A good news bad news situation

last modified: Thursday, July 17, 2008 (6:06:39 PM CST)

The good news, I decided to do a little gallery revamping. The first on the list was to change my layout. During the Open House 2008, the biggest suggestion a lot of people gave was to change the layout as the colors gave my gallery an unattractive appearance. After giving my gallery a visit, I have to agree that the layout was a bit too much for the eyes. On the positive side, some people understood why I choose the colors. Next up, the thumbnails. I made new thumbnails and cropped it so the viewer can see a bit more of the image. I know some people aren’t fans of this idea, but I like the concept of giving visitors a peek to the cel/sketch shown. I’ve also included images to the series description sections. Hopefully, I can do this for every gallery section I created.

Now for the bad news, while updating my gallery I deleted some of the sections (Dragonball, Fatal Fury etc.). I temporarily deleted some sections to organize and see the space differences for some of the series. I noticed a cel that I no longer owned in one of the deleted areas and pressed “empty trash” by mistake >_<. So yea, one little mistake, and everything’s gone. No worries though as I made a backup for most of my scans.
I’m currently contemplating over if I should re-add some sections to my gallery. I prefer my gallery to show production art for series where I can fully explain the situation and my preference for it.