Welcome To The New Luminous-Landscape Website V2

Welcome To The New Luminous-Landscape Website V2

February 13, 2015 ·

Kevin Raber

Welcome to the NEW Luminous-Landscape

It has been quite the adventure to get here. Today we launch the NEW Luminous-Landscape and we hope you can share our excitement.

This project began a little a year ago as I was tasked with taking Luminous-Landscape to a new level where we could offer new benefits and begin to look like a 21st century website instead of a site stuck in the 90’s. We wanted to do this without ruining the core value of what Luminous-Landscape has always stood for. We believe we have accomplished the mission. This could not have been achieved with out the talent of the guys at Swellfire in Indianapolis.

The Swellfire Team, Shaun, Job and Jacob

Let’s take a quick look at the changes. First and foremost we have finally moved away from the white type on dark background and moved to an easy to read font on a light grey wash background. Over the years this is one thing we have heard more readers remark on than anything else. So, we have implemented the change. If you are a white on black type fan, you’ll have to adapt. We have also moved the ads on our site to the right hand side of the page. This now conforms to good website practices.

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At the top of our page we have added the Subscribe To Our Newsletter button. Many readers have asked us if we could do this. We can now build a database of our readers who want to be notified of new features, workshops and articles of interest. This list that we build is ours and ours only. We will not sell the list and we will not bombard you with unnecessary emails.

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The Search Box is just that. Type in a word or words like “Epson 4800” and you will be presented with all articles where the words appear. This is a lot of fun to play with. Try putting in searches for different topics of interest to you, even authors names. As we move forward we will make the search function even more powerful.

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On every article page as well as the home page we have Related Articles. This is a selection of articles that may be of interest to you. This is a new feature and we hope you’ll find it a benefit.

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Also, all articles moving forward will have the author information to the right of the article.

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We are very proud of the new Home Page image gallery. We have heard for years about readers missing home page images if they did not visit the site for a few days. We also heard many people ask to see larger images. We now have a solution for all of this. The Home Page Gallery will have 4 – 6 of the latest home page images displayed in slide show format. There are also small thumbnails that allow you to click on them and instantly go to a selected image.

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If you roll your mouse pointer over the home page image you’ll get the image title, who shot it as well as camera data info.

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In the upper right corner there is an enlarge box. Click this box and the image will expand to a large size original (uncropped) preview.

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While your mouse is inside this enlarged image you can navigate around the image to see more detail. Roll your mouse out of the image and you can see the image without enlargement. Simply click the close button when you are finished.

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There are also Galleries for both Michael’s and Kevin’s image by year.

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In the same area under the home page image is the status for the latest Rantatorial as well as the last time Michael updated his Pholg.

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The menu system is very easy to navigate and use. The About selection is pretty easy. The Articles selection is fun. It contains every article ever published all 1053 pages full (around 500o plus articles). It’s been fun going back and exploring all these pages. Please note that most articles have imported and been adjusted. However many of the articles are very old, and have been edited with programs that do some funny things to the look of articles. Please bear with this. We will make adjustments over time to some of these. No matter though, all the content is there, so enjoy. Some real interesting reading if you are interested.

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We have also provided some categories for easier browsing on topics of interest. We will expand on this over time such as adding Book Reviews as we get further into this category.

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The Workshops selection takes you to a listing of our present and future workshop offerings. We have quite a few workshops we are working on. All workshops are facilitated by Rockhopper Workshops a US based company that is the exclusive provider of workshops for Luminous-Landscape. We will be updating this section on a regular basis. Also, by subscribing to our Newsletter you can be notified when we launch new workshops.

Our NEW Rantatorial selection is one we hope to have some fun with. This is where Micahel and Kevin can express their opinions and such. It is also where we will provide links to interesting news and such. I’m sure we will have some fun with this area.

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We have also made a new topic on the forum titled Rantatorials where readers can add to the discussion and topics.

The Videos selection will be amazing once it is completed. We hope to be able to launch the NEW Video area in the next two weeks. It turned out to be a much larger undertaking than expected but will be certainly be worth the wait and effort being put into it. In the meantime we still have the old video page available. All subscribers to our video content will be notified of the changes and how the transition will take place. We believe we finally got this part figured out. I’m sure you’ll agree once you see the new Video page when it is completed.

The Forum remains the same old forum. We have removed a couple of topics that most people won’t even notice. We have also added a topic for anyone that wants to comment on Rantatorials. Over the coming months we will be do an upgrade to a new version of the forum software and with that there will be a few new features that we will cover prior to the upgrade.

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Social Media has now been added to our site. Each article posted will be shared to the various Social Media sites for Luminous-Landscape. Each article also allows you to share on your own social media pages by clicking on the social media badge icon that appear in every article.

What about Mobile? We have that covered too. The new site scales beautifully for iPhone and iPad in Vertical or Horizontal views. Now you can take Luminous-Landscape with you no matter where you go.

A Short Message From Michael Reichmann

We have a lot of plans to improve the Luminous-Landscape site and this new look is the first step. You can expect an e-store where you can purchase hard goods as well as download e-publications. Our new site will also allow file downloads and in the future it may be possible for you to download sample files from new cameras we are testing. This is a big step for us and we hope you like the change.

Thanks for being a loyal reader of the Luminous-Landscape. I am confident that you’ll enjoy the new site and what we are offering. Enjoy!

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Kevin Raber

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Photography is my passion and has been for 45 plus years. My career in photography has allowed me to travel the world, meet some of the most interesting people on the planet and see things I could never have dreamed of. My goal is to share the passion of pictures taking through photographs and teaching with as many people as I can hoping it brings them as much joy and happiness as it has me. I do this through Rockhopper Workshops and other projects as well as teaching at my Gallery in Indianapolis.

Welcome To The New Luminous-Landscape Website V2

Kevin Raber

Welcome to the NEW Luminous-Landscape

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