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…)

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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