Originally Posted by AJHall

Great thread Shap. It's fun to see a thread like this that makes you look back and remember how things were. It's crazy to think about how far we've come.

Oh man. The old days LOL. The first gig I had in the industry was working with a site that was HTML and Cold Fusion. It took about 4 hours to do a site update and this was AFTER a video editor had cut and encoded the vids and manually taken screenshots.

For pics we would flip through pages in a binder and pick out and scan chromes (slides). Not fun. Then you had to crop out the black from around the pics and rename them. Then we resized, watermarked and thumbnailed via a series of PhotoShop batches and uploaded the separate folders. The company was so resistant to technology that rather than use scripts I had to hire a full time Webmaster as an assistant to help with all the tasks.

That was 10 years ago. Now we sell a CMS that does it all automatically with 1 click. I've yet to meet anyone who said they wish they waited longer to automate their production methods

AJ