My website

[arcdawg]

Well I had been putting it off for too long so I had one of my friends build this website for me. Its really basic but thats how I wanted it. I will be adding stuff every week ( now that I have shop time again.

Tommorow I am in a show with 300 other artist and will be only one of two to have a piece on display outside. I am physked.....

let me know what you think -

dawg

www.bcw2.com

I think the site looks good, I'm not really up on the arts but don't most pieces have a name?

What do you call your orange sculpture and good luck at the showing.

[partagas]

Got nothing. Blank screen.

Sorry tried it with Exploder and it worked.

[arcdawg]

yeah they all have names but I wanted to keep the site as clean as possible. I guess eventually I will have a artist statement and catolog of the names of the pieces. I just wanted to have it up and running for this show this weekend -

dawg

[RST200]

Nice art work. Your site loads reeeeeaallly slow.

[arcdawg]

are you on dial up ? cause its super quick with cable

[RST200]

Yes dial-up for me.
Just a thought when doing a website to help sell products. There are many people that might be potential customers of yours that still use dial-up. They may not be willing to wait for the page to load up and move on. You might do your home page without flash and give the option for your customers to view using flash and something very basic for those with dial-up.
You've got some nice work. Hate to see you miss a potential sale.
Just my 2 cents

[arcdawg]

Thanks for the Info. I didnt buid the site. My buddy did everything ( I helped with the photos) and the layout of the site was my idea. Pat just brought it all together. We had discoulsed *flash* and dial up as well. We lost some of the picuture quality for speed and the load time is really fast for dsl or cable.

Im just using the site as a online portfolio for galleries to checkout. Sometime down the road it will be more geared toward *clients* but now it beats sending out a portfolio to perspective galleries.....

D-

[David Lutz]

Are you going to add a title? The header says "Untitled Document."

David L.

[Bob Warner]

I've known several people that overlook the dialup crowd. I knew one guy that told me that if they cannot afford at least DSL they could not afford his stuff and therefore did not care if they could get on his site because they were not potential customers.

WRONG WRONG WRONG

I live out in the boonies and within 5 miles of me there are a lot of very nice homes, huge properties and lots of money. BUT the only way on the web is Dialup. The local telephone company spends their cash on the high density areas because they get more return on their investment so we (the remote people) are stuck. You should have a dual site, Flash and Dialup as suggested above. I did not wait for it to finish loading, it just took to long.

[shallowrunner]

Hi Dawg,

The website looks good. It is very basic but that is what your wanted, however I think it works well. I only have one suggestion for you. If you are the one taking the pictures of the smaller items like the stars, trying using a piece of wax paper or a sheet of paper that is at least 24 to 36 inches wide and about 40 inches long, tape it to the wall and then let it hang down the wall then roll it on top of the table your are using. Kinda hard to explain what I am trying to say. Let me see if I can find a picture for you. Basically, you want to remove the seam that you see at the back of your photos. You want to make it one continuous flow. Be right back, gonna find a pic for you. This pic is from web photo school. A great place to learn about photography.



You can use a couple of work lights to help improve the lighting of your pictures. If you make a stand similar to the one posted, then you can place a work lamp under the table facing upward. This will provide light through the bottom of the paper. Then you can place a work lamp to the left of your position taking the picture. If you have a sun reflector like the ones you see in the car windshield, then you can place this slightly to the right of the your objects and this will help to reflect light back to the right side of your object. This will help give your objects some contrast and some demensional view. If you need any more help on this let me know....I like to dabble in photography, not very good at it, but not to bad either. Here is a link to my photo website.

http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/s...=shallowrunner



Shallowrunner.

[arcdawg]

I agree about the photos....there all done by me and not a pro....hopefully down the road they will be..

thanks

Dawg

[shallowrunner]

Dawg, read my post again....I added some info towards the bottom. Just by doing this it will improve your photos. And the setup cost is next to nothing. Good luck, keep up the nice art work!


Shallowrunner.

[whateg0]

A lot of sites just have a small link to a "non-flash" page in a corner.

Just a thought.

Dave

[Juno3]

Good job Arc Dawg. I think it's a great start on your website also! Wishing you lots of great things for your show!