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Upload your textures and get featured!

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A few of you may already have noticed that since last friday, a new page has been added to the top navigation. This means that from now on, you are able to submit your own textures and upload them directly to my server. If you would like to gain some exposure for your photos, this is the time to get started!

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Highresolutiontextures.com gets a makeover

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HRT redesign

After 9 months it was about time to give this website a new look and after lots of hard work, I finally went live with the re-design. The most remarkable changes are:

  • a featured content section on top
  • a logo, instead of plain text
  • no huge backgroud graphic, which sometimes was a bit distracting
  • gravatar support in the comment section
  • a bigger sidebar to give the single elements more air to breathe

In the following days I will add more features to the site, like a form, where you guys can upload your own textures. Next to that, I will install a gallery view so that it is possible to browse visually through the texture categories.

I would love to get some feedback from your side about the re-design and it would be great, if you could inform me about bugs or minor glitches, in case you encounter any. If you are normally reading my blog from inside your feedreader, you might want to visit the site directly in order to get an impression of the new look. So have a look for yourself and let me know in the comments, if you like the fresh design!

The RSS link of HRT has changed – please re-subscribe!

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Hi folks,

last weekend, I had to move the feed address of highresolutiontextures.com to a new location, because all feedburner accounts will be merged with Google accounts within the next 2 weeks. In order to make sure that you receive all future updates, please unsubscribe manually (from within your favorite RSS reader) and then come back to this website and re-subscribe using the following link or the big RSS button in the sidebar:

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Highresolutiontextures

Google will still re-direct to the old feed address, but I am not sure for how long they will keep doing that, so I strongly advise you to re-subscribe.

I would like to thank you all for being subscribed and taking so much interest in my content!

Looking back on 2008

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Hi folks,

the year is coming to an end, so I would like to take the opportunity and look back on what has been a very successful 7 months for highresolutiontextures.com. Since going live in May, the site saw a steady increase in visitors and RSS subscribers. Already in June, the first stone texture pack was being featured on Smashing magazine, which of course is a great start for a young blog. Lots of features on various CSS galleries (see the list in the footer section) and other blogs followed and as a result, the search engine rankings for relevant keywords improved a lot.

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In case you haven’t noticed – today is Blog Action Day!

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Hi folks,
today october 15th, 2008, is Blog Action Day and a few months ago, I decided to register highresolutiontextures.com in order to make a small contribution to this great event. The initial idea was to create a huge texture pack and ask my readership to donate a small amount of money for it, which in turn would be used for one of the charity organizations featured at the Blog Action Day website.

However, due to the fact that the last 2 weeks have been totally hectic with renovations and moving, I had to make a change of plans. Therefore, I will donate all my earnings of the month october to Kiva.org and just like Jacob Cass of justcreativedesign.com, I will add 10 cents on top of that for every comment that you guys leave on this post.

Let’s see, what we can come up with. Every comment, which is made until the 31st of october, counts. Many thanks in advance for your support!

Short forced break

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I just wanted to make a quick announcement that I will not be around for 1,5 weeks and therefore will not be able to post any new content. I bought a house together with my girlfriend and the next 2 weeks we will renovate our new home.

In the meantime, you can have a look at the newly installed Flickr pool, where the first members already posted some great images.

After the break, I will provide you with some kick-ass texture tutorials – promised!