thank you!

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