redhousepainter

@ ncwebdesigner,

Thank you! The site has a lot categories and tags etc. so I thought it would be a good opportunity to brush up on my typography!

Thanks! That’s really nice.

I just added a forum today. For now, the link is in the footer.

Thanks Konrad!

Thanks! Both bits of advice were very helpful!

Thanks for all of the great suggestions! I’m slowly making some changes. Cleaning it up a little and trying to make it sharper. I replaced the top sidebar ad with a site promotional ad that leads people to the gallery or forum. I’ll add more to it soon.

I’m also playing around with the colors and text to see if I can get it to look better that way.

The header is a bigger project. I have a few ideas and will get to that soon.

The nav bar really bugs me. Does anyone have any great examples of nav bars?

I think that for my first website project Phauxshow is pretty decent, however, I want to push it as far as I am able. Everything I have ever learned was on forums and I really appreciate the people who took the time to help me out!

I just looked ‘sifr’ up. Good idea. I’ll definitely look into that.

@dannydamnboy,

What do you mean?

Nothing? Come on! This is a rare chance for you to be as harsh as you like!!!

The funniest thing is that I don’t even remember what I was after at that point!

@saurus, you’re right, making the image itself translucent could easily be achieved. Most likely through CSS (though I’ve never actually tried it) but certainly in some image editing software.

@siljrath, the point stands that we need to find out how you can have images as a background in your posts (with words over top).

Can anyone lend a hand here?

Well, I’m not sure what the etiquette is here – start a new thread or make you read through this long one just to get to the update but…

I’ve significantly changed my site Phauxshow. Just went live with the changes tonight. Still working out some bugs, wondered what you think.

I also put together two more sites since I last updated this thread. There kinking around this forum somewhere. I think I’m going to stop for a while though, to focus on building the content on each of these.

Here’s the gallery site again…

https://phauxshow.com/

Chrisber,

Thanks for the warning! Too bad scumbags like this have to use WordPress to voice their hatred.

Thanks jigordon!

It was like finding a needle in a haystack! I’ll check it out right away.

Ogre! Very funny!

One of the best I’ve seen!

Jessica C-1,

I have a little art gallery site with about 2000 images. The issue of theft comes up from time to time – but not a lot.

I tell my artists to limit the size of the image. Once you have built your site, limit the images to a size that looks good with your theme.

Depending on the gallery software there may be an option to click the image for a larger size. Use the smallest size that looks good as people are less likely to steal smaller images.