{"id":475,"date":"2009-11-20T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2009-11-20T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T19:18:31","slug":"the-art-of-retropolis-all-in-one-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/20\/the-art-of-retropolis-all-in-one-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Retropolis – all in one place!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Retropolis<\/a>So… when last we saw our hero, who at that time was me, I was working on the second half of my illustrations for Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/em>.<\/p>

\nThen, to all appearances, I vanished.<\/p>

\nHere’s why:<\/p>

\nIn the annual ramp up to the holiday season – that happy, carefree and yet spiritual time when I turn you upside down and try to shake all the change out of your pockets – I took on a big project that’s been on my mind for the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

There are a whole bunch of places on the web where I sell my work, as posters and prints, on the ever-popular t-shirts of the Retropolis Transit Authority<\/em> and – new, this year – on customizable business cards and other nifty swag at the Retropolis Travel Bureau<\/em>. The trouble is that although I do cross-link between them, where I’m able, there was no central clearing house for all these different things. A visitor to one would usually not realize that the others existed.<\/p>\n

So I’ve just completed that very clearing house: an "Art of Retropolis<\/a>" site where I combine the products I sell through different vendors so that they’re all available in one spot.<\/p>\n

In order to do that I had to combine three different scripts to draw in the products, along with quite a few static pages, in such a way that (I hope) it’s not confusing to the user, and moreover – when the all powerful Googlebot sees it – the site does not <\/em>look as though someone’s simply scraped existing content from my original online shops. Which is pretty much a death sentence where SEO’s concerned. These two issues were such important and interesting problems that I may write up the project later on.<\/p>\n

But for now, IT’S ALIVE!!!!!<\/a><\/p>\n

If it works as well as I hope it will, I’ll probably do the same thing with my scattered Celtic art shops. Sometime next year.<\/p>\n

And Thrilling Tales?<\/em> I was already aware that creating the illustrations for its first story was taking longer than I’d expected. So its launch – which I’d hoped would happen right about now, or soon after – will be taking place early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So… when last we saw our hero, who at that time was me, I was working on the second half of my illustrations for Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual. Then, to all appearances, I vanished. Here’s why: In the annual ramp up to the holiday season – that happy, carefree and yet spiritual time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print-on-demand","category-web-development","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}