Emily Reed 17 Jul 2008

I am really disappointed with how the widget now appears below any image, rather than on the left of it below the description which was also on the left. I have found it great fun to promote other AW members from time to time, and to put my own widget on my images as well. Now, if you do that, it increases the scrolling required to comment or read comments. The same is true for putting a second image below the first.

In addition, the widget is left-justified rather than centered which makes it look asymmetrical and disharmonious.

With nothing but the image and its description (which is now below rather than to the left,) it is still too much scrolling. Your layout is not user friendly. It makes it too difficult to use. You really do need to resolve this excessive scrolling problem with a more compact design.

1. Put the description back on the left of the image rather than below. 2. Put the widget (if used) back below the description on the left.

ArtWanted.com Staff 17 Jul 2008

Armando - Great icons. Perhaps you should have designed all the new icons for our website update. :-)

Emily - No changes were made to the widget with this update. Can you please send us a screen shot of exactly what you are seeing/describing, so we can clearly understand what you are referring to. We are a little fuzzy on the page of the site you are talking about in your message. Thanks.

donald laube 17 Jul 2008

Ok it is good thank you staff.

Sherrie Kostura 17 Jul 2008

Hello there, AW. Your sample looks great, but mine doesn't look like yours. When I bring up AW, the column that you have over to the left shows up directly in the center by itself with nothing but white space on both sides. I don't like this look. Am I doing something wrong, here?

Sher

AW STAFF: No, this is not normal. What web browser and operating system are you on?

Sharon Gonzalez 17 Jul 2008

PLEASE MOVE THE SUBMIT BUTTON FOR COMMENTS MORE TO THE LEFT. IT HANGS WAY OUT TO THE RIGHT WITH LOTS OF SPACE BETWEEN IT AND THE COMMENT BOX. THIS SITE IS VERY TIRING AND HARD ON THE ARM IF I AM ON IT VERY LONG. YOU NEED TO GET OUT ON THE AW SITE AND COMMENT ON PAINTINGS FOR AWHILE AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. THE WAY AW WAS BEFORE JULY 15TH HAD NONE OF THESE EXCESS MOUSE MOVEMENT PROBLEMS. THANK YOU.

AW STAFF: Sharon, we moved the submit button next to the comments box, so you don't need to scroll as much anymore. Please check it out and let us know if this solves the issue you had with that page.

carrie holst 17 Jul 2008

I'm getting used to the new design now. I'm on my second Margaritia. Love those limes. Carrie

carrie holst 17 Jul 2008

Woops, they are not limes, they are reply and submit buttons. Cancel that last one.

ashok nayak 17 Jul 2008

It's fantastic to know about Armando is going to make all those poor AW icons and buttons, is he started yet? bit currious to see those!

Nira Dabush 17 Jul 2008

Good morning AW, Staff and Andy ... Thanks a lot for the PERFECT FONTS NOW..WONDERFUL Reading... IMPRESSIVE !!... Bravo.. I'm so proud of your achievements in FONTS, of comments & artist replies. !! CONGRATULATIONS... !!!!!!!!!!!!

Nira Dabush 17 Jul 2008

Still WAITING, For YOU , to solve the BACKGROUND PROBLEM... As I explained so well, in the last several days, since the 15 of this month.. It's COLD RIGID, Not inviting.... I don't feel like entering my own portfolio this way... I got up this morning with STUCK NECK.. I will not be able to sit here ALL DAY LONG and explain it in so many ways, that you'll be able to understand how much it is important, in the eyes of a DESIGNER & FINE ARTIST. Please do BEST for US, Let us choose our own backgrounds... or give us several colour choices... the background should be very pale as almost white. I prefer NOT GREY At all.. It look like HI TECH OFFICE TABLES , In this way... It does not show my art, in its best.. it " steal " the show from my art... AGAIN... THANKS A LOT... BEST OF LUCK...

ashok nayak 17 Jul 2008

Yes Nira, fonts and all other are ok, but when go to the profile page, that darkness, just a feeling of insecurity, isn't ? and ofcourse this REPLY button, hehe...

Jane McIlroy 17 Jul 2008

"Hello there, AW. Your sample looks great, but mine doesn't look like yours. When I bring up AW, the column that you have over to the left shows up directly in the center by itself with nothing but white space on both sides. I don't like this look. Am I doing something wrong, here?

Sher

AW STAFF: No, this is not normal. What web browser and operating system are you on?

Sherrie Kostura "

That's an excellent description of the way the new layout looks on my screen too - Firefox 2, Vista.

Actually, I'm starting to get used to it now, apart from having to scroll for miles on each page. At least it avoids the grey background (plain white looks much better)!

Paul Pannell 18 Jul 2008

WOW this is AWESOME. Great Job Staff!. Thank You :D

18 Jul 2008

Emily Reed 18 Jul 2008

Here is a screen shot of how the widget now appears below the description of the image which description is now below the image. This screen shot is at 1600 x 1200 resolution - the tiniest size that puts the most display on your computer screen. As you can see, in the screenshot, you cannot see the entire image at the top, nor can you see the comments at the bottom. YOU HAVE TO SCROLL, SCROLL, SCROLL.

At 800 x 600 resolution which is what I ordinarily use in order to have large print to save my eyes, you see even less and SCROLL, SCROLL, SCROLL, SCROLL, SCROLL, SCROLL.

I use words sparingly in my image descriptions. Some people like to write a lot about their images, and since this now appears below rather than to the left of the image, it increases the amount of scrolling needed to get to the comments.

SOLUTION:

PUT THE DESCRIPTION BACK WHERE IT USED TO BE, TO THE LEFT OF THE IMAGE.

PUT THE WIDGET'S POSITION BELOW THE DESCRIPTION TO THE LEFT OF THE IMAGE -WHERE IT USED TO BE.

Emily Reed 18 Jul 2008

POSTSCRIPT:

Please look at Nira Dabush's design where she has a very interesting and detailed description:

http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?id=690676

This shows how a longer description below the image adds to the amount of scrolling that needs to be done to get to the comments.

SOLUTION: PUT THE DESCRIPTION BACK WHERE IT USED TO BE ON THE LEFT OF THE IMAGE.

ALSO PUT THE WIDGET BACK WHERE IT USED TO BE BELOW THE DESCRIPTION ON THE LEFT.

Ketan Chugh 18 Jul 2008

I really like the new design. It is very intresting and also fun to browse through.

Nira Dabush 18 Jul 2008

Well another visit here. I very much agree with you Emily. The "old shape" of AW, Was much better choice. I thought about it... it's like you rent an apartment to use for your ART, Like a gallery. You rent it, in a specific price, that is suitable for AW. When you rent your gallery on-line, you maybe check some other places, with other designs... BUT THEN... After you rent the place, you hang your pictures, on aw walls, that were once YOUR CHOICE, The landlord decide, to paint the colour of your walls in TOTALLY Different colour choice, HIS TASTE... Because he thinks it's cool and may bring more people to his site. YET... ME, Nira Dabush, Can't live choked in GREY WALLS, In these shapes, that she didn't chose, when she rented the place, for a year. I simply CAN'T AND WILL NOT LIVE With this "NEW LOOK ". When I rented this "GALLERY from AW, I didn't sign a contract, that the landlord can paint the walls of my gallery in HIS TASTE, SUDDENLY ... I DIDN'T... Now.. During this 4 years I'm AW member, I never complained, nor ask for NOTHING... Today, I have in AW - 862 images, with full comments, MOST OF THEM Were in the TOP- TEN. I put a lot of TIME, and efforts in my own portfolio, to make it as PERFECT , as can be. YET, There is NO WAY, That I agree to this "NEW SHAPE", You chose for the WALLS Of my GALLERY. no way. So.. I lost too much TIME, And words in order to explain to you the importance of the base... it seems, YOU SIMPLY DON'T UNDERSTAND, Maybe because you pay to your designers too much, and now, US, That use the your walls, don't like it, in delicate words.. in delicate words....To change the option of background, or give the FREEDOM To choose bacground take MINUTES, To proffesionals, ANDY AND STUFF And YOU know it !!!. I'm totally not proffesional in web designing.. but, i MADE MY ALL Web - site, so , I know, it shouldn't take time at ALL. If you wish to give the option to KIDS, That join the site, or many members that maybe enjoy the "NEW LOOK " To have the "new look " I think, there must be an option to choose between the "OLD LOOK " To new look " As simple as this.... above the rent we pay, MUCH MORE THEN THE PAYMENT....is the TIME, That we ALL Put here, in this site, EVERYDAY... more then FULL TIME JOB... This time, for me, is LOST, When I see the " NEW LOOK" Of my portfolio. i was thinking to myself...perhaps YOUR CHOICE, Is something that LIFE Wish to TELL ME...... Not suitable, simply search for another place...... I'm not explaining anymore to you... THE GREY LOOK, Is PRISON, To me.... I mean it... and my hands are locked, I can't through out the UGLY USE of colour. COLOURS FOR ME, IS LIFE.. I'M AN EXPERT INCOLOURS, AND YOU CHOSE BAD COLOUR COMBINATION, FOR ME - BAD!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel my portfolio, is DEAD, In these GREY-WHITE....understand DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!My time, and efforts worth as yours, dear Andy.............Today, I already started to look for a new gallery on line, Where NO ONE, Will dictate me the colours of my walls. NO ONE! One more thing, when you design a fabric for example you give 4-8 colour choices... AT LEAST. When you design fabric, you use REAL Paints such as watercolour or gouache, usually, and this take a lot of time, more then PC, Colour choices... DO YOUR BEST... So, I will be DELIGHTED To enter my portfolio... DELIGHTED... In this condition.. IT'S NOT MY HOME-GALLERY Anymore.. I'm sorry... and just by the way... during the last year, I recieved SO MANY Invitations to SO MANY ART Sites... and I even didn't checked them.. Because I felt AW, Is my natural place to be.... and IT WAS, Until the BOOM, Of July 15. Your VERY BEST Fine artists, and the most FINE People NOT PLEASED With the "new look " GIVE The new look to those need a background, to make their image - an image... because in AW, there are a lot of images, that are NOT IMAGES At all... BUT, Let those who are serious people here, the "OLD LOOK".... The minimum as I said to you BACKGROUNDS... BACKGROUNDS.............. Walls to my on - line gallery... IS THIS MUCH ?... I would stay with the new look, ONLY With Background options. I totally prefer the "OLD LOOK "... I guess I love antiques.. NOT HI TECH Tables. GOOD LUCK, ANDY !!

Nira Dabush 18 Jul 2008

Katan.. I'm happy for you... just ENJOY IT, BOY !!

Nira Dabush 18 Jul 2008

One more thing, Look at my portfolio, as UGLY as it is now... the 3 latest images are not in one line, the last one, is upper - Please design this PERFECT!