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Mosaic
Class Deployment To Begin.
Saturday,
July 13, 2013 - Tampa Bay Photography and Design Blog Post by Chris
Passinault
A
New Era Begins This Week.
A lot
will be accomplished, finished, and started this weekend. A new era
is about to begin, an era where we will, eventually, own the photography
and design market in Tampa Bay.
We are finalizing the image and graphic set templates, for the third
(and final) time, this morning, for the armada of Mosaic Class marketing
and support sites which will be used by Aurora PhotoArts.
We should have the first three Mosaic Class sites up and operational
within a week, the first two being needed to support the start of other
major operations (which are classified and will not be explained on
any of our web sites), and you will see major changes and updates to
this site, the first (and the main one), this weekend. Regarding those
templates, with over 2,000 graphic and image files being produced from
them this weekend from our “virtual” studio assembly line,
and these files being shared among many Mosaic Class sites (at this
time, we have 24 planned, which will ALL be online by 2014; the first
12 to 16 will be online by the end of 2013, and most of them will launch
“hot” as fully operational Mosaic Class web sites, built
before the marketing domain names are even purchased. Once deployment
begins, we can build and deploy a fully operational Mosaic Class web
site every week, without taking short cuts or compromising, and this
is in addition to the work that we have to do with our other web site
obligations; if we did not have other web site work, we could easily
build and deploy as many as three Mosaic Class web sites a week!), the
templates have to be perfect; one tiny mistake would be replicated over
all of the sites, and it would be major work to fix any mistakes, which
is the double edge of this sword; this is the main reason that development
has been taking so long. On the flip side, however, once everything
is set up, it makes it easy to mass produce everything, and things will
go smoothly and quickly without compromise to quality. Such is the Aurora
PhotoArts way: Lots of preparation and attention to detail, and efficient
execution in a long term, ongoing, sustainable effort.
We have put a lot of development time and work into the Mosaic Class,
and with as many sites as we have planned, these sites will be used
for at least the next five years (until Fall 2018). Newer, more advanced
4th Generation web sites (the Mosaic Class sites are late 3rd Generation,
which uses HTML, CSS, and JPEG files, but are designed to be upgraded
to true 4th Generation sites in the future), which will be build with
PHP, Flash files, multimedia support, social networking/ publishing/
feedback features, and are built on online databases, with more interactivity
and flexibility, will be launched as additional sites, starting in 2014,
until the existing Mosaic Class sites are phased out and replaced with
new sites. This means that Aurora PhotoArts will utilize over 32 marketing
and support web sites in the next few years, and it could be as many
as 48 web sites. This does not even begin to include the 12 sites which
will be needed for our second photography company (the name and the
branding have been decided, but they are classified at the moment) and
it supporting affiliates, which will not use Mosaic Class sites (the
first 4th Generation sites would be used by this company).
We know that development of the Mosaic Class sites have been at least
a year too long, beginning on March 10, 2011, with this prototype site
online for Beta testing on May 6, 2012, (2 years, 4 months in total)
but it will be worth it. The deployment of these sites, which are built
using proven technology, will begin now. These sites will be our main
workhorse for some time to come. A year from now, these sites will be
everywhere, and unavoidable. This is great news for anyone looking for
the best value in photography and design services in the Tampa Bay area.
We do not expect our competition to be happy about all of these sites
being used, but it won’t matter, because those others were never
able to compete with us to begin with; the presence of all of our sites
will mostly be salt for their wounds, and a reminder that we are the
standard, and the leader, of our market. Hopefully, our market dominance
will inspire others to make improvements to how they do business.
After the first three Mosaic Class sites are online and fully operational,
we will be taking some time to work on our modeling, talent, industry,
and business resource/ support web sites, which will be needed to support
our short range and long term agendas. It will take a few months for
that work to be completed, after which we will resume the construction
and deployment of Mosaic Class web sites at the rate of one per week,
bringing the fleet to a total of 12 (to as many as 16) by the end of
2013.
Although the other Mosaic Class web sites will not be updated nearly
as much as this one will be, with few updates after they are launched,
it makes sense because this is the main Aurora PhotoArts web site, and
the “mother” site. It will be over ten times larger than
the other Mosaic Class web sites, and updated almost daily. The other
sites, which are specific to specialized target markets, will be updated
as-needed. Due to security protocols in place, we will not link to those
other sites, nor will we list what they are (But I will say that I have
more than one headshot marketing site in the works, and there could
be as many as six within a year).
Although this is the main Aurora PhotoArts web site, two others which
are still online will be retained and updated. The last main Aurora
PhotoArts web site, which has been online since February 3, 2008, and
is currently using an outdated Venus Class web site, will be relaunched
as a new Mosaic Class web site (I am very happy about this!). The first
Aurora PhotoArts marketing and support web site, which uses the second
Venus Class site (only two Venus Class web sites were ever built), under
Passinault.Com and being over 12 years old, will also be relaunched
as a new Mosaic Class web site (and these two do NOT factor into the
12 total due online at the end of this year, which is the official number,
so although we will have 12 online at the end of 2013, the actual total
will be 14 to 16 with the two additional Mosaic Class web sites which
have been ordered to augment this one using old web sites and their
directories). The Venus Class sites, which have done well, may be sold
to clients in the future, providing we can work out the issues with
the Venus 3 variant, which were replaced with the Mosaic Class web site
design (the two existing Venus Class web sites use Venus 2 variants,
which are improved over the original which came online on September
16, 2005; the Venus Class sites are almost eight years old).
Once the initial three Mosaic Class web sites are online, and an additional
two Mosaic Class web sites are built and deployed to replace the current
Venus Class web sites now online (and we are considering replacing the
current Huey Class web site for “Tampa Headshots” with a
new Mosaic Class web site in this same time frame, which, unlike the
other two, would be factored into the 12 scheduled for this year. The
Huey Class web site, a light variant of the Venus Class which is the
last of three which were built, has done well, but it is severely outdated.
If we can add the solutions that we work out for the Venus 3 variant
of the Venus Class, there may be a Huey 2 variant of the Huey Class
offered to our web site clients, just like the Venus 3 would be. We
do not offer, or sell, front-line web sites like the Mosaic Class to
our clients, and this is especially true of the upcoming, highly advanced
4th Generation web sites that we have in development, which are superior
to the Mosaic Class sites in every way), we will take a break from the
construction and deployment of Mosaic Class sites for about two months.
During this time, we will evaluate the performance of the Mosaic Class
sites online during a shakedown period while we work on our modeling,
talent, industry, and support resource sites.
In 2018, when the Mosaic Class web sites are scheduled to be phased
out and retired from front-line service, they will all be replaced with
cutting-edge, extremely advanced Aurora Class 4th Generation marketing
and support web sites.
Our two marketing domain names will be re routed to the new Mosaic Class
sites in the next week, and one of those domains will be re routed,
again, in August.
There is a lot more going on than just building and deploying Mosaic
Class marketing and support web sites, however. A lot more. Support
infrastructure for our business and our clients is unmatched. Most details
of what we have are classified, but we have built up and optimized our
business so that it will be very difficult to compete with us. Take
Tampa Shootouts, for starters. Tampa
Shootouts is even more important now that it was a year ago, and
it will allow us to network and to work with experienced professional
models who are not in the market for our model testing and modeling
portfolio photography services. We can work conflicting markets without
the conflict, and everyone benefits.
That’s all that can be revealed for now. Just think about it.
I will say that, in the next three years, that I will be working with
more models than all of the photographers in Tampa Bay (if not Florida),
combined. There is also a secret shootout series called the Phantom
Shootouts under my Tampa Shootouts business where
I will be working with trusted professional models testing new equipment
and developing new photography concepts. My work as a photographer will
dramatically advance in the next few years, and my range as a photographer
will increase a lot. I will be working toward becoming one of the best
photographers in the world. For more, check out the Tampa
Shootouts web site.
For now, too, this will be the last NEW blog post on here for a while.
I will be adding content from my old dedicated domain blogs, which include
the Tampa Photographer Blog, the Tampa Photography Blog, and the Tampa
Designer Blog. These posts will be updated and added to a back-end archive,
as if they were always here; retro publishing at its best! Links to
these neo retro posts will be posted on the front page as they are added,
as well as to the main blog menu once that is up and running.
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