Warm Welcome to iPad Owners

Con­grat­u­la­tions to every­one who has just got­ten a brand new iPad at one of the Apple Stores across the coun­try, and those who will be­come the own­er of one in the next few days or weeks! The Apple, Inc. has re­leased iPad today, but the dis­cus­sions about this re­volu­tion­ary device have been go­ing on and on for sev­er­al months be­fore today's launch. Our team at Fine Arts Boutique truly be­lieves that iPad will change the ways we con­sume and pro­cess in­form­a­tion quite dra­mat­ic­ally, and that it will be ad­ap­ted by mil­lions of people across the globe very quickly and eas­ily. In this light, we are send­ing out a warm wel­come to all the own­ers of the new iPad and in­vit­ing them to vis­it our iPad-ready on­line gal­lery.

When we launched our gal­lery about a month ago, the early vis­it­ors of the new web­site have sent us many com­pli­ments. Our early vis­it­ors have of­ten said that we de­ve­loped a great look­ing Flash gal­lery, and that it worked really well. We have smiled and replied that we did not use the Flash tech­no­logy in de­vel­op­ment of our new web­site. This an­swer has as­ton­ished many of our vis­it­ors, and they would have con­tin­ued to ask about the tech­no­logy we used in de­vel­op­ment of the new Fine Arts Boutique. We have kindly replied that we used jQuery, a JavaS­cript based lib­rary of scripts, to de­vel­op all the an­im­ated and dy­nam­ic ef­fects and trans­itions they saw in our gal­lery. Many of them have had hard time be­liev­ing us, which we think was for a reas­on, giv­en the sheer num­ber of the Flash-based gal­ler­ies avail­able on the Web today.

When we planned to re­design our old web­site, we have faced a really tough choice. We had to choose what tech­no­logy to use for our gal­lery view­er: Flash or JavaS­cript. We have re­viewed and dis­cussed many pos­sible com­bin­a­tions, and, in the end, we have de­cided to use JavaS­cript only, even though, it meant to us a longer and cost­li­er de­vel­op­ment. We wanted to de­liv­er an an­im­ated and dy­nam­ic view­ing ex­per­i­ence to our vis­it­ors, yet we wanted this ex­per­i­ence to be highly stand­ard-com­pli­ant and in­dex­able by most of the In­ter­net search en­gines such as Google, Ya­hoo, Bing, and oth­ers. When we fin­ished the de­vel­op­ment stage and began test­ing the new beta of our web­site, we have been really sur­prised to no­tice that the gal­lery ac­tu­ally worked on our iPhones! Yes, the ex­per­i­ence was rather ab­rupt and far from smooth and dy­nam­ic due to the iPhone's lim­ited pro­cessing power and avail­able memory, but the mere fact that the gal­lery worked un­op­tim­ized has deeply im­pressed us.

Today, we are glad that a new faster and much more cap­able iPad from Apple has be­come avail­able in many coun­tries in the world. And even though, we are go­ing to wait and get ourselves iPads, after the 3G mod­el gets re­leased later this month, we are in­vit­ing all the cur­rent and soon-to-be own­ers of this new and truly re­volu­tion­ary device to ex­plore our gal­lery and share their feed­back with us by send­ing a few lines about their ex­per­i­ence right from the web­site.