{"id":24883,"date":"2016-12-15T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/?p=24883"},"modified":"2016-12-15T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:03:18","slug":"announcing-the-new-journey-of-light-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/2016\/12\/15\/announcing-the-new-journey-of-light-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the New Journey of Light Website!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-15-at-8.47.13-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-15-at-8-47-13-am\" width=\"806\" height=\"955\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24884\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After months of work I am thrilled to announce my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journey of Light website<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve been head down hard at work on designing the new look and feel in addition to adding more photographs and content.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the new features:<\/p>\n<p><em>A cleaner, brighter design<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I went with a clean, white design over the original black design to brighten up the experience.<\/p>\n<p><em>A better mobile experience<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>While my old website was accessible via iPads and smartphones, some of the functionality was missing.  There is almost 99% of the features available via the mobile website as there is from the desktop website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Larger images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Especially for desktop browsers on larger monitors, I&#8217;ve processed all the images so they will display larger on these displays.<\/p>\n<p><em>A new gallery &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo-gallery\/state%20of%20california\" target=\"_blank\">California Nature and Landscape Photography<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a few trips to California, specifically to Joshua Tree and the coast and have now included these photographs as a new gallery in the new website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Better sharing functionality<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated the site to have an easier sharing experience, both via desktop browsers and mobile browsers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Better search functionality<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve refined the search functionality to bring back better results.  Additionally, I&#8217;ve included a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/search\" target=\"_blank\">dedicated search page<\/a> with options for searching.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo-gallery\/all\/0\/20\/1\/95\/2\" target=\"_blank\">57 newly processed photographs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hard at work processing more images and have included them on the new website.  I&#8217;m excited to be able to present these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo-gallery\/all\/0\/20\/1\/95\/2\" target=\"_blank\">new images<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of work I am thrilled to announce my new Journey of Light website. I&#8217;ve been head down hard at work on designing the new look and feel in addition to adding more photographs and content. Some of the new features: A cleaner, brighter design I went with a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-24883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","tag-website","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}