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I come on here to browse and end up impulse buying

[Edited by fatherpierre - 12/9/2002 12:47:14 AM]

 

Can we all join in?

I'm trying to persuade my wife to start painting again, and to sell her pictures. There's some of her artwork here. Thoughts?

Oh, and chrome, you might want to consider watermarking the images (as I have on our site). I know it's not that likely, but somebody might want to nick 'em; if they're watermarked at least they can't be passed off as somebody else's.

[Edited by MarkO - 12/9/2002 8:55:21 PM]

 

pierre: ok. pierre: got it. no worries

[Edited by chrome - 12/10/2002 10:35:45 PM]

 

Hi gang,

I've done a "proper" site this time to showcase the wife's art..
please check it out and spread the word!!

http://www.artfromtheedge.co.uk

Any bugs, or problems with the site, drop me a mail as per profile...
thanks!
Brad.

 

Is "The Curve" meant to look like a lady's lower half? Or is it just me

 

it is whatever you want it be..

 

Hand In Hand would look good on the bedroom wall of my new flat.

No prices quoted, though.

 

Brad,

A few things:
-Internet Explorer v4.0 &5.0 compatible. Netscape v3.0 & v4.0 compatible also.

Is this meant to be minimum spec? If so, not the same thing.

-Please download the font for this site here Nb. Save to: C:\WINNT\Fonts

Remember that not everyone is running Windows NT.

 

Pierre: mail if you are interested..
god knows there are enough mailto links

Swan: good point, can someone let me know the font path for win98, min ME, and XP.

Im using 2k btw.

Glad you all like the paintings lots more on the go.. will post up when we can...
also high quality pictures going up very soon.. and a visit counter and maybe even a guestbook if I can work it out
BTW, does the font work ok??????

 

'Commission' has two 'm's

 

Not bad, but *never* make users download fonts!

Use a nice sans-serif (Verdana, Helvetica, Arial) or if you need something fancy then do the text as graphics but keep the file sizes down.

If you have a look around you'll notice that good sites don't make you do anything, browser size, screen res, fonts etc.

I noticed there is quite a lot of white space. It might be a good idea to size it to fit an 800x600 res and have the whole layout centred. Like this: http://www.planwithus.co.uk

 

Yep.. At my g/f's today and it looks crap in 800x600

 

Adrian.. point taken.hm.
will look at it and see what I can do..
shouldnt be too much work..

J: thanks for the positivity..
btw it does say best viewed @ 1024x768 ..

 

Very interesting site...

A number of my relations are artists but we've never put any picture on the net, copyright problems are hard enough without images easily available - eg recently someone in Australia printed 10,000 postcards without paying any royalities. We only found out when someone from Japan was at an exhibition in the States and had one of these post cards! Then we followed the trail

Anyway to the site - it looks good, but could do with less white and more about the artist, people like to know who has painted the pics.

Jon

 

polar:interesting about yur rellies.. will bear it in mind.

"Anyway to the site - it looks good, but could do with less white and more about the artist, people like to know who has painted the pics.

he, she will get around to it... shes busy painting most of the time so we'll see its gonna stay minimalist tho.. easier to maintain
thanks for the feedback

 

jlanng has a point. Something like 60% of people are still running 800x600.

It's acceptable to have a site that requires scrolling below that res, but rule number one of web design is to make the site as accessable as possible.

 

60% !! bloody hell.. dark ages..


ok ok will take it offline and "fix it" ...
cheers for feedback

 

Also seems pretty slow, could just be from SA though.

 

ok,
could be to do with the jpegs... quality over speed I guess..
Have changed them to .gif's now. WAY faster, but the quality has dropped a bit.. oh well..

 

right.
done the text changes, and made it 800*600 friendly...

the images have lost some quality but are far faster now.

voila.

just updates to bio and new page to do now..
cheers,
C

 

"Hand in Hand" is superb

 

It is and MINE if not too expensive!!

 

I had to re do my site to accomdate people viewing at lower resolutions mines now for 800*600 minimum.

Like the buttons, looking good

 

thanks guys
nice to know the late nights have been worth it

Just wanted to clarify to save time in the future..
We work on an offer only basis.. no set prices..
So if you love a piece as much/or more than Danni does, drop us a line!
Please make the offers sensible... Danni is v sensitive about her art.. hehe ...no £10 offers please, or I'll have to send the boys 'round

pierre: got your mail.. yhm back mate.

chrisB: you know what to do.. mail me an offer mate!

Si: thanks for the advice.. glad I did it now, as it looks even more "zen" at high res' AND it looks ok at 800*600 ... strewth! LOL
Verdana is not so bad..

 

pierre: yhm


chrisb: yhm regarding mail the other day...

 

bttt

pierre: got your most recent mail ok.


..new works updated very soon...

 

oi hijackers ahoy!!! LOL
...fair enuff no problem markO...

..nice pieces mate.. like the oil painting in particular.. nice..

 

Cheers. Only problem is, she won't sell 'em!

She sold one years ago (for about a grand, I gather) but has regretted it ever since. <sigh> Bang goes my hope of retiring as a 'kept' man...

 

..for a grand??? jesus H...

was it a big canvas???
**mental note to self to remind the wife..must raise prices..** (jk!)

..still; nice work mate. tell the wife said so
..and show her the site

 

My thoughts exactly. And yes, it was a big canvas (although that's not supposed to be relevant, apparently). Everything she paints is large - the shells painting (my fave, too) is about 3ft square. The 'goodbye' one is about 5-6ft square. Makes it difficult to find room to hang them!
LOL. Well, if people like the paintings, they'll pay for 'em....
Thanks, will do, on both counts. Oh, and you can pass on a reciprocal complement to your wife - I like most of her stuff too (I agree with Chris re: 'Hand in Hand').