Comments on: Designing your web site http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/ Tue, 7 Oct 2008 04:43:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alfredo Gomez Jr. http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-141077 Alfredo Gomez Jr. Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:52:01 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-141077 Wow! Many Thanks for all of this very helpful advice... Been using it as a rough reference in building my site. Wow! Many Thanks for all of this very helpful advice… Been using it as a rough reference in building my site.

]]> By: Brian http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-138121 Brian Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:16:55 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-138121 Nice post. There's a lot of useful information here, especially for bloggers who are just getting into tweaking CSS and such. 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 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-134901 the lone beader Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:47:45 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-134901 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. 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 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-133661 Travis Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:33:14 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-133661 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. 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 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-133393 Charley Parker Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:22:20 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-133393 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 <a href="http://www.danvanb.com/" rel="nofollow">web site</a>, with galleries of his paintings and drawings in a variety of media. 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 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-133382 Charley Parker Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:15:01 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-133382 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 <a href="http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/02/james-gurney-update/" rel="nofollow">recent post</a> on James Gurney's work, may want to take a visit to his recently re-designed and expanded <em><a href="http://dinotopia.com/" rel="nofollow">Dinotopia</a></em> site and his active new blog, <em><a href="http://www.gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Gurney Journey</a></em>. 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 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-132450 Daniel van Benthuysen Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:57:00 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-132450 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. 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.

]]> By: James Gurney http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-132316 James Gurney Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:53:41 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/08/26/designing-your-web-site/#comment-132316 You've done us all a great service, Charley, with this incredibly complete look at what makes an art website work. Your own site is a shining example to the rest of us, and a deep well of inspiration. You’ve done us all a great service, Charley, with this incredibly complete look at what makes an art website work. Your own site is a shining example to the rest of us, and a deep well of inspiration.

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