I started taking pictures today for my coin site. I'm not sure what the url will be but I do know what I want the layout to be "starting to right the code at work tonight" here are a few random coin photos I took, I'm randomly taking pictures of any coins and taking down the information. I will add 30 or so coins a week.
Sounds like fun, is there a reason you are using so much black above and below the coins? Maybe for text?
Its simply black and big because I have not chosen a set size for the images. Let me assure you that every picture will be standardized. Still not sure what size will be my standard.
Good luck my friend The single biggest problem i had with my images are the file size of the image. Regardless of the size as shown on the page, the files sizes add up. I found once i had a dozen or so images posted, the page took a minute, 2 minutes ... and longer for all the images on the page to show up. If you can find a small enough file size to still show detail on the coin, thats half the battle right there. i like to enable the viewer to click the images for larger DPI images. i just couldnt do that with 10 or more 1MB or larger files all trying to download at the same time. I ended up going with thumbnails. I have an image program that will automaticaly save the original image down to 10% of its original size (as well as create my watermark at 100% for me) then i show my thumbnails all at the same dimensions on the page. with all the thumbnails at around 10-25 kb's, loading the pages is so very much faster. hows the code writing coming? are you litteraly writing the code in notepad, or do you have a GUI app that writes it for you? Without the app writing if for me.. i just couldnt do it look forward to seeing the site! Good luck :thumb:
I did see that on your website, it seems that your mini images are way too big as files. I take it you only took the same image but re-sized it ? It only shrunk the image but not the size of the image. I could be wrong, but I doubt it As for my images I don’t think I will have a problem, I already worked on other sites and have experience with Photoshop witch is essential to make a website look awesome. I’m not using word press or righting code , I’m actually only going to use Dreamweaver c4, this program is a hundred folds more then what I need so I think I should be able to do a nice little coin site. As for the Url I am still not sure what I’m going to pick , I would like to generate the most exposure possible so I still have to think and read about the key wording and what not. I hope to have the site online by the end of next week, this could always change because I am a mega procrastinator
This is most likely what I will be doing. Also I want to keep it clean and simple, so all attention is on coins. I will also keep it to a click minimum: I don’t want to be clicking 4 times to see a junky picture of a coin…
Took many more pictures for my website today , here are a few I took today. Each photo takes at the very least 3 minutes ... I try to take 15-20 pictures per day and edit them on photoshop
