Many people asked about the free (and easy) tools I used to redesign this website. So, I wrote a how-to book about it, for artists.
Find out what’s in this book, at my info page, SitesThatSoar.com
But really, how this site looks is just one reason to try this design.
What I like best is this:
I can update […]

Success in art… what does it mean?  If you want to reach your goals as an artist, it’s important to know what ’success’ means to you, personally.
For many people, success is about earning a living with art… and only art.  For others, it’s fame.  Yet others want to achieve a certain level of expertise or […]

Tags are great, but they can be a big headache in WordPress. For one thing, they’re practically set in stone once you’ve entered them.
So, let’s say that you threw tags onto your posts and–over a dozen posts later–realized that the tag would look better as ‘Portsmouth NH’ not ‘portsmouth nh’.
You could try to […]

Since one of my websites has over 250 articles, navigation becomes a big issue with a new site design.
And, since WordPress was created as blogging software, it organizes sites by date, or by date within a category. It wasn’t planned as a content management system (CMS).
The problem is, date order and simple categories are […]

Years ago, when I worked in fashion in Los Angeles, a co-worker at the May Company told a great story about a desperate ad campaign.
He’d had just a few hours to write a newspaper ad for the ugliest argyle socks ever made.
He wrote this headline: “You’ve never seen socks like these!”
The socks sold out the […]