PixiPort
PixiPort is a website for photographers. While it has galleries much like other sites, it also has a lot of useful information to help further a photographers career. Information on marketing, techniques, etc.
The sites strengths are in it's aesthetics, it is artistic in it's very design, and in the wealth of information and artwork that it carries.
The sites weaknesses are it's lack of organization and the fact that most of the gallery photographs are really low resolution.
One of the first items in the menu is, "A Venturing into the Labyrinth - a seeker's guide to Pixiport", which is not a bad description of the site, a Labyrinth in which it is easy to get lost. It's described as a portal to portals, and it is structured that way, broad category takes you to a page, various artists on that page take you to other pages. And then unlike other sites, where each artists space is similarly structured, what you find at the artist level is entirely individual. This necessitates learning to navigate every artists space individually, but the flip side to that each artist has the freedom to arrange their space the way they like.
Educational, entertaining, and editorial articles appear to be strewn about more or less randomly.
Overall it's a pleasant experience but one which can eat a lot of time, and owing to the lack of any sort of linear organization, it's difficult continue where you left off because there is no clear path, direction, or journey. It's rather like life in that sense.
The sites strengths are in it's aesthetics, it is artistic in it's very design, and in the wealth of information and artwork that it carries.
The sites weaknesses are it's lack of organization and the fact that most of the gallery photographs are really low resolution.
One of the first items in the menu is, "A Venturing into the Labyrinth - a seeker's guide to Pixiport", which is not a bad description of the site, a Labyrinth in which it is easy to get lost. It's described as a portal to portals, and it is structured that way, broad category takes you to a page, various artists on that page take you to other pages. And then unlike other sites, where each artists space is similarly structured, what you find at the artist level is entirely individual. This necessitates learning to navigate every artists space individually, but the flip side to that each artist has the freedom to arrange their space the way they like.
Educational, entertaining, and editorial articles appear to be strewn about more or less randomly.
Overall it's a pleasant experience but one which can eat a lot of time, and owing to the lack of any sort of linear organization, it's difficult continue where you left off because there is no clear path, direction, or journey. It's rather like life in that sense.
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