At least this website allows me to use textboxes (you all know how I love to write!), and to place whatever wherever.
Unfortunately, being hard-hit by the recession, I let my domain name lapse, thinking to move it eventually to Google, but some other company has snatched my name up and is using it as a portal to infernal advertising and no doubt is waiting for me to buy it back from them.
I don't care about it. Eventually no-one will click on it and they'll drop it and I can have it back again.
Never mind.
The old Tripod website is still up and a great site, but for an advertisement-based 'free' site, a 20MG limit, and I've reached it. Google's is 100MG. I'm giving myself a few months to transfer everything over, and add more work.
Anyway, enough blather, visit the constuction site here, but keep your hardhat on (images may come loose and fly). Enjoy!
Brenda's New (under construction) Art Website.
"Grab" application)
I like the look, it's unique, or perhaps it's my strange aesthetic. Making a Google homepage site, though, is proving to be more difficult than any of the other web pages I've set up. It formats beautifully on my iMac, but the font is gone on a PC, and the page doesn't automatically format to fit a Netbook.
Also, because it's an application meant for a team website, once you upload an image you can never delete it, meaning you will run out of space quite quickly if you are setting up an art website.
Since I'm learning a lot, I'll continue. It may end up working out. Check it out and give me your honest feedback. Much appreciation...
xo
A solution to the image issue may be to upload the images to Picasa and embed the html at the Google sites homepage... I'll be uploading everything to Picasa anyway, for the slideshow option, and for glorious, delirious Cooliris.
(Google made images un-delete-able because these sites are often shared by a team & accidentally deleting images could be very problematic if you have a number of users. Which makes sense.)
Google Sites homepage: Art website
wow at the work you have ahead. wish you didn't have to do all of that but as long as you are having fun...
ReplyDeletei think what you have done so far looks fine! now the neon orange color is a bit bright for these old eyes of mine, and i am a rather traditional person. but i imagine no one else will have the same reaction to the color that i did. it does carry a spark of vitality and passion which are important and noticed. i have a PC - don't know what it all looks like on a mac. i really like your art, brenda.
Sky, that is so sweet, thank you.
ReplyDeleteYes, a huge amount of work. Just spent a few hours working on a tiny slide show of just one painting. Uploading to Picasa (Google Sites homepage does not allow deletion of images, so I'll host from Picasa).
On my screen it's not neon orange! That's funny! It's a bright nectarine orange/red. And my font is Apple Chancery, which is cool and which I know doesn't appear on PCs (finding a font that works on both systems a search for the future...:-)
Thank you so, so much Sky, for your feedback. Your response is important to me - I've come to trust your judgment, and I know you'll always tell it as you see it. I appreciate that.
Have a wonderful Westcoast Seattle day, sweetie! xo