BONDAGE UNIVERSITY

HOW TO BUILD A BONDAGE WEBSITE

Case History:  Building BedroomBondage.com

IMAGES

Digital photos and MPEG files are taken on a Sony Mavica MVC-CD300 with a Carl Zeiss lens.  Originals are shot at 1600x pixel size (MPEGs at 320x).  Lighting for the digital camera: two to four video lamps (Smith-Victor heads, model 765UM) bounced with umbrellas.

Photos on negative are taken with Minolta Maxxum cameras (a 400si and an 800si) on Kodak Gold film, usually 200 speed.  Lighting: two to four pan-head lamps with blue-light ("sunlight") bulbs, plus camera fill-flash.  If I want dramatic lighting, I place all lamps on the left side of the set, and turn off my flash.

The film is developed by Kodak and the original negatives are scanned onto Kodak Master CDs.  Kodak returns everything in one package -- negatives, prints, CD, and a thumbnail printout of the CD scans.  The wait is about ten days.

I open each image in Adobe Photoshop larger than its final size.  Photoshop is used to check that the scan matches the original negative colors and contrasts.  BB images are reduced to target size (target 800x600 pixels; if file size needs to be compromised target is 750x) and Unsharp Mask is applied to important areas of the image (such as eyes, breasts, crotch).  Some images are airbrushed.  Unimportant background areas are blurred so that the image will download faster for the viewer.  The image is then saved in JPG format at a target size of 100K to 160K.

CompuPic Pro is used for all automatic paging and thumbnailing.  Previously I used SuperJPG and ThumbsPlus to make thumbnails.

The earliest MPEGs on the site were taken with a Sony Mavica FD81 digital camera.

The cartoon graphics are hand-drawn by my boyfriend Jon Woods with a black sharpie on white paper.  The art is scanned with a Microtek ScanMaker III larger than its target size.  Photoshop is used to blur the lines until they're fat enough for website viewing, then the contrast is hiked up.  I assembled a custom 9-color table for the Bedroom Bondage color scheme; those colors are eyedropped and filled into the graphic.  The image is reduced to final size and saved at its lowest possible color number (usually 16 or 32 colors).  The gif is usually altered to make the background transparent.

HTML & PAGEMAKING

Pages are constructed using FrontPage2000 and tweaked by hand.

FrontPage is not necessarily the best HTML-layout program.  There are several others that are just as good.  I'm just used to it, that's all.

UPLOADING

To increase security, I don't use FrontPage's automatic system to upload pages (this avoids uploading of the vti-cnf parallel files).  Instead, I use CuteFTP to upload manually -- both pages and images.

WEBHOST & SERVER

My webhost fis Entangled Web.  They host my 2-gig BedroomBondage site at an affordable price.  (The people I was with previously, charged me so much I almost went bankrupt.)  Entangled Web also provides traffic statistics, data on how much each member uses their membership, and other info.

THE LOREL-EYE CAM

The cam I used was a QuickCam.  The uploading program was Webcam32.  Unfortunately I developed problems with my port options, so the cam has been down for some time now, but it's still a great cam and a great uploading program...

PASSWORD SYSTEMS

I contract with Plug and Pay Transaction Technologies to run my password, membership, and credit-card system at Bedroom Bondage.  I enlisted CCBILL to run a similar system at Force Fantasies.

I would not currently recommend Plug and Pay, Epoch, nor iBill for billing systems.  CCBill seems to be doing okay right now with technical support etc.

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