Years ago, Aisling.net was my main website. I wrote about everything related to art… how-to info, marketing tips, reviews of books, notes about creative hobbies, and so on. But, after adding to it for about ten years, even I couldn’t find articles there. The site was too huge and diverse.
So, I split the articles into [...]
Do you need to change a Yahoo Group moderator or owner? Here are step-by-step instructions.
I’ve started around 20 (or more?) Yahoo Groups, including AJmarketing, wildartdolls, and ArtistsJournals2 (AJ2, now WAJ2). When they become too popular for me to manage, I generally turn them over to new owners and moderators.
So, when people need to change Yahoo [...]
If you want to meet other artists and talk with them about local resources and outlets for your own art, here’s one great approach: Join art associations and clubs, and — here’s the important part — go to their annual meetings.
Unlike some corporate annual meetings, art associations’ meetings can be very sociable and fun. [...]
(I should subtitle this article, ‘How I tripled my online income in three weeks’.)
If you’re doing business online, you need to hear this seminar series. Really. It’ll cost you $7 and take about an hour to listen to. Every subject is packed with information, tips and resources… no fluff.
It’s called the Seven Secrets [...]
Every year, new art galleries and crafts shops open. Often, they’re launched on a shoestring. They need consigned items to sell.
Every year, new artists and crafters decide that this is the year they’re going to launch their careers. They need places to show their artwork.
New shops and new artists can help each [...]
How do you choose a ‘good’ art show or crafts fair when you’re a beginner? A few simple cues can help you, plus one reliable source.
The first cue is the quality of promotion. Does this fair have an online presence, and does their site look professional? (If not, tell them about my [...]
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 change [...]
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 [...]