Web Site Notes

This web site, www.davidsenesac.com, is through an account with Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting. I've coded web pages in standard Hypertext Markup Language aka HTML and cascading style sheets aka CSS. The HTML version 4.01 and CSS version 2 are transisionally compliant. Well at least all my own code not including links to the host servers or my non-authored slideshow java script. Currently as of November 2008, there are about 1,511 jpg image files, 263 HTML files using about 300 megabytes of server memory space. The gallery on my home page markets 18 prints from older 35mm camera images, 21 prints from 6x7 camera images, and 43 prints from 4x5 camera images. Additionally the gallery index includes 6 narrow vertical slice images cropped from 4x5 frames and 9 quad image prints. I also have available 338 smaller jpg images for stock and other usage taken by compact digital cameras on my Coolpix Closeup Slideshows sub-page. On the horizon are an additional 64 each equally strong 4x5 images can be viewed in Gallery B selectable on my homepage sub-page link. Thus a total of 107 each 4x5 images. I hope to add to these images to my main gallery index as soon as I can afford the additional considerable cost for each in drum scanning and full sized exhibit master prints.

My most interesting recent HTML work is on the Spring 2008 Wildflower Trip Chronicles April 2008 sub-page that includes more use of Javascript. Otherwise, I wrote most of the code in June of 2004 with the general structure and appearance similar to what I have now in February of 2008. However this last month I made significant changes to the HTML code on my site for the purpose of enhancing the appearance, code compliance, and implementing style sheets more fully. That includes running all the HTML files through the w3c.org HTML and CSS compliance validator tools tediously one by one while debugging away any non-compliant errors. The major appearance change is to my print image pages where for improved readability, I now use a standard HTML two-column table based layout with a header and footer. Each footer contains new horizontal slice images that are crops from the same 304.8 dpi print files. The 2100x540 pixel crops are downsized by one-third to 700x180 pixels that ought display on typical monitors pitches of 90>100 RGB phosphors per inch similar to the actual print sizes at about 7 inches by 1.8 inches.

Since most of the 35mm images are 18x12 inches, that is about 40% of the width by 15% of the height. For most of my 4x5 images that are often 38x30 inches, that is about 18% of the width by 6% of the height. While it is obvious where each crop was made in any of the 35mm images, identifying where crops were taken in the 4x5 images by viewing the full sized image above will sometimes be a challenge. The main purpose of this addition is to show the enormous amount of fine detail in the actual prints, and especially so in the 4x5 images. Just below each image, I still have link selectable 300x300 pixel dual crops of each image also downsized by one-third representing 3x3 inch print sections, that tend to show a foreground plus a background location of images.

I am aware some will find my site unusual even awkward in my choice of web page structure. Certainly it does not have the look of consumer web hosting programs with all their mouse buttons, frames, tool bars, blinking advertisements, and annoying animated gifs or music. Not that I couldn't code such if I wanted to haha. And my site does not look like the many photographer sites that typically have gallery index pages broken up into several hierarchical pages of various thumbnails surrounded by picture frames. That is intentional because I am not a fan of unnecessary clutter, rather preferring simplicity and clarity. Some website programmers might chime that studies show people do not like to grab scroll bars to drag down long pages. My answer to that is those studies were done on web pages full of text and not images as with a thumbnail image index that provide positional visual queues. And in fact I would argue having one long index page allows visitors to readily grasp my full body of work versus accessing it over several sub-pages many may not otherwise explore. My concept for the individual image pages includes image technical details and a page long description about each image. It is an attempt to break new ground utilizing the Internet medium to an advantage versus the way photographic prints have heretofore been presented to the public from days when art galleries were the only venues to do so.