Using the Internet

The time of love is approaching; if you would really like to spice up your partners Valentines Day; can you come-up with a better way than with a bit of exotic brand new lingerie direct from the BeCheeky website? Whether you happen to be a man surveying the market – place for a fantastic goodie for his wife or girl-friend or you’re a woman browsing to satisfy her significant other half; you may grab the truly finest in agreeable undergarments at the BeCheeky web-site.

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Everywhere glaciers are retreating at a speedier rate than at any decade since records began, reports The Independent. Glaciologists from the World Glacier Monitoring Service, which tracks 28 glaciers in 9 mountain ranges, judge that between 1852 to 1971 glaciers shrank at a average rate of 30 cm a yr.. Between 1970 to 2002 reductions rose to 50 – 85 centimeters a yr. Since then the norm has constituted greater than one metre per yr. Last season reported the biggest recedings thus far of 1.4 m.

Internationally glaciers are withdrawing at any rate as swiftly as the glaciers in this group with possibly calamitous aftermaths for local towns. In the immediate future there are likely to be increased deluges, and in the long term, rivers could run out, leading to critical water shortages.

Chamonix in the Haute Savoie, it has a great no. of glaciers, the burdens of global warming and the retreating of glaciers will probably be sharply sensed. This is perhaps why so many shops and locals appear to be more aware of the events so therefore trying to take steps to reduce the energy consumption. One hopes it’s not too little too late to arrest the effects of global climate change and assure a future for our children. Thus if you are wanting to travel to Chamonix then think of your mode of transport.

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Why Should You Create a website?

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A. What do you want when you create a website?

B. What to do to get what you want.

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A. What do you want?

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1. You may be in a non-profit organisation and want to post forthcoming events on the web. You don’t want to have thousands of visitors to the site. But wait – do you want to create a website for new members from the web? I found a new barbershop singer through my website.

2. You may have a small business selling locally. You’re happy with yellow pages. But wait – how many thousand words can you put in your yellow page advert?

There is no limit if you create a website.

Have you ever had someone keep you on the phone for half an hour of your valuable time with their questions? Wouldn’t it be nice to direct them to your website for answers and sales messages? Create a website!

Once you’ve written all those answers, wouldn’t it be profitable to have potential customers reading your answers? Create a website. A dentist has clients from a hundred miles away, from his website.

3. Perhaps you sell items weighing a hundred tons costing a million dollars. When you create a website you can still write as much information about your product as you like – not like the yellow pages. Then you can direct prospects to phone to make an appointment with your best sales staff.

4. You want to sell a product on the web. First create a website then get lots of traffic.

5. You want to make money on the web?!! without a product?!! No…I’m not laughing. Create a website. If you have lots of traffic you don’t even have to be good at selling to make some money with Google Adsense.

If you’re good at pre-selling then you can try affiliate marketing, or selling advertising on your site, or several other channels of income. Just create a website and get the traffic first.

B. What to do about it To get high traffic you must give visitors what they want. Tricking Google will only get your domain banned from their listing.

Here are some things not to do when you create a website. If your visitors hit the back button their numbers don’t count.

a) Don’t use frames when you create a website – the search engines can’t find you, and the inventors of frames don’t use them on their own website.

b) It may be artistic to disguise your links, but you will lose customers. I visited a site that displayed just one big picture. I happened to pass my mouse over the picture on the way to the back button, and discovered links flashing on the screen. Apparently I had to click on bits of the picture to see any more!

c) Don’t use Flash when you create a website. If people are using ADSL they are unlikely to wait longer than three seconds before hitting the back button. If they’re on a 56K modem they might be prepared to wait ten seconds. You’ve just lost another client.

d) Don’t use big pictures when you create a website. If you have a photography site, use postage stamp sized pictures with the size stated in your coding, and ask the visitor to click for a larger picture. Telling the browser how high and wide your picture is will allow it to load after the text, so your visitor has something to look at meantime.

e) Don’t use irrelevant pictures when you create a website. One picture is worth a thousand words, but only if the picture is saying what you want it to say. Why do people visit websites? It is NOT for entertainment. Their TV gives them all the moving pictures that they need. Even if it is an adult site, the visitor is really wanting to download digital information for later entertainment.

Information is what your visitor wants – When you create a website don’t waste your time and money on anything else.

A paid designer will use all sorts of clever artistic tricks – you now know that you will lose clients that way. More than 99% of new websites soon have to close because they have no traffic, which means no profit.

That is your biggest mistake. Instead, find what people want to know first, then give it to them.

So why create a website? Simple, you know more about your own subject than any show-off website designer. You don’t even need to understand HTML coding if you use SBI. You still should learn a little about HTML coding, but there are free lessons on my website.

The Super Bowl is one of the biggest of the year resulting in more parties than even New Years Eve and the 2006 SuperBowl should be at least as big! What other event in the world will rake in $80,000 per second in ad time? This anticipated event is so big, it will be broadcasted in more than 87% of the words countries and seen by at least 140 million viewers a year.

Football has dominated America as the most popular sport since the early 60’s and has seen many historic moments making its cameo appearance on many black and white televisions in 1958. An exhilarating 1958 title match between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts went into overtime with the Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas producing two late scores made sure that this event will go no where but up. No more than 4 years later, Vince Lombardi would be gracing the cover of Time magazine.

The Super Bowl is without a doubt steeped in history with many legendary names like “Mean” Joe Greene, Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi. Some are remembered for their athletic abilities, some for their coaching ability. And some for memorable actions, like Joe Namath for example. Joe’s audacious guarantee that his New York Jets would upset the commanding Baltimore Colts turned quite a few heads. In case you are rusty on your super bowl history, Joe Namath’s wild prediction turned out to be correct! The Jets successfully accomplished the biggest upset in Superbowl history.

What most people do not realize is even today the Superbowl is making history every year. 10 years from now, people may be talking about the legendary 2006 super bowl upset where Payton Manning set 10 new super bowl records.

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First and foremost do searches in the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Simply enter terms like “Complaints about ‘Your Potential Host’s Name’” ‘Hosting Reviews’, etc…..You will find a lot of stuff regarding your potential host. Search for ‘web hosting forums’; there are numerous such forums on the web that contain all kinds of information. If you find too many complaints about your potential web hosting company….beware!

Note: A company that offers too many features for too little is suspect! If they are offering huge amounts of bandwidth and disk space for a very low price, be careful! Here is why: The company will most likely be forced to host numerous websites per server, resulting in congestion and server overload. The result: Your site may be too slow and may experience lots of downtime.

A foreign based hosting company may be too far away from your customers. It won’t serve you well if your host is based in Australia and your targeted customers are based in The United States. On the contrary, if your are marketing to customers exclusively in Australia from The United States, a web hosting company in Australia would be OK. If you are marketing worldwide, your choice becomes a little bit more complicated….unless of course you are Google, Yahoo or MSN, big companies who host their websites almost everywhere worldwide! Generally, I prefer web hosting companies located in The United States.

How fast is your web host? Find a couple of sites that are hosted by your potential web hosting company and test how fast their pages load on your computer. You also may execute the PING and TRACEROUTE commands on these websites to determine their suitability. Executing the ping command is called pinging a website and it determines how quickly a server can receive and send back a piece of data through your connection. When you run ping it sends a small packet of data and calculates the time it takes to get a response from the server. It is executed four times by default and a small report of average, minimum, and maximum response times will be displayed. A ping output typically consists of the packet size used, the host queried, the ICMP sequence number, the time to live, and the latency. All times are given in milliseconds. A ping output indicating large values and/or lost packets consistently over a period of time ….is a red flag! Please note that if you have a bad or restrictive connection (Your ISP), the results may be skewed. Firewalls and proxy servers installed in your system or network can sometimes interfere with the ping operation. Also, some web hosting companies do not allow pinging of their servers, in which case you will get a ‘Request Timed Out message’.

The Traceroute utility displays the connection [path] through the Internet between your computer and the potential web hosting company’s server(s). The path between these two locations has many routers, computers and other devices along it which help move Internet information. Each movement from one device to the other is called a hop. Too many hops is cause for concern ….do several Traceroutes for comparison!

Based on my experiences with different hosting companies over the years, I regard the following Web Hosting companies as the most reliable. I am sure there are many other good hosting companies out there, but it would be unfair to comment about a company that I have never dealt with.

One my websites, TheCertificationHub.com has been hosted by Ipowerweb since 2000. There were problems at first, typical when a web hosting company is experiencing a spurt in growth. In the year 2000, they had a customer base of 15,000. Six years later this number has grown to almost 300,000 and their service level has improved tremendously over these six years. Ipowerweb is one of the best web hosting companies on the Internet. A first class hosting company which I highly recommend.

I moved my other website, ClubAfrika.com from Globat to iPowerWeb beginning April 25, 2005. With Ipowerweb I have experienced much less frequent downtimes, few email delays and failures. The customer service is superb and well coordinated as expected. The only problem we had at the beginning was their inability to transfer our database from Globat. Club Afrika is targeted at users in Africa, most of who are still on dial-up. It therefore makes no sense that these users have to wait for 5+ minutes for pages to load up. In this respect Ipowerweb has delivered. My site is no longer ’snail slow’ and in spite of a few incompetent TIER 1 Techs here and there, overally I am satisfied with their service. Globat may improve in future….I suspect that they are having ‘growth problems’ just like Ipowerweb had when I first started hosting with them. If they do, then they might be worth considering for they offer the most ‘humongous’ features in the web-hosting business. But be cautious, ‘Greed’ almost always translates into poor website performance….some of their offerings are just too good to be true, for lack of appropriate words.

I have been hosting another website, Apondo Systems on Lunar Pages servers since 2000. Lunar Pages web hosting plans start at 3000MB of storage and 400GB of transfer for only $7.95. It is my opinion that Lunar Pages is a great web hosting company. Great website uptime and customer service! Very few websites require more than 1000MB of disk space (Apondo Systems has over 300 pages and I haven’t even used one half of the allocated space), so if what you are looking for is quality first, Lunar pages is it …hands down! If you are looking for extra databases, humongous disk space and bandwidth, then take a look at iPowerWeb which is a topnotch company too, or even Globat.

StartLogic is a relatively new web hosting company, a reseller of IPowerweb Web Hosting Services. Naturally, you will expect them to follow in the great footsteps of Ipowerweb. Being the #1 reseller of Ipowerweb, StartLogic’s hosting infrastructure is most probably maintained by Ipowerweb, a large and reputable web hosting company. They offer both Windows and Unix Hosting. Due to the ‘newness’ of the company and the fact that I have not used their services, I cannot judge them authoritatively, but based on the comments I have seen so far, all over the Internet and by virtue of their relationship with Ipowerweb, I think this is a good low cost web hosting company.

GoDaddy currently offers one of the cheapest prices for Domain Names and Hosting Services. The pricing on packages is very competitive. With Godaddy website templates you can get a nice-looking Web site with ample storage. Reports indicate that their performance is above average. One thing you may not like is that they do not have an 800 number for Technical Support. They prefer local numbers. I think their pricing especially for Domain Names is very reasonable and is worth giving a shot. Also, if you are looking for just a handful of features, Godaddy offers very flexible packages….they even allow you to pay for your hosting services on a monthly basis! The control panel is kind of ‘tight’, scripting Gurus may not like some of the restrictions but we think Godaddy hosting is worth a try. We hosted AfroArticles.com briefly at GoDaddy but quickly moved it to Hostgator for one and only one reason: Godaddy does not support CRON JOBS, a server feature vital to this website.

Our website, AfroArticles.com is hosted at Hostgator. We were initially attracted by two things: Unlimited Databases and the option of paying monthly and not the usual year long contract. This means that if we are to disapprove of their services during our self imposed trial period, we will be able to opt out with ease. Well, we haven’t because we love the friendly and professional customer service support offered by hostgator and our website has been running exceptionally well. We have yet to experience any unscheduled downtimes. If you are looking to re-sell hosting, then consider Hostgator. Although the pricing is slightly above the average in comparison to other top hosting companies, we feel that the reliability of their services, the bandwidth, storage, unlimited databases and numerous other features included with their packages are well worth it. Hostgator is a topnotch hosting company, at the same level as iPowerweb and Lunar Pages.

James Opiko is a Co-owner/Administrator of http://www.Afroarticles.com. Detailed information regarding the above captioned Web Hosting companies can be found here: http://www.clubafrika.com/web-hosting

Videos online are an excellent tool to advertise your businesses products and services. For sure there are dozens and dozens of other types of marketing approaches around from content writing to blogging, from public relations to e-mail. Though, nothing says “cool, connection, and creative” like a short format video.

Each day more & more businesses of varying sizes are producing short format videos about their products. They’re not only adding them on their company websites, but they are putting them to their blogs. To gain global twenty four seven visibility, short format videos are being published to a lot of video-sharing websites like that of YouTube & Metacafe. And why not ? it is very inexpensive, easy to undertake, and can have a significant impact, in many cases, on the traffic it sends to your organisations website.

There are countless reasons why video commercials are a useful way to market your company.

Short format videos enjoy a large distribution: Videos by their very nature are simple to “package” which makes them easy to fit into a choice of different distribution channels. You can add them on your firm’s website or blog, you can even put them onto your netbook & show them time and again at a tradeshow. You can upload them to dozens & dozens of World Wide Web video-sharing social media websites. You can copy them onto CDs and give them away or sell them. You can even distribute them via email.

Videos on the Web are a tremendous way to communicate. As our use of technology evolves, so do the techniques in which companies like to cooperate with others. Most people are visually oriented meaning that is how they best understand & cooperate with their world. This makes professional videos the perfect business strategy to speak to today’s public.

These are just one or two of the numerous reasons why videos online might be an amazing way to promote your organisation’s services. Learn more about this topic to see how you might leverage your time, budget, & energy to communicate with your target marketplace in a new & motivating way. Vidify offer unique video production and distribution solutions. Visit the website.

AC Milan was the only UEFA Champions League semi-finalist to win on their return to home action on the Serie A during the weekend as they scored 4 goals against AC Chievo Verona. Add this to the semi-finals victory against Olympique Lyonnais and you can say you have a team worth watching.

But this pass to the finals does not only present an opportunity for the team on the UEFA Champions League but to its star Andriy Shevchenko, he is granted the chance to break a goal scoring record.

He currently has a record of 9 goals in the current UEFA Champions League Campaign, this is closer than anybody has gotten to break Ruud Van Nistelrooij’s record of 12 so basically with the three matches left; he only needs a goal a game to tie the standing record.

Another target within Shevchenko’s lead is the overall record for goals scored in the UEFA club competition. He already equaled the mark set by SL Benefica’s legend Eusebio, and he stands just 6 goals short of the mark set by Gerd Muller.

The player that got closest to Shevchenko is Barcelona’s star Ronaldinho with 7 goals on this 2005-06 UEFA Champions League tournament.

Cathy Jones writes on sports betting and gambling one of the fastest growing online industries and she is one of the top senior article writers for http://www.envivosports.com
Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety on your site, make sure to leave all links in place and do not modify any of the content.

Cathy Jones writes on sports betting and gambling one of the fastest growing online industries and she is one of the top senior article writers for http://www.envivosports.com
Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety on your site, make sure to leave all links in place and do not modify any of the content.

Smart Destinations, creators of the all-inclusive Go Card attraction products have launched the New England skiing and snowboard product, the Go Ski Card. The Go Ski Card includes ski tickets and full day pre-paid ski lift passes to 14 ski area resorts in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Go Ski Card New England can be purchased online by visiting www.GoSkiCard.com .

Go Ski Card New England includes ski lift tickets 14 Mountains in New England ski area. Vermont ski area resorts include: Ascutney Mountain Resort, Bolton Valley Resort, Jay Peak Resort, Mad River Glen. New Hampshire ski area resorts include: Attitash Mountain Resort, Bretton Woods Mountain Resort, Gunstock Mountain Resort, Pats Peak Ski Area, Ragged Mountain Resort. Massachusetts ski area resorts include: Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, Ski Butternut – The Berkshires Family Mountain, Blue Hills Ski Area. Maine ski resorts include: Shawnee Peak Ski Area and Saddleback Maine. There are many additional savings beyond the pre-paid lift tickets. Blue Hills Ski Area, for example, includes free lessons and rentals. Ascutney, Attitash, Bolton Valley, Jay Peak and the Mount Washington Resort at Bretton Woods offer discounts on lodging.

Go Ski Card is available in 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7-day increments for use in any combination of days between December 15, 2005 and April 15, 2006. Each Go Ski Card is valid for one person per mountain per day and a Card can be used multiple days at one mountain or at any mix of mountains over the winter season. Pricing for the Go Ski Card varies depending on the number of days purchased. Child (age 5 through 12), Junior (age 13 through 17) and Adult (18+) Go Ski Cards are available. Corporate discounts – based on bulk order quantities – are available to organizations to pass along to employees or members. All Go Ski Cards come with a free, full-color ski guidebook with descriptions of the participating New England ski area mountains, plus ski trail maps, ski mountain statistics, ratings of slope difficulty, and a listing of all special offers.

“Skiers and riders understand the value of this product immediately,” notes Cecilia Dahl, president of Smart Destinations. “A full-day lift ticket at these great mountains – at these prices — is exciting, and the values only get better the more you ski. There are no blackout dates, and prices on children’s cards make the Go Ski Card ideal for families and large groups, as well.”

Go Ski Card can be in Boston at the Go Boston Card Visitor Center at the Ferry Terminal behind the Boston Harbor Hotel at 60 Rowes Wharf or calling 617-742-5950.

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Most webmasters started off using single domain hosting or shared web-hosting services. Shared web hosting means you share a server with dozens of other webmasters. Typically, shared web hosting plans allows you to have more than 1 domain per shared web hosting account with a predetermined hard disk space and bandwidth. The cost is usually pretty low. You only need to pay around 3-10 dollars per month.

Although it is cheap to host your website on single or shared web hosting accounts, there are many disadvantages you should be aware of.

By the nature of shared hosting, the server resources are shared among many websites, therefore it is very easy for resources such as CPU and memory to be used up quickly. Certain types of websites such as proxy sites are known to generate high CPU utilization, therefore if your website is on the same server, be advised there is a possibility of your website going down. Spam complaints against other sites on the same server will also affect your website. Any form of denial of service attack against someone else hosting can impact on the uptime of your website.

Also some web hosting companies over packed too many hosting accounts on one server causing the server to be slow and sluggish. The end result is your website is up but takes too long to load and display properly.

How can you do to avoid this issue?

Years ago, the only solution is to get a dedicated server. However, nowadays you can get a cheap virtual dedicated server for less than 30 dollars a month.

A cheap dedicated virtual server or VPS allows you to run your sites as if you own the server virtually. In reality, the dedicated server is spilt into multiple virtual dedicated servers. The main advantage is that each virtual dedicated server has control over it’s own resources such as CPU, RAM etc. So each virtual dedicated server is totally isolated from other virtual servers and will not be affected if other webmasters bring their servers down.

Some web-hosting providers also have unmetered bandwidth, which is a plus.

So Are There Any Disadvantages in having a virtual dedicated server?

There are not many major disadvantages except for cost. It will cost a little bit more on hosting. The other disadvantage is you need to be technically proficient in administering the server. However, some web-hosting providers also can provide managed virtual dedicated server. It means they will help you to manage the server. Examples are routine server maintenance, security patches etc.

With increased speed and reliability from using cheap virtual dedicated server, you will rest easy that your websites are always up while you are sleeping.

Ricky Lim is a webmaster with 7 years experience in cheap web hosting. For more cheap web hosting reviews and articles, visit his site at http://www.epromote.info

Summary

Here’s the scoop on what you must know when designing a website
to showcase your art, impress galleries, and win over collectors. Learn how to avoid
the mistakes most emerging artists make when creating their online portfolio.

1. You need an artists website

Any artist who can classify themselves as either “emerging” or “mid-
career” will definitely benefit from having their own website to promote their work.
At this stage of your career it is important to be able to have a place where anyone
in the world can easily access and view your work.

2. Know who you are trying to impress

Are you trying to engage a Soho gallery to sell your $20,000
paintings or sell $5 prints to children in Korea? That Soho gallery might not be
impressed when they see your online-store selling prints and art cards – but on the
other hand, you could make a very handsome living if you really knew how to
market those art cards

3. Make your website fit with your overall art marketing
strategy

A website is most effective when it is part of a larger overall
marketing strategy for your art. This includes mailings, lots of in-person gallery
visits and presentations, regular (physical) showings of your work, and developing
relationships with the art world. An effectively planned website can greatly
compliment and simplify your other marketing efforts.

4. There is a real market for art on the internet

The internet is quickly becoming an accepted place to showcase your
art to collectors and arts professionals. They might still want to see your work in
person before they buy, but the fact remains: they saw it first on your website!
Having an online art presence is very important at this time.

5. Have your own website and a website portfolio service

A website portfolio service (e.g. www.absolutearts.com or www.art-exchange.com is like an online slide registry. For a
fee you can upload images of your work together with a bio, artist statement, and
resume. They have many visitors and are a convenient way to make your work
accessible to potential clients. The down side is that they don’t display your work
well, and there is little flexibility in how the art is showcased.

Your own website, on the other hand will require more work to
promote, but you’ll be able to present the work in the most beautiful way.
Remember the times you’ve been taken into the dimmer room in a commercial
gallery? How that art which looked fairly good on the main gallery wall suddenly
became something you had to take home? That’s how a good artist’s website should
showcase your work.

We recommend both options – they are a perfect compliment.

6. Have a website that collectors and art professionals will
enjoy

Here are some common elements which most dealers and galleries
would agree on for your website design:

• Keep the site simple and elegant with the focus on the art itself
  and don’t overpower the art with a site that looks too busy
• Avoid advertising such as banner adds or sidebar adds. If you
  must have them, put them in a separate “resource” section
• Avoid complex effects like flash movies. In the time it takes to
  play your exotic entry page, your visitor may have moved on.
• Include your bio, artist statement, resume, contact information,
  gallery(s) of your work, contact information, and a pricelist.

7. Showcase your work beautifully

You need to have visual design skills to create a beautiful artist
website. Here are some points to get you started:

• Most Important: Use high-quality, professionally-photographed
  images. Excellence in, excellence out!
• Keep the website simple and elegant with the focus on the
  art.
• Create multiple galleries to compliment the work – just as a
  good physical gallery would do.
• Choose colors that compliment (not overpower) the work. Think
  of the colors you would use in a physical gallery to showcase your work – neutral
  colors like crme, white, gray, and good safe choices.
• Think “minimalist” not “busy” for the layout.
• Keep your copy (text) brief. Let the art speak for itself!

8. Bring collectors and galleries to your website

Its no use having that stunning website sitting in hyperspace. Make it
work for you! Here are the ways to bring quality visitors:

Search Engines: If your website has been well optimized for
search engines, a search on your name or your style of art should bring up your
website in the first few pages of results.

Letters of Introduction: A letter of introduction sent to a
gallery or dealer is a very effective way to bring a qualified visitor to your website.
Better still is to include a brochure or postcard of your work with the letter.

Advertising online or in magazines: For example, if your
art is minimalist and modern in style, a banner add on an interior design website
focused on the same minimalist ethic could draw a lot of traffic to your site.

9. You need to be able to sell your work on the internet.

But there are many ways to do it. More important than anything is
that you have clear and up-to-date contact information on your website. If a buyer
likes your work enough to bring out their checkbook, they will normally be happy to
call you to close the sale.

It’s also handy to be able to sell directly from your website, especially
if you sell lower-cost reproductions. There are simple and cost-effective ways to do
this.

10. Think again before designing your own website

Have you really added up the total cost? Here are some questions to
consider before you start designing:

• Do you have visual design skills/training?
• Can you wait several months for the site to be ready?
• Can you afford to give up a month or more of your valuable
  artist time?
• Do you have all the computer software and the relatively-new
  computer needed to build a high-quality website?
• Are you fully trained in your design software?

Can you answer “Yes” to all of the above? If so, you might think
about doing it yourself. Otherwise, hire a designer!

11. Choose your website-designer thoughtfully

The most important thing here is to remember what you are trying to
create – a beautiful online gallery space to elegantly show your beautiful work – this
is very different from building a high-volume website selling printer ink cartridges
and paper rolls!

Look for the ability to design a space to present your work. One way
to do this is to find artist websites that you like and then contact the artist to get
the name of their designer.

12. Know what you should pay

Artist’s website development prices range from a few hundred to
tens of thousands of dollars. Typically, bigger design firms have larger overheads
and will be significantly more expensive. On the other hand, Joe down the street can
probably build you a website for $200 – but you probably don’t want that
website!

At Beautiful Artist Websites we have packages ranging from $700 to
$2000 for simple elegant artists websites with different levels of functionality. We
can also develop fully customized sites to your specifications with prices based on
requirements.

© Josse Ford and Daniel Tardent. Josse Ford and Daniel Tardent are the founders of
Beautiful Artist Websites.
We design cost-effective artist websites that showcase and
sell your work to arts professionals. Visit our articles page for effective art
marketing tips and sign up for our free report: 6 Steps to Easy Online Art
Sales.