July 15

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well, it's way too hot here X_X

Been pretty busy, lots of updates below.

As part of the overlay design for the "display artwork" page, there's a need to have "view full size art" and "download" buttons. That presented a slight problem, as those images are served by Amazon CloudFront CDN, and one has to set the Content-Disposition headers in the server response to tell the browser whether it should download the image or view it. Figured out how to fix it; one has to write a CloudFront function in JavaScript to tell it how to handle certain file types and then send the appropriate headers.

Other than that, I've been making little changes here and there - other stuff took a lot of my time these last two weeks, so not much. I recently thought about making a kind of "artist commission notification" system, that'd let users sign up to be notified when an artist they want to be notified about opens commissions; not sure if that'll be integrated into ArtCentral or just be its own separate thing, but either way it'd run via Twitter and whatnot. Haven't started that yet, so details will come later.

It'll still be a while before a preview site is ready for use; my time is split a lot between different projects recently, so we'll have to see how long that will be. Either way it's going well I think.