Making Your Artist Website | What Should You Include
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Are you stuck at making your home page? What do you need for your artist website? You can simple upload your art and your CV, or add a nice art blog, a web-store selling art prints and merchandising. Here are 7 elements you can select for your artist website.
#1: Artwork gallery
#2: Artist bio
#3: Contact page
#4: eMailing list
#5: Blog
#6: Social media links
#7: Webstore
If you want to read the written version, we just started the general and illustrated article about artists websites: veryprivategal...
You can use Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, WordPress or Shopify depending on your needs. Wix is great for artists on a tight budget. Squarespace is easy to use and very elegant, but it costs a little more. WordPress is my personal favourite, but it does require some IT skills. Shopify is great for e-commerce but not so great as an art portfolio. Let me know what platform you use for your artist website!
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Great advice! There are so many options now as an artist (which is great) but it can at times feel overwhelming. Your approach has made it feel a little more simple and exciting! 😁 Thank you
Thank you so much for this! Your videos have helped me so much on my journey in selling commissions and showcasing my art! 😔❤️❤️
I'm so glad! Keep working on it!
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I love that I feel compelled to grab a pen & paper
Hi , thank you for the information. It was super helpful.
I came-back. I really appreciate your experience and sharing your knowledge.
I am overwhelmed with all the options, limitations, speed, lack of knowledge on what I need technically speaking and not really knowing what each feature that I desire requires from a hosting platform. It is like walking in outer space, you see a lot of stars from a distance without any clarity. There is an over abundance of individuals marketing and affiliates out there and it is hard to find those who truly give genuine transparent feedback about the pros and cons for each platform for the artist. As an artist, flexibility is key. I am looking for the best place to sit my website with lots of design options, great disk space/bandwidth/security/uptime/website speed.for the following features: gallery/portfolio, Ecommerce, blog, POD options, and the best search optimization while on a budget.
I like the spacewalk analogy! Yes there are so many options today for individual entrepreneurs and creatives. If you want flexibility, I would recommend using WP back office. You have thousands of plug-ins and themes to choose from. You can work with ANY POD on the planet earth (and outer space). But it’s not easy to work with. Flexibility and ease unfortunately don’t go hand in hand.
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Hey, welcome to my channel! Thanks for your message. I will keep on making more videos.
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Thank you for all your video. I've seen just now printful and it seems interesting. Can you make a video about printful and similar site wich can be useful for artist? And also One on how to make grow a personal blog?
P.s. You have a really good voice😎😎😎
Thank you for sharing your ideas. Really good food for thought as I work to make a decision on my website hosting needs. 💡
Thanks for watching! I haven’t been making “website tips” videos as I have been more focused on other subjects. I will do a revisit soon!
This video is a great help, I am about to launch my art website and I would be very interested to hear your feedback and thoughts. Thank you so much for your honesty, I fully trust your research and experience that goes into your videos and sharing with us all. Very inspiring and to the point, with no fluff involved. Keep them coming x
This was just too helpful, thank you
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Prettywithsubstance 👋 Hey!! Yes everything is ok! We are migrating our website server to a new provider, and celebrating my 35th birthday... 😆I will be back making more videos! 🙏
Thank you for all those videos. I've been watching a bunch of them. Very helpful. Maybe you could also give tips on how to reach buyers on social media, such as Instagram. I'd like to use Instagram to promote my art. I'm not a painter, I'm a fine art photographer. I've used Instagram in the past but without professional intentions. I could get a decent number of followers, however most of them were photographers as well. This time I want a new account to promote my art, I'd love to reach buyers but I'm afraid I will attract photographers again haha.
safe Safelight-room This is a common problem - galleries want to attract buyers but they end up attracting lots of artists instead. But it’s not a bad thing. If you can get a decent number like 50K plus, you can eventually to recommended to collectors on Instagram.
@@VeryPrivateGallery thanks for the insight.
safe Safelight-room Alternatively you can target certain keywords (SEO) on your website, making content and attracting people to your site. It’s slightly more controllable than social media.
@@VeryPrivateGallery I'm *right now* looking for books on this topic. Hahaha. I already have very basic knowledge of SEO, but I think it's time to dig deeper. Thanks a million. Initially I thought it would be easier to find buyers on social media, but now I'm starting to think differently, maybe I should focus more on a website and blog, using social media just as a plus not the main focus.
safe Safelight-room SEO rules and tactics are updated weekly. It is the best to dig the information on UA-cam and blogs. However the basics don’t change: add value using content and attract people to your site...
Hello, can you explain more about adding a community to a website?
Which one would be better? Wordpress or Weebly? Would it be a problem when using a subdomain? Because I don´t want to buy a domain
Adobe portfolio is good but you can't sell over there.
Talk about the detailed merits and demerits of free websites
👋 So far the only “serious” free website builder is Wix. But it doesn’t give you domain name for free. WP has a free blog platform but it’s not the same thing as the WP website management system. 🤔 I will look for others. Free is a big constraint.
Very Private Gallery meaning for better results, someone has to buy a domain name. On a free website!!
Can I make an art website on Google business instead of using websites like squarespace for my business account?
You can make a Google business site. It’s better than not having a site in some ways. But you won’t have the unique domain name that corresponds to your artist name, and you can’t use SEO strategies to attract traffic.
Is wix or squarespace safe for collecting payments?
Yes, I think they are among the safest platforms.
If you use printful or printify on your own website surely thsts not passive. I read 50% of clothing sold online got returned. So you would have a lot of customer service hassle wouldn't you?
Yes, very true. It’s not as passive as it might seem. One quality that is within the passive income basket, is the “0 upfront investment” aspects.
i want to know which website is best for me..I can want to sell customized handmade things and other handmade things too.. and i want to sell art works too..
It depends on your IT skills and budget as well. If money isn't an issue, you can use SquareSpace (good blog, easy to use) or Shopify (good e-commerce, not too difficult to use). If you want to show up on Google results, WordPress is the best (need more computer skills but cheaper).
Overall the best budget choice is WordPress + e-commerce platform combo. Like Gumroad, BigCartel (cheaper options) or Shopify (more expensive).
@@VeryPrivateGallery okay.. thank you so much for replying..😊
Where can I get a canvas sizes image for free or what tool/app can I use to create one so my customers can see a reference to canvas sizes compared in a room? Thanks in advance. I don’t want to “steal” and image from Google.
But you recommended woo or Wordpress in your previous video, now I’m confused again
We use Wordpress (not the blog system, the web builder). Woocommerce is a plug in that works with Wordpress.
@@VeryPrivateGallery is there a yearly subscription fee with wp? That’s what I’m trying to avoid.
@@VeryPrivateGallery I’m on Wordpress and the prices seem way more expensive than a lot of other web builders, in your video you mentioned that yearly subscriptions is not a good idea for artists in the long run and Wordpress is a one time fee but I’m on their webpage and it’s showing someone different.
I’m sorry, just trying to figure out what the hell im doing 😅
Hi me be state work but not sureses I have talent too much as multiple but not growing so in search please gide me
hi just found your page a sulpture artsit making a new website which website is best suit to use
Hi! The best is to use WordPress and build your own based on a template of your choice. We use Elegant Themes because it offers a lot of themes. Many artists we know use Elementor that is more popular.
@@VeryPrivateGallery thanks will try
how much does a art website cost to display my paintings?
There are some sites you can use to display for free, but none of them would give you a domain name (like your name dot com).
How impotent do you think it is to include you C.V. on your website and, what are the benefits of it?
Usually you need an artist bio instead of a CV, but you can include both.
@@VeryPrivateGallery Thank you. I was going to include both but on separate pages. My C.V. has gotten very long. Maybe you could make a vid about editing your artist C.V. down.
@@blacksmithsligo Well, depending on what you want people to do with the information (eg. giving you a job or buying art from you), typically you put the CV as PDF and the bio as texts on the webpage.
@@blacksmithsligo If I were an artist in the b2b business (painting for hospitals or offices for example), I will link my LinkedIn profile as well.
@@VeryPrivateGallery That's a good idea. At this stage of my career I see myself as unemployable. Worked for myself for far to long. Thanks for the help.
Artist of India 😭plz telll on UA-cam with subscribers and world alsoooo pllzzzz 😭 👌 and this was helpful and do you speak Hindi ?
Hi, I don't speak Hindi. Learning Chinese already took me 12 years LOL, so I didn't have much time learning foreign languages when I was young.
Are you from India ??😦😲 or. China 🇨🇳 and From. Wherever you. Are such an amazing person . How many languages do you know? And in which country do you live ?