Over the 8 or so years that I have been designing websites for artists, my principal objective has been, not only to create websites that present art in the best light possible, but also to coach clients on how to create strong content. You see that’s the thing with WordPress. While I design a well structured theme, the packaging, what goes inside that package is often not up to me. I help my clients by advising them about formatting their …
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Aylson Stanfield of ArtbizBlog.com wrote a recent article on Pinterest, which covers the crux of the debate over this relatively new image-sharing site. So, while we’re debating “to pin or not to pin,” let’s remember that there are other tools that can capture your images and strip out your name, your copyright . . . the works! Did I just scare you? Good, let me explain… Artists can protect their images online and provide a trail back to their site …
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Have you applied any SEO for your art website? You have probably heard the term and have even been contacted by some SEO company promising to get you to the top slot in search engine results – HA! First off I should tell you what SEO for art websites is, we’ll get back to my “HA!” in a minute. SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization, where one optimizes their art website to make it not only search engine …
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Next up in the series of posts for NextGen Gallery is the NextGen GalleryView template. This will generate a row of thumbs under the image with a semi transparent background on the lower portion to add the description text. Use this short code to insert on a page or post. Again remove the spaces inside the opening and closing brackets in order for it to work. [ nggallery id=1 template=galleryview images=0 ] To control the number of thumbs that appear add …
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Your Home Page can be any page that exists on your WordPress site. For example if you have a important event that you want to publicize you can set that page to be the landing page of your site. When the event is over change the “Home” page to your Artwork, Bio or anything other page you have. So the “Home Page” doesn’t have to be an actual page called Home or Welcome with content developed specifically for it. It can …
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