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I think it’s too big, and although you didn’t ask, I’ll offer an opinion on your choice of the colored walls as the intro to your fine art page.
I don’t think it’s a good choice.
Partly because it doesn’t seem representative of your collection of FAA work as a whole and partly because I don’t think it says “fine art” very well.
There are a number of other candidates, IMO, that would introduce you to the buyer much more effectively than the bricks do.
Some sites offer a zip file with “extras” – iStock, for example, does this. So the EPS (it used to be v8 but I think everywhere now is ok with version 10) is the basic file and the zip file could contain the .ai file so if anyone had illustrator they wouldn’t have to put up with the many losses that saving to an earlier version of EPS would entail.
One thing that I think is very important is ensuring you don’t embed bit maps in your file (the clue will be massive file sizes) or use fonts that aren’t converted to outlines (and which the purchaser may not have).
Some of the sites’ rules are a pain, but a lot of the rules are there to save buyers pain. Might be worth looking at Shutterstock and iStock’s rules for vectors and in general follow those as your baseline – that’s what most buyers will be expecting.
It doesn’t line up because you put in a line break (
) . I took that out and it lines up just fine (click for full size).
It depends on which theme you are using, but you can use Edit CSS (Jetpack) or, if you’re using Dragonfly, Appearance->Editor and edit style.css
You can look at my long post about my css edits to take a look at Dragonfly changes:
http://www.symbiostock.org/post/4860/#p4860
There’s a comment towards the end titled “button colors” with changes based on those Christine did for her site (thanks to her for the leg up there!)
There are problems if images are too large for the server to process (and that may just be lack of resources on the server). See the following threads that may be the problem you’re having:
http://www.symbiostock.org/post/4157/#p4157
http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/306/solved-image-processor-cant-handle-apostrophe-in-file-name/
So you could use the following to get the boxes side by side (you can look at my home page – temporarily – to see what this looks like; I haven’t decided if I’ll keep it or not)
I put this into a text widget and put it into the Home Page Below Content sidebar. If you have tons of spacing and padding, you can remove the margin-bottom – I just have very little padding and thought there should be some here.
@michal B wrote:
Y..Jsnover, what wording would fit better instead of ‘dear visitor’ ? I’m not a native speaker, although I try hard …
It’s not incorrect English – just a little over-familiar and “I want to be your best friend” 🙂 I would suggest “Welcome to PhotoCreo’s stock website” or “Welcome to Michal Bednarek’s stock imagery” or even just “Welcome!”
This is the anti-captcha plugin a number of us are using
http://wordpress.org/plugins/anti-captcha/
I would strongly suggest that you put some text on the home page saying that you’re in the process of setting up the site and leave it active. As long as you disable spam registrations and comments (which you need to do anyway so you don’t get bombarded once the site is really “open”) you shouldn’t have any problems staying open while you build the site.
Ah. I think the Strictly Minimal (which I don’t use) doesn’t have the sidebar enabled. The page template used has to support a sidebar (or footer or whatever other areas) for you putting a widget into that sidebar to appear on the page.
It’s reasonably straightforward (but does require modifying a PHP file) to comment out the bits you don’t want if you Go with the Default page and remove the “bits you don’t want” – depending on what it is you don’t want 🙂
php.ini is a file that lives in the root directory of your web site (i.e. on the server)
Not sure who your host is, but for Bluehost, you can go to the cPanel and make this change there. Here’s their help page:
https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/imagemagick
And if you select PhP Config from the Software/Services panel, you can check a box for Image Magick that will make the necessary edits for you
https://box785.bluehost.com:2083/frontend/bluehost/cptt/phpconfig.html
Take a look at my widget page to see if this helps you figure out what’s different about what you’re doing (click to see full size)
I think my home page link is best (there’s tons of visual stuff there)
http://www.digitalbristles.com/
But if you prefer an image page, how about this one?
http://www.digitalbristles.com/image/lounge-chairs-yellow-umbrellas-grace-bay-beach/
Jo Ann Snover has been selling stock images and illustrations since 2004. Her images cover a variety of travel and lifestyle subjects, but the colorful, beautiful (real or fantasy) look is found throughout. Life as nature made it, or sometimes as it should have been.
As agencies have become more established, they’ve become less flexible and have stopped treating their contributors as partners. Selling direct but as part of the Symbiostock network of independent artists allows customers to interact directly if that’s needed and get a great deal on images, knowing that they’re supporting the artist, not some big business or financier.
You can find out the version of Symbiostock by going to Appearance -> Themes and clicking “Details” under the Symbiostock theme
Similar images will appear only on Image pages and the widget you need is titled Symbiostock – Similar Images.
I have mine on the side on an image page, but I tried it underneath and on the full bottom widget and both showed up – they looked truly horrible because they do a two column vertical display and if you wanted them to show up as a horizontal one you’d need to change some css or code (not sure which as I haven’t looked in to this).
To put widgets on to pages, you don’t need to do anything after dragging the widget into the appropriate contain other than refresh the page.
Symbiostock settings has nothing to do with widget display. I don’t know what the “Select if> Catagories option” is, but it’s unrelated to widgets.
Can you put a link to your site in your signature for the forums so we can take a look? Might make it easier to see what to do.
I can’t see your website for comparison, but as I’m assuming you downsize from the original to output to JPEG for your website, perhaps you’re applying sharpening to that web-sized image?
I’m not sure, but I don’t think the processor that makes the thumbnails and previews for Symbiostock, applies any sharpening.
Truthfully that image doesn’t look low quality or soft. But at that size you can’t really tell image sharpness anyway. Can you provide a link to a similar sized preview of that same cat image?
Does this image look soft to you?
http://parkerstockphotos.com/image/brown-tabby-cat-on-polka-dot-background/
As it’s a closeup, I’d expect to see sharper details, and I think this looks OK – in other words I wouldn’t have any question about the sharpness of the image based on this preview.
(Although this does highlight again why a zoom feature would be such a big asset for buyers…)
@christine wrote:
… brings to mind the daily clear-ups on the paved areas after dogs and geese. …
For me, the association is Crap Hamlet, the nickname some genius applied to Corbis’ short-lived, sad-sack microstock site they named (almost as badly) Snap Village 🙂
