Gravitational Art Site News

The home page has been made easier for visitors who don’t already have Silverlight, and the Photo Book announced last month has a new page with ordering info.

– Bill

There is a 21 page photo book at Shutterfly.  Take a look and comment on it.

http://community.shutterfly.com/gallery/post/start.sfly?postId=/gallery/1/post/GMGDJgybtGjNq4cgQPAnSO

– Bill

The new look on the Home page uses technology called DeepZoom, which is part of the new Siverlight 2 beta release from Microsoft. Please try this out and leave me comments with your feedback.

Since Silverlight 2 is not officially released, the documentation is sketchy so I had more than the usual problems trying to find out how things work.  I owe a great deal to the other professionals who shared their knowledge and helped me out.  Following their example, I’m making the source for this page available for download at: http://erikwhite.com/source/GravartIndex.zip 

Feel free to use whatever is helpful. The source does not include the deepzoom data, which is a separate topic you can find at: http://silverlight.net/.

update posted 10/30/2008

Since I originally posted this, Silverlight 2 has been released and the web site has been updated to the release version so I’m posting that source too, which you can download at: http://erikwhite.com/source/GravartIndex3.zip 

I’m new to this blog program, WordPress, but it looks like an excellent way to keep you informed about what’s going on with the site, so I’ll give it a try. If any of you have any experience with WordPress and want to offer suggestions, please leave me comments or send email. So now let’s get on with the news. 

Prices have been added to all the paintings that are for sale, and I’ve added “buy now” buttons to the paintings so you can link directly to PayPal to buy a painting.

I’m also starting a program for “rent to own” to allow renting paintings with all payments going toward their purchase. This should make it much easier to acquire these paintings without breaking your budget.

Check out the new Bargains page in Gravitational Art. Any art on that page will be discounted at least 50% to 80% from the retail price.  I’ll be picking one or two paintings from the regular pages to put there for a limited time. If something you like shows up there it’s almost like winning the lottery.