It's been an exciting and frustrating few weeks. I've had the idea of creating a Camera/Photography website for the past few months but never really took the initiative to work on it. I've done work on Okaay.com and saw all the hits I was receiving from the photography side. Being that Photography is my second hobby (computers being the other), and with a bunch of friends very interested in it, I thought I'd make a Photography website.
I've never made a site from scratch. From picking a Domain name, to registering that name, to finding a host, to setting everything up. Picking a domain name was fun. Hopefully you understand the Cam and Cheese. If not too bad. Some other names we had.. feel free to take them.. a lot of them are available.
SHORYUCAM.com (for the video game nerds out there. This was tops on our list for a long time until Wheel texted me the winning site name before going to bed )
STOPDOWN.ca
CAMBURGER.com
FSTOPME.com
EXPOSETHEWORLD.ca
And for you dirty people:
CAMSHOT.ca
BUKKACAM.com
CAMONMYFACE.com
I'm sure there were many more but those are the ones that I wrote down and remembered.
After, figuring out the name, I learned that crappy Registrars take forever to refresh their DNS. It took over a day for me to see that www.camandcheese.com redirected to my host. Then I had to figure out if I should use WordPress or Joomla for my CMS! I already picked Joomla even though I said I'd give WP a chance. WP was installed and never used lol. Joomla is just too powerful, and it has many of the features that I wanted on this site, that I think would make it a success. What made things even harder is that Joomla 1.5 is a lot different from Joomla 1.0.x. But, for the most part I got a hang of it. So after a week of installing/reinstalling dozens of plug-ins, modules, and components, and hacking at their code - here's the site. I hope you like it. Now, it's not completely done, there are still some features that will be added in the future. And of course please email me ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) with features you would like to ad, or bugs that you find.
If you want to know more about me, you will need to register and then you can view my profile - as well as create your own profile and view other members of the CAC community!
Yes, I'm a Nikon fanboy, but only because I was lucky enough to be able to use my dad's lenses right when I bought my camera! Plus, they feel better in your hand. I do admit that Canon has a lot more lenses. Come on Nikon where are your fast wide primes?
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