Portfolio Tag: lightbox gallery

charlie-regina.com

This website I built for my good friends, Charlie Schick and Regina Bartkoff, both of whom are actors and visual artists in New York City. This site was built to showcase their art and facilitate online sales of their work.

What I Did/Do for This Website:

One challenge of building a website like this is for it to have the capacity to feature a lot of images without slowing the whole thing down. So it’s necessary to balance image size with quality. I do the updating of the content as well as the general site maintenance and updates for Charlie and Regina, so I can monitor the functionality of the site for them. For me the major challenge was to give their site design personality without letting it overwhelm the art itself, and we all feel pleased with the result.

The site also features a news page, a page for essays, and a button for donations through Paypal. This was set up during the pandemic to enable people to make donations and to buy artwork remotely rather than from Charlie and Regina directly in their little gallery.

Client:

Charlie Schick and Regina Bartkoff — charlie-regina.com

tribalartfair.nl/onlinefair

This site was created because of the Covid-19 Pandemic, which in 2020 replaced the annual in-person art fair, held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

What I did for this website:

This project I worked on with a graphic designer named Daniela de Boo. We worked on the site in the months leading up to the launch of the online Tribal Art Fair. Using WordPress, I created a system where every dealer involved with the fair could log in and post photos of the art objects they wanted to list for sale. In essence, I created an online market for more than twenty individual dealers. I made the objects filterable, so that visitors could focus on the origin of the art objects themselves or the art dealers. Each gallery/dealer has their own page on the website where visitors can arrange to purchase objects.

There were two main challenges of working with a site containing many thousands of individual images. The first was to make the site easy to navigate. This I achieved by limiting options, thus keeping the site simple, providing filtering options, and adding an option for visitors to Favorite objects as they browsed. The other challenge was to maintain a fast website, which I achieved by optimizing all the images for speed, and building a custom theme to control loading time.

Client:

Galerie Lemaire — tribalartfair.nl/onlinefair

MK24.nl

Particulars:

  • WordPress
  • Online catalog of over 50 art classes
  • Classes can be organized by department, by day, by teacher
  • Students can enroll in classes online through a custom-built enrollment plugin that connects to the school’s student administration
  • Several online payment options are offered
  • Custom-built WordPress theme
  • Unusual navigation: mega menu
  • Scrolling effect
  • Optimization of the search function within the website
  • Content of the site is updated by a small team

Client:

Art institute Stichting MK24 Amsterdam — MK24.nl

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ingeraadschelders.nl

Particulars:

  • Personal website with Inge’s drawings, writings and animations
  • Redesign of her existing website
  • Hand-drawn illustrations
  • Animation
  • A vast website with an easy to use navigation

Client:

Inge Raadschelders — ingeraadschelders.nl

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kittybouwman.nl

Particulars:

  • A simple and clean personal website
  • Background photos
  • Content accordion which displays or hides information about her work with a single click
  • Lightbox gallery for photos of various sculptures she’s made
  • This client prefers to have me update the site

Client:

Kitty Bouwman — kittybouwman.nl

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