Gallery and spotlight board

[_lexxia]

Would anyone care to give opinions on the background in my gallery? I feel like there's something... off about it.

http://www.neopets.com/gallery/?gu=avril_h8er

I'm planning on working on the description and blog/table later, but any suggestions on those are more than welcome.

lexxia, I think having a table around your items would help quite a bit. Maybe having a table for a text area too.

I think Mayan is right. Your background is bit busy so a table with a solid background would help

Yeah, I ditched the tiled background. I put King Roo up instead... he's a bit fuzzy though.

[WolfMaiden]

Wolf, I love the theme! (I have a pirate gallery too)

You have a fair item count. There are alot more pirate items out there, but I know from experience that they are really expensive.

Your theme does lack a layout. A nice background and maybe a blog would be nice. However, TNT did say in the editorial that a layout isn't the most important thing.

Quote from the editorial:
"May I use the pre-made Neopets backgrounds to enter the Gallery Spotlight? Thank you very much. ~florabell123
Sure! We judge mostly on the content of your gallery, but while we do like to see original art to make it stand out from the other entries, we know not everyone is a Photoshop wizard."

I think it would also be nice if you'd rank your items. It would look a lot more organised that way.

Good luck for the spotlight! I hope they'll chose a pirate gallery to win some day. I looked at all the gallery winners and never has a pirate gallery won, can you believe that?

Hmm, I can prolly come up with a drawing or something for the background. and possibly a blog to go along with it.

[fructy]

fructy: I love your gallery design! The little skulls are so .... cute (in a scary skull way, of course) Clever idea for a theme, too.

My gallery really needs a design update I think ... I first made it maybe 2-3 years ago, when hardly anyone was doing CSS layouts and such! It also has a rather similar theme to last week's gallery spotlight, so I'm not expecting a win any time soon... but I'll keep persevering with it for a while.

http://www.neopets.com/gallery/?gu=mazil

Thanks!

The gallery that won last week doesn't have the same theme you do, so you still have a good chance to win the spotlight. Several theme's have won the spotlight more then once. Last weeks spotlight winner has even won twice with the same gallery, so you definitly have a chance!

I actually think your layout isn't all that bad! I actually quite like the colours and the blog with the little update thingy.
You could add buttons instead of those text links for your categories. For some reason I really don't like the standard blue catagorie links, but that's just a personal thing. Maybe you could add a sidebar too? Other then that I really would have no idea how you could improve your gallery.

Besides, TNT judges mostly on the content and not on the layout

Lexxia, did you upload the image yourself? It's ok to link directly to the neopets image in your gallery. So you don't have to upload the image yourself.

Wolf, tnt did say they like "original art", so drawing your own background and making a blog might help you win the spotlight.

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[Sigh]

Fructy, there is a really old item that i remember that i don't believe you have...
i think it was called sweetart chest or something along those lines...

[_lexxia]

Lexxia, did you upload the image yourself? It's ok to link directly to the neopets image in your gallery. So you don't have to upload the image yourself.

I resized it, thought the original was too small.

[fructy]

Oooh, thanks! I never thought about searching for "chest" items. I also found and item called "Sultans Treasure Chest" and another one "Bagatelle Treasure Chest". I will definitly add those to my gallery.

Thanks!

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[Sigh]

lol no prob...
i just remember it being a big "fad" to have one, and being miffed when it turned out it was worthless and didn't do anything -_-

[Magica]

Feel free to check mine out.

http://www.neopets.com/gallery/?gu=saiyajinmagica

[hammy1142mek]

I was trying to think of a cool gallery that has around 100 items. The carrot gallery is cool as is a pea gallery. I once tried to make a sand gallery but got bored b/c ther are so many items. Any ideas?

I decided on Sqush & Cucumber http://www.neopets.com/gallery/?gu=hammy1142mek

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[mazil]

Thanks for the comments, fructy!

You could add buttons instead of those text links for your categories. For some reason I really don't like the standard blue catagorie links, but that's just a personal thing. Maybe you could add a sidebar too? Other then that I really would have no idea how you could improve your gallery.

Yeah, that's a great idea! I was very impressed with your category images I'll definitely have to do something along those lines when I finally get around to updating the design.

[Katherine]

I made a few changes in my gallery.Are the better or worse?http://www.neopets.com/gallery/?gu=kcharles

[WolfMaiden]

Changed my gallery alot...I still need to work on the background, and the description, but its something I have yet to see anyone else do.

http://www.neopets.com/gallery/?gu=wiccan_wolf

[Sigh]

what a great idea!
it's adorable

[WolfMaiden]

Thanks Sigh_driven.....after looking through old gallery shop lights, I noticed alot of pirate themes, and theres not any Lutari ones....least not any I saw...so I thought it was the perfect idea.

[Sigh]

ok i have changed my background
thoughts?
http://www.neopets.com/gallery/index.phtml?gu=neofreakohyeah