TAMPA
BAY PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN NEWS
PREVIOUS
NEWS - NEWS
POSTS - NEXT
NEWS
PREVIOUS:
New
Aurora PhotoArts web site launches.
- First
three 4th Generation Web Site Classes Announced. Late 3rd Generation
Web Sites To Be Upgraded to 4th Generation, which includes the Mosaic
Class.
Thursday,
July 26, 2012 - Tampa Bay Photography and Design News
Mosaic
Class Deployment. 4th Generation Web Site Development. Aurora Class
Site Development Announced.
12
Mosaic Class Web Sites In Development
Aurora PhotoArts announced today that at least 12 new, front line, state
of the art Mosaic Class marketing and support web sites for Aurora PhotoArts
will be built and deployed by fall 2012, with this one being the first
one, as well as the largest. This Mosaic Class site is also our main
business, marketing, and support web site, which means that it will
be at least 10 times larger than the others.
Development of this main Mosaic Class web site is going slowly, however,
as we are going through hundreds of thousands of picture image files
for the support of our various portfolios, which include the web sites.
Due to the extreme number of image files, dating back 12 years, work
on the image and graphics sets for the Mosaic Class web sites have been
delayed. Once those sets are finalized, however, it will be possible
to build and deploy a completely operational Mosaic Class web site every
week. The first deployment of 12 web sites will take at least three
months. This main web site is awaiting the sets so that it can be completed,
at which time it will achieve Initial Operational Capability (IOC).
At that time, we will divert the TampaLooks.Com marketing domain name
and the AuroraPhotoArts.Com branding domain name from the old Venus
Class web site, which is at a different domain name, to the domain name
of this web site. The old Venus Class site is scheduled to remain online,
with minimal updates, until at least 2013, although our marketing and
branding domain names will no longer forward to it.
All of the Mosaic Class web sites are independent, stand-alone web sites,
and are not interconnected, as each targets a specific service market.
Each additional web site will achieve IOC as soon as they are launched
and are online. We expect the 12 Mosaic Class web sites to achieve standard
search engine performance by late 2012, and for all of them, as they
will all be regularly updated, to achieve Search Engine Superiority
(SES), by Spring 2013.
An additional 12 Mosaic Class web sites are being considered. There
may be as many as 24 Mosaic Class web sites online by 2013, with each
web site expected to obtain SES within the first year after launch.
4th
Generation Web Site Development
The Mosiac Class web sites, which were designed, developed, and finalized
in 2011, may be cutting edge at the moment, but they are built on 3rd
Generation web site technology, which uses HTML, CSS templates, and
JPEG mouse-over graphics. 3rd Generation sites were first developed
in late 2004, and began deployment in 2005, with the Diana Class site
being one of the first. One innovation that the 3rd Generation of web
sites brought to the table was the designation of different web site
designs as “classes”, as it was not practical to create
a new web site design for each individual web site that we owned.
The Mosaic Class sites are late 3rd Generation web sites, which are
designed to be easily upgradable to 4th Generation sites once the technology
is developed. This said, they are not built from the ground up as true
4th Generation sites, so their shelf life is limited. The Mosaic Class
web sites, although we expect them to be in front line services for
at least a few years, will not actually be front line web sites, anymore,
by late 2013. By that time, the first true 4th Generation web sites
will be developed, deployed, and tested.
As 4th Generation web site technology is required before we can offer
web site design, development, and web site maintenance services to our
clients, progress on our web site capabilities in the next year will
eclipse what we have been able to do in the past 10 years. That service
requirement will drive dramatic advancements in web site technology
available to our teams. As a result, 4th Generation web sites will be
quite revolutionary in nature, and will be even more advanced that any
of our 3rd Generation sites as our 3rd Generation sites were over BBS
and Usenet (before the web). Our 3rd Generation web sites are more evolutionary
at this time, and are a culmination of the tried and true.
Our 4th Generation sites will be quite revolutionary in nature. Unlike
the static 3rd Generation sites, the 4th Generation will be dynamic,
customizable, and flexible in their design and format. 4th Generation
web sites will be built using databasing technology such as PHP, will
use Flash for graphics and multimedia, will be as interactive as they
need to be, and will have social media capabilities built into them,
as well as e commerce features for online catalogs and stores. 4th Generation
sites will be able to configure themselves for individual users, will
have full multimedia features, and will involve the visitors in exciting
ways. 4th Generation sites will all have advanced Search Engine Superiority
(SES) capabilities into them, too, which is enhanced SEO, or Search
Engine Optimization. We became very good at SEO during our 3rd Generation
era, and had many web sites which consistently maintained top search
results for targeted and relevant keywords, in many cases for several
years.
The way that we develop 4th Generation web sites will be different,
too. Unlike 3rd Generation sites, which we simply sketch out, plan,
and build, 4th Generation site design will be more evolutionary, with
test sites built and deployed, and those sites being incorporated into
fully operational site classes after their features are worked out and
improved upon.
When Aurora PhotoArts begins to market and sell web site design and
support services, we will have a variety of 3rd and 4th Generation web
site design class packages, all of which are proven designs, for our
clients. Some front line, and/or experimental 4th Generation web site
classes, however, will be exclusive to our companies, and will not be
made available to our clients.
Aurora
Class Web Site Development Announced
The last main web site design class for the main Aurora PhotoArts site,
the Venus Class site, was commissioned on September 16, 2005, with an
upgraded Venus 2 variant, which was still a Venus Class site, replacing
it on July 31, 2007; the differences between the original and the upgrade
minor. That makes the Venus Class site, which as the time of this news
release is still the official current web site of Aurora PhotoArts,
as this Mosaic Class site has yet to achieve IOC, almost seven years
old.
There is no way that the Mosaic Class sites will remain front line marketing
and support sites for seven years, especially as, even with the first
Mosaic Class sites just now being built and deployed, the Mosaic Class
design is over a year old, and it is the culmination of 8 years of 3rd
Generation web design experience. This is especially true as there will
be rapid advancements in our web site design capabilities in the next
year which will exceed the progress that we have made in the past 8
years. It is projected that Mosaic Class sites would be phased out from
front line service as soon as 2014 (as will most other 3rd Generation/
late 3rd Generation converted to 4th Generation web sites), although
the Mosaic Class web sites are optimized, fully featured web sites and
not meant to be any kind of transitional stop gap. Right now, with 4th
Generation web sites in development, the next web site design class,
specifically designed for Aurora PhotoArts, and a true, advanced 4th
Generation web site, is in development. That web site is the Aurora
Class web site.
The development of the Aurora Class web site will be the standard development
cycle for what we have outlined for all other 4th Generation web site
design classes, which include the upcoming Theodora Class web site,
which will be used for talent resource sites, are not as straight-forward
as the 3rd Generation web sites were. There will be a lot of experimental
4th Generation web sites built, deployed, and tested, with features
of future sites in mind. By the time official design classes of 4th
Generation web sites are designed, built, and deployed, there will be
at least several months of real world, online testing involved with
all features and components. The sites will be proven and reliable before
they are used, with hard performance data available to predict performance
and usability. The experimental days of using operational web sites
to test new concepts will be largely over.
The Aurora Class site will replace the current Mosaic Class site, including
the 4th Generation upgraded Mosaic 2 due in 2013, as the front line
marketing and support site for Aurora PhotoArts, and this will happen
as early as 2014, despite the fact that, by then, there could be as
many as 36 Mosaic Class sites online and fully operational. This means
that each of those Mosaic Class sites would be replaced by an Aurora
Class site.
As spec’ed out now, with most features of the Aurora Class site
design highly classified, the Aurora Class site will be PHP based, with
a database-driven core, new security and search technology, will have
flash graphics, be highly interactive, will incorporate multimedia features,
will have the next generation SES capabilities built in, and would have
social media features and support built in. Comparing the Aurora Class
site to the Mosaic Class site would be like comparing a top of the line
smart phone to a piece of paper. 4th Generation web sites like the Aurora
Class and the Theodora Class web sites will be among the most advanced
in the world, with features and capabilities only limited to what we
can imagine and develop.
PREVIOUS:
New
Aurora PhotoArts web site launches.
- First
three 4th Generation Web Site Classes Announced. Late 3rd Generation
Web Sites To Be Upgraded to 4th Generation, which includes the Mosaic
Class.
PREVIOUS
NEWS - NEWS
POSTS - NEXT
NEWS
08/09/12/0900
- 10/12/12/2058 - 01/21/13/0645 - 07/17/13/0901 - 09/17/13/1046
Aurora
PhotoArts Tampa Bay Photography and Design official marketing and support
web site.
© Copyright 2012 Aurora
PhotoArts. All rights reserved.