Blogging can give your art career a big boost. It can help you become more articulate about your art, build relationships with fans and future collectors, and give you favor with search engines.But blogging isn’t for every artist. Yesterday I wrote why artists should have blogs. Today, I’m going to let some of you off the hook.
Why Some Artists Shouldn't Have Blogs Read
Are the colors, font styles, and font sizes consistent on your website or blog? It’s easy to be seduced by a sexy font or a trendy color, but don’t be. As an artist, you should be more concerned about the visual presentation of your art than about any fancy design tricks. The art should always
Create a Style Sheet for Your Website and Blog Read
The Blog Triage class ended and a lot of hard-working artists have much better blogs to show for their efforts. They tweaked their sidebars, About pages, writing, linking, and design. They also made sure they had their feeds straight so people can easily follow them.
Blog class “patients” check out with improved blogs Read
The About page is sometimes the only page with a lot of text on an artist’s site so it becomes a candidate for including the name and description of the artist’s work, making 3rd person a choice, sort of by default. Guest author Patricia J. Velte shares a compromise for using 3rd person text (which Google likes) along with the more informal 1st person.
About pages in 1st or 3rd person: A compromise Read
You have a new website? So what? They say that’s the biggest question in PR: So what? You know as well as I that there is no longer anything new or exciting about having a website. Everyone has one. In announcing a new site or update, don’t focus on the newness of it. Instead, focus
How to Announce a New or Updated Website or Blog Read
Ever wondered how your site behaves on an iPhone? Check out the iPhone Simulator. It says it works best in a Safari browser, but I also got it working in Firefox. Note: In Firefox, the scroll bars appear when you mouse over the inset pic of your site. The scroll bars didn’t appear for me
See what your website looks like on an iPhone Read
In a recent article in USA Today, one of Google’s engineers (and a blogger himself) offers advice for how to get Google to find your site and to like you. Most of this stuff is mentioned as part of the teleseminars with Clint Watson, but there are a couple of new gems. For instance, I
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Image (c) Sharon Crute, Storm Approaching Assateague Sharon Crute asks: At your workshop I attended in Bradenton, Florida last year, you mentioned a dislike for "buy now" buttons on the artwork pages in a website. I am currently overhauling my site along with my web guru and I’m not sure what to replace them with.
Instead of “Buy Now” buttons Read
In response to my last post outlining Clint Watson’s must-haves for artists’ Web sites, Lisa Call commented: As to the rest of Clint’s list – I think he’s lumped every artist into a single category. I think the top 10 list of must haves for a website would be different depending on the purpose of
Your artist Web site content is determined by your art career goals Read
From Clint Watson’s Fine Art Views e-zine (reproduced with permission): We have updated our top 10 essential elements of an artist website, first published a bit over a year ago. We have changed the list slightly to reflect today’s landscape and the more widespread adoption of RSS technology. So, as of today, the top 10
The 10 essential elements of an artist Web site? Read
