Putting Your Art on the Web
A talk given on 1/12/02 to the Contemporary QuiltArts Association of Seattle by Karen Seymour, The Computer Workshop
| Getting Started |
| Definitions |
| Design Issues |
| Appendix (hardware and costs) |
| PDF of handout |
| CQA |
| The Computer Workshop |
A web site makes it easy to:
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Show pictures and whatever without having to worry that receiver can read attachments and you don't clog their e-mail |
Coordinate a group |
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Share information |
Sell a product (maybe) |
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and... |
Before you get started consider the following:
- Why? Knowing your purpose will help focus your design.
- Who is your audience?
- Do they use the web? What connection speed (modem or faster)? If slow, use graphics with care.
- How fancy a monitor? Again, if low resolution monitor, take care in your graphics.
- Older browser? may not support newer features like cascading style sheets.
- Sight problems? Use relative fonts, no frames, alt text for graphics.
- Do they use the web? What connection speed (modem or faster)? If slow, use graphics with care.
- How do they find you? Mailing to group, links from others, ads, search engines.
- Is someone else doing the same thing? Does it make sense to cross link?
- If this is a business oriented item, what is your competition doing?
- What is your budget? Do you plan to take credit cards over the internet? If so you need a more expensive and involved setup (see Appendix for costs of various options)
- How much time do you plan to commit to site maintenance?
A talk given on 1/12/02 to the Contemporary QuiltArts Association of Seattle by Karen Seymour, The Computer Workshop
Copyright 2002, Karen Seymour