Comments on: Designing your web site

By: JON ALEY PAINTINGS

JON ALEY PAINTINGS — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:36:57 +0000

On the surface level of my work, one can see a shifting of dimension and distance within colors and fields, which seem representational of various places in nature. Under this surface though, in my eyes, a painting is a center point, a culminating nexus where all the pieces of a life, in all its complexity and experience, become focused and connected. I paint in an attempt to get myself to release the hold I have on what I consider reality for a moment and be reminded of something more, a place in or outside of time and movement within memory and collective cultural ideas. My work is not landscape; I don’t see my paintings as places although the work does carry a sense of place. Rather, I see the movements left by my hand, which in turn came from those experiences I carried with me to the canvas at that place.

By: Alfredo Gomez Jr.

Alfredo Gomez Jr. — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:52:01 +0000

Wow! Many Thanks for all of this very helpful advice… Been using it as a rough reference in building my site.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:16:55 +0000

Nice post. There’s a lot of useful information here, especially for bloggers who are just getting into tweaking CSS and such.

By: the lone beader

the lone beader — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:47:45 +0000

I need to seriously find someone to help me design my own website… I’m looking to find an illustrator who can maybe work with Flash.. any recommendations??

Anyways, thank you for all the tips…. I will be reading through them all.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:33:14 +0000

Charley, your series on setting up a website has been very helpful. Your ‘finger of shame’ pointed directly toward my site on many counts. The admonition that people will click off if the presentation requires too much work is very appropriate. My navigation was requiring visitors to be detectives. If that weren’t bad enough, categories were interspersed throughout the site rather than grouped. Now I’m starting to address these problems.
There are already encouraging results even though I still have lots more organizing to do. Before reading your posts, I’d been losing over 2/3 of my visitors at the home page. They had no obvious button to click for entry. But after making a few changes, the stats have made a full swing in my favor. Now 3/4 of my visitors are clicking beyond the home page into the site. A complete reversal, and then some! Referrers have also increased as a result.
Thanks for putting together the information which is a great guide for planning.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:22:20 +0000

Daniel,

Thanks for the vote of confidence and the suggestion. Though I’m putting alot of work into this series, I’ve put books together before and they are another order of magnitude in terms of effort.

Also, alot of what I’m providing here is access to other resources on the web, something that’s more difficult to do in print.

Other readers should check out Daniel’s web site, with galleries of his paintings and drawings in a variety of media.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:15:01 +0000

James, Thanks for the kind words. I'm working pretty hard to make this series useful and i'm glad to know it's appreciated. Other readers who have not seen my recent post on James Gurney's work, may want to take a visit to his recently re-designed and expanded Dinotopia site and his active new blog, Gurney Journey.

By: Daniel van Benthuysen

Daniel van Benthuysen — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:57:00 +0000

I’ll go further: You should collect all these posts on how artists should look at web presentation and show them to a publisher. In the aggregate think you have a very marketable book here.