New DP Studio Online Website

We have launched our new web­site one month ago, in the be­gin­ning of March, and we have re­ceived a lot of feed­back from our friends and vis­it­ors. Thank you all, the ex­per­i­ences and opin­ions you have shared with us about the new ver­sion of Fine Arts Boutique are truly price­less. Dur­ing the same time, we have con­tin­ued to work on the re­main­ing parts of our project, and we are ex­cited to an­nounce today, that we have suc­cess­fully reached its next mile­stone and launched the new ver­sion of the DP Stu­dio On­line web­site.

We have de­signed the first ver­sion of DP Stu­dio On­line in 2007 with less than mod­est re­sources and funds avail­able. That web­site has been our first en­deavor and a big ex­per­i­ment in design of an on­line art gal­lery. Al­though, the gal­lery looked and worked well, based on the vis­it­ors' feed­back we re­ceived, we have real­ized that the web­site should un­der­go cer­tain changes soon after its ini­tial launch. We have real­ized that ne­ces­sity due to sev­er­al reas­ons.

The old web­site has been de­signed, us­ing HTML and CSS lan­guages only, and it has been aw­fully hard for our team to add new and modi­fy ex­ist­ing in­form­a­tion, be­cause it had to be done by manu­al cod­ing, and every change took a long time to be­come avail­able on­line.

The nav­ig­a­tion of the old web­site has been de­signed with the same tech­no­lo­gic­al con­straint taken in­to ac­count, and every click would load a new page, which re­quired to main­tain a large col­lec­tion of pages per se, and which also posed a ma­jor dif­fi­culty for cre­at­ing an ef­fect­ive and dy­nam­ic in­ter­ac­tion schem­as for a vari­ety of in­form­a­tion needs of the site vis­it­ors.

The view­ing ex­per­i­ence in the old gal­lery has been far from what we con­sidered as a de­sir­able. On our end we had to pre­pare mul­tiple ver­sions of im­ages in dif­fer­ent sizes and up­load them manu­ally, again, spend­ing a lot of time in the pro­cess. On the vis­it­ors' end we could only render full im­ages in one size, thus mak­ing the vis­it­ors with slow In­ter­net con­nec­tions suf­fer from overly long page loads and leav­ing an ever-in­creas­ing num­ber of the large mon­it­or own­ers way be­hind the mark of op­tim­al ex­per­i­ence.

Fi­nally, in 2009, we have reached the point, when we could not deal with the old and, by that time, com­pletely out­dated ver­sion of DP Stu­dio On­line, and we have planned its com­plete re­design as a part of the Fine Arts Boutique web­site re­design project. We have launched the new ver­sion of DP Stu­dio On­line soon after the launch of the new Fine Arts Boutique, in the end of March, and have been ex­cited to see an im­me­di­ate in­crease in the num­ber of new and re­turn­ing vis­it­ors.

The new ver­sion of DP Stu­dio On­line re­sembles the Fine Arts Boutique web­site in many ways. It uses the same visu­al lay­out, it em­ploys the same gal­lery view­er, and it presents the same in­form­a­tion about Dmitriy Pavlov and his art­work port­fo­lio. Though, there are some dif­fer­ences that are worth not­ing. The DP Stu­dio On­line web­site rep­res­ents Dmitriy Pavlov and his art­work only, it fea­tures the con­tent in Eng­lish only, and it has a lot less in­ter­act­ive fea­tures than the Fine Arts Boutique web­site.

Our friends and vis­it­ors are wel­come to both of the web­sites, since we have de­signed them to be as in­form­at­ive, func­tion­al, and user-friendly as we could pos­sibly ima­gine. We are al­ways glad to hear from you, so please let us know what you like or dis­like in the new DP Stu­dio On­line or Fine Arts Boutique by send­ing us a mes­sage from either web­site. We look for­ward to con­tin­ue to im­prove both of our projects by adding new fea­tures and modi­fy­ing ex­ist­ing ones, and it is truly im­port­ant for us to know, what you think we should do to make these web­sites even bet­ter and more use­ful for you and oth­er vis­it­ors.