{"id":261,"date":"2004-12-20T22:12:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/?p=261"},"modified":"2016-10-10T03:32:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T18:32:46","slug":"2004-recap-of-photoguide-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/2004\/12\/2004-recap-of-photoguide-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 recap of PhotoGuide Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During 2004, PhotoGuide Japan has seen several major improvements, new pages, and features. I&#8217;m quite happy with the progress I was able to make this year with the site.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I converted almost the entire site to a database-driven system in 2003, maintaining the site has become much easier. It is easy to add, correct, or delete almost anything on the site. It has taken a lot of the grunt work out of the site&#8217;s maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>I love working on my Web site. I can spend hours sitting in front of my Macintosh and the time would just fly by.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the major Web site improvements in 2004:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creation of the Photographers Japan online directory of pro photographers in Japan.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photographersjapan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/photographersjapan.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Completely new home page layout using CSS, with a &#8220;billboard look&#8221; featuring a large image with transparent sections for text overlays.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/photojpn.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Incorporation of Google&#8217;s site search engine.<\/li>\n<li>Incorporation of Google ads. (First time I&#8217;m making money from Web site ads.)<\/li>\n<li>Creation of PhotoWords, an online glossary of photo terms in English and Japanese.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/words\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/photojpn.org\/words\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Creation of PhotoSigns, a visual Japanese lesson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My only regret was I did not have time to write new photo book reviews this year. I have a stack of books that I want to review soon. Hopefully by early next year you will see some new book reviews.<\/p>\n<p>For the new year in 2005, my biggest Web project will be to beef up PhotoGuide Japan&#8217;s e-commerce function. Already I&#8217;m setting up e-commerce software to make online shopping easier.<\/p>\n<p>Affiliate programs will also be incorporated, starting with Amazon.com and co.jp. I actually tried Amazon&#8217;s associates program way back in 1997 when it was one of the first affliiate programs. But it was still too early and I hardly made any money from it. But now it&#8217;s very popular and I&#8217;ll try it again.<\/p>\n<p>There are other online money-making ideas I&#8217;m toying with, and I look forward to experimenting in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>I wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2004, PhotoGuide Japan has seen several major improvements, new pages, and features. I&#8217;m quite happy with the progress I was able to make this year with the site. Ever since I converted almost the entire site to a database-driven&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photojpn.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}