Artists can be very obsessive type people.  Face it; it can be a main ingredient for great art.  But not all obsessions are good.  Flash driven websites fall into the “not good” category.

But they look so cool….

Artists are visual, so they are naturally drawn to these flashy websites.  In fact, companies that build them know this.  And they go out of their way to target artists, especially photographers.

Who doesn’t want their big beautiful images scrolling in front of potential customers?   (more…)

Nestled in the mountains of Pennsylvania is an artists weekend retreat.

There will be drawing and eating and sharing of many ideas.

But the main focus will be on the hows of getting your art on the Internet and building your web presence.

Oct. 16 -18, 2009 at St. Gabriel’s Retreat House, Clarks Summit, PA
Hosted by District Chapter 115 of the Colored Pencil Society of America

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Grab your visitors right away with a great piece of artwork on your home page. Remember, you have only about 15 seconds for that page to open and impress the viewer to hang around and click through more of your site. (more…)

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. (more…)

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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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.
 
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