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Project Details

  • Employer: Bigfork Web Development, Inc.
  • Client: Bigfork ARTFusion
  • Date: July 2009
  • Type: Website and Artist Gallery
  • Teammates:
    • Jana Primmer (Project Manager)
    • Carrie Short (Web Designer)
    • Dave Short (Web Developer)

Project Tags

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Media Gallery

The art gallery displayed on this site is split into different pages based on the types of medium the artist listed uses in their work. This page lists the artist who create paintings.The art gallery displayed on this site is split into different pages based on the types of medium the artist listed uses in their work. This page lists the artist who create ceramic art.The art gallery displayed on this site is split into different pages based on the types of medium the artist listed uses in their work. This page lists the artist who create art using other mediums.
An example of a page displaying information about a specific artist and a list of their work.After clicking on an art piece a JavaScript lightbox popup window will show a larger image and show additional details about the artwork such as dimensions and selling price.An example of a page displaying information about a specific artist and a list of their work.
After clicking on an art piece a JavaScript lightbox popup window will show a larger image and show additional details about the artwork such as dimensions and selling price.The admin management page listing all of the work of an individual artist. This page allows the site owner to assign metadata to specific art pieces. Additionally, individual art pieces can be made public or private and the selection of which item should be used when displaying a link to the artist's page can also be selected through this interface.The admin management page listing all of the work of an individual artist. This page allows the site owner to assign metadata to specific art pieces. Additionally, individual art pieces can be made public or private and the selection of which item should be used when displaying a link to the artist's page can also be selected through this interface.
The admin management page listing the artists displayed on the site. This page allows the admin to add new artists, edit an existing artist, change the order in which they appear on the site, or otherwise manage the artists displayed on the website.

Bigfork ARTFusion Gallery

This project was done as part of my work as a contract web developer with Bigfork Web Development, Inc. Bigfork ARTFusion is a contemporary art gallery located in Bigfork, Montana. They wished to add functionality to their new website that would allow them to post online a digital gallery of the work of their artists through an easily usable centralized administrative web interface. The information added to this administrative interface would then be displayed to website visitors through dynamic pages.

The scope of my role in this project covered the development of all dynamic and backend functionality for the site. This included creating all aspects of the administrative panel, user authentication, and the dynamic public pages including a listing of artists by medium, a list of artwork by artist, and the implementation of a JavaScript lightbox interface for getting more detailed information about an individual piece of artwork.

The organization of the site's front-end gallery interface for site visitors was fairly simple. Three individual pages would be linked to from the website's main navigation, one each for Paintings, Ceramics, and Other Mediums. Each of these pages would show a list of artists who produce work using the medium they had selected along with a sample of a piece of artwork from each artist. After selecting a particular artist the visitor will be brought to a page listing all of the artwork from that artist. This page also contains a small bio about the artist and any other information that the gallery owners wish to include on the artist's page. If the visitor is interested in and clicks on a specific piece a JavaScript lightbox popup will appear with more detailed information about the artwork they selected including a description and pricing details.

On the admin management panel side of the project, the gallery administrators needed to be able to store a list of artists who would have their artwork featured on the website and some basic personal information about each of them. It was also necessary to identify what artistic mediums the artist used so the artist could be featured on the public page showcasing those specific mediums. Since many artists work in more than one medium the categorization of the artist's mediums needed to allow an artist to be categorized under zero, one, or more than one of the medium categories at the same time.

Once an artist was added to the gallery the administrator would then have the ability to add artwork to the artist's profile. During this process the administrators had the ability to make individual pieces public or private so they would not be visible to website visitors. Additionally, they could select a specific piece from the artist which would be used as the thumbnail when displaying references to the artist on the public portion of the website.