5 Best Sources for Creating an Online Art Gallery
If you are a professional artist, you need to have your own website. A website is considered the primary contact medium for any professional in today’s world, and that includes the artist.
There are several misconceptions that keep artists from taking that first step to creating an online presence. There is the assumption that professional looking websites are costly to create and complicated to manage. Neither of these needs to be true for the artist. Listed below are five of the best website sources for artists. Each of these services cater specifically to artists and can provide professional looking website galleries for your art for minimal prices, and in some cases, at no cost at all.
The Top Five..
1. BigBlackBag.com – Don’t let the Do-It-Yourself tag on this web design service stop you from looking further. The website templates for visual and music artists that are provided by this company are amazing. Besides their professional look, they also include great search engine benefits to you as part of the package, something you won’t find in most packages of this type.
2. ArtStudiosOnline.com – This service has several options to choose from in creating your own website, plus they also offer custom design services as well. One of their unique features is the ability to create a ‘sample website’ and see for yourself how the easy it is to use the service and actually upload your work onto one of their website templates.
3. ArtWeb.com – This gallery website service provides free, basic and pro packages for artists. With the free package you would not have a custom domain name, and there would be advertising on your site. However, the reasonably priced basic and pro packages do provide you with your own custom domain name and very professional looking galleries to showcase your work.
4. WebsiteforArtists.com – If you would prefer to work with an individual website designer who specializes in websites for artists, Isabelle Garbani provides that service through her site with very reasonable rates.
5. MosaicGlobe.com – There are three different levels of service to choose from for creating your artist website through Mosaic. The first level is totally free and includes five pages and 25 gallery images, but will also have advertising displayed on your pages. The Basic package gives you unlimited images and an ad-free website. The biggest negative to the Mosaic free and basic packages is the fact that you would not have the option of a custom domain name. That is only available with the Plus package, but the price on that package is still quite reasonable.
There you have it. Five easy and inexpensive options for creating that online music or art gallery that will make your art accessible to anyone from anywhere. Decide on a domain name and get that website up and running, now!
