whiskeylima

I’m getting a little bit confused.. what steps do I have to take to put in an image with a link in it?
does it mean adding the image in the stylesheet, but putting the link in the applicable .php file?
is there not an easier way?

maybe it would be more appealing if God was trying to appeal to a new audience? I could see him trying to ‘Get down with his homies’

I think the domain name is fine, unless you really are having second thoughts about the one you have. My domain has a pretty meaningless name unless you think like me!
WhiskeyLima.com – phonetic alphabet for WL (Web Log or blog to you and I) -it doesn’t seem to harm my google placement whatsoever.

– I guess the most logical web address for you would be Lee-hynes.com.au since being an artist is just as much about selling yourself as it is your art. (in my opinion of course, I’m sure others would disagree)
This also makes it easier for people who see your art, or you, in real life (if you exhibit) to look you up online.

I can’t be entirely sure, but I believe that having a WP hosted blog means you have slightly fewer options (I don’t think you’ll be able to edit the images in your theme, for instance)
-So unfortunately, unless you self-host, you will have to make do with pre-made themes.
They go into a little bit more detail here

What you do with the prices probably depends on how you wish to sell the art, if the website is a gateway to personal sales, or ebay auctions, then leave the prices out. If you intend on selling from the site with

*if you are interested in going self hosted, I have a free account at Puffinhost I think it’s the best free webhost available. There’s no advertising, no space or bandwidth restrictions, I haven’t had any downtime, and the free support is excellent too. – I honestly can’t reccommend them enough. – I’m probably going to get a paid account with them when I launch my next commercial site, even though that doesn’t hold any advantages over the free account.

Don’t worry, I can’t really design templates either. I can tweak bits pretty well, and usually ‘skin’ it with my own images.

It’s just a case of finding a template which suits your needs best. An easy to navigate and well ordered template is about the most important thing, looks come a close second in my opinion.

Perhaps you should try dividing the place up.
There’s no reason why you can’t showcase your art and blog, just keep them at arm’s length from each other.
I find a blog is a very good way to attract attention through search engines and links from other blogs, then, through a few links, you can direct some of that attention towards your work. – however it takes a lot of work to keep interest up.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is if you have clearly defined sections on your site(s) then your visitors are going to have a much easier time finding what they want.

So you could have two wordpress installs.

Artrato3 for your portfolio/showcase
and Blog.Artrato3 for the other bits.

that’s what I would do at least, but if you don’t want to do that then you could implement it on a smaller scale by dividing up the site you have now a little more strictly

oh, maybe this article will interest you, some of the artists websites they link to sort of show what I mean. Especially this one: it’s really nicely divided into 3 core categories https://www.justinspaintings.com/

I have to say, it would be very nice if it worked.
Just depends on you weighing up the work/reward ratio!

It’s a bit too easy for me to say you should go with it when I’m not the one that’s going to spend a few hours fixing it!

Getting traffic and having a good site aren’t always the same thing.
So you should probably look into ways of getting your site ‘out there’
– Of course one of the best ways to do that is to buddy up to google, I find this site has a lot of tools which are handy for that.

I have to say, I’m not a fan of the theme you have going. A lot of people find black backgrounds with white writing a bit tricky to read. Especially if they’re in a bright room with a rubbish old monitor (like me at work) and I’m in a dark room with a 1680×1050 24″ monitor and finding it a bit of a strain (maybe from those beers at lunch, but whatever)

Possibly the biggest problem is that the structure of your page doesn’t show. – By that I mean the content doesn’t have a different appearance to the sidebar. This makes it a little hard to focus on the content. (again, could be the beers)

Anyway, I feel like I’m saying too many bad things and not enough good. Your content is solid. But I feel like it’s restricted by a theme which doesn’t invite people to explore. If your blog is about your art (primarily) then perhaps you could try more of a photoblog approach, make the excerpts for your posts just a title, picture and a tagline. Then leave the talking for another page. – just a suggestion of course.

Anyway, you’ve done one thing right, posting here for advice is a must! My site is roughly the same age as yours and I’m getting over 100 hits a day. – mostly thanks to advice I’ve got on here.

I have just one question.. why does God refer to himself in the third person? He also makes a few grammatical errors. So he’s not so perfect after all.

Ony thing that would bug me is the ubiquitous green arrows that pop up next links on mouseover.

Maybe replace them with a splatter image or similar?

oh, and maybe put a little bit more focus on the content, like put it in a box or give it a border.

I really like the distressed look, I think you played it just right, it’s too easy to go overboard with the splatters

Very nice Brendan.
I sent you a message through your contact form in case you needed that testing – so hopefully you got it

My only criticism would be that your different content pages are all laid out in different ways.. switching between them was slightly jarring.

Other than that I’d say it’s very good. A brilliant first venture to PHP!

am on firefox 2 and it looks good to me! Very professional. However I agree that load time was a bit too long.

Only thing I noticed is that when I plus-sized the font, the CSS in the ‘valid CSS’ link at the bottom jumped down a line so I got this:

Powered by WordPress | valid XHTML | valid
CSS

I had to increase the font size because the sun shines on my screen here (at work*) and I can’t see dark themes.

but it is a very nice theme, from what I can see!

just to let you two know that I’m putting a thank you on my site, jessn do you have a website so I can link to you? I can’t find one on your profile.

Thanks again guys

oh dear.. looks like the new wordpress wiped my old database.. not sure how that happened.. because in the config.php file I definitely set it to a different one.

Oh well, I have most of my posts saved, just a case of reinstalling all of my old plugins etc. bit of a pain..

Anyway, thanks for the help hotkee, very much appreciated!

Oh yes! I love you hotkee!

found it in a different bit, and now I can login..
site still won’t work, but that’s progress ??

I’ve found it in PHPMyAdmin
but all I can see is:

1 siteurl

I can’t find an option to check what it points to

oh, and thanks for helping hotkee, forget to say that in last post.. still a bit wound up.