That Blog

Two sites dennajones.com and jodyferry.com. They use Flickr, LInkedin, blogs and other sites for content on there new sites. I wanted to do this in a similar way.

I will be using Flickr to literally pull, nearly the entirety of my content for my portfolio. I have the titles, descriptions, thumbs, and full size images coming from my Flickr account. There are a few advantages to this approach, Flickr acts as my CMS, the content is now hosted twice, raising the relevancy of it for SEO, and its freaking cool. Unfortunately there are some obstacles as well. The time it takes for my server to pull the content and build the page is slower than I would like. It only takes 7 seconds to start, which feels too long for the industry. After some more testing I will make the determination of what is too long.

I have tried to add some javascript tweens to hide some of the load time, but it only causes the tween to fire after the load and it looks terrible. I don’t want to mention the terrible way that IE7 handles the tweens. Trying to add some flare only makes it worse.

I must mention that the new site is being built by Brack3t. They are a new web firm in fabulous Las Vegas. There site will be up soon. I handed over a shiny new brand and site design for the build of my new portfolio. I look forward to the many projects I am sure we will share.