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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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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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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Artists and others can use the WordPress blogging platform as a content management system (CMS) for their online portfolio. Manage Your Artist Portfolio in WordPress is a guest post that I wrote forcmsartbizblog.com last August. In it I show you how you can configure WordPress to function as a website without a blog. You can manage your portfolio, update your CV, and post upcoming shows and exhibitions by using WordPress PAGES. Imagine being able to update your website anytime, anywhere and …
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Over the past few months I have been working on all the artist (themes) templates. Upgrading the code and adding more functionality. The next generation of the artist themes are based on WordPress’s default theme “twentyten”. This probably means little to you as an artist but what it does is provide you with a state of the art WordPress theme that includes all the functionality that WordPress has to offer with rock solid coding. Artbiz has taken this rock solid coding and created artist …
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