#i use wix

[danrifics]

i need a new website builder for my portfolio and im actually so close to making it a tumblr blog lmfao

[wrestlezon]

saving photos off the aew website

aew posts photos from dynamite/rampage in their photo gallery here: https://www.allelitewrestling.com/aew-photos

you can't right-click on anything in the wix gallery, which means you can't right-click save the images. however you can click and drag the image to a new browser tab, freeing it from the clutches of the wix gallery.

now you can right-click save the image, but its actually a "webp" file. bad! i hate webp!

you can access the jpg version of the image by simply deleting everything after the "~mv2.jpg" part of the url. so you want to keep only this highlighted part, basically:

now you are looking at the jpg version of the photo! it's not a webp and as a bonus its at its largest original size. congrats.

its kind of a pain in the ass to manually delete part of the url for every photo if youre saving a bunch of them. i use a bookmarklet to truncate the url automatically. here:

javascript:location.href = location.href.substring(0,location.href.indexOf("/v1"));

you use this by adding a new website bookmark in your browser, but instead of putting a website url you put that whole javascript line in there.

when you click this new bookmark, it'll look for the phrase "/v1" in your current tab's URL and delete it along with everything after it for you, and then load that url. handy!

it will do this for any website or url. so dont click it when you dont want to

[mochasucculent]

QUASTION any writers out there have recommendations for sites to host your portfolio/links to your works?

[counterclockwisecomic]

I hate to do this, but Counter Clockwise is going on hiatus for a while as I recreate the website on a new platform (probably Bluehost). I've recently found out that Wix is an Israeli company, and I'm horrified and disgusted to have used their service to host my webcomic.

Thanks for reading, and I'll post an update when the new site is up!

[ravenatural]

anybody know any art portfolio alternatives to wix that are comparable in terms of what it allows under a free plan, and are user friendly? I’ve already tried carrd, but what I could do with it was severely limited for my purposes

[devilfruitdyke]

i mean the reason why you see people going so hard for starbucks or mcdonalds to be boycotted is because theoretically you could crave a coffee or a burger on the daily. sodastream machines and puma shoes tho arent bought as often because theyre like 100 dollars. sometimes it isnt that deep

[moldwood]

on that note dear god listen to me and dont make my mistakes. google sites is free

[britishchick09]

this is as far as i was able to get in my zoho jrose site!

[swampstew]

Raven, I have a question since I frequently buy stuff from Etsy. What does arbitration mean in this case? Or class action lawsuit? I don’t understand and am not sure how this will impact me and the stores I support.

(Also had no clue you sell stuff and need to know in order to buy and support my precious family. I love you!)

Hey Blaze, thanks for asking. When using Etsy (as a seller or buyer), you sign an agreement to not participate in a class action lawsuit against Etsy and that they will handle disputes internally. This has been done by giving blanket refunds to customers and taking funds from sellers before actual reviews could be done. This was a real sucker punch for people on Etsy who need to be paid first in order to make their products, plus it sucks when you sell something for $X and then your buyer demands a refund for whatever reason and Etsy will just pluck the money back, no process, no customer support whatsoever (they don't even have a hotline number anymore).

In an attempt to sweep customer service issues under the rug, Etsy has been offering disgruntled buyers no-questions-asked, no-return-required refunds, with funds automatically taken from sellers’ payment accounts.  In order to prevent sellers from bypassing this issue, Etsy has been imposing “Payment reserves” en masse.  This means Etsy outright refuses to pay sellers the money they’ve earned from sales until after the order ships. 

This opt-out clause allows people to be able to participate in lawsuits but because the update was very lowkey and they bury the opt-out information under all the legalese, people tend to not read that bit and aren't aware they have that option. So if they ever try to sue Etsy for whatever reason, Etsy can use that clause to say you have no case. This newsletter was to let people know how to opt-out without having to read the whole damn thing.

There have been a lot of shady things happening on the backend with Etsy the Corporation - including design theft from alibaba/express dupe pages AND drop shipping pages even though Etsy is supposed to be a hand makers marketplace; no customer service at all except online articles; forcing sellers to participate in Etsy ads with no option to opt out and than forcefully taking fees from sales made through clicking on Etsy's forced ad; encouraging sellers to opt into an additional advertisement program to have listings appear higher in searches which NEVER resulted in actual sales; charging sellers for shipping fees per products but not providing any support, material or stamps or anything to justify charging for shipping costs that sellers ate to ship products; if you had 5 items for one listing, Etsy would charge renewal listing fees each time as if it was making a brand new listing each time (it was not); forcing sellers to use a payment service that is infamous for the lawsuits against it for committing fraud; and then the godsdamned star seller program that actually punished sellers for not meeting ridiculous benchmarks every quarter, just a lot of awful shit.

My suggestions - if you use Etsy and have a problem with your item, message the seller directly instead of using Etsy's refund/help program because it will cut out the seller entirely. When using Etsy, check the profiles ratings/reviews for bot reviews or if you see multiple pages selling the exact same items using damn near identical product pictures, and uhhh if anyone you want to support sells anywhere off Etsy use that instead! Some of my Etsy friends have started using Kofi now too!

My Etsy shop is still closed and I put all my online shops and social medias on hiatus to figure some stuff out. The Etsy shit was the straw that broke the camel's back of my online seller's journey so I pretty much sell locally at farmers markets when I have the time. Haven't done a table in a while and I do miss it. I don't want to publicly share that information though because I do value my privacy but I will share that my store was about mental wellness and self care. I made bath products, jewelry, stim toys, and art. Support your small business owners!

[mestos]

tumblr isnt an ideal platform to host making stuff dedicated to allow people to view my original works, but carrd is frustrating to navigate and other domain hosting websites have been a thorn up my ass (simply bc its so painful to navigate simple webpages... goddamn)... one of these days i do wanna dedicate just pumping out fun lil bios about my scrunglies that ive been brainrotting in the past 3-4 years since my dwindle in activity... 

[calocera]

Anyone have a recc for a good free portfolio site

[n8nt]

Hey, what do people reccomend for making a digital portfolio?

[sleptting]

OKAY SO UM I TRIED YEAH

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OMG

I AM ACTUALLY SPEECHLESS UUR AMAZING AT THIS ! ! ! ! !

[3rdmeasurement]

just did a massive chunk of my media studies coursework in the space of like three hours

[heavensmortuary]

Im turning Mirage into a neocities site lmao this should look interesting

[groovyinsects]

working on the gifs for the cast section of pine hollow’s website.

i’m feeling a bit under the weather but eh i’m getting some stuff done!