Comments on: Your artist Web site content is determined by your art career goals

By: Clint Watson

Clint Watson — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:13:27 +0000

Lisa does have a point. My list of 10 essentials for an artist web site makes a couple of assumptions: 1. That you want people to find your website and view your art 2. That you want or need to actually sell your art. If your goal as an artist is not to engage in commerce then some of the items in the list wouldn’t apply (such as make buying easy or having contact info on every page). Although. . . if your web site goals don’t include people seeing your artwork and don’t include selling your artwork….then you probably don’t need a web site at all. I guess the only exception I can think of is a situation where an artist doesn’t really care about new people finding his/her site but wants an online place to develop a community with existing contacts . . . Sincerely, Clint Watson Software Craftsman and Art Fanatic

By: Christine DeCamp

Christine DeCamp — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:49:47 +0000

One more thing that I think is an essential element on your site is to have your pages load quickly. I don’t know how many times I have gone to look at someone’s site & I give up & go away because I am sitting there waiting for it to load. Christine http://passionforpainting.blogspot.com

By: Daniel Sroka

Daniel Sroka — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:25:09 +0000

Your goals are key to everything you do. But it is so easy to get distracted from them! I often find myself chasing “need-to-dos” only to later realize that they have no connection to my goals. Luckily, when I start to drift, I have some friends with sharp-as-tack business minds, who aren’t afraid to give me a dose of reality. “That’s nice Dan, but what does it have to do with your *goals*?”