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The login page logo is now 80×80 (WordPress 3.8 I think)
https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Login_Form
I changed mine and it looks fine now 🙂 As this isn’t a customer facing page (I don’t think) it’s not a biggie if you leave it.
Jetpack has some useful add ons but it’s not required. I’d get everything on your site running before you start adding optional plugins – and then do it one by one and check that all’s OK.
I use Jetpack for stats, sharing buttons on blog posts, custom CSS (and possibly something else I don’t remember). It shouldn’t pose any problems if you do decide you want to use it.
Oh, and I’m glad you’re getting things working! I am not sure I’d want to have my site logo be dependent on Dropbox being up and running, so I think once you’re done with everything else you might want to copy the file to somewhere on your site and try to change the Symbiostock options again.
I don’t understand where the choice of headers screen comes from – even with the home page generator.
I have a test site and I just changed the logo on that by changing in one place the symbiostock default with the silly one I uploaded
I had found a site online that would make a boilerplate privacy policy and then I edited what it produced
Not sure if this was the one – there are several
http://www.generateprivacypolicy.com/
You’re welcome to copy and edit mine if you prefer
Glad to hear your images aren’t leaving 🙂 Good luck getting the site rebuilt
@simply wrote:
Thanks Christine & JoAnnSnover & cascoly for taking the time to respond to me 🙂 .
Christine & JoAnnSnover could I use your License Agreements as a template? I am not sure which one I want to use yet. I would like your permission please. I will edit and make changes.
You’re welcome to use mine as a template – you’ll have to remove the editorial use only graphic (that has part of my logo in it) and edit the places my name or site are used and replace with your own.
I did a global search for minerals today and although I could see a thumbnail, when I clicked on it I got a page not found. Then I looked at the whole site and it appears there are no images there at all any more
Scroll down the Users=>Your profile panel and you should see this – it’s all the way at the bottom
@jan wrote:
Well, it has been 3 days now since I submitted a ticket to IS. I doubt I am going to get an descent answer from them.
Does removing my complete portfolio from IS also remove everything from Getty and all of the other IS dump stores?
In theory it should, but from what I’ve heard from other people’s experiences, it often doesn’t happen automatically.
I’ve also heard people talk about many weeks wait to get a response from support tickets at iStock – I don’t know if there is anyone on that full time any more.
I think the contract gives them up to 30 days to remove content if you terminate the agreement
http://www.istockphoto.com/asa_exclusive.php
If it’s beyond that you might start sending less polite amendments to the support ticket (keep the e-mail you receive when you submit the ticket) pointing out they no longer have any legal rights to license the file(s).
https://twitter.com/joannsnover/status/444861765596106752
So I made a version of the promo image I’ve put on my front page for my tweet and sent it out. I’ll go put something on Facebook too.
I’ll try and do a blog post so if people who are participating post here anyone who blogs can be sure to have the full list of sites participating
If the hash tag is #blogfor50 then it works for any currency. I’m just waking up, but if we all use a common hash tag I’ll get some tea and tweet 🙂
I don’t know if it counts as a dead site, but
has been a white screen of death for months. I contacted the owner via MSG in the middle of January. She said she was going to try and fix it, but I guess that hasn’t happened.
I am taking a wild guess, but I suspect that you have a general concern about whether you’ll end up in over your head, and the specific issues are just a way of crystalizing that worry about unknowns ahead. In other words, answering questions about licenses may not make you feel any more certain about starting a site 🙂
Speaking from my own experience (I started my site at the beginning of September 2013) I had kept an eye on the project for a while and deep down would have preferred not to undertake the work to start an agency if I didn’t have to. I had minimal WordPress experience, had seen some of the issues with the WarmPicture project (a KTools site operated by Dan Padovana as a collective/artist run agency) – it’s a lot of work, am fairly technical but know nothing about SEO, etc.
I think what made me decide to jump in was some shenanigans from one of the agencies – it’s hard to remember which one as there have been so many! – I figured that even with a lot of unknowns, it had to be better than just putting up with all that rubbish. Things are much further ahead now than they were then (but even then a ton of stuff was finished and working); I have all the sources should I need to fix (or have someone else fix) something that comes up, so the perceived risk of no paid staff doesn’t seem to me to be an actual risk.
I’ve made a few sales, I have learned a ton about SEO and WordPress, Google, etc. and I am still uploading files (new files come straight here but I have only a portion of my existing portfolio uploaded so far).
I did make my own licenses using the template that one of the smaller agencies offered as a starter. I’m not entirely sure why some people are so worried about having plain English licenses that make it clear in words any buyer can understand what it is they’re paying for.
Here’s the thread with links to things you might want to start with
Good luck deciding!
Congrats in the sales!
Have you tried a DMCA takedown notice? It would seem to have more chance of stopping your images being abused in the short run rather than trying to get money from them
It can be hard to “catch up” if you’ve been away for a bit – I looked in yesterday after only a short break (was away from last Thursday to Monday) and the amount of “stuff” was a bit overwhelming. I can only imagine how it feels if someone has been “away” for a month or two.
If many site owners cannot take a lot of time each day to keep up, perhaps it gets too hard to figure out where things are and they just stay away?
I think some sort of timeline/change log thread, in reverse chronological order, with links to the posts that have key things about updates or the logo change would make it much easier for people to dip in and out and still know where things are with the project.
