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.
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
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 <body>. 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 <body> tag, put the following code:
Header can go anywhere above the center tag: right here, for instance.
<body>
<center>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
This is the sidebar
</td>
<td>
Now go to the “Footer” box and make it look like this:
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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 <td> 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.
<body>
<center>
<table width=860px>
<tr>
<td width=200px>
This is the sidebar
</td>
<td>
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.
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.
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
A new divider that will act as a giant link to the old guru/swami page.
While I absolutely adored the old design, it was more of a joke than an actual, useful way of navigating the site. So we’ve made some changes and brought the product closer to the top of the page. We’ve also added a “Funny Sayings T Shirts” category which will involve short jokes with little to no graphics.
The following buttons will soon be at the top of the front page.
Dear Sirs and Madams,
I have had an absolutely preposterous experience at your store on Clinton Hwy in Knoxville, TN. I should have know better.
I went to the store, last Saturday, June 13, for one reason. I could have gone to Sears, but I chose you–rue the day. I went for one reason, to purchase new underwear. I didn’t have to do it. I could have gone to Sears or continued to wear the ones that my dear mother sent me off to high school in (initialized) some 20 years ago. But those had turned brown over the years, and on account of my new girlfriend, I wanted some bright and crisp ones. I chose you. I trusted you.
So I came home with my new and very costly underwear and put them on immediately as my new girlfriend was coming over that evening and I thought, “this may be the night.” I spent most of the rest of the day, maybe six hours or so, cleaning the bedroom, and then she came over. Well, to shorten this and skip stuff, when she pulled down my drawers what do you think she saw? Huh? They were just as brown as my old ones, streaks all over the place, and they even smelled old. How in the name of hell could you sell a product that wears out that fast? It completely ruined the whole evening. Then I looked at the wrapper. MADE IN CHINA! I was furious.
First thing Sunday morning after church and breakfast at IHOP, I went straight to, this was on the 14th, straight to the Clinton Hwy Walmart in Knoxville, TN. Now what do you expect in this situation? I HAD MY RECEIPT! First, the “greeter” refused to even put an orange sticker on the item to prove that I had brought the underwear into the store with me. What if they had tried to make me pay for these costly but cheap underpants again? But that wasn’t the worst of it. The lady at the customer service desk acted like I was a madman. I laid them out on the desk and showed her the unacceptable wear, and she would hardly even look at them. She kept backing up and looking around, and you know why? I think I know why. She realized someone was on to you. This is the sort of Wall Street corporate scandal that can rock a company, and she knew it, and you know it, and if someone doesn’t at least apologize to me, I’m going to make sure the whole world knows it. I will go from town to town, from Walmart to Walmart, holding a big sign with the word “SHAME” in bold letters at the top and your shoddy brown underwear taped beneath. I’ll do it, too, and you know what? I’ll do it on foot. I will walk my sign and your underwear all across America wherever there’s a Walmart. You think that won’t make national news? I think it will.
All I ask is an apology, and you can end this path of corporate suicide upon which find yourself.
Sincerely,
Eliot Angstead.
Buy funny shirts. That’s what we’re here for. Yeah, we’re new and such, but we use Spreadshirt to take orders, print the shirts and ship them, so you know we can be trusted, or rather, that Spreadshirt can be trusted because they’ve been in business for ages.
We have some new designs to go with our new site, so keep an eye on us. Or don’t, it’s up to you.
So we got this cool site up and running and then stopped, eh? Well, don’t fret because we’re back and will be updating new product every day this week. Get ready for some really funny shirts, or so says the crazy swami dude.
One per day for the next two weeks, that’s our goal.
What’s more American than apple pie and milk?
Show them you’re an all-American Girl in our cheeky t-shirt!
Hey, if you’re his world, let the world know it!
There’s nothing more patriotic than American Pie!
Declare your patriotism with this in your face funny shirt!
Just doing some site redesign and need to upload some images in an easy way…
