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trav.d.hale

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Registered: 2015-04-28

Posts: 45

Are there any designers?

Hello,

Just asking around to see if there are any freelancers around the place or on this forum that do site designing work as well, I have the AutoIndex, Gallery and Wordpress plugins and am thinking it would be good to get something professionally designed but not sure who can do it around the place.

Matthew

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From: San Francisco, CA

Registered: 2012-09-24

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Re: Are there any designers?

I'm not sure what you mean. The plugins are not built to be customized outside of what is permitted within the Web module, with additional customizations via PHPlugins. PHPlugins cannot be used to do a total site redesign, though.

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trav.d.hale

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Registered: 2015-04-28

Posts: 45

Re: Are there any designers?

Not quite what I meant, it is more that my graphic and site design skills are somewhat lacking and although I have got a theme working on my site, I feel it lacks polish and professionalism (due to my design, not the product).

That is why I was asking about designers, I am curious if there are people on the forums who can set up a site with a semi-specific 'look', like you can get a freelancer to build a wordpress site that looks a certian way, are there designers on this forum who do a similar thing?

rod barbee

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From: Port Ludlow, WA USA

Registered: 2012-09-24

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Re: Are there any designers?

though I'm not a web designer, in just messing around and helping a few other people I've set up sites with a variety of different looks.

Have you tried any of the pre-configured  templates Matt has made available?
http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … _downloads

or if you have an idea of what you want a site to look like, you could post a link here and folks can offer suggestions as to how to get there.

Also, take a look around the user showcase for ideas: http://ce4.theturninggate.net/demos/showcase/

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trav.d.hale

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Registered: 2015-04-28

Posts: 45

Re: Are there any designers?

Thanks for the suggestion Rod, I think I have found something I am happy with, and also tried the stage addon as well which I love . I ended up getting it going at http://www.travishale.com/

The only thing I am not sure about, is if I have the gallery layout as good as I can, I am using the masonry (flexible) one, but because of my images, I am thinking the descriptive might be better? (http://www.travishale.com/galleries.php)

rod barbee

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From: Port Ludlow, WA USA

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Re: Are there any designers?

For indexes, I've always preferred either descriptive or iconic. Unless you've got a lot of albums/other indexes to help fill up the page a bit more.

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Rod 
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trav.d.hale

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Registered: 2015-04-28

Posts: 45

Re: Are there any designers?

Thanks Rod, I have taken your suggestion and moved towards the descriptive which looks better since I have a small number of galleries .