How to organise your artist website
Graphic and plastic artists use to be prolific when producing artwork, but many of them may find it difficult to sort their work for presenting it in a digital portfolio. We put together simple yet effective rules for you to follow when selecting your work to be digitalized and uploaded to your portfolio website:
That is the usual artists do it and, in website design, your audience will have a better user experience if the navigation is presented as expected.This is the first step to be followed when organising your artist's portfolio website.
Your most more recent production should be presented first and foremost, within organising folders.
2. Now that you sorted your main groups of themes, in case you have many works to display, you can add subfolders for each main theme, grouping them by subject.
3. If you're not new to this, you might have older pieces from past years. An artist's style evolve with time, and it's a good thing that your website's visitors have a view of your life's work.
This can be done by displaying them by year. You can then choose between showing a few samples or repeating the same hierarchy used for the recent work within the year's folder.
Years' folders themselves are better presented in decreasing order.
4. Add a bio page: don't forget to write a little about yourself, your inspiration and process in a profile or about page.
5. Prices: don't include prices together with your work in the portfolio and also don't include a buy button. You'd better be represented by a gallery and link to them in your 'about' page.
If you are a low brow artist it's okay to that you keep a shop with prints and other artwork on your website, but they are better kept separated from your presentation, with a link to it on the main menu. You got it right: that means repeating your available artwork within the shop.
All artists can and should include their contact details in a page accessed by a link in the menu or at the bottom of their profile page.
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