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Greetings and best wishes for the New Year. 2024 was quite a banner year for the
BC ARTISTS project. A huge amount of information was added, including many
additional artist names and biographies, exhibitions and exhibition reviews transcribed,
and more than 200 images.
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In 2024 I established a way for people to donate to the BC Artists project. Without
being able to offer a tax receipt for donations, I thought that offering a limited
edition print as a thank-you gift would be an appropriate way to express gratitude.
Please see SUPPORT for details. Thank you to those who
already contributed, I am hopeful that more people will help out.
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A housekeeping item: I decided to revise some
pages to put all images from a catalogue or prospectus onto one page,
instead of each image being on a different page. I have revised the
BC College of Arts prospectii, the BC Artist
exhibition catalogues from 1951 to 1968, and the art & framing store page.
That allowed me to delete 182 web pages amd images so far. A work in progress. This will make it easier
for someone to view each complete document without going back and forth between web pages.
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Another housekeeping item: I found out that my website's bandwidth was approaching maximum, and
the simplest option was to optimize images and where they are placed. The A to Z artist index
pages, 26 of them, contained a total of 128 different images that I had sprinkled throughout to provide
visual interest. However, the result was that they were downloaded over and over, since the
index pages are typically the most used files in the entire project. Thus, I have deleted
the images from those pages, although the images are all still linked in the project. I have
also been compacting images with large file sizes, and deleting some early documents that
are no longer relevant. I have also deleted all 117 images that were previously shown on this page
as "NEW IMAGES" since looking at this page would download over 8 megabytes of image files that
might not be looked at in any case.
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