How to Make an Artist's Portfolio Website
Nowadays it makes perfect sense to create a website featuring your artistic work. It is an opportunity for you to broadcast your abilities to people that you would normally never encounter. Such a website can be a digital duplicate of your physical portfolio available for anyone in the world to see at any time. For a custom website together with your own domain name, you will need to set up your own website. Once you learn how to create the first page, you're well on your way to building your own artist portfolio website.
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Instructions
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Prepare a draft of what you would like the website to look like. Create the text and underline all the hyperlinks you intend to create. Ensure that the homepage clearly provides all the information at a glance. Check your text for grammar and spelling mistakes. Define how many pages it will have and the layout of each page. Decide how you want to display your images, as thumbnails, which require clicking to make them larger, or as larger images straight away. This will have an impact on the number of pages in your website. Prepare the draft as accurately as you can. Include your logo, contact information, past and present artistic work, professional bio and resume. Mention any awards and testimonials received.
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Assemble the photographs of your artwork you want on your website. Use only the best high quality images to maximize the impact of your website. Use photo-editing software to examine the images, and make any changes to enhance or correct them. Employ functions like brightness level, or color correction if necessary. Remember that the more effects you add to an image the less quality it will have. Take new photographs or have them professionally taken if your images are of low quality. Images of your work can make or break your website as well as your reputation.
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Choose an online hosting provider. Find a host that is inexpensive but will allow you to build your own site and register your own domain name. Use the Hyper Text Markup Language editor normally provided by the host to help you build the pages as easily as in a normal word processor. Upload your images on the server and create your first HTML page, which will be your homepage. Name the page and begin entering the data as you have laid it out in your draft. Create the text first before loading up images so that you can focus on creating all the pages containing text.
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Create text that is easy to read and use a common style throughout the website. Avoid small print or low contrast between background and text color, as this will not appeal to visitors. Co-ordinate the background and text colors to create a pleasant look. Insert your images as listed in your draft. Use the "Link" function on the HTML editor toolbar to create links. Arrange links to allow visitors to travel forward and backward easily through your entire website. Check that all the links are functioning and keep working on the details until you feel it is complete.
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Tips & Warnings
Use your mailing list and other marketing and social networking strategies to bring people to your website. Keep your website updated with new work and include a current events section to let people know what you're doing.
References
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