Lex Luthier Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 MWCGuitars I'm using smokeyjoecustoms hosting service. I think I've pretty much finished the links page, except maybe for my contact info, and I was just doing work on the gallery page. I'm not going to be selling instruments from the site, just through a local store, so I think I'll omit the Pricing, and maybe the Features pages, and put something like "they can be found at this store", etc. The store I consign at is Act 1 Music on the links page BTW. Great bunch of guys there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 hey lex,that is a nice site...but one thing you might consider is photographing your guitars and basses against a light colored backdrop so that you can see every detail people don't like to see shadowy areas when they are considering buying an instrument,because it makes them think there might be hidden flaws... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Luthier Posted March 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 Yes. I was actually thinking a dark background, of like a neutral color or something. Yeah, the way the neck on my latest bass is all glary could make people think the neck isn't very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 Did you just create an HTML document and then post it on the server? How was that done. You have inspired me to build a site as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLS Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 If you dont know much HTML i suggest either going to Here or use dreamweaver. But that site is pretty nice. Is it your first try?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 Seriously, I dont have time to learn HTML. Is it like word? I know 7you can make a website in word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezerboy Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 html is a language made up of tags, and is pretty simple compared to others you can learn the basics in a few hours www.htmlgoodies.com look for the primers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLS Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 If you dont have time to learn html then dreamweaver would be excellent for you. Even Frontpage would work good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Luthier Posted March 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 Did you just create an HTML document and then post it on the server? How was that done. You have inspired me to build a site as well. Don't you have a website? I saved the HTML writing as a .txt file, then uploaded it to Fullserversite. You can actually view the webpage is it is, but I would then change the .txt to .html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Luthier Posted March 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 Is it your first try?? No, my first try in the WWW in the little menu after my post, or in my profile. It's built on tamplates, which is why it actually looks okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckguitarist Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 I'm using, Butnut's (I think) hosting service. It's smokeyjoecustoms... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Luthier Posted March 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 It's smokeyjoecustoms... You're right. Butnut and smokeyjoecustoms both use those stock smilies as their avatars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeyjocustoms Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 I am glad you guys enjoy the Hosting service. It is definiately my way of giving back to the forum. I will work on a new avatar. I have a bunch of huge things coming very soon. I have been in this forum for quite a few months, secretly learning and practicing. I'm almost ready to unvail my work. My best work, will be wanted by all. Then, it will be offered on Ebay w/ no reserve. I will keep you posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Well, smokey, I am also enjoying your generosity. Here's my new site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveq Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Do the pics work for anyone else on Litchfeilds site? I can't see any of them - just the dreaded red x's. Sorry to hijack but Litch - are you really building gutiars for a living? I thought you got a new job recently? Back to the original- Nice looking site so far Lex. I think it's a good idea to have a site even if you're not planning on selling them through it. It gives people a sense of comfort knowing you're not transient. I don't know where some of you get all this time to do this stuff. I barely get an hour a day to build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKGBass Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Well I suppose since everyone else is doing it I might as well post our website. My cousin did the design and major scripting, and I went back in and made all the content pages (well whats done of them). It's got a lot coming as far as content in about a week, otherwise it's 99% done. The only thing is that my coz knows nothing of music, so you'll notice the Basses and Guitars clefs are oddly inverted Enjoy for now...here. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Luthier Posted March 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 I was gonna suggest that to you MKG...that's a NICE site! I agree with what DaveQ said about having a site if you sell your instruments, even if you don't sell through the site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Wello, I sell them, but it is a poor excuse for a living. I got fired too, so whatever. The pics on my site dont work for me either. Time to rebuild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKGBass Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 thanks matt, i'm rather proud of it as well. There was originally a different design, more generic, and then a really tech lookin design, and then my cousin pulled this one out the next day. Needless, i'm plenty happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaguar13 Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 DO ME! Well, this isn't really a guitar selling site. It's more for local Ohio bands, but I do plan on offering guitar custimizing sometime in the future. There will be a battle of the bands that's 11 hours longs featuring 14 high school bands, and 8 other feature bands. I will be there handing out shirts and stickers for Ceetus. I want to make sure the site doesn't completely suck. It's not totally done yet. I still want a message board, some custom quote pages done, and the order pages aren't even started. The best stuff happens behind the scenes. I'm more of a programming than designer, like you couldn't tell. The page is just rectangles and a crappy microphone done up in PhotoShop. There is only 1 menu, it's loaded into each page. There is only one of each page. It changes color, not the lame way of making a page for each color. The best part is the shows on the home page are loaded from a flat-file database. I used to have to type them in order, and I'd get a show that happens in the middle, then I would have to go through and change the color of each line. Now, it sorts the list in order, gets rid of old shows, and takes the first 30 current shows and displays them. It's never out-dated (that was a pain, too, remembering to take down old shows). I also plan on adding a page that lets bands add their own show, but I am currently working on getting everything to a relational database, so the shows could also be searched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckguitarist Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 Well I suppose since everyone else is doing it I might as well post our website. My cousin did the design and major scripting, and I went back in and made all the content pages (well whats done of them). It's got a lot coming as far as content in about a week, otherwise it's 99% done. The only thing is that my coz knows nothing of music, so you'll notice the Basses and Guitars clefs are oddly inverted Enjoy for now...here. Mitch edit: oh sorry! i didn't even read the whole post... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKGBass Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 ? sorry for what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckguitarist Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 ? sorry for what? I was gonna say something about the clefs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyderek Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 i just finished doing the frames on my site.... but i still can't find my new server on google u still doing to do any more work on your page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaguar13 Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Frames will make it really hard for Google to find your site because there is no text to index. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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