Comments on: How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/ Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:28:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Moira Munro http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-418820 Moira Munro Mon, 19 May 2008 13:15:47 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-418820 Thanks for all the tips. About navigation with "Next/Previous" etc (instead of pop-up windows the user has to close), am I right in thinking this uses Javascript, and search engines will therefore not be able to find your images? (For that reason, I'm giving visitors a choice of both methods, but worry that is clunky). Also, can you recommend any such navigation scripts that are easily customisable? Thanks for all the tips.
About navigation with “Next/Previous” etc (instead of pop-up windows the user has to close), am I right in thinking this uses Javascript, and search engines will therefore not be able to find your images? (For that reason, I’m giving visitors a choice of both methods, but worry that is clunky). Also, can you recommend any such navigation scripts that are easily customisable?

]]> By: Bradd http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-418753 Bradd Mon, 19 May 2008 11:44:47 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-418753 Thanks for tips... I will try this!!! Thanks for tips… I will try this!!!

]]> By: Judith Baker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-413176 Judith Baker Wed, 14 May 2008 01:09:05 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-413176 nothing like making an error when leaving a comment on a "what not to do" blog! My website link is now corrected! nothing like making an error when leaving a comment on a “what not to do” blog!

My website link is now corrected!

]]> By: Judith Baker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-413171 Judith Baker Wed, 14 May 2008 01:05:49 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-413171 Wonderful article. So many good "Don'ts" that really DO make great sense. I'm reworking my own site right now and I'll keep this article handy as a reference! Wonderful article. So many good “Don’ts” that really DO make great sense.

I’m reworking my own site right now and I’ll keep this article handy as a reference!

]]> By: Web Developer India http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-401454 Web Developer India Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:49:08 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-401454 Great tips, love it very useful information & have scrutinize whole above deployed comments all their are very specific, i am glad & these sort of sounded good to me, to make web sites as user & search engine friendly. Great tips, love it very useful information & have scrutinize whole above deployed comments all their are very specific, i am glad & these sort of sounded good to me, to make web sites as user & search engine friendly.

]]> By: Arvind http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-394644 Arvind Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:50:08 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-394644 You got almost all. But you missed one of my personal favourites - pepper the website with links that don't work; after all, 404 can have deep symbolism. You got almost all. But you missed one of my personal favourites - pepper the website with links that don’t work; after all, 404 can have deep symbolism.

]]> By: Leanne http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-384130 Leanne Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:33:41 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-384130 I always read these thinking I'm going to see something about my site covered in one of the "don't do's" and in the end, I'm relieved that my portfolio design doesn't employ any of those things common in annoying sites. My pet peeve are the right-click disabled, pop up in your face with an insult about not stealing things. I can't believe people don't know the variety of functions you can perform with the right click while surfing the web. I actually had someone use my work without reading my terms etc. and told me that because I didn't right-click disable, that she thought it meant "free to use". I always read these thinking I’m going to see something about my site covered in one of the “don’t do’s” and in the end, I’m relieved that my portfolio design doesn’t employ any of those things common in annoying sites.

My pet peeve are the right-click disabled, pop up in your face with an insult about not stealing things. I can’t believe people don’t know the variety of functions you can perform with the right click while surfing the web. I actually had someone use my work without reading my terms etc. and told me that because I didn’t right-click disable, that she thought it meant “free to use”.

]]> By: YVR http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-368871 YVR Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:05:10 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-368871 Nice tips which in some way I tried to implement.please visit www.gluchy.com when you get time. -YVR Nice tips which in some way I tried to implement.please visit http://www.gluchy.com when you get time.
-YVR

]]> By: Charley Parker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-355009 Charley Parker Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:25:11 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-355009 Wow, George, you seem to be surprised and dismayed that art is part of commerce (or vice versa), but I think if you look back, even the Sistine Chapel was created for profit. Artists have to eat. We all showed our art to our relatives at first, the point is to keep working and graduate from there to a larger audience. Yes, the web has its own circuitous economics, but many artists are curretly using it to advantage, finding a wide exposure for their art, whether for gratification or profit, that they might not have access to otherwise. Some are even taking the spam you mention, and turning it into <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/08/paintings-inspired-b-1.html" rel="nofollow">subjects for painting</a>. Wow, George, you seem to be surprised and dismayed that art is part of commerce (or vice versa), but I think if you look back, even the Sistine Chapel was created for profit. Artists have to eat.

We all showed our art to our relatives at first, the point is to keep working and graduate from there to a larger audience.

Yes, the web has its own circuitous economics, but many artists are curretly using it to advantage, finding a wide exposure for their art, whether for gratification or profit, that they might not have access to otherwise.

Some are even taking the spam you mention, and turning it into subjects for painting.

]]> By: George Barry http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-352159 George Barry Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:04:31 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-display-your-artwork-on-the-web/#comment-352159 Tricks and flash and hiding and more tricks...Artist needs to show their art? For what?...Replace the word Artists with Image Makers, that is nearer the truth...Art web sites are mostly commercial places for selling and nothing else...Art on the web doesn't really exist except in the minds of them that put their so called Art on it...The Art web is an incestuous place with ego driven self gratification as its immediate goal, which it succeeds at by offering free portfolios to unsuspecting individuals who actually believe that someone will 'discover' them. The sad truth is the free sites need the contributors to encourage the Google adword placements which gives them cash, and the spiders gather emails so we can all benfit from larger sexual organs offered in the terminal emails one begins to receive once one accepts a 'free' web placement. Then of course there is the 'family' sales. Where the new artists invite their grandmothers and Uncle's to visit the site to gain a pat on the back and perhaps sell a painting on the cheap, more self gratification. And so it goes on. However on a positive note, the web provides something to talk about and a handy way of amusing oneself by being cynical....Thanks....George Barry, Tricks and flash and hiding and more tricks…Artist needs to show their art? For what?…Replace the word Artists with Image Makers, that is nearer the truth…Art web sites are mostly commercial places for selling and nothing else…Art on the web doesn’t really exist except in the minds of them that put their so called Art on it…The Art web is an incestuous place with ego driven self gratification as its immediate goal, which it succeeds at by offering free portfolios to unsuspecting individuals who actually believe that someone will ‘discover’ them. The sad truth is the free sites need the contributors to encourage the Google adword placements which gives them cash, and the spiders gather emails so we can all benfit from larger sexual organs offered in the terminal emails one begins to receive once one accepts a ‘free’ web placement. Then of course there is the ‘family’ sales. Where the new artists invite their grandmothers and Uncle’s to visit the site to gain a pat on the back and perhaps sell a painting on the cheap, more self gratification. And so it goes on. However on a positive note, the web provides something to talk about and a handy way of amusing oneself by being cynical….Thanks….George Barry,

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