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- SCARS
I'm in the process of re-designing my site, and I was thinkin last night : what if i did it all in html text except for the thumbnails and images. no bells and whistles or nuthin.
I'm a painter, not a designer. I've seen this done well on GD portfolio sites, but never on painting sites.
any thoughts? thanks kids
- JazX0
I think that would be perfectly fine and classified as minimal
- ikbenvanrijn0
hey. thats my idea :)
- SCARS0
That's what I was thinking. My paintings are kind of busy, so I don't want to muck up the site with more of my bizzy crap.
thanks
Jaz
- mitsu0
no, you need some deer heads, diagonal arrows, and paint drops in there. it's all the rage.
- Gorbie0
you mean exactly like your current portfolio?
- SCARS0
Good idea then Ikbenvanrijn!
I would do it differently tho, maybe even a little more simple.
nice site btw.
- SCARS0
no no Gorbie. No images for buttons or nav. Just text, HTML style. NO STYLE, or something.
- mitsu0
on second thought. it should be a text-based adventure. you should have orcs and wizards and ye flask. but users will not be able to pick up ye flask and won't know why... or something like that.
- Gorbie0
i don't know.i like your portfolio. maybe you look at it too much...
or maybe you want to expand rapidly and not deal with it?
- SCARS0
That's pretty much exactly it Gorbie. I have a lot of stuff that I want to add, and a lot i want to take off. I don;t have the time to deal with the other junk, I just want people to be able to see the work.
- Gorbie0
well i hope you find the happy medium and don't end up too vague.
- SCARS0
Me too. Man am I a lazy bastard!
zzzzz
thanks gorB
- radar0
just do a Photoshop Web Gallery.
Doesn't get any easier or more minimal than that.
- SCARS0
radar, you'll have to talk slower than that, I'm web-dumb.
please explain in dumb-stupid terms, thanks:)
- radar0
In Photoshop:
File> Automate>Web Photo Gallerythen you just select a folder with your images in it - and it makes your thumbs, large images and builds the html pages for you - and its very basic looking.
- SCARS0
I'll try that too , thanks radar.