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How to Market Your Art OnlineWondering how to get your art online and how to get customers?
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Here's How:Tips:
- Decide whether your art will be in a larger online gallery or in your own Web site.
- Decide whether you want it as an online portfolio or if you want to sell it online.
- If joining an established gallery submit your work in jpg format will all relevant information such as medium, size, price and contact info.
- If creating your own site make thumbnails of images for faster downloads.
- Having your own domain name is the best route to take.
- Avoid unnecessary frills such as animation, music and other memory hogs.
- Avoid having too many images on a single page.
- Design site so that a viewer can navigate from any page to any other page in site.
- Be sure that artist's statement and contact info are easy to find.
- Keep navigation simple!
- Showcase your art, not your Web design skills.
- Create a newsletter or guest book for viewer feedback.
- Submit your site to major search engines.
- Follow submission instructions to the letter!
- Showcase your art, not Web Gizmos!
- Keep download time to a minimum.
- Keep submitting to search engines.
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