Monday, January 21, 2008

Get your name out here! (1)

For You 16x20 $800 AoC*
Get yourself a website! Nowadays galleries and exhibition spaces expect you to have a website, customers expect it too. You don't come across as a professional artist without a website. It's like not having a business card when someone you meet ask for it after you tell them, 'I'm a full time artist now!'
My website service is Artspan, they have hosted my website for about five years and I am very happy with them. They manage all of the technical stuff: software, server and network updates. I just create and update the content any time I want. I find it very easy and the cost runs me a little less than 20$ a month with unlimited images. I have the premier plan but there are other plans. There are other website services out there, find the right one for you but use a service. They are connected with all of the major search engines or should be and can get your website high in the search rankings. So if someone googles your name, you come right up, instead of in the back pages. A website which does not appear on the first page is useless, I never go to the second page, do you? You can also use a website designer to create your website but know that every time you want to change the content know that you, your money and time are on their schedule.
Or you can create your own, wouldn't you rather create art instead of a website??
Invest in yourself, get a website!
*AoC means Acrylic on Canvas

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