After five years of blogging, I finally broke down and made a DIY Gallery. It was a ton of work but not impossible to do. It's worse if you wait five years.
I made a DIY thumbnail photo gallery tutorial if you want to give it a try, complete with screen shots, code and so forth.
Thanks to Laura at Laura's Crafty Life for the html code to get me started and to Erica at Caught on a Whim for a gallery layout inspiration and for pointing me to Laura.
It's all there in a gallery now, five years of projects, no matter how poorly executed or badly photographed.
By the way, does it feel like everybody's blogs got incredibly beautiful and professional all of a sudden? I'm still in awkward blog puberty but it was worse in 6th grade . . . I mean in 2011. I think I've come so far and then you see somebody else's fabulousness. But then again, their parents probably did that science fair project for them . . . I mean, they probably paid a nice professional for a solid design.
Thank you to my loyal readers for sticking with me. All 10 of you.
I am sure you mean 10,000! Your in my First Reads category on Bloglovin! I know what you mean about blogs...hard to keep up, but I come here for content not for blog design :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! I am honored to be in your first reads.
Delete5 years down, hopefully many more to come.
ReplyDeletethank you!
Deletesince 5 is my favorite and lucky number, I consider it as a milestone! congratulations!
ReplyDeleteIt takes forever to make the gallery and organized the blog, go and treat yourself with a cake !!!
I like your blog and projects!
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Thanks so much. I'm celebrating with a bagel right now.
DeleteHappy blogiversary!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteHappy blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteI'm on Wordpress, but I haven't experimented much with things like the gallery feature. I tend to play it very safe with posts :)
Happy Blogiversary! The DIY gallery looks great. I need to do that too, thanks for the tutorial.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I have not been blogging and reading other blogs for awhile and still not back full force.
I know what you mean about other blogs looking professional. I think yours looks very nice though. I wish I could pay someone to redesign my blog but as a rule I try not to spend money I don't have :)
Speaking of professional looking photo.. love the one in this post. How did you do all white background? Looks nice :)
Hi. It's a painted wall at a community center where my in-laws were given a surprise anniversary party. Then I lightened it a bit in photoshop. I think you can get similar results with Photoscape, which is free software.
DeleteThere's a saying that content is king. Well, all the blog design in the world is no good if you don't have funny, compelling posts that keep us hooked! Fortunately, I think Bromeliad looks great - as does the new handy dandy gallery - but it's the headlines, humor and helpful hints that really keep me coming back for more. Even if I haven't commented in about 2 years, I'm still here!
ReplyDeleteHey, nice to hear from you. Thanks for the support.
DeleteJust found your blog and love it!
ReplyDeleteJust found your blog and love it :)
ReplyDeleteJust found your blog and love it!
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