Thinking About Starting A Blog?
If you have little or no presence on the Internet with your art, one of the fastest ways to get started is with a blog. With it you can post images of your art regularly and start building a following.
Two blogging platforms that I use are Blogger and WordPress. Both are free and use a “template” format. Continue reading
Choosing Pages For Your Website
When you’ve decided that you are ready to build your artist website, you should think about the
pages you’ll want on it. This is a list of the most common ones used by artists.
1. Home / Index / Front page: This is the opening page, the first page people will see when they go to the website you put on that business card that you hand out everywhere you go. You welcome them to your site, post one of your best pieces of artwork, have links to other pages, and possibly a guestbook and contact information. It’s the front door to your gallery, so make it inviting. Make the visitor want to click a page link and go inside your website.
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Anatomy of the URL (Domain Name)
This is a quick look at the parts of the website address.
The URL – Uniform Resource Locator – gives the location of a file on the internet. It’s more commonly called the website address.
Buying a Digital Camera?
The easiest method for you to get your art images onto the computer is to take pictures with a digital camera. Since the images that a digital camera captures is in electronic form, it is a language recognized by computers.
This language is called pixels, tiny colored squares represented by ones and zeros that make up the picture that you just took. The images can be transferred straight from the camera to the computer via a cable or the memory card.
Let’s take a look at some factors to consider if you are thinking about buying a new camera. Continue reading
Mindset: The Starting Point
Mindset is the true starting point for anything and everything we do in life. It’s your state of mind that dictates the outcome of every single thing you want to accomplish. It really is the most important thing you possess.
Since this is my first blog post for ArtWebPresence, I want it to be a strong foundation for things to come. What better topic than positive mindset which is the cornerstone in life for anyone who wants to achieve great things. Continue reading
