Decided to try a free site ;)

[Useless]

Originally Posted by SaucyPanties

Is there a general rule to how large or small a thumb nailed image should be?

I'm seeing a lot of thumbs now at 200px on the long side while the shorter side seems to be at 100-120px.

[ladydesigner]

I'd list your site SheepGuy. Simple and clean, I like that.

UW, did I overlook that free site of yours when I did my reviews this morning??

[Useless]

Originally Posted by ladydesigner

UW, did I overlook that free site of yours when I did my reviews this morning??

Oh, don't worry. Wait till all the big guys have it listed, then I'll swap out their recips for yours and mine.

Originally Posted by SaucyTina

Thank you, whilst you are around, do you edit each picture and thumb one by one or do you use any software?

It really depends on the images I'm working with. If I can find a set where they all have the same orientation (all vertical or all horizontal) and the focus of the photo is centered properly in each, I'll use Arles by Digital Dutch. Otherwise I'll use Adobe. Even with photoshop, I usually won't spend much time fussing with them. I just set the crop dimenstions and grab the area of the pic that I want. Some people take the extra time to make really nice thumbs. I don't. For full size photos, I pretty much always use Arles. I set it at 800x800, which will typically shrink an image to 800x600 and I try to keep the weight around 60-80k each.

[SheepGuy]

Thanks Everyone!
I'll make some minor changes, like larger images, making the text stand out more, etc. I'll likely submit it today or tomorrow

[virgohippy]

If you guys start making freesites again I guess I'll have no excuses for not building more myself... Batages!

Sheepguy, looks like you got so much good feedback you probably don't need any hippie wisdom. Only thing I can suggest is differentiating the links from the body text a bit more. If you set the links off a bit you can catch the lazy reader's attention.

[SheepGuy]

Hippy wisdom is always welcome bud, and yeah I'm gonna do that
So I've ventured over to the dark side, and found it friendly enough. I'll start submitting it tonight and see what happens

[SaucyPanties]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I'm seeing a lot of thumbs now at 200px on the long side while the shorter side seems to be at 100-120px.

Thank you, whilst you are around, do you edit each picture and thumb one by one or do you use any software?

Tina

[ladydesigner]

Originally Posted by SaucyPanties

Thank you, whilst you are around, do you edit each picture and thumb one by one or do you use any software?

Tina

I don't know how UW does it, but I personally make each thumb by hand so that they're a custom size. It only takes a few minutes to do and IMO looks much better than a program generated thumb.

[ponygirl]

I'll stick my nose in here now...

Sheep Guy - I'd list it...I don't mind thumbs on a banner if they're not linked (like you have it) and while some of your links are borderline blind, they're not sneaky & I know you're not trying any trickery so I wouldn't have a problem with that site.

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

It's a bizarre twist of fate that today I built and sub'd my first free site in about a year, so I'm feeling oddly compassionate towards free site builders.

Originally Posted by Preacher

I thoroughly look forward to that review! And I just know you'll be submitting it to me.

Originally Posted by ladydesigner

UW, did I overlook that free site of yours when I did my reviews this morning??

hehe UW you know we aren't gonna let you get away with that

Originally Posted by SaucyPanties

Is there a general rule to how large or small a thumb nailed image should be?

Originally Posted by SaucyPanties

Thank you, whilst you are around, do you edit each picture and thumb one by one or do you use any software?

Tina

hey Tina! I've been experimenting with thumb sizes and shapes, I generally like to make them a little larger, seems to balance more so I can use bigger text without overwhelming the page. I try to batch process my big pics to save time, although sometimes I have to go back and fiddle with a few of them, but I do thumbs by hand in Photoshop, it's easy & I can optimize them better that way.