I also see a WILD :-) activity by creating Groups. If you're an active member on a daily basis, you know AW is very demanding and takes hours. I think people is distributing the SAME time in MORE activities.
Going to check my Manage Artwatch.
Good morning from Spain. Going to take a coffee. ALL of you are invited.
- bigger images - I like the new frames - more space
SUGGESTIONS:
- icons too important...smaler, softer colours! - Background too heavy....brighter grey to create space - infotext to the old position up left because i have to scroll to read it now. should be read very easy and quick - arrow buttons left & right of every image...bright grey. The blue takes all attention away of the painting & image
Fontproblems just need time...i think because it depends to the browser. AW artist should be patient in this issu.
Good luck... i know it takes a lot of time to create this and to make changes. i am sure you are open for the feedback of artists to give birth to a happy websitedesign and happy artist and Buyer.
Madeleine*
Yes, I totally agree. I don't know who designed the new AW but I guess it was a male-team :-) because of icons (all male:-) and the damned dark grey suitable only for high-tech, jails or weapons.
I already read feedback from another artists. It's EASY to write "WONDERFUL", "COOL"... but a major change might get criticism as well. I'm sure the people that wrote this way don't like ALL the changes. Please, let's be serious people: tell us what you don't like.; after all this one is an ART GALLERY and supposed to have TASTE (ART).
I wrote it once: looks like the absolute star is AW Gallery not the artists. Artists are the bread and butter here, the real stars; AW is only the envelope. Of course, the envelope must be attractive but it cannot distract from the ART and artists, the real "essence" of this site.
I still don't understand why the changes haven't been consulted with the community of artists. If we were a community of plumbers or electricians I could understand it but, HERE ARE ARTISTS, people knowing what are talking about.
I know a major update like the one we had is a complex thing. I know no one can make everyone happy but there are SIMPLE but IMPORTANT things that must be solved.
I would love to know if AW staff is ready to consider the logical changes instead of adopt that ambiguity: "We plan to make changes in the near future".
Please, AW, tell community if you are REALLY READY to make changes. Please talk us about dates: tomorrow, two weeks, six months...
It's important for upset people here to know if you are considering our opinion. The positive feedback, good, no problem. But the negative one is the one you might especially consider.
As an AW artist since 2003 I have the right to ask for solutions and answers. If you don't plan to make changes, please SIMPLY SAY IT, and I'll decide about my continuity here.
Not only negative feedback:
---CONGRATULATIONS for few improvements you made. Good improvements.
---THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT, truly appreciated.
---MY CRITICISM for your ambiguity and FEW HORRIBLE CHANGES you made (dark grey, icons size, etc)
All these positive and negative feedback are MY PURE LOYALTY towards AW Staff and the community.
Since I remember recent hard times (people banned, comments erased, etc) I truly hope this comment willn't be deleted. I'M NOT THE ENEMY: I'M A MEMBER OF THIS FAMILY. I love this family, do you understand? Sometimes I had to admonish my kids BUT ONLY BECAUSE I LOVE THEM. Just like I'm doing now.
The icons for EDIT and DELETE, hmmmm...
The one on the right is a wastebasket.
The one on the left must be a pencil but it seems a lantern.
:-)))
P. e. today full image amount is 445 but in the display composits there are just 112 images. Could be a software problem. and then, sometimes it shows all images and then just 64 images.....
AW STAFF: There are still ton of things that are being done this week to the website. Many of these are bug fixes and issues that members are brining to our attention, but we are also doing a lot of big projects behind the scenes to the code and database. We try to do most of these changes at night, but many of them have to be done during the day as well. These updates that are going on behind the scenes are causing the site to be slower than normal and occasional errors to pop-up. It's only temporary and it's all being done to improve the experience of AW for the long run. We ask that everyone be patient as we work through these upgrades and database changes. It's only temporary.
Armando, to answer your question, yes we do plan to make changes as we have already said we would. This is not just talk, we are already taking action. Our team has been creating some mock-ups of alternative background colors for the site and brainstorming about possible color 'themes' that our users could select from. We are still gathering feedback from our members and working out possible design ideas, so it's not something that will change tomorrow. However, we are very actively working on this. If we were to give a time frame, we would guess sometime in August. As for the icons, this is the theme that we have chosen to go with for this year and we have had a lot of positive feedback about it. This doesn't mean that some of the icons can't be changed, or that we can't make them smaller, it just means that we don't plan to scrap them at this point.
Madeleine, the issue you are having has to do with your 'preferred gallery'. From the screen shot, it looks like you are inside of the 'photography' gallery, instead of all of the pictures for our site. We suggest going to: www.ArtWanted.com instead of 'photography.ArtWanted.com' and this should resolve the issue you are having.
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