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My host is good with tgp pages. Jasun was right, and it was my bad. I just was quick on the draw and fixed 'em. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Xstr8guy
I noticed that at first, too. But when I went back to check, they were linked... and this was before Jasun pointed that out to you. I thought it was a problem with your host. Who is hosting your site? Make sure they are up-to-snuff for tgp before you submit.
Thanks for the Arles advice. I'll see what I can get done with it. :)
It looks like you got some good advice, the gallery looks great now.
If you are using photoshop try using their gallery creator to make your thumbs, it takes almost no time and you fully customise the parameters like quality level and size. Then just adjust your template to display the thumbs within a table and you have a working solution. Once you start making galleries daily you will appreciate using these quick techniques.
cheers,
Luke
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Originally posted by Chilihost
It looks like you got some good advice, the gallery looks great now.
If you are using photoshop try using their gallery creator to make your thumbs, it takes almost no time and you fully customise the parameters like quality level and size. Then just adjust your template to display the thumbs within a table and you have a working solution. Once you start making galleries daily you will appreciate using these quick techniques.
cheers,
Luke
They have a gallery creator?? :kitten:
Hi Tala --
When making a gallery, keep in mind how people "read" a web page. Their eyes naturally read top, then right, then bottom, or bottom left. The middle banner you have on the far left, I'd move it so it's on the right side of the page instead.
Thumbnails should be around 5kb. If you're losing quality, then reduce your images to maybe 100x instead of 150x. Reduction usually requires you hit them with the "sharpen" option. 72-74 psi is usually a good pixel per square inch resolution for web imagery. Larger images should fall in the 22kb - 40 kb range. Any bigger and you'll burn up a lot of bandwidth, any smaller and some tgp scripts will reject the gallery. Also, some tgps won't take a gallery that has any large images that fall below 400x on the longest side of the picture, so always check that they are at least 400x high or wide, depending on if it's vertical or horizontal.
To help load times, you might take the bottom text above your animation and make it actual text, just enlarge the html to say header1 or header 2 font size instead of using a graphic. Many seasoned gallery submitters will tell you to not use any graphics on the page other than your thumbs, and everything else should be actual text. Loads faster.
I also have to scroll sideways a bit. Be sure to build your pages to fit 800x screens. Your table should be no wider than 750 pixels to fit and show full screen. (You can go to 760x wide once you know how to control how the page displays with CSS but that's another lesson).
Once you make a gallery, stand back from your computer a minute, walk away - come back and glance at the screen, and note where your eyes go. What's the first thing you impulsively want to look at?
Be sure that the first thing that grabs your attention is your ad text or ad banner! If the imagery takes front stage, tone down the background color around them and pump up something to make the sales text jump to the center of attention. Be VERY clear about TELLING your surfer to click to go to the site you're selling. Either say it, or use a clearly marked UNDERLINED link style.
Hope that helps.
Wow! Thanks for the great advice, Bec! :kitten:Quote:
Originally posted by Bec
Hi Tala --
When making a gallery, keep in mind how people "read" a web page. Their eyes naturally read top, then right, then bottom, or bottom left. The middle banner you have on the far left, I'd move it so it's on the right side of the page instead.
Thumbnails should be around 5kb. If you're losing quality, then reduce your images to maybe 100x instead of 150x. Reduction usually requires you hit them with the "sharpen" option. 72-74 psi is usually a good pixel per square inch resolution for web imagery. Larger images should fall in the 22kb - 40 kb range. Any bigger and you'll burn up a lot of bandwidth, any smaller and some tgp scripts will reject the gallery. Also, some tgps won't take a gallery that has any large images that fall below 400x on the longest side of the picture, so always check that they are at least 400x high or wide, depending on if it's vertical or horizontal.
To help load times, you might take the bottom text above your animation and make it actual text, just enlarge the html to say header1 or header 2 font size instead of using a graphic. Many seasoned gallery submitters will tell you to not use any graphics on the page other than your thumbs, and everything else should be actual text. Loads faster.
I also have to scroll sideways a bit. Be sure to build your pages to fit 800x screens. Your table should be no wider than 750 pixels to fit and show full screen. (You can go to 760x wide once you know how to control how the page displays with CSS but that's another lesson).
Once you make a gallery, stand back from your computer a minute, walk away - come back and glance at the screen, and note where your eyes go. What's the first thing you impulsively want to look at?
Be sure that the first thing that grabs your attention is your ad text or ad banner! If the imagery takes front stage, tone down the background color around them and pump up something to make the sales text jump to the center of attention. Be VERY clear about TELLING your surfer to click to go to the site you're selling. Either say it, or use a clearly marked UNDERLINED link style.
Hope that helps.
Yup, File -> Automate -> Web Photo GalleryQuote:
Originally posted by Tala
[BThey have a gallery creator?? [/B]
cheers,
Luke
as a first attempt, it's pretty good. i don't see some common newb mistakes - good for you!
here's a couple things i notice:
the thumbs and pics are sort of dark, whereas this http://www.freakmanor.com/hentai/pur...es/tgp1_03.gif is nice and bright. your thumbs should be of equal quality.
also i'd use a higher quality banner if i was going to use a banner at all.