My Paintings

[Alice]

I'm thinking of starting a website for my paintings and whatnot.  Any ideas of a decent template or something user friendly for this?  I've no real idea how to go about doing it.

[dots]

Do you have a Mac?

[Alice]

Do you have a Mac?

No.

[Jessie]

geocities!

[Beefy]

Do you have a Mac?

No.

http://www.youtube.com/v/I2cT2Y0fIeI

(couple of NSFW words used)

[Beefy]

Kick up a blogspot.  It's free, highly editable, and people use them for stores all the time.  You can do something similar and more professional looking with Typepad but it will cost you.

[dots]

FAIL.

Just kidding.  I bought a template, but I am not liking it anymore, so I was giving it away (can't sell it).

I did the blogspot thing...very easy:

www.dottielouphotography.com

I plan on doing something more advanced, but right now, this works.

[BigDun]

Google has a way of creating personal web sites too. Go to http://pages.google.com

[VikingJuice]

Kick up a blogspot.  It's free, highly editable, and people use them for stores all the time.  You can do something similar and more professional looking with Typepad but it will cost you.

I need to set up something similar myself.  I'd like to have a place to refer my friends to view my photo collection and video projects.  I just completed my California Photostory project.  It's in 3 segments totally about 40 minutes or so.  I really like it.  It's my best PS project so far.

[meredith]

For smaller projects, I like to use oswd.org for starter templates, then modify as needed.  http://roomag.org/ for an example of that.  I'm a fan of simpler designs, though.  OSWD's templates take some work if you're going to use them with a blog engine.


If you can envision something that integrates some of your artwork into a page design, it can probably be done.  those tend to be the more interesting portfolio sites, imho.

[Beefy]

I'm a fan of simpler designs

God bless you.

[VikingJuice]

For smaller projects, I like to use oswd.org for starter templates, then modify as needed.  http://roomag.org/ for an example of that.  I'm a fan of simpler designs, though.  OSWD's templates take some work if you're going to use them with a blog engine.


If you can envision something that integrates some of your artwork into a page design, it can probably be done.  those tend to be the more interesting portfolio sites, imho.

I always read imho completely differently than you're supposed to.  I always read it as I'M A HO.  I guess you're never grown up all the way.

[Beefy]

www.midgetswithmallets.com appears to still be on the market

[Alice]

Damn.  At first I thought that said midgets with wallets and I got a little excited.

[eo000]

Damn.  At first I thought that said midgets with wallets and I got a little excited.

I thought it was midgets with mullets.

[meredith]

you need to claim all of those

[Beefy]

you need to claim all of those

I may have to claim mallets for my own.  I just need to find some content worth posting there.

[meredith]

that's the problem with grabbing up domains, innit?

[Beefy]

Maybe I could just post randomly amusing MSPaint drawings there.