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That's it, I am done!
Aug. 22nd, 2013 01:46 pmWith reworking my website, that is. I ended up buying the theme 'qualifire' for 40 usd and I spend every free hour in the past two weeks on learning to work with this theme. In short, I recommend buying a theme though a lot of things are not as neatly done in the backoffice as it could have been. I don't feel like recoding stuff myself so I am happy with how it turned out. The only downside is that there is a belly dancer on the other side of the world that uses the same theme as a basis for her website. Our content is completely different though, and since the theme is for sale on the internet it is not a matter of 'you are copying my website!'
New features:
-frontpage slider. I really wanted one, on account of me staring at it like a cat staring at a washing maching in motion. It's fascinating and creates the illusion of a dynamic page and things happening.
-I changed the focus on the website. In short, I am selling classes, workshops and performances and that is what I repeat. For myself ad nauseum, for a random person landing on my website it is helpful to have a quick overview of things. It took rewriting of the text (shortening) and adjusting the images
-found a solution for the failing nextgen plugin. I still haven't found the cause, but instead went with prettypicture because it works.
-redid the blog part of my website. For students and dancers, this is probably the most interesting part because it contains unique content geared towards dancers. I deleted some of the older posts, did a bit of editing on other posts and added a banner picture to each of them so the blog page looks good. While I was at it, I made some extra banners for future use
-updated my photoshop skills. Turns out that photoshop is a standard program on my work desktop and since it is the legal version, it works perfectly all the time!! For all the new pictures and banners I used the 'save for web' option. I should be using png as a standard, but haven't gotten around to it.
Click if you want to view
New features:
-frontpage slider. I really wanted one, on account of me staring at it like a cat staring at a washing maching in motion. It's fascinating and creates the illusion of a dynamic page and things happening.
-I changed the focus on the website. In short, I am selling classes, workshops and performances and that is what I repeat. For myself ad nauseum, for a random person landing on my website it is helpful to have a quick overview of things. It took rewriting of the text (shortening) and adjusting the images
-found a solution for the failing nextgen plugin. I still haven't found the cause, but instead went with prettypicture because it works.
-redid the blog part of my website. For students and dancers, this is probably the most interesting part because it contains unique content geared towards dancers. I deleted some of the older posts, did a bit of editing on other posts and added a banner picture to each of them so the blog page looks good. While I was at it, I made some extra banners for future use
-updated my photoshop skills. Turns out that photoshop is a standard program on my work desktop and since it is the legal version, it works perfectly all the time!! For all the new pictures and banners I used the 'save for web' option. I should be using png as a standard, but haven't gotten around to it.
Click if you want to view
