Frustration
I’ve had a frustrating weekend. For a couple of weeks my posts have been slightly sparser than usual because I’ve been distracted by trying to set up a new site for Mr. Bsag to sell his paintings from. This was supposed to be a fairly leisurely affair on my part, as there was no great deadline looming. Howeverâas it has a habit of doingâfate intervened, and the other half got an exhibition of his work at a local alternative therapy clinic (which also has gallery space to soothe patients while they wait for their appointments). So now I really want to get the site up and running so that visitors to the exhibition can follow up by visiting the online galleryâand this is the main pointâbuy lots of paintings so that we can pay our rent next month.
But I’m finding trying to do a full time job in the day and build a fairly complex website from scratch in the evenings and weekends pretty exhausting. I thought that I’d got a nice structural, standards-compliant markup sorted out late last week, but when I checked it in other browsers it broke rather spectacularly. Gah! I had intended to get the bulk of it done this weekend, but I ended feeling so tired and dispirited by the whole thing that I got practically nothing done. I need a break…
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Sympathy to you, and good luck in selling paintings to Mr BSAG.
If you want some independent testing done drop me a line. I am running Win 2K, MSIE 6, Opera and Mozilla. I could easily enough add the latest Netscape as well.
What kindof paintings does he do? I mean style rather than materials (eg, landscapes, portraits, impressionist, dead sheep entrails on yellow bile etc).
Bon Chance----- You might have a look at Project Seven http://www.projectseven.com
--they have lots of tutorials and free Dreamweaver extensions, along with stuff you have to pay for but might be well worth what you save in tearing your hair out.
And here's a gallery site I did for my Dad, (which I have to go back and make compliant) but which may serve for some ideas:
Gallery 69 :: Len Groom http://www.hitthosekeys.com/len/
Good luck!
Lisa (fellow Tbox user)
by Lisa @ 28/04/2003 3:04 am • Permalink •
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Lisa: Yep, I've looked at Project Seven before -- they have some really nice stuff, but I'm trying to avoid having to spend any money at the moment. I might use their scroller tutorials though. Your gallery is good stuff. I hope I can do something even half as good (when I finally get it finished).
Dave: Thanks for the testing offer. I might well take you up on it once I've got something decent up. Mr. Bsag is mainly a landscape/occasional abstracts man. Mostly watercolour/pastel or acrylic. And not a sheep entrail in sight: we're both veggie...
by bsag @ 28/04/2003 10:04 pm • Permalink •
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I guess iTunes would help you relax. But 'tis a shame the download service isn't availabe in Europe yet. Good luck with the site. Will you post the url on BSG?
by jb @ 29/04/2003 10:05 am • Permalink •
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jb: I may post the URL here, though I feel slightly conflicted about -- in effect -- advertising something involving money-making here.
by bsag @ 30/04/2003 6:04 pm • Permalink •
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Update on Project Seven. They just made their "ShowPic" extension, along with a great tutorial, free on their extension download page.
This is the key functionality in their Park Avenue Gallery design pack--so great timing!
And you should post the URL here--its a creative product of femina geekoides and thus of interest, and I don't think anyone would begrudge a plug for something in the family.
by Lisa @ 01/05/2003 3:05 pm • Permalink •
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Lisa: That's really cool--I'll have to see what I could do with that tutorial. I've admired their Park Avenue Gallery for a while. They have some great stuff on Project Seven. Thanks for the link!
by bsag @ 02/05/2003 6:05 pm • Permalink •
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