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I believe that image sizes are created upon purchase. So it doesn’t matter what the settings were at the time of upload.
@ezeepics wrote:
I don’t like captcha because I can loose real clients.
I don’t believe that clients will be scared away because they have to enter in a few more letters and numbers.
Lots of websites use Captcha, including Shutterstock (which is one of the most successful stock sites out there).
Maybe I’m naive, but if someone has any real evidence that Captcha scares away clients then please post it.
@shelma1 wrote:
I think Symbiostock also needs its own twitter account.
That already exists. See here:
@joannsnover wrote:
Another thing that caught my eye was the statement that you could log in with your social media accounts – I don’t think there is any way to do that with Symbiostock.
I thought that some people were doing that with a WordPress plugin.
@leo wrote:
I’ve asked around to some of the more established illustrators — they get weekly sales. I begged them to share with the rest of the community. Some of them feel they will get flamed (MSG) and have other reasons for not saying so.
Its annoying, but the stronger sellers end up being strong *silent* types, and you don’t hear much from them 🙁
That is understandable, but this is an anonymous poll. So those reasons don’t make any sense for something like this.
C’mon people. We have 268 users on this forum and only 23 (< 10%) have voted. I understand that a lot of people don’t visit every day, but there must have been more than 23 users in the past few days. Maybe we need to post a link to this over on the MicroStockGroup forums.
Was she using an Apple computer to make the purchase?
I just took a look at your Symbiocard XML file (@ http://lifeispix.com/symbiocard.xml) and it looks fine.
Is it an intermittent problem?
chrisroll:
I just downloaded your Symbiocard and it looks fine.
@stockcube wrote:
I get the following message when I try to upload a .png file:
“final_stockcube_watermark.psd” has failed to upload due to an errorIf you look at the error message, it thinks you are uploading a PSD.
If you open up the page in WordPress Admin, at the bottom you should see different revisions / versions that have been saved. Try clicking on one of those and then restore it as the new version.
@leo wrote:
Facebook is going to be a use instrument to whoever takes over the world and needs instant access to the activity of billions of identies 😛
I actually think that it will be Google instead (or in addition to). Google already has access to all of your searches, a large number of emails (via Google Mail), documents (via Google Drive), etc. They could tell what someone eats (via their restaurant and recipe searches), where they live and travel (via Google Map searches), and almost anything else about a person.
@shelma1 wrote:
IMO, our USP (Unique Selling Point or Proposition) is “fair trade” stock art. The same stuff (and some exclusive stuff) you’ll find at the big agencies, by the same photographers and illustrators, for competitive prices—but you support the artists themselves rather than the big stock houses.
I would also add that there are a lot of Exclusive images on Symbiostock. For example, 48% (or almost half) of my images are Exclusive to my website.
@leo wrote:
I see where your coming from – however this is like teaching people calculus directly after addition and subtraction in 1st grade.
Yes, that would probably be true for a large percentage of Symbiostockers, but I would imagine that there are some Symbiostockers that are quite tech savvy and would love to help with the project.
@leo wrote:
For instance, instead of Symbiostock having its own cart, its going to use wp-ecommerce…
FYI: wp-ecommerce doesn’t seem to have that great of a rating (only 2.8 out of 5 stars) and they have received a lot of 1 ratings. Have you checked out WooCommerce (http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/) or Ready-ecomerce (http://wordpress.org/plugins/ready-ecommerce/). They seem to have higher ratings (4.1 out of 5 stars and 4.7 out of 5 stars respectively). I don’t know much about either, I just thought that I would throw that out there.
In addition, the more plugins that are used in Symbiostock, the higher the risk that upgrades to PHP, WordPress, the Symbiostock theme, plugins, etc will make something break. And people seem to always want to upgrade to the latest and “greatest” for some reason.
Please don’t take this the wrong way. I would love to see a lot of the things that you are talking about become a part of Symbiostock (especially a cart without registration). I just would hate for you to spend a few months rewriting the code, only to have people yelling at you that something is broken after it is all said and done.
Blessings.
Leo:
I don’t think that is a good direction for you. You should concentrate on how to get others to help develop Symbiostock.
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
You need to stop giving everyone fish. The sooner you teach everyone how to fish, the sooner you will be free to do other things.
