Tumblr Archive
A few weeks ago in lesson we looked at examples of digital archives. We looked at examples of past students and other formats of digitally archiving work. Following this session i chose to make my own digital archive. The format i chose to create this on was Tumblr. I chose to use tumblr as it is a format i am used to using. I have my own tumblr blog which i use to reblog images and find inspiration, however this is not a blog i use to post my own images. I have now created my own tumblr blog for my photos only.
www.ellecainphotography.tumblr.com
The create aspects about using the tumblr format for a digital archive is that the layout is clean and simple. The blog can be viewed in either a scroll down type of format where all the images can be seen large or you can actually select the archive choice so the images can all be seen together on one page as an archive in order of when being uploaded.
Website URLS
In a session this week when we recapped the use of digital archives we looked at starting up our own websites. I learnt something really valuable in this lesson which i didn't know before hand. There are many websites such as reg-123 and other similar websites which can be used to buy web tags. When searching for what id want my own weblink to be i found that ellecain.com and ellecain.co.uk were both available. I don't feel ready yet to create my own website however i bought both web adresses to prevent anyone else from getting them as i know i will need them sometime soon.
