Author Archives: Kim Bruce

Negative Space

negativeSPACE by Kim Bruce

Negative Space an exhibition of selected works by Kim Bruce from the Off the Wall Series March 2 to April 15, 2012 Opening reception March 2 at 6:00pm Dade Art & Design Lab 1327 9 AVE SE Calgary AB 403 454 0243 Opening Friday March 2 an exhibition of my work from the off the wall series. To read more about the exhibition and view the work in the show please visit Kim Bruce Fine Art.

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Holly Burghardt New Customized Site

Holly Burghardt

New Customized Theme for Holly Burghardt When Holly Burghardt contacted Artbiz to design a website her main requirement was that the site be a reflection of her vibrant and colourful work. I quite agreed but it is also extremely important that the design not over power the artwork and the text content be easy to read. So I set off to design a website that was an expression of Holly’s work, easy to read and user friendly. I used Holly’s …
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NextGen GalleryView Template

Cecilia Gossen - station-lx

Next up in the series of posts for NextGen Gallery is the NextGen GalleryView template. This will generate a row of thumbs under the image with a semi transparent background on the lower portion to add the description text. Use this short code to insert on a page or post. Again remove the spaces inside the opening and closing brackets in order for it to work. [  nggallery id=1 template=galleryview images=0  ] To control the number of thumbs that appear add …
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Resizing Images

Resize Images Step 1

Resizing Images article has been updated with new information The first thing you have to do in preparation to add content to your site is to optimize your images. Optimizing is a term used to indicate a change to a photo or a graphic, to reduce it in both visual size and file size, for use in other programs.  For use in an Artbiz website I ask clients to resize to no larger than 800px in any one direction and …
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NextGen Image Browser

Sheila Norgate

Next Generation Gallery also comes with the “NextGen Image Browser”. Just enter the following short code [  imagebrowser id=1  ] There aren’t any options for the image browser just insert the code. The line of code that I am showing here has a space inside at the beginning and end of the brackets, if you want to copy and paste this code make sure you remove those spaces. The number is indicative of the gallery ID number. Every NextGen Gallery has its own unique number; …
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