Theme, Plugins and Typography
This website runs on WordPress using the Imagely 2.0 theme. It uses FooGallery plugins for the gallery thumbnails and image carousels, and the Accordions plugin for gallery page notes.
The “Tom Onyshko Photography” logo in the website header uses Ray Larabie’s freeware font Stereofidelic. The headings font is Averia Sans Libre, and the body text font is Open Sans.
The favicon (i.e., the small “T” image that appears in browser tabs) is a photograph of a 2011 ceramic artwork by Toronto artist Paul Juhl Bentzen.
Version History
Version 3.13
Version 3.13 of this website launched in October 2024, and featured new images in the Work in Progress 2 (2024) gallery and on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.12
Version 3.12 of this website launched in September 2024, and featured new images in the Work in Progress 2 (2024) gallery and on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.11
Version 3.11 of this website launched in July 2024, and featured a new Work in Progress 2 (2024) gallery, a new essay (“Karsh: Master of the Portrait”), and new images on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.10
Version 3.10 of this website launched in May 2024, and featured new images in the Work in Progress 2024 and Black and White 7 galleries and one new image on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.9
Version 3.9 of this website launched in April 2024, and featured a new Work in Progress 2024 gallery and new images in the Black and White 7 gallery and on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.8
Version 3.8 of this website launched in February 2024, and featured new images in the Colour 2022-2023 and Black and White 7 galleries. For further details, see here.
Version 3.7
Version 3.7 of this website launched in January 2024, and featured new Colour 2022-2023 and Black and White 7 galleries, as well as new images and on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.6
Version 3.6 of this website launched in April 2023, and featured a new Work in Progress: Black and White gallery, and new images on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.5
Version 3.5 of this website launched in March 2023, and featured new images in the Work in Progress 2023 gallery, and new images on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.4
Version 3.4 of this website launched in February 2023, and featured a new Work in Progress 2023 gallery, and new images on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.3
Version 3.3 of this website launched in September 2022, and featured a new Colour 2021-2022 gallery, several new images in the Black and White 6 and Colour 2020-2021 galleries, and new images on the home page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.2
Version 3.2 of this website launched in June 2022, and featured a new Work in Progress gallery and one new essay. It also featured a change to the menu structure, new images on the home page and updates to the About pages. For further details, see here.
Version 3.1
Version 3.1 of this website launched in December 2021, and featured a new Colour 2020-2021 gallery, a new Black and White 6 gallery, and two new essays. It also featured new images on the home page and updates to the About – General page. For further details, see here.
Version 3.0
Version 3.0 of this website launched in April 2021, and featured a new website design, based on WordPress. The number of images in a standard gallery was reduced from 29 to 24 images. Main galleries all used the following image sizes: 2:3 images are 900 x 600 pixels, and 4:5 images are 800 x 640 pixels. Many of older galleries were radically reworked (e.g., Black and White 1 to 4 and most of the Colour Galleries in Archives).
I moved to this WordPress website from one that I had built myself in HTML in 2009, because the old website was starting to creak at the seams. I wanted a modern-looking website, which displayed well on computers, tablets and phones and was easy to update. I think I succeeded, but the path here was not always easy.
My old website used 29 small thumbnails in each gallery, arranged in rows of eight, with one oversized thumbnail for the first image. Modern website designs generally use large thumbnails of the same size arranged in short rows, so that the gallery can be reconfigured for viewing on a phone or tablet. I settled on 24 thumbnails, which meant removing five images from each gallery—a task that sometimes proved difficult.
Moving to the new website format gave me a chance to review and resize all the images in the galleries to a consistent set of sizes. It also gave me a chance to reconsider many of my older photographs—particularly in those cases when I could no longer locate the original image files. As a result, many older galleries were significantly reworked
Version 2.0
Version 2.0 of this website launched in December 2016, without fundamental changes to the website design. Versions 2.0 to 2.7 added new galleries or images or made other minor changes.
Version 1.5
Version 1.5 of this website launched in January 2012 and featured a new Essays section. Over the course of Versions 1.5 to 1.9, the size of images in the new galleries changed—2:3 images went to 800 x 533 pixels and then 900 x 600 pixels, and 4:5 images went to 800 x 640 pixels. Other versions in this series added new galleries or images or made other minor changes.
Version 1.0
Version 1.0 of this website launched in December 2009. It featured a revised format for the home page and internal pages. Images sizes were small—2:3 images were 680 x 453 pixels, and 4:5 images were 680 x 544 pixels.
Beta
The Beta version of this website launched in April 2009, with most of the core content that would be reformatted as Version 1.