Comments on: Big Artist Website Mistake #3: Distract Your Visitors

By: jodi

jodi — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:12:39 +0000

Thanks for this great series of articles.

I wonder about the point made for ‘Mouse-over Image Enlargements.’ I suppose it is annoying for some people, but I think the purpose of it is to prevent people stealing and using copy-righted images. Images that are static can easily be copied if your computer has a screenshot function that allows you to capture/crop the image you want.

By: website gallery

website gallery — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:04:13 +0000

Your view is very perfect. But the thing is not only Art websites need to be navigational and user friendly but all other websites in the world needs to be like that.

Every website must be user friendly. Load quickly and informative and not a spam one.

-Austin

By: Oscar Ortiz

Oscar Ortiz — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:34:19 +0000

“Loading” in an artist website is a curse word. Is the worst thing you want to have in your site. Most visitors leave right away after waiting for a few seconds for images to “load”. Same with music. Music is for musicians. That’s what they are selling. A web page is a natural medium for a VISUAL artist and it should be used “as is”. Don’t add anything to it. Great article Daniel!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:31:13 +0000

Thanks for the appreciation and great comments Ruth and Nicolette. I like the Seth Godin comment a lot – I could probably have replaced the whole article with those few words of his

By: Nicolette Tallmadge

Nicolette Tallmadge — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:50:29 +0000

Great article. A simple website is the key. Marketer Seth Godin said that in most cases, if people notice the website, then you’ve already lost the sale. Plus, simple websites also tend to be a bit cheaper and easier to maintain than those fancy flash websites that requires a lot of money to build and a web designer to maintain.

By: Ruth Bavier

Ruth Bavier — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:24:57 +0000

Fantastic advice. All newbies to the Art Marketing world (and maybe some not so new) need to read your articles! Thank you!!