Selling Art Online: Using WordPress to Build Your Art Website

If you’re ready to build your own website to promote or sell your art…you might have discovered that there are a lot of ways to do it. When it comes to building a website for your artwork, you’ll want to choose a website building method that’s low cost, easy to build and maintain, and flexible. One way that fits all of that is WordPress. If you have you’re own blog, you’ve probably heard of WordPress. But this popular blogging software is good for more than just websites. On this show, I’ll go over why WordPress is a great choice for building your art website.

Selling Art Online: Building Your Art Website

If you’re thinking about building your own website to showcase and sell your art, you might have found that there are a number of options available to you. And as often with the case of having a lot of options, the more you have, the more confused you get, and most newbies don’t really know what the best choice is. Here are of the things that you need to consider when you are thinking about building your own website and some of the most common ways to go about it.

Before you begin building your website, consider these issues:

Web Design: How to Redesign Your Art Website…Without Going Crazy

If you’ve had a website for a couple of years, you might be thinking about starting a fresh new year with a fresh new website. But redesigning a website can be just a big a deal as creating one from scratch. Here are some tips on how to spruce up your art website for the coming year without losing a lot of money or your sanity.

1. Decide if you really need to redesign your website- Sometimes you can get by with a quick spruce up instead of a whole redesign. Sometimes you can’t. Here are some great reasons to redesign your website

Selling Artwork Online: Making Your Art Website Trustworthy

How “trustworthy” is your art website? When it comes to marketing and selling your art or handmade crafts, the trustworthiness of your website can make the difference whether you make that sale or not. Here’s what makes your art website trustworthy in the eyes of a potential customer or art collector and how you can boost trust in your website.

1. Clean professional-looking design

  • Pleasing color schemes
  • Sparing use of cheesy clip art
  • No mis-matched fonts
  • Up to date design
  • Design looks great on various browsers

2. Great content

  • Informative, free of misspellings, grammatical errors

Website Maintenance: Sprucing Up a Neglected Art Website

Have you been neglecting your art website lately? When people visit, do they get the impression that you haven’t updated your website or months…maybe even years? Once you build your art website, it needs regular maintenance and the occasional freshening up if you want to attract and keep regular visitors. On today’s show, I’m going to talk about how to spruce up your old neglected craft website.

1. Check for things that make your website look neglected

  • old dates
  • old content
  • broken links and images
  • outdated design
  • missing pages