THE HISTORY - DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY WEB SITES
November 2004
Established “Open Photography Directory” and “Open Photography Blog” on November 9, 2004, two new web sites that facilitate the share of photography resources information with interactive membership and rating system, they are Free and Fun services that generates Value to all members in additional to the mothor site Photos-of-the-Year.com.
July 2004
Photos-of-the-Year.com was included in the DMOZ Open Directory, the strongest directory on the Internet, on 1 July 2004. This is a great recognition and milestone on our site development. Photos-of-the-Year.com also has over 10,000 online photos and become a major digital photography contest web site on the Internet.
May 2004
Photos-of-the-Year.com - Digital Photography Contest reached its Million of photo impressions on 7 May 2004. This is a new milestone and there are already more than 2,000 members, 8,400 online photos and 57,000 messages.
Photos-of-the-Year.com has become a well-known publicly listed digital photography contest website providing unique benefit and value via its open photography contests. It has also created a fair environment for all photographers to develop and confirm their photography skills.
April 2004
Open voting and constructive critiquing was adopted in Photos-of-the-Year.com - Digital Photography Contest as the fundamental Principle and Approach to create real value for great photography.
To provide comprehensive services in digital photography, two new functional sections were implemented.
Digital Camera and Equipments Review
Digital Camera and Equipments Classifieds
March 2004
Photos Of The Year contest 2003 was successfully completed with impressive result. The POTY Contest 2003 gallery has 93 best photos selected from the winning photos in some more than 3,000 photos submitted for year 2003. There are more than 4,000 comments and votes received for the selection of top 12 Photos Of The Year 2003.
February 2004
To meet members requirement, four feature digital photography contest galleries were implemented.
People Portrait Photography
Nature Photography
Nikon Digital SLR Camera
Canon Digital SLR Camera
January 2004
Photos-of-the-Year.com - Digital Photography Contest was listed in Yahoo directory, this is a milestone on the development for the site. 18 January 2004 was set as the official birthday for Photos-of-the-Year.com - Digital Photography Contest.
December 2003
The domain name Photos-of-the-Year.com was acquired for the website, the name best describes the objective and nature I set for the site as a learning tools and to recognize photography achievement and skill from photographers.
October 2003
The website was optimized into a more professional style. Sponsor & Affiliate Network were setup with supporting advertisers in order to make the sites running by its own earnings to support its long-term operation.
July 2003
To provide better support of photo management and facilitate photo critiques, a photo gallery system was installed and integrated into the existing forums. With a month of customization work, the photo critiques system was up with an attractive and user-friendly interface.
Photography contests were introduced to make the sites even more interesting and generate more fun as well as to have better recognition on members work. There are four photo galleries, three for photography contests and one for member stock photo.
Photos Of The Year (POTY)
Photos Of The Month/ Weeks (POTM/ POTW)
Photography Challenge
Stock Photo Gallery
March 2003
Digital Photography Discussion Forum was implemented that helps the webmaster to organize his personal photo galleries and sharing of photography techniques, photo critiques to all photography lovers.