| objective | background | structure | updates | credits and contributions Objective The Jan Montyn website provides Jan Montyn himself with a means to communicate to the world his message of “Hell and Paradise on Earth”, showing to visitors the dark and beautiful sides of the world through his life, his stories and his wonderful art works. The art works as presented on the website will be a subset of art works that can be found in museums, galleries and private collections all over the world. Links to museums and galleries will help any reader to locate Jan Montyn's art works. Links to private collections will be added to the website as well, if allowed by a private collector (see COLLECTIONS).
The Jan Montyn website provides its visitors with an insight on the different aspects of the world as of 1924, the year Jan Montyn was born. An historical overview, especially on Europe and South-East Asia , put against the life of Jan Montyn will provide the reader with a good understanding of the past and the present. Furthermore, the visitor can read about any aspect of Jan Montyn's life, can enjoy his art works and can find out where to find more art works. back to top |
Background
The year 2004 celebrates Jan Montyn's 80th birthday. As a present to Jan Montyn, the Jan Montyn website was initiated. But how do you set up a Jan Montyn website if you know that it will take a lifetime to document 80 years Jan Montyn in all its facets? Basically there are two options: either you build a complete as possible website or you set up an initial website and continue to build it into the future. The choice of the website initiators was the latter. The Jan Montyn website therefore, is a website that currently incorporates the information that was available and could reasonably be processed during the available time period. Other information will be incorporated as and when available and processed. The website initiators see three advantages of this approach. The first is that the website can be launched within a reasonable timeframe. The second is that early feedback will be received, which will be used to extend the website in a focused manner, in line with the desires of the visitors. The third advantage is that this approach allows interested parties and individuals to participate in building further content. It will result in the website being a truly shared website, which is the ultimate desire of the website initiators
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The Jan Montyn website was launched on September 17, 2004 and has been stabilized since. While maintenance is done by the Maintenance Department, the Communications Department has continued working on the next versions of the website. This paragraph discusses version 3 of the website. The main theme of version 3 is “Initial Interactivity”. The central idea is that people take an active part in the website , and visit it frequently. This is done by adding the following features to the website:
• Externally updateable information : visitors can update elements of the website themselves, e.g. news, events, galleries, and publishers etc
• Member area : visitors can register themselves as a member (members have to specify whether they want to receive additional information such as newsletters ), can update their member information and will be provided access to the Webboard (a message board), eCard area and other future priviliges
• Community Area,
which will initially include (more functionality will be added later):
• eCards
• Trade environment (buy and sell)
• Message board
• Chat room(s)
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Structure
The structure of the website, also called sitemap, is as follows:
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Latest updates
• Sept 27 2006, – News, Events and Publishers update
• August 1, 2004 – pre-launch website
• September 17, 2004 – initial launch website – History update, Roles update, News update, Galleries update
• November 13, 2004 – official launch website
• February, 2005 – upgrade website into ‘Initial Interactivity' website, including updateable news, events, interviews, movie, publishers, latest works, galleries, collections, guest book. Furthermore, the member areas is activated
Credits and contributions
We thank the following companies and people (in order of time) for contributing to the website:
• Jan Montyn — overall contributions and approval
• Align Group [ www.align-group.com ] — website initiators and design
• Viewpoint Productions [ www.viewpointdocs.com ] — Latest News, The Movie
• Loan Chan — The Traveller
• Tran Huu Chan — The Traveller
• Galerie Helga Hofman, Administration Oudewater, SBK Kunstcentrum, La Jivite Art Gallery, Jan Louter, Tomas Hillebrand - Museum van der Togt, Jur Vis, Willem Kool - The Telegraaf, Nell Westerlaken - Volkskrant Magazine, Hans Hoffman - Playboy magazine - Dirk Ayelt Kooiman - Max van Rooy, NRC Handelsblad - Arjan Visser, Trouw - Het Parool — Galleries, Latest News, Latest works, Events, Interviews, Collections
• Bas Zonjee — Publishers, More Jan Montyn
• All individuals, gallery owners, collection owners and others for their contributions
Special note
The content on this website is written with information and documents at hand as provided to the website initiators. We are aware that in certain cases the information may be copied incorrectly, entailing spelling and other errors. We apologize for these errors and request the visitor to CONTACT US with the correct information, which will be processed immediately when received.
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