congrats everyone !

it must be feel like the first time someone bought your image!

I'm still waiting for my first sale - the upload process for me is time-consuming, but when its done , I'm hoping it will be worth all the effort.

btw if anyone is interested in linking to my site its  jeneimages.com  -  heavily weighted toward landscape and travel photography, with a little bit of everything else thrown into the mix. My goal is to have my 800 pics up by the end of December. If you think this would complement your network I would appreciate the link!!

Quote from: noodle on October 31, 2013, 16:51

...The slideshow is still not where I want it to be, and I have to figure out moving some of the things around the bottom half of my landing page. It can be frustrating for someone like me, but I would rather spend the time and make the Home page something that will hold the attention of a possible customer.

I agree with you - if the front page doesn't grab the prospective buyer, they aren't likely to hang around.

Did anyone else point you to the Symbiostock forums? There are lots of other people who are doing what you're doing there and you might find it easier to get specific questions answered (plus possibly find some answers in the existing posts of others, snippets of CSS you can borrow, etc.).

The only thing I'd suggest based on a look at your site so far is that you should have an image as the first slide in the slideshow. Overlay the text if you want to get the price up front, but I think a site that licenses images shouldn't come up with the first few seconds being mostly text

And you can announce your site here once it's semi-operational - you don't have to get all the uploads done (I'm still working on mine as time permits) prior to getting your site as part of the network.

http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/211/announce-your-sites-launch-it-will-be-advertised/

Thank you Jo Ann for visiting my site and for your suggestions.  I wanted to do the text overlay on some of the images, but I don't think my slideshow plugin allows for that. Sometimes the problem with finding info on how to do something is the fact its not all in one place, like a library, but it seems to be so many places and I usually google the question, and then follow a link.
I also dont like to post questions for every little problem I encounter, I feel that I'm imposing on the time of others for what at times may be very trivial problems, but I do appreciate the kind people who give of their time and knowledge selflessly to help others like myself, who basically have no clue, and just muddle through the process.

BTW, your site is very nice Jo Ann - its the look I'm going -  for simple, clean and inviting.

OK - I set up a new template as was suggested - the `home simple`one instead of the default.  I have set up some of the sliders etc on this page, but I can only view it as a page underneath my home default page.

How would I be able to make this page my main landing page

I have posted this on Symbio forum as well. Thank you for helping me out

I think you're off to a great start. In addition to the other suggestions, I'd suggest cropping all the photos in your slideshow so they're all the same height and width and are much wider than they are now, so you don't have a gray box to the right when the photo slides in.
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I must have been so tired that I didnt notice that while I was working on it - but I did notice it a couple hours later when I took a peak at my site ( but too tired to do anything about it)
but thanks for the heads up

its interesting what a different set of eyes can see, or what you can see after a couple hours of being away from it.

well I spent all of today going crazy trying to figure this stuff out - and I'm partway through it.

I have ZERO computer skills, in fact I didnt even know what wordpress was until I signed up and started to go through this crazy process - Definitley couldn't hack it as a computer whatever in this field, I would go mental.

There was a couple of times when I felt like dropping on the floor and running around in circles like Curly from 3 stooges. Anywho, my noggin is tired, and I will spend a few hours tomorrow to tackle another bit of my site.

It definitly is far from complete, and there will be a clean up at the end too.

But lmk what you think so far, any tips would be appreciated - and if you do make sure its in regular English, cause I dont know all this computer jargon.

http://jeneimages.com/

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thx for the getting started links - definitely will start there, and for your godaddy reccomendation for a host - I will check them out

sorry dont mean to hijack this thread
I just realized what I did

It's not a get-rich scheme.

Thank God - the get rich slow scheme will have certain success!

I threw my laptop

Quote from: bhr on October 16, 2013, 06:43

/flounce

I see a lot of bitchin and moaning on this forum but little action. Istock is the next account I am going to close. I know its easier for me because its  not my main income.

Its not flounce either. There are more factors in play to come to my decision.

At I would expect contributors to stick together, at least in the forums. I am getting voted down for taking a stand and taking action. Yes I am upset, but the decision is rational.

I for one dont like to be ridden by agencies.

good for you ! power to the people!

I dont think people should get voted down for expressing their personal discontent - we are free to make those choices and express them
This was your choice and you didnt coerce anyone else to follow

Quote from: noodle on October 09, 2013, 07:16

comfort food for me is a nice hot bowl of homemade soup - either chicken or any cream soup - with some sourdough bread and butter

No noodles?

of course, no chicken soup is complete without the noodles and some peas

Quote from: noodle on October 07, 2013, 12:57

As a contributor it always makes me fell ripped off when I know someone has dl'd an XL or XXL for 25 or 30 cents

Then why don't you downsize photos before uploading to SS?

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I aiready do thar - no way anyone is getting full res image unless they negotiate a special deal with me.

But the point is even reduced to 3800 px on longside, they can still makr a huge print from it for pennues
In some respects we as contributors are to take part of the blame for doing this to ourselves - I guess I would just like to see a differentiation betwee getting L and S subs tiered at different price points.

I cant believe what i see.....
Look here ....specially the first line of images:
http://www.offset.com/search/kids

Even our interns would get fired if they`d make "images" like this.

and that crap was announced as the new high quality stock agency???
what a laugh...

hahahaha  maybe they should call it Offshet