A new press page

I've been working on a new press page for interested publications. Hopefully it will help to promote the site and the paintings.

People of the Book and Amazon

Don't forget that when you use the Amazon search on the People of the Book front page and order something from Amazon, it helps to support our site.

UK Merchandise store now open for business!

Click on the title of this post to visit our new UK based store or copy this link into your browser.

http://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?sid=151085

Visit soon, there'll be more stuff soon.

2007 Calendar available

The 2007 calendar is now available. Click the title of this post to have a look at it.

New work on the site

The site is going through a bit of a refresh. Lots of new features and pages are being added, and I'm doing a good deal of tidying up of the exiting pages. Making things easier to see, making more links available on pages, that kind of thing.

More soon!

UK Merchandise store coming soon

We're currently in the process of setting up a UK store for merchandise like T-shirts and the like. This should be completed in the next few weeks, so hopefully our UK visitors will be able to feel better catered for.

Search engines

We're listed on Yahoo and MSN together with all the numerous Christian search engines as well.

People of the Book : Book list?

The book list is taking shape. It contains a list of some of the books that were influential during the time that the paintings came about.

I didn't know...

... just how many Christian search engine sites there were. How do they all stay afloat? I've been spending this evening submitting our URL to them one after another, it takes ages.

Submitted all over the place

Now we're all submitted to Yahoo, and MSN, and Google.

This of couse doesn't mean anything as there are billions of pages and sites on the internet, but it is one very small step in the right direction.

We are listed on Google

But very low down in the rankings...

... never mind!

Feedback

The site is getting lots of good feedback at the moment from all sorts of places. In particular on the Ship of Fools forum.

If you're interested visit:

http://forum.ship-of-fools.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=006722

Please do leave feedback on the site and say what you think works and what doesn't.

Slideshow

A number of people have mentioned that a slideshow would be good to have on the site. One of the features of the old site was that you could watch each painting in turn as a sort of slideshow.

Well, I've taken this on board and I've started to make a new slideshow. This time it will sit on a page and go through all the paintings one after another then start again from the beginning.

The only drawback is that the slideshow will be quite big, and will probably need a broadband connection to use it.

I shall be testing it out over the next few days to see how it works.

Keep 'em coming

Seems to be more people visiting the site. There's been some comment on Ship-Of-Fools as well. Let's hope that the momentum keeps up.

An interesting site to visit

An interesting site for Christian comment is the Ship of Fools. If you haven't been there, take a look.

http://ship-of-fools.com/index.html

New site up and running

Here we go, all done and live, although I'm sure it'll need changing soon enough.

Do take a look and tell me what you think.

http://www.thepeopleofthebook.co.uk

Gallery

All the pages for the new site are finished now with the exception of the gallery which I will finish off tomorrow. Then it will all be done!

That is to say it will be done for now, until there's something that I want to update.

Thinking past the next step

The new web site is nearly ready for launch. It should be up by about Monday. Thinking about that though makes me think about what I'd like to do with it after that. Here are some ideas:

1. Download of high quality images
2. Print ordering
3. People of the Book DVD

I'll keep thinking and keep adding them on.

Design stage completed

All finished now. Build is now well underway.

All expected to be built by the end of May.

New site moving forward . . .

The main page is almost done, which is good as it will be a template for much of the rest of the site and has so far been almost impossible to get right!