Guides for other art sites
Pointers and advice for other art site owners, guides on how to create a website like Deserted Chateau, etc.
This is an eternal WIP, so expect some inaccuracies or out-of-date stuff.
Introduction
A guide on art site infrastructure, finances, and other important matters.
Setting Up
Setting up your website, and the infrastructure needed to make it function.
Efficiency & Performance
How to make an art website more efficient, so it isn't slow and expensive.
Interface Design
A good, well-designed interface is surprisingly hard to make.
Security
Securing your website from malicious attacks, mischevious users, bots, etc.
Media Transcoding
Resizing and re-encoding images/videos, how to do it, and the importance of it to a media-centric website.
Moderation
Technical solutions and design choices that can be used to help moderate content efficiently.
Implementing Searches / Galleries
Implementing search, gallery results for a given user's profile and similar use cases. A lot of caching and efficiency consider...