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Hi Hans!
I’m trying to catch up with posts and you’ve got a great site! Welcome to SymbioStock
Jo
Hi Melinda!
I’ve been trying to catch up on the board and just came across your post. First, welcome to SymbioStock! Secondly, your site isn’t loading for me. Perhaps it is just a temporary glitch?
Jo
I agree with Jo Ann, I love your logo. You’ve got a lovely site, welcome to SymbioStock!
Jo
That depends on what I am doing and the mood too. Right now the only sounds are the birds a few meters away outside the sliding door.
* Classical music if I am editing (books) or sometimes writing too.
* Upbeat “happy” music if I’m working with Illustrations, artwork or photography.
* Jazz or Easy Listening records if I’m just writing or general PC work.
* Rock, dance or even Disco when I’m in a hyper mood LOL!Jo
I’m a little late in replying (as my site is there) but include mine too please 🙂
Jo
I love seeing the variety of artwork this network has attracted!
Jo
@ariene wrote:
Hi,
I’m (almost) on board 🙂Whoever interested in network, I’m “photing” art nature, flowers and plants mostly…
Ps. Leo and others, everyone in Sys project, thanks for great idea and such good job (and fun) !!!
Ajt, thanks for any help you did out there, you helped a lot! 😀
Hi and welcome! You have some beautiful images on your site 🙂
Jo
@swoldham wrote:
Hi!
I’m stacey, i had been using sellmedia for about a year and finally switched this week. sellmedia required too much web knowledge and i’m a huge dummy with that stuff. i’m SO happy i’ve finally switched! so far i’ve been able to find answers to all of my questions.
i still have some work to do but i’m kept my site live through the transition.Hi Stacey!
Welcome to SymbioStock and I like your vector style! It’s nice to have so many unique and varied artists on-board!
@chromaco wrote:
Hi all, just got a PM from Leo regarding my post about my friend complimenting his coding. I asked if I could share his thoughts with you and he kindly gave me permission. For starters, Leo has no intention of walking away from this project and really never has. If anything he wants to go deeper and make this thing amazing. It seems he has been frustrated with how he finds himself spending his time and for a highly productive person who feels like he is spinning his wheels that is very agrevating. Although he didn’t go into much detail he definitely has a vision for what Symbiostock can be and desperately wants to make it that way.
My impression is that his passion for this thing is his greatest strength and also his greatest weakness. It’s hard to have perspective when you are as close to this as he is.
He has decided to step away from the forums for a bit and let the moderation team handle what needs to be done. They are a great team and doing a fantastic job. He is going to focus on building Symbiostock which in my mind is what he should be doing anyway. Although you may not hear much from him he is here and is listening.What we can do as site owners.
First of all – focus on our own sites, looks, SEO, and images. Improve Symbiostock by taking care of our own backyards and trust that the big issues are being handled. Because they are and will continue to be!
Second- Keep sharing ideas through discussion and debate. Don’t hold back and feel free to speak your mind. But also don’t be surprised if most of the responses come from the community and the moderators rather than from Leo.
Third- Slow down, this is not an agency and it needs time to develop, let it happen but don’t stop working. Keep updating and adding to your sites with the expectation that 6 months down the road things will be better than they are right now.
Finally- Be patient. Trust that there is a plan and that it is a good one. No one puts as much effort into something as Leo has without having a vision. I believe that vision is what will make this project work and blossom into something revolutionary.Hopefully this will give some perspective to what has changed in just 12 months.(going from memory here so forgive me if it’s off a bit)
Approx 12 Months ago – Google drive is in full debate and some relatively unknown contributor makes a post on MSG about how self hosting is really not that hard.
Approx 10 Months ago – This same contributor actually does what he says and releases a theme – for free!
Approx 9 months ago- Some more adventurous artists build their own sites based on this theme and start helping with the debugging.
Approx 8 months ago – The theme is simplified and streamlined so that an artist with no programming experience can actually build his own site that works and looks nice.
Approximately 6 months ago- Dragonfly is available so that customization is even easier.
Approx 5 months ago- enthusiasm peaks on MSG and the need for a new community forum is necessary.
Approx 4 months ago – new forum is created along with a new community.
Approx 1 month ago- focus is given to multi-language and forum is updated.170 sites have been built in the last 11 or so months. That is staggering when you think about it. This is just one year (a newborn baby would just be learning to walk right now). If this much change has happened in the first 12 months think about what 2014 has to offer.
I really believe that Symbiostock will be a major force in microstock in a few years and I also believe that anyone who is already a part of it or joins soon will reap many rewards for adopting the theme at an early stage. You can sense it in our forums and in this community. It is alive and thriving and for the most part it is surprisingly positive. Leo is going to spend some time remembering what he loves to do. When he does… look out, because look what he has done already.
Thanks Leo – I know you are listening.
Thank you for your post! I wish there was a “Like” button LOL! I share your sentiments!
@leo wrote:
Added to the list by Jo Rodrigues
The top menus should transform for Mobiles in the proper, Bootstrap 3 way
Oh I just saw this post now! Looks great now! Is there any way to apply the same code to the top most menu? I was thinking of reducing the items in the login/out menu so it looks better vertically!
Otherwise it works really well. I have tested it on my cell, 10″ Android tablet I got recently for writing, and at any sized browser on my PC 🙂
I think I understand some of your feelings. I’ve also been there on and off. I’ve been busy with another huge project in my life so I haven’t really had time to put much effort into SymbioStock. I hope to change all of that in the near future.
What I would like to address is just something based on my own experiences so far. Firstly while we are on the SymbioStock network, we really are selling individual sites with images and the images themselves. It does take time and some effort to grasp the SEO (search engine optimisation) and getting your site to index on search engines.
I put in a lot of time and effort and it just all seemed kind of pointless after a while. I still haven’t made a single sale in about 4 or 5 months (I think) that my site has been up but it has done several things for me personally. I’ve also recently started spotting one or two of my images on a Google image search! That is a break through and it is how we will eventually generate sales I think.
For me, my SymbioStock site actually boosts my normal dot.com and vice-versa. SymbioStock also taught me many things to do with WordPress and I now apply the that knowledge across both sites.
Anyway, I guess I just wanted to say that it takes a bit of time for a website to “mature” and start getting noticed and hits. A little patience is a good thing 🙂
Hi and welcome! Your site is looking great!
Happy New Year!
Jo
Hi, Happy New Year, and Welcome to SymbioStock!
Jo
Hey Jezper!
Happy New Year and your site is look great! Congrats.
Jo
@lucato wrote:
@jorodrigues wrote:
Thanks for the info. I have set it up another way currently so I might look into it later on with time. I’m fairly happy with the way it is now.
Jo– Share with the community the new solution you’ve got. Post here the new plug-in you’re using. ;0)
I just used the “WordPress contact form with captcha plugin” to create the contact page. I can’t remember doing anything more but I’ve been working 14-16 hours a day and my mind is tired 🙂
Jo
