Initial rants / wishlist

#24

Here are some Ideas / Whishes…

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[li]My Portfolio :: wouldn´t it be nice to see how your portfolio at the moment looks like? at the moment you have to type your username into the adressbar e.g http://vampeta.cgsociety.org[/li]
… how about a quicklink to see your own portfolio?

Ah… found it! you have to klick on your username on the top left :slight_smile:
It´s a bit hard to find out… thanks KIRT 4 the cool hint

[li]Ballistic / CGchoice-Award :: How about a extra information about the awards/publications you have for the images in the your Gallery.[/li]
e.g. you klick on an Image and see in whish Books the image is puplished, what kind of rating it has, how many people watched it since you have posted it etc…
[li]BLOG :: How about to have the ability to attach a small image with your BLOGS…[/li][li]RANDOM IMAGE :: I would like to have random option to my GAL. [/li]
Something like button that enables a random function…
[/ul]So far so good…
Cheers :beer: Alex

#25

It seems you can already do this - just try the ordinary VBCodes

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#26

:bounce: Nice to know! thanks James!

#27

One wish from me:

Add Favourite Picture instead of the whole Portfolio.

#28

some good ideas in here folks :slight_smile:

#29

hi folks,

just want to add some wishes here, because i like those features of different sites, and it would be great feature to cgportfolio to have them gathered there…:

-blog header and footer for customization
-avatar beneath title of blog / journal entry

  • a calendar attached to the blog, for events, dated notification, etc…
    -detailed statistics of comments and pageviews, a breakdown of week, month, year,etc…
    -a moderated feature of a daily favorite, chosen by the visitors favs
    -a favorite ranking system instead of a voting score
  • function to display similar keywords, when typing them, and show how many times this keywords where used by visitors at this day

also i haven´t found out if there is a possibility to choose a featured image to a cgportfolio, instead of having the recently uploaded one shown…

just brainstorming, i hope there is maybe something usefull for you guys…
you just did a great job!

regards,
fant

#30

you can change the order that images show up in your gallery, by entering the gallery management, and moving images up and down (there are little arrows to the right of them)

the image in spot #1 will be the default image shown if you go to your homepage, or gallery.

Out of interest, going to your URL sends you to either the first image in your gallery (if you have any images turned on) or your About page.

#31

my wishlist/comments:

  • would be nice to have a word count while typing the description, since it’s a 100 characters minimum, and if you’re under, you got to fill in most stuff anew
  • a warning that a submission should be 600pixels wide/high minimum - could be written there as well
  • when submitted, I get a message “Image saved” - could it be in GREEN instead of RED, like the errors? Just to make it simpler :slight_smile:
  • software used list - could we have the software that is selected in our “personal details” on top of the list? it’s much easier to choose then, instead of having to scroll all the time
  • have the date of birth, or any other detail selectable NOT to show on “about page”
  • on portfolio home - how about “newest” portfolios as well, instead of just most popular ones?
  • “your work is featured in…” - please add the latest book here too (Painter)

errors/bugs:

  • I submitted an image, yet it’s not showing up (the thumbnail) and it’s not clickable. In fact, the image isnt uploaded either, even when I click “edit” - it’s not there.
  • tried submitting second image, and got this error: “The uploaded image file could not be converted.”
    It was a jpg, saved in the same way and prog as the previous one. Tried another program, with the same result.

Thats about it for now. Sorry if some of it has been mentioned/requested before :slight_smile:

#32

Please please get rid of the “100 characters minimum” Artwork should speak for itself - you don’t get essays under pictures in real art galleries :slight_smile:

#33

I totally agree.

#34

i agree with Baronimpossible,
either a shortdescription, or an extended depiction with minimum 100 characters…
but a short description with minimum 100 chars is a little bit controversial …lol

best,
fant

#35

i just uploaded a sample image just to test things out… it submitted it to CG Gallery [or whatever] and got rejected. i can stand the rejection, just a sample image. but that should be an option some where else, or have it unchecked as default.

otherwise, really nice addition.

#36

There is an option to submit to the gallery or not just under the keywords box, if you uncheck that, the image is posted pre-rejected;

#37

i just started to get through the pages, so just a little request for now.
just about every application known to mankind is listed, but not EIAS or Electric Image Animation Studio. would be nice to add, hey, we recently got our forum here, so a few users will be using the portfolio.
thanks

uwe

#38

My only suggestion right now would be for the front page of the CG Portfolio portal to also display a “random” panel of portfolios or images. It’s good to see “featured” and “popular” stuff, but a random panel would increase diversity and traffic to artists that might not otherwise get seen.

I’d rather see some different stuff everytime I visit the site, not the same images all the time.

#39

I’d rather see some different stuff everytime I visit the site, not the same images all the time.

I see different things each time I reload. It is quite random as far as I can tell…

#40

I’d like for the editing stuff to be laid out a little better, so I don’t have to scroll down to get to editing different parts of it. It’d be nice to have a “edit” link off of each display section, if you’re logged in – i.e., if you’re looking at your own gallery, you can click an “edit” button to go to the management section for your own gallery.

#41

Nice thought everyone!
I agree with Baron about the description.
Now as far s organizing ones gallery:
When I want to move an image from top to say four places down, I find it completely cumbersome to have to wait each time the page to reload, (four times) once for each position.
It would be much better to be able to move , organize your gallery, and then hit an “apply changes” button so the page reloades once only!

Also, to be able to create subfolders/galleries with a specific theme ( 2d, 3d, Project X, etc)

It would be nice to be able to upload multiple images at once also.

And be able to add comments under an image you like., not to have to go to a cgtalk thread.

#42

A good example is the way Flickr does it: with the Organizer (using flash), the sets, the comments on the fly, etc.

#43

Once I work out how, you should be able to arrange images like something like happens on the google personal frontpage (just drag and drop).

I like the idea of folders, I’ll keep it in mind for future revisions;

We are working on an upload engine.

Comments will be available for all threads in the future, once we migrate to portfolio for all image hosting;