Hello! As 2012 is speeding along, we hope you are making those new years resolutions a reality. Today, we want to present ArtWeb’s newly released Facebook app and show you why we think it’s awesome! Just in case you have already heard or read about this and can’t wait to try it for yourself immediately, here’s the app and how [...]

Welcome to January’s Artist Newsletter! This month we are focussing on New Year’s resolutions: Make time for that painting you’ve been putting off starting, give your website that long needed update, and get your work seen by more people! 1. Get Discovered Last year we covered quite a bit on the process of getting your work out there, and being [...]

Welcome to this month’s Artists’ newsletter, on the subject of arts/craft fairs – fitting for Christmas! We hope you find these little snippets of advice useful, whether you have already held an art fair this year, or are thinking about doing one in the future! ‘Christmas Cushion Collection’ by Lettie Belle 1. Marketing So you’ve spent hours handcrafting your products, [...]

Welcome to our latest article, ‘Getting the Most Out of Your Website Part 4: Design’. This is the last article in this series, and will focus on how you can develop your own individual website design, without going over the top and without having to know lots of fancy coding! A lot of you will be using Artweb’s templates, so [...]

Welcome to our latest article, ‘Getting the Most Out of Your Website Part 3: Increasing Traffic to Your Site Via Social Media’. For many artists, social media and publicising your website or work on the Internet is already a major part of their routine. For many others though, this can be a very confusing and daunting area, particularly when using [...]

Welcome back to our ‘Getting the most out of your website’ series! In Part 2 we are focussing on ‘Making it Clear’ – covering all aspects of getting your message across to your site’s visitors, and hopefully encouraging them to buy your work! This is aimed predominantly at artists who are hoping to sell work through their websites, rather than [...]

Setting up your artist’s website Welcome to this series of articles with tips on how to get the most out of your website. In this first part, we’ll be looking at how you can build a first connection with your visitors by creating an ‘About Me’ section that really stands out and represents what you and your work are about! We [...]

Blogging for Artists This month we are looking at the benefits of blogging for artists, providing some tips and advice as well as giving you an idea of the different blogging platforms available, and other online articles that shed some more light on the blogging world. Firstly, some thoughts on why blogging might be good for your art practice in [...]

New weekly competition: is your image on our facebook wall?  We have just launched a new competition on our Facebook page, where you could win free membership for 6 months or a year! Every Wednesday we’ll be selecting an artwork at random from artweb.com and posting it on our wall in our ‘frame’. If it happens to be your image: [...]

Having control over your own website is great! Changes can be made quickly and easily, and you can add your own artistic touches whenever you feel like it. It does take a little care and attention though, so I figured that a few pointers might help you make the most out of your online presence. Is the text easy to [...]