YNOT – American photographer David Weisenbarger is quickly building a reputation online as one of the premiere producers of high quality nude art, and now his flagship website is one of the first in the genre to specifically target users of Apple Inc.’s popular new iPad tablet computer.DavidNudesTablet.com launched last week, just in time for the release of Apple’s new iPad 3G model. The website is a fully iPad-optimized version of David-Nudes.com; it features the same stunningly beautiful content as David-Nudes.com, but has been designed specifically to function seamlessly with Apple’s new device, which sold more than 1 million units in its first month of release.
“Designing a website to function on a fixed screen size with a touch interface requires a completely new layout,” explained David Weisenbarger, photographer and co-owner of the David-Nudes brand. “Buttons need to be bigger so you can easily touch them to navigate. The initial page view needs to fit on the landscape orientation of the iPad without any breaks, so that the visitor gets a nice view of our content and navigation in one screen without the need to scroll. All the graphics and page elements needed to be scaled back to fit the iPad screen in both landscape and portrait orientation.”
Since the iPad product famously does not support Flash video, Weisenbarger says he had to get creative in order to produce a website that would be attractive to fans who are used to Flash-rich online interfaces.
“Interaction and animation are still critical to engage the initial visitor, so I had to find a JavaScript solution that gives some feeling of animation and interaction, but works well with touch,” said Weisenbarger. “In other words, we had to forget about mouse-over interactions as there is no way to mouse-over in a touch interface. So, JQuery was chosen as the framework for a new set of interactive gallery elements, and all JavaScript works in Safari and current versions of Web Kit on the iPad.”
Getting the site’s impressive video library ready for the iPad did take some work.
“Our video was only in HD-WMV formats for members and Flash F4V for the tour trailers,” explained Weisenbarger. “The iPad doesn’t play either format. HTML 5 introduces the new <video> tag which works a lot like the well-known <img> tag, but it can only load video based on the browser. Firefox will only load Ogg files with the <video> tag right now, and the iPad will only load H.264 video files. Interestingly enough, Flash’s F4V (NOT flv) format is actually an H.264 container, so Quicktime will play it as H.264. This means that current F4V trailers could be embedded in HTML 5 using the <video> tag on the iPad version of the site. But all of the member videos must be republished as Apple iPad compatible H.264 video now, which only supports a resolution up to 720p.”
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DavidNudesCash.com is the affiliate program for David-Nudes.com, a European-style fine nude art website that features American models posing in American locations. The site is a joint venture between American photographer David Weisenbarger and his wife Tatyana Weisenbarger; Tatyana is also the primary model for the site. The David-Nudes.com website features more than 5 terabytes of exclusive, hi-res content with all videos at 1920 px and billboard-sized photos at a massive 6000 px.
Photographer David Weisenbarger is also the author of the book Learn Nude Photography, which is currently available through Amazon.com.
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