Finally!  The site is active!  There have been many developments since the last update.  The site didn’t launch on January 1 as expected… in fact, I took about a two month hiatus on it so that I could just figure out what exactly I wanted to do with the site.  I guess you could call it refining the concept.

I have been back at work at it though… I’m moving the entire site over to Dreamhost since early tests have shown that their servers are much faster… this, along with their easy integration into the Amazon CDN, makes my site fit right in.

I have just integrated an upload script from Aurigma.  This is the script that I believe Myspace.com uses for image uploads… it’s versatile and allows multiple uploads with ease.

The direction of the site has changed.  The estimate creation algorithym is going to take more data than what I have available before it will work accurately.  In lieu of this, I am creating an image licensing portal.  I don’t want to go into great detail about this, but I think it will add a great value to photographers all over the United States.  It’s tools like this and the networking aspect of the site, that are the reason why the site will do so good.

Once the image uploader is complete this will speed the process of the creation of the other scripts, for licensing, networking, and project completion… many things really depend on this one script.

When I get leads in I am sending a message to photographers letting them know that a lead has arrived in their area…  well, since there is very little traffic to the site at the moment, the users are forgetting their passwords.  This means that I’ve added the function where a user can log in with either their username or email address.  They can also request a new password the same way.

At this point I’m not speculating on the official launch of the site–when we will push the marketing of the site.  There is still much that needs to be done.