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David Kilpatrick - 01 Jul 2004 18:13 GMT

We now have the first edition of f2 Freelance+Digital magazine in print,
and simultaneously opened up a website:

http://www.f2photo.co.uk/

Parts of this are supposed to be public, parts are supposed to have a
password protection for subscribers only, but it's not proving
especially easy to divide the two. We are likely to continue adding
screen resolution pdfs of past articles from f2's predecessors
(Freelance Photographer and Master Digital Photographer). There's a
forum which is my next job to begin to look at, yesterday the only posts
were our tests done ages ago, but readers have started arriving at the
site. There should be significant freely accessible content for
non-subscribers.

Our darkroom editor is Colin Dixon.

Any suggestions for future content are welcome, along with links or
other content which visitors can submit to the site.

David Kilpatrick
Editor
Icon, Scotland

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Nicholas O. Lindan - 01 Jul 2004 20:20 GMT

"The lights may be on, but there is nobody home":

> http://www.f2photo.co.uk/

> first edition of f2 Freelance+Digital magazine in print,

If it is like the web site it was a blank sheet of paper
with "Magazine goes here" written across it.

Never announce too early.

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Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.

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David Kilpatrick - 01 Jul 2004 21:51 GMT

> "The lights may be on, but there is nobody home":
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> Never announce too early.

The website is intended to be interactive; I can't invent forum postings
or other people's links or news or ads. Archive articles are available
in the downloads section. Unfortunately it seems the server crashed last
week and lost much of this but Richard (who looks after it) is busy
replacing those now.

I've asked him to flag up the fact that the little panels saying 'no
stories yet' don't mean anything and that the pdf archive is accessed
through 'Downloads' - doesn't make much sense to me, but we are using
something called php nuke which provides the structure for the site. If
we can configure this to be more intuitive we will.

David

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David Kilpatrick - 01 Jul 2004 23:40 GMT

to help anyone:

TOPICS points to news stories and information
DOWNLOADS points to archived articles in PDF form

I'm going to talk to Richard to find out whether these labels are easy
to change as they confuse me - I would expect to find NEWS and ARTICLES
or something like that instead.

The site allows visitors to submit links, news, reviews or forum posts.
It is moderated, so it takes a while for postings to appear. It has
search engines but I see we don't appear to have categories for links
yet, such as photographer sites, trade, etc.

Hopefully it can grow organically. When I created the website PHOTON
back in 1995, with the PhotoNet Index (a name subsequently nicked!) the
un-searchable, scrolling list of 100 links with catty comments (OK,
brief reviews) was very popular. PHOTON disappeared due to the
machinations of greedy people; there's little you can do when faced with
an ISP jealous of your site's statistics swamping all the rest of their
operation. Our 'hosts' were trying to sell their services creating
websites but they could not even raise any decent stats to show people
as 95 per cent of the traffic in our entire region was created by
PHOTON. Not their sites... just a cuckoo in their nest.

We have no intention of doing the same with f2... !

David

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