Slideshow

Good news! The ai gallery system update is now finished and the gallery should be fully working. I double-checked all functions and was not able to locate any problems. Even though, if you can find any bugs, please give me a short note about it.

But what has changed? There are a few new features now available in the ai gallery. At first, I enabled picture ratings. I am not sure if this is a necessary feature which is why it never made it in the actual gallery, but I like to try it and see if it is useful.

The second thing is a slideshow. If you have a picture in detail-mode there is a button at the top left of the picture where you can set a delay for the slideshow in seconds and start it. So easy, so good. Hope you enjoy this one!

And last but not least, there is a fancy new e-card feature. You can now send ecards by clicking the envelope that is shown in detail-mode as well as in the overview. Please notice that the gallery sends html-emails with the picture in it. This might cause problems with some providers that only accept text-emails but it makes people able to view the ecard offline as long as they are using software like Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook.

I guess that’s it so far. Feel free to use what is new to the gallery, I really hope you enjoy it. Don’t hesitate to comment or mail me if you like to give your opinion about that.

There is still a little bit more to come in the future… you will see.

Dear Visitors! Today I will give the ai gallery an extensive makeover. This might cause downtimes and disfunctions in the next few hours. I will try to make it as short as possible and hope you excuse all the inconveniences.

Stay tuned!

Why that? Yesterday, I published pictures of the 2nd leg of the European Junior Cup 2009 held in Sarzana, Italy. Mr. Riccardo Cafagno, president of the Archery Club of Sarzana gave me permission after a short request and made me able to provide these pictures even after the original event-driven website www.archeryjuniorcup-sarzana2009.com will be closed.

With that, there are now more than 30,000 pictures online covering an enormous amount of 60 different international competitions.

But this is not the only threshold that has been crossed lately. A few days ago, archeryimages had it’s 100,000th visitor. This is nice to see and it’s good that this website seems to be helpful or interesting for a lot of people. If you are still with me, these data seem not to be boring enough. So here is more:

The 30,000 pictures are organized in 400 categories in the gallery and have been viewed 1,3 million times by now. This month I already had visitors from more than 40 countries, including Trinidad & Tobago, the Seychelles, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. The most watched pictures in the gallery are those of the arrows hitting a waterfilled balloon, which have been watched 18,000 times as I wrote last week. The oldest pictures are from 1991, the newest ones from September 2009.

So, what to say? It is nice to see this website grow and I like to carry on with it. I got a lot of different feedback in the past and I am always happy about it. You are always invited to give me your opinion about this site, to complain or say what else you have to say. I am still happy about people giving me a note if they are able to provide pictures that are missing in the ai gallery. For example, photos of the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney and the Games before are missing to this day although they definitely would be interesting.

I am currently developing some new fancy features for archeryimages that I can hopefully present you within the next weeks, but if you have ideas, feel free to let me know.

Hm… and what is the conclusion of this post? I am not sure, but I guess it simply is: Stay tuned!

FITA World Cup Logo

Merry Christmas dear visitors of archeryimages.net!

I guess a lot of you followed the 2009 FITA World Cup series: 4 stages took place all over the world and finished in a grand final in Copenhagen, Denmark in September this year. If you missed it, you will now find the videos embedded in the ai gallery.

To lazy to search? Here you go:

• Stage 1 – Santo Domingo
• Stage 2 – Porec
• Stage 3 – Antalya
• Stage 4 – Shanghai
• Finals – Copenhagen

As usual, I just embedded the around 30 minutes long “TV Magazine” that is produced by FITA. It summarizes the highlights of the respective competition. In the ArcheryTV´s Youtube-Channel, there is a lot more to see. E.g. Individual and Team Matches in full length.

Now you have something to spend your christmas time on.

Twitter

To complete the relaunch, I recently created a Twitter account in connection to archeryimages. From now on, I will post updates about news and new picture there in addition to the posts on the site.  Also, there will be a “Picture of the Day” feature for which I will dig some must-see-pictures out of the ai gallery.

Archeryimages on Twitter: http://twitter.com/archeryimages

The Feed: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/archeryimages.rss

At first, I didn’t have the intention to bring all this up again. But it seems like quite a lot of people are still interested in events of 2005 or even before. At this place, I already wrote about the official FITA gallery you can find at www.archery.org some time ago. But as long as they hardly going back to 2006 it seems like there is still a sense of a website like this. To make a long story short, I am still not convinced about reviving this website. Nevertheless, you can now find all the galleries covering events between 1991 and 2008 again by visiting Photogallery.

Not to forget, the search function is of course working too. What to do with that? Why not searching for logos of all events?

Mostly, I added the “TV Magazine” that is produced by the Team of Archery TV. This magazines are about 30 minutes long and are very good summaries of the competition. If you like to see some matches in full length, visit the Archery TV Youtube channel, there is always a lot more to see.

Some Videos as example:

• Field Archery World Championships 2008 – Llwynypia (GBR)
• World Outdoor Archery Championships 2007 – Leipzig (GER
• World Cup Final 2007 in Dubai

• Comments on all entries
• Sorting articles by category or by date
• Browsing for old entries in the archive
• RSS Feed

For commenting the articles, you need to type in a “captcha”. I am sorry for this, but it is absolutely necessary for avoiding spambots to attack the comment function. If you have problems reading the word, there is a “play” button right beside of it, where you are able to listen to the word.

The News System is now fully functionable, but the mainpage has now changed to http://www.archeryimages.net/index.php. You may need to update your bookmark if you saved the .html file in it.

I hope you enjoy this feature and all the pictures shown on this website!

Logos

I now managed to repair nearly all damage that was caused by the server downtime lately. Archeryimages is now up to date and fully functionable. With the help of Nils Asmussen from www.script-solution.de I could finally erase the last bugs in the gallery.
Following announcement was already made by me here, but was also deleted while the crash. So, I will repeat it: If you are looking for logos and banners, that where produced exclusively for a certain event, just use the search with typing in “logo”. Or simply click here. You will then see all logos that are currently available on archeryimages.