Make and submit as many as you can each day. If you ever need any help just icq me. I'm always around to help with free/avs/tgp sites. 331483655

chase, since you use photoshop you can crop your thumbs the old fashioned way like i do. Simple set your crop size for the size you want...then load all of the images into photoshop. I have an action to sharpen to make things quicker...so once all the photos are loaded in photoshop...I take the crop tool, select where I want it to crop...hit ok, hit F5 (my action to sharpen) hit "save for web" and then save it. Go to the next. To crop and sharpen the entire set I am using only takes a couple of minutes.

Occasionally I use thumbs plus if I am doing a ton of thumbs...and I want the thumb to be the entire pic rather than just a particular section of the pic like I do in photoshop.

Check out AVS Create. Simple and easy to build 100s of freesites per day.

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Thanks, I appreciate that!

That's cool.....so you just crop out the background and extra space around the action so the thumb is more focused on it?

You think it's really worth it for ~$30/day? :uhoh

Btw, for you freesite makers, in your experience which type of template converts better? Graphic or simple?

You gotta figure, though, I'm a stay-at-home-mom, so everything I make is extra cash. I'm not trying to live off of it...I don't have time to go balls out and still take care of the infant and toddler I have at home. If I had daycare...well...that's another story...I'd raise my goals significantly, and when I met them, pull my husband off his lawn crew and train him with what I've learned from you guys, other boards, and articles/tutorials.

Thanks. sugar, I'll check it out.:)

THAT takes you a day to make?! :eek7

LOL YOU try making shit with a 1 year old and an almost 3year old to take care of all day, and then a 9 & 10 year old after school!
Also, I've had no training whatsoever....everything regarding html and photoshop I've taught myself, with the noted exceptions of the tips I've received here. Pick on them if if makes you feel better, but I'm impressed with myself for having just started this less than six weeks ago.

I have quite a few.... But I dropped them when I found out a better way to make money.... ;)

If you aren't going to help, why post?
Jesus Christ, we can't all start out like superstars. Bad taste in my mouth from that comment.

I 100% agree !

that wasn't directed at you..my last post, I mean!
So anyway, I'll bite!
How?

If because of the kids, you only have half an hour of free time to make sites, and you make one of these each day, that's a different matter. Shouldn't have said it takes you a day then though :2 cents:

This is not a matter of professional training or anything... almost nobody in this business had professional training. I should know, I taught myself programming on a bloody calculator because I didn't have a computer :1orglaugh

The point is, if sites like that would take you an entire day, you'd be doing a big list of things wrong. Even without automation, sites like those shouldn't cost more than 20, 30 minutes tops to make.

free sites better than tgp galleries ?

I start working in the morning, and because I have to get up every minute or two to tend to or check on a child, I'm not done before the end of the day. I never said I sit here all damn day with nothing else to do but churn out one site, I said I am shooting for a site a day...In fact my exact words were "It's damn hard to complete that one site when you are getting up every 45 seconds to tend to a child." Do you have kids? or better yet, kids between 1 and 3 years old? Two of them? All day, with noone else home to look after them, while you try to get the housework done, errands done, and some work done? Unless you've been there, you have no clue whatsoever.
Maybe you are trying to help, but your approach sucks, and easily puts people on the defensive. I have been pretty humble here, asking for advice, and gladly taking what is given...even if after trying it, I decide against it, I am still respectful and grateful for the help. I've never purported to be anything but a novice. To come in here and just throw out criticism without any advice is pretty shitty, particularly when you obivously didn't carefully read the thread, which resulted in your misunderstanding of the situation......
If you have something helpful to say, I'm all ears.
however if you're just here to knock me, it speaks volumes as to your character and I'm not the least bit concerned that you aren't impressed with me or my work.
I'm sincerely hoping it's the former, because according to your superior attitude, you should have a wealth of information to share.

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