When I sorted through my inventory the other day, I noticed that I have dozens of hairstyles from one brand and only a handful or none at all from others. WHY? Sometimes it's because brand A has cuter styles that appeals to me more but let's just pretend that brand A and B both have cute styles at similar prices and I adore them both. Brand A fits 90% of the time straight from the vendor, whereas with brand B, the demo doesn't fit right and I can already tell that I will be remaking the hair pretty much, which I hate.
[ Example Brand A | Example Brand B | Example Brand C ]
For example, with hair A, most of the time it's a perfect fit and I don't have to move a single prim, but when I do need to modify, it's very slightly. Modding hair A would take me 10 seconds at most (edit, stretch a few decimals, done).
Hair B on the other hand, takes a bit of work. Maybe I can stretch it, but I also have to move some prims around too, since I don't actually want to stretch too much and have the bangs be floating too far away from my face. It all depends on the style.
Hair C, I'm actually going to avoid buying completely. I can already tell that I'll be spending most of the evening remaking this hair since too many prims are sunken into my avatar's head.
I can mod hair prims, and even with hair C, I did a pretty good job and kept the integrity of the hairstyle as the hair maker intended, but it wasn't fun! I don't mind modding hair, but I mind when I've purchased a fatpack and I have to do anything more than just simple stretching. I like all my hairs to be modded the same way, and it bugs me when modding a hair involves more than a dozen steps, ugh.
So yeah, hair makers of Second Life, if you care… that's the reason why I don't have more of your hair or none at all. They don't fit me! Your head/profile is too long, too flat, too short, too round, too narrow, too small, etc. When I buy a new hairstyle, I just want to wear it and not feel like I'm assembling hair from a DIY kit. I'm pretty happy when hair fits right out of the box, see below:
Some of my friends will avoid hair brands because "the hair doesn't fit". For me, where there's a fashion will (like I totally love your hair), I will find a way to make it fit. But for some others, maybe they're not good at modding prims and they just want to look cute right away? Your hair brand is now less appealing, and may even be avoided.
I'm just saying! I might be a minority opinion, I might not. If you want to be as popular as hair A, maybe its because hair A fits the majority of the customers that passes through, whereas hair C sends the newbies running cos they've written your brand off after trying on demos.
I like it, but the font size could do with being a tiiiiiny bit bigger, or maybe I just need glasses, haha!
Ok! I will see what I can do! 🙂
Gogo I don’t! The date is HUGE and squishes the text and photos smaller, I could ctrl + but then I’d need to ctrl – every other page afterwards and who can be bothered! … frankly I don’t care when a post was made, I only care about the content 😀
Also it’s more trickly to leave a comment (I don’t know if that’s by intent, to discourage people, heh).
It annoys me to have to log into a certain thing to leave a comment anywhere! 🙁
If you click through the title link/comments link, it will go to the full page. This is suppose to be a style thing, but I can make it full column width if everyone hates it! 😀
On a 24” screen, the font is actually quite big. Not sure about any mobile devices, although the size of all the social media buttons and links seem to suggest that they were made for touch-screens.
My first impression is that the theme doesn’t really compliment your images, because it “narrows” them too much, while literally half the screen remains unused and blank. To me, the theme seems as if it was rather meant for magazine-style, long narrative blogs, not such where photoshots are a prominent feature.
Hope you’ll find enough settings to make it yours and to fully compliment your style. 🙂
The font is 12-14px, cos I like them readable too. I don’t know wny everyone else is saying it’s too small, lol.
Ok guys! I’ve made the main column bigger, losing those cute date circles, aw! Does this work better now? And you don’t have to log in to comments. If the comments link is too small, I’ll fix that, I just haven’t found where the CSS yet 😀
I also wanted to ask if you knew what was up with iheartsl.com as I’ve not seen it update in days.
It looks updated to me, but I’ll check it out.
It’s plausible that it’s just a caching issue on my side, but I have never experienced any issues before… No other websites have done it. It paused on :
Diana and*coldLogic*Part1
by DIANA BLUMENFELD on MARCH 21, 2013
If anyone has suggestions, my deepest appreciation into fixing this.
I appreciate the Scandinavian-style minimalism to which you aspire, but I would suggest a bit of colour at the top of the page in your banner. Seeing “JuicyBomb” written in grey letters doesn’t seem appropriate for a fashion blog.
This theme is confusing in that it has the number of comments at the top of each post, but I’m sure people will adapt to that.
I agree with the comment locator – it really threw me off for awhile.
I also agree with a bit of colour would be good! Maybe some soft pastel pink accents?
Ok! I just got the theme, so I’ll make a new banner soon.
Looks good to me right now. I’m not sure how it looked earlier.
I love Thesis 2.0 – its what I’m using for my blog right now. I pretty much only edited the CSS to make my layout. Your new theme looks good though! I was shocked to see the change when I visited. I can’t wait to see the new banner you come up with. Lemme know if you want some pointers on Thesis 2.0 🙂
Yesssss!!!! Ill find you in SL so you can help me! I just want it to look like my old site, but I can’t figure out each template and my header. But seriously, thesis 2.0 is not as easy as thesis 1.8
I think it looks great – and the text is perfect. But I miss your pink JuicyBomb banners!
The layout is cute and refreshing.
What I don’t like is the lack of photos when using the search option. The old layout would display the photos but not with this one. If I am looking for a specific item from a past post I have to click on every link that comes up in search to view the photos because even the brief summary of pasts posts is gone.
I liked the circles!
Hate to be the black fly in your Chardonnay, but I can’t see even the grey “Juicy Bomb” banner now…I know I said I liked minimalism but this is a bit too Zen even for me 🙂
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The evaluator really seemed to like Ultimatum, which allows you to drag and drop to create as many different themes as you want (so you could customize all the features you desire, I suppose):
http://ultimatumtheme.com/
Drag and Drop is the criteria, because then everything is easily changed. Elegant Themes will sell you a theme for as low as $29.