Upload forms for single image, resizing of pictures and adding of metadata

Resizes images (JPEGs under 2mb) to all 5 Sizes used throughout the site and names with an intelligent ID

Management of pictures within a gallery. We have editable details for the gallery on one page and for the images another page

Archive system on exhibitions is automatic around show dates.

There are 3 status’ for an exhibition: current, forthcoming and archive. These all have links that go to the relevant exhibitions index pages

Featured shows on homepage, picks from current and forthcoming exhibitions

Editable exhibition information with clever shortening of long articles on exhibition index pages

Accessible contact form for contacting the gallery directly

Accessible SPAM proof front end subscription form collecting first name, family name and email address. On the request brochure form there is also an option to be included in the email subscriptions list

System fits to legal requirements for an bulk emailing system:

• Opt in email
• Unsubscribe link in all sent emails
• Staggered sending of emails using PHP to avoid server overlods and helps for not being identified as SPAM

Ability to batch upload CSV lists of contacts data from old email lists

Ability to output CSV files for backup and reading through in Excel

Management of emails:

• Prepare emails to send later on
• Re-edit emails

Management of subscriber lists, banned addresses or ISP’s

HTML editor for creating emails and template setup around this content e.g. links back to site and unsubscribe links

Template designed to work across different email readers

Text and HTML versions can be sent

Price and sold/reserved/available status

Automatic Item numbering system

Intelligent archival system of works

• Automatic display of recent work which hasn’t yet sold on the the artists gallery
• Stock page uses not sold and can be filtered using a drop down menu to specific media and artist
• Random picture from available stock items (sometimes displayed on right menu bar) links to large picture and details, to encourage more interaction

Artists page with large list of current artists

• Title of gallery
• pictures within
• date or other info

Pictures and titles link from overview page to actual gallery

Title/section/artist/picture structure and link back to where you came from on this title

Thumbnail gallery system with set number of pics on page and link through to specific picture and its details, previous and next links when more than preset thumbs amount on the one page

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Alt tags for images properly titled

Method for navigating from one page to the next using thumbs preview of the next picture in that gallery, to encourage more interaction

Big picture and specific details included: title, back to show/artist, artists name, size, price, reserved, sold, catalogue number, sold works, previous next images and link to next page

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Categorisation of artists into medium and country

• 2 alternative stylesheets use clear neutral colour schemes
• Plenty of blank space is left between pictures
• Use of CSS borders to create a frame effect to isolate pictures within the page and standardise widths and heights in thumbs page
• Large picture is large enough to see clearly whilst also read the data alongside
• Indications of sold status throughout the site

Accessible standards based design principles and use of XHTML and CSS

Works on all browsers well

Good user interface and user experience and interaction

A lot of metadata added into the semantic HTML e.g. h1 and descriptive lists for the big picture page

Gallery functionality is not reliant like many other system upon javascript, however due to clean html and css code we can easily incorporate extra functionality e.g. lightbox slideshows, change view to list view on thumbs page (data is hidden through CSS currently)

Menu highlighting of current top item

Style sheet switcher and alternate styling print style sheet and re-purposing content for printing only

Sitemap

Hcard microformat and ability to export contact details to Outlook and other email software using Vcard convertor

Search engine optimised headings (hidden except through main stylesheet), titles and readable URL’s

Dynamic front page based on current shows and forthcoming and also static intro text optimised by us for SEO

User tracking using Google analytics

RSS feeds of recent exhibitions

RSS tracked through feedburner