The Website Design Studio - Websites for artists
Web design for artists is a specialist area. At the Website Design Studio we have extensive experience of designing affordable websites for artists and art groups.
Bespoke websites for artists
Artist websites tend to larger than average as they usually contain galleries of images and the option to click on an image to enlarge it. For this reason, bespoke websites for artists can be very expensive - sometimes over £600. Because of the way we work, artist sites designed by The Website Design Studio are more affordable than most - an average invoice for a bespoke, 30 page site is between £300 and £500 pages depending on the number of galleries needed and the optional extras required.
Budget website for artists
We understand that not all artists need a large, bespoke website; all that is required is a simple showcase. Therefore we offer a budget website package consisting of a biography page, a contact page and a gallery consisting of up to 8 examples of work. The cost of this service is £99 (including a domain name and hosting for one year). All you need to do is email us your images, contact details and text for your biography page, and we will do the rest. Click here for an example of a budget website for artists.
Sell your work via our online art gallery
Soon, we will opening an online art gallery. The aim is to provide an online showcase where artists can sell their art. Displaying artworks will be free, but we will charge a small commission on any sales. You will be responsible for posting and packaging costs and dispatching the item promptly to your buyer. Please Contact The Website Design Studio now if you have any artwork that you want to sell as we are currently compiling our gallery.
Suggested pages for an artist’s bespoke website
Here is a suggestion for bespoke web pages for an artist who regularly exhibits and does some teaching work.
Home
About
Inspiration
Gallery 1
Gallery 2
Gallery 3
Workshops
Diary
Exhibitions
Contact
Our web design principles
The starting points for all our website designs are the principles of good web communication:
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Easy to read text fonts
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Simple navigation systems (intuitive for the visitor to use)
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Minimal use of background images (which can distract from the content)
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Quick to appear (no annoying flash animations that take ages to load)
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Excellent graphic design (ensuring the site looks good and gives a positive impression)
Editing web pages
Artists sometimes need to update images. We can do that for you or if you prefer, we can set up the site so that you can update it yourself. However, there is an extra charge for this and it can be a time consuming and frustrating exercise requiring some level of computer expertise. We manage the changes for most of our artist websites - our clients prefer it that way as it is more cost effective and saves a lot .
Our website design mission
We understand that many of our clients will have limited technical understanding of websites or even computing in general. We welcome your questions and will do our best to provide answers in simple, jargon free language.
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Find out more about website design
The Website Design Studio has extensive experience of designing websites for the arts and small businesses - click on The Website Design Home Page to visit our main home page.
Choose Website design services to view the full range of web design services we offer. To view our website packages and prices, click on Website design costs. To see some of our clients' websites, click on Website Gallery or click on any of the sites you see on the pages in this site. Click Beginner's guide to websites to find this article again.
Please Contact The Website Design Studio if you have any queries or would like a quote. We look forward to hearing from you.
Alternatively visit our sister site www.websitedesignforartists.com for more more information on wesbites for artists.
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