WordPress for Artists Services: working with specially designed WordPress themes, Artbiz provides artists with websites that they can manage on their own without knowing code. Artbiz “WordPress Artist Themes” are clean, simple and elegant designed purposely to enhance and showcase your work with two gallery options.
“I’m delighted to recommend Kim Bruce’s WordPress expertise. Kim has written high-quality guest posts about WordPress for the Art Biz Blog and was kind enough to let me interview her for members of the Artist Conspiracy. I have been extremely happy with her content and the generous way she shares it with artists.”
Alyson Stanfeild artbizblog.com
Website Packages
Customized ThemeArtbiz’s WordPress artists themes can be customized for a one time fee of $850. Working with your images, I will create a unique and individual design for your website. Since this is your site and your art, your input for font styles and site colors is extremely important to me. Our time together is a collaboration to design a site, that not only, you will be proud of, but can also manage yourself. Included is adding all your initial content so your site will be up quick! Then you can learn to maintain your site, at your own pace, with free registration for the WordPress for Artists Tutorials.  Isabel Forbes Artbiz would be happy to host your site for an annaul fee of $96. Unique to our hosting is providing database backups and upgrading WordPress and all the plugins. You won’t find that with your average hosting company. Read More> It was great working with you. This was a project I wanted to accomplish for some time and the idea of tackling it alone kept me from completing it. Thank you so much for helping me check this off my to do list. I’m glad to have the extra support you offer and I’m sure I’ll be in touch. |
StudioVisitIf you perfer to save some money and add your own content, choose a StudioVisit subscription. For $240 annually, which includes hosting and all upgrades, I will set you up “Artbiz Style”. Everything will be ready for you to add your image portfolios and text content. The uniqueness of a StudioVisit subscription is access to all the artist themes right inside your admin area. New theme releases are uploaded to your site automatically so you can change the look of your site with the click of a button. With WordPress forever growing and adding new functionality, a StudioVisit subscription means you will always have the latest and greatest features. And because Artbiz artist themes are built with the same coding, all your content and widgets areas will remain in tact when you switch themes.  Sabine Loecorre-Moore Kim Bruce is a great teacher. I was able to create my site knowing absolutely nothing about building a site. She was so patient with every single questions I had. She made it very easy. |
The Best DealArtbiz will install WordPress and configure all the plugins on our hosting for $200 + the annual hosting fee. All the pages and galleries will be set up ready for you to add your content. Included is one WordPress artist theme of your choice, and free registration for the WordPress for Artists Tutorials. The difference between “The Best Deal” and “StudioVisit”: StudioVisit provides access to all the WordPress Artists Themes, including new releases, while with The Best Deal, you choose one theme. You can upgrade to StudioVisit or Customization at any time.  Deborah Catton “Kim was very encouraging right from the beginning. Her patience and availability allowed for me to develop and publish my own site within a week. Any time I had a question or felt stuck in the process, Kim quickly responded with guidance and reassurance. It has been a pleasure to work with Kim and I would recommend this to those looking for quality creative design in promoting their work.” |
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Add your contentWhat getting set up “Artbiz Style*” means:
- You don’t have to bother installing WordPress
- You don’t have to bother researching gallery plugins, or any other plugin: like SEO, or sitemaps, or contact forms, or anything.
- You don’t have to worry about which hosting company to use because I use only the best hosting.
- You don’t have to worry about keeping you installation of WordPress and the plugins up to date and secure because I do that for you.
- You don’t have to worry about your theme becoming obsolete because theme updates are also included.
All you have to worry about is getting into your studio and creating work.
*This true for all Artbiz website packages. Contact me with any questions (no obligation)
All our website package are set up the same. Here’s what’s included…
Custom Websites
Artbiz designs custom WordPress websites for you and you only with the options of managing the content yourself or have me do it for you. These sites come with everything a customized template does but with more custom graphics and custom galleries. Contact me to discuss your specific needs and I will provide you a written quotation.
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Kim has the rare ability to be creative, logical and technical at the same time. The sites creativity and efficiency always seems to be carefully balanced. Every now and then I will need something done quickly and without giving her any warning, it is always completed by the next day!
Laurie Steen Bowles (Devon, England)
For those who do not want to do it themselves
If you want a website and take advantage of what WordPress has to offer, but are not interested in managing it, then Artbiz will do it for you. We will add your initial content and provide you with updating services. See Maintenance Fees below. To take advantage of this service, all you need to do to sign up for any one of the website packages. On the submission form, choose for Artbiz to add your content and images. Remember, all your inital content is already included with the Customization package.
Maintenance Fees
- add images to an existing NextGen gallery $1.50 each (includes optimization)
- new page creation with text supplied $35
- add or change text on an exiting page or update the entire site – min charge $25 or $65 per hour
- uploading and testing is included in any of the above
All fees are in Canadian dollars and Canadians are subject to GST – it will be added to the fees.
Contact me to discuss your specific needs or give me a call at 403-949-2693.
WordPress for Artists Tutorials
The Tutorials at WordPress for Artists is a member’s site for artists, or anyone who wants to learn WordPress. Inside you will find detailed step by step instructions for adding, managing and modifing content and image portfolios for your website and/or blog with WordPress.
Artists are visual people; therefore presenting concepts via images with descriptive bubbles and instructional text fits more with the artistic process. Images are road maps with everything laid out as it actually exists in the real world, or the virtual world, as the case may be.
With the WordPress for Artists Tutorials you will learn how to use WordPress with a multitude of instructional images and videos.
