Category Archives: Creative Resources

Currently we are looking for ideas to expand the scope of Artbiz.ca. If you like to write about art or WordPress; even better Art and WordPress combined we want to hear from you. This is an opportunity to give back to the arts community and gain some exposure for you and your work with links back to your website. Articles ideas could be… Grant proposal writing tips How to price your art; particulary looking for tips on how to price …
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Skype is Cool

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If you don’t have Skype you could; easily. It never ceases to amaze me how technology is effectively shrinking the world.  My little corner of the world is now the entire world. I can see and speak to people from all over the place. It was Alyson B Stanfield that introduced me to Skype so we could chat about her interviewing me as part of her on line course “Artist Conspiracy”. I had it downloaded and installed in less than 10 minutes. …
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Resizing Images

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Resizing Images article has been updated with new information The first thing you have to do in preparation to add content to your site is to optimize your images. Optimizing is a term used to indicate a change to a photo or a graphic, to reduce it in both visual size and file size, for use in other programs.  For use in an Artbiz website I ask clients to resize to no larger than 800px in any one direction and …
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Spreading it out

Kim Bruce Fine Art

Maybe you knew but maybe you don’t; I have a blog at kimbruce.ca my fine art site. It seems that most of what I write about here at Artbiz is on WordPress and how you as an artist can use it for your website. Over at KimBruce.ca I talk about my art but I have also have a category called “Art Management” which really doesn’t fit into my mission here at Artbiz. So I decided that I would expand myself and you by writing about …
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Blogging Terms

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Blogging Terms and Definitions In a recent article “Website Terms” I explained common terms used when working on your site.  In this article I explain the blogging terms you should know if you are using a blog on your website. I have tried to keep it simple providing definitions for the most common terms and things you may ask about. 1. Avatar An avatar is a graphic image or picture that represents a user. You typically see it next to their comment on a blog. Look …
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