Help w/TGP's and MGP's

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by trishauptown

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if there is a software program that yall could point me to. That would be blonde friendly in helping me learn how to do my own galleries.

Thanks
trish

I assume you just mean building your own galleries to supply affiliates and submit to TGPs?

If so, here's my advice...

First off, you're going to want to stay with galleries that looks "slick and professional" to avoid people bitching about declined submissions. There are lots of designers out there who will do gallery designs pretty cheap, especially if you'll buy 'em 10 or more at a time. Hire one, BUT let them know you're looking for designs that can be used as templates that you can update yourself and change out the text, background colors, table colors, etc fairly easily. You may have to pay a few bucks more for this.

This will get you one round of updates immediately.

Now, take those galleries and play with them yourself with an HTML editor, see how much you can do to change the look. Again, think about changing colors all over the place, change the text, etc. You can usually get 3-4 galleries out of each template with minimal changes.

Sounds like you haven't done any web design yourself to speak of. You'll need an HTML editor until if/when you learn to code it by hand. Dreamweaver and the like are likely to be overkill and intimidating if you haven't done anything like this before.

If you're on a PC, i'd try one of the two below, I think both have trials. Both are cheap and pretty easy to use:

http://www.webstudio.com/site/trial/...ur/VTindex.asp

http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/


If you're on a Mac, you likely have design software built in that you just haven't discovered yet.

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

First off, you're going to want to stay with galleries that looks "slick and professional" to avoid people bitching about declined submissions.

I don't agree. I know of very few good TGPs that will accept sponsor galleries from submitters. The galleries need to look reasonably good but they sure don't need to be 'slick'. Slick galleries only impress affiliates that think they work best, but in reality, slick over designed galleries hardly ever perform as well as a decent gallery with good content and a good sales pitch.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Hammer

I don't agree. I know of very few good TGPs that will accept sponsor galleries from submitters. The galleries need to look reasonably good but they sure don't need to be 'slick'. Slick galleries only impress affiliates that think they work best, but in reality, slick over designed galleries hardly ever perform as well as a decent gallery with good content and a good sales pitch.

Slick's probably the wrong word....maybe "clean" is better. I agree, I dont like the ones that are graphics intensive and carry graphics loads as heavy as the thumbnails themselves.

[trishauptown]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Slick's probably the wrong word....maybe "clean" is better. I agree, I dont like the ones that are graphics intensive and carry graphics loads as heavy as the thumbnails themselves.

Very good point!!

[softball]

I have said it before. We are in the sex business not the pretty business. A sleazy old "girls girls girls" peeler bar can be more appealing than a "gentlemen's club". The GC just looks like a money pit. I think websites and galleries work on the same principal. Slick is not always the most profitable.

[trishauptown]

Originally Posted by Hammer

I don't agree. I know of very few good TGPs that will accept sponsor galleries from submitters. The galleries need to look reasonably good but they sure don't need to be 'slick'. Slick galleries only impress affiliates that think they work best, but in reality, slick over designed galleries hardly ever perform as well as a decent gallery with good content and a good sales pitch.

Learning alot here guys!!!! thanks!!!!