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Here I Am!

Paul Zannucci — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:59:54 +0000

Adult Sizes from $11.99

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Funny Sayings Shirt: “Here I am! What were your other two wishes?” Yep, I can pull that one off ; )

Check out a new shirt store….

Paul Zannucci — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:07:31 +0000

It’s called Tee Shirts by Me and it’s got a lot of graphic shirts with a few funny ones in for good measure. The plan is to continue to expand each section. For instance, you’ll see an animal shirt section as well as tiger shirt and lion shirt sections. Once that becomes more filled out, it will all fall under the animal shirts category with options on that page to see tee shirts for various animals grouped together. Eventually there will be a “cultural section” to encompass things like the Egyptian shirt and the Kanji shirt selections, plus some other options.

One of my favorite parts is how the front page has a floating menu at the top for each section. Also, getting shirts on tee shirt models and taking photographs would be rather expensive, so these model pictures along the left are actually photos purchased and modified using a picture editing tool.

Obviously, there is a lot of work to be done. First of all, the art has to be done, and that is very time consuming. Much of it is vector art, which doesn’t take quite as long given that you can only use three colors via the normal sort of tee shirt printing. Some of it is bitmap png art with transparencies. This takes a long time to paint, as you have a lot more detail available to you, and you want to make these seem as vivid and detailed as possible.

In any event, we shall see how it goes, but I like the new design. It actually used to be designed exactly like this site, using the same sort of template that I designed for shirt shops. Of course, it still uses the same sort of thumbnail elements. The real change is in the background coding and the sliding door header.

If anyone is interested in a WordPress shirt design that you can use with Spreadshirt, simply go to the contact area and fill out the form to let me know. I’ll set it up so that it can be downloaded, and I am working on a bit of an instruction manual to go with it.

Making a few changes…

Paul Zannucci — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:28:10 +0000

The funny sayings shirts are all being changed to vector designs that can then be placed on the shirt using flock or fleck techniques. This does a couple of things, but the most important one is that it costs less, so I can charge less for those shirts. Flock and fleck are methods of heat transfer. They are extremely durable, even after many washes, and have vibrant colors. Fleck gives some nice options, too. I can use a type that will have a velvety feel, and there are also glittery options.

Also, in case you were wondering why all the latest designs have four options, it’s because I’m getting ready to widen the site so that the graphics can go four wide. Hmmm. Sometimes I feel like all I do is redesign this joint…

hoo-rah

Adding a Sidebar to Your Spreadshirt Shop

Paul Zannucci — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:39:28 +0000

Selling shirts on Spreadshirt is a blast and customizing your shop is pretty easy with the options and tools that they provide. One thing lacking, however, is the option to add a sidebar to your shop. For this post, I’m going to show you the simplest way to add a sidebar, using a table, and then in a later post I’ll show you the longer method using CSS.

So the first thing that you need to do is to go to the “Shop Layout” and then “Header & Footer” section within your Spreadshirt control panel.

Look inside the “Header” box and scroll down to the last code listed,which is . Under this tag is where we will put the table. By the way, you can place your header image anywhere above this tag.

So at the tag, put the following code:

Header can go anywhere above the center tag: right here, for instance.

This is the sidebar

Now go to the “Footer” box and make it look like this:

Now you check the “Activate Header & Footer” box and click save. You now have a sidebar, but it doesn’t look like much. The sidebar will be squashed into a tiny section on the left. To fix this you need to adjust the size of the table and the first code and then add a quick body tag to the CSS page. So let’s do that.

Let’s say you want your site to be 860 pixels wide and for your sidebar to be 200 pixels. Change your header code to the following:

Header can go anywhere above the center tag: right here, for instance.

This is the sidebar

After saving, click on the CSS button to the left and then enter the following code into the CSS box:

body {
width: 860px;
}

Now you should be perfect.

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Changing Shirt Colors

Paul Zannucci — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:33:17 +0000

Coming Soon

Paul Zannucci — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:04:57 +0000

Not so much a shirt as a promise that we will finish the new site soon and have all the product uploaded. Thanks for your patience.

Funny Shirts Update

Paul Zannucci — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:40:33 +0000

Our funny shirt store is going to go through a massive change over the next few weeks.

We want to make this site as easy to navigate as possible, and we’ll also be bringing a lot of new products online. It’s going to take a lot of work. At first, it will seem as though nothing is going on because we’ll be working on the back-end. Then we’ll begin the long process of updating what you see on the site and expanding our product selection.

So bear with us just a bit.

Other Funny T Shirts

Paul Zannucci — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:21:21 +0000

Man, I went through the entire catalogue at one very popular store and came up with a list of their shirts that were funniest to me. It wasn’t a huge list. But they do have some very good ones. I posted the link over at the funny email site under Funny T Shirts For

Some Favorite Tee Shirts

Paul Zannucci — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:49:25 +0000

For the love of funny shirts

Paul Zannucci — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:36:17 +0000

A new divider that will act as a giant link to the old guru/swami page.