Overview
This site makes the vast collection of photographs (over 73,000 images) held by the National Archive of Transport, Travel and Trade (NA3T) more accessible.
Screen Shots
Road list
Successes
The site now sells many digital downloads and photographic prints.
Site visitors can also request scans of images that have not yet been digitised, and a small fee covers the costs of doing this. Over time the most popular images will all become available as digital downloads.
Customers can now pay using PayPal and receive an e-mail with links to download the images they have bought within minutes. In the past, customers would be sent their images via e-mail, a process that was slow and subject to attachment size limitations.
Technical Features
- Relational database for the image information
- PayPal IPN integration for near-instant downloads of purchased digital images
- Automatic image resizing and watermarking for thumbnails, previews, and digital downloads
- Automatically-generated site map data for the Google search engine ensures that the Google index is up-to-date
Site Links
Fonant Involvement
Fonant worked very closely with the NA3T to design and build the site. The site was created by Fonant, with page layout and textual content created by the NA3T with advice from Fonant. The site continues to evolve.