Website and CMS for swedish photographer’s agency I made together with Peter. We also did their graphic identity.

The frontend is optimized to be a fast, simple but effective way of browsing the photographers and their photos, check it out. The CMS makes it easy for the photographers to upload, edit and organize their photos and for the site editors to write news and edit information on the site. It’s a customized version of the administrative interface I coded for pluxemburg.com with added functionality such as image uploading and photo organization. I wanted to let the server handle the image resizing and creation of thumbnails as well, but found out that PHP’s image functions didn’t do as good work as expected. I tried all kind of different techniques but we ended up using Photoshop and manually make the thumbnails. Photoshop does a way better job and with this kind of client (working with photographs) we wanted as good quality as possible.

I’ve made a movie (QuickTime, 4.9 MB) showing how the admin interface works when uploading and reordering the photos, since it’s password protected. You’ll need QuickTime 7 to watch it.

Update 2006-03-13

Since the agency and the site was shut down some weeks ago, I've put up some screen shots to show how it was done. I might record a movie and/or a mirrored version for reference.

Index

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Photographers

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Photos

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Loading a photo

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Showing a photo

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Information

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