These are dry times. Summer slips away faster than you can catch it – a dime down the drain. The sky hangs damp and icy today. Across the globe, powerful little men toy with the world’s future like it’s a game of chicken. Hurricanes have ravaged large parts of our earth. Families will suffer the effects for years to come. Terrorists won’t let London sleep.
This planet can get so ugly. So broken. So disordered. So many of our mirrors are shattered.
There is order in beauty. A divine order, I believe, but whatever your theology you can feel it. The affirmation of disparate parts falling into place.
Jennifer Berkenbosch’s Cultivar matters because the world needs beauty today. We need to be reminded that there is goodness. There is a solid bed beneath this wild river.
Today is going to be fun! You get to make some sweeping changes to the look and feel of your new website.
I’ll cover some basic design principles that will apply to everyone building a site, no matter the platform. I’ll also go over how to make specific changes to your site’s template through the Squarespace admin panel.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
I want you to ask me anything about building a website for your art. It can be related to working with Squarespace, the tool we are exploring throughout this series. It doesn't have to be. Really, anything that has to do with an artist website.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
Today we’re going to get you hooked up. Or, more to the point, we’re going to get your website hooked up with your social media accounts.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
The homepage on your website will give visitors your Most Important Thing. That will be the first thing they see. Exactly what you hope will be the first thing they see. We’ll make it so, by design.
So with that Most Important Thing firmly in mind, let’s get our hands dirty, back in our website building tool of choice, Squarespace.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
oday we are going to start building the frame of your new art website. We are going to create your basic pages. By the time you are done this post, you will have made the 5, 6 or 7 most important pages on your website. Or at least, you’ll have framed out those pages. You’ll also have your site’s menu built. Really!
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
Welcome to the fifth installment of Website Wednesdays. Today we are walking our website straight into the Template of Doom.
Choosing your website Template is our next step, and one of the first steps to really getting started. As a first step, it can be pretty daunting. But it doesn’t need to be.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
For a month now we’ve been talking about building a better website for your art. If you’ve been following along, you now know why you want that website. You know exactly what it is for and how it will be used. You know the Most Important Thing people will do when they get there. And you know most of the other things(5 to 7 other things) they’ll do, too.
Well congratulations, hero. You’ve made it to the moment you’ve been waiting for. The moment when we actually start building your brand-spankin’-new art website. The moment you start to see results take shape. You are ready to go online.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
You may want people to sign up for a weekly newsletter where you email out sketches. Art sales may be your goal, and so your homepage will feature the latest painting for sale with a big ‘buy now’ button.
But that’s just the home page. Your website doesn’t have to have more than one page, but it likely will. There will likely be more than one thing you’ll want to offer. Contact information. Your CV. A gallery. All things that may be important to your visitors, but not so important that they fill up that sacred front page.
Today we’ll map out the rest of your site.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
Whatever your MOST IMPORTANT THING is, make sure your tool of choice, be it Squarespace, Wordpress or something else, can deliver on it. This one main thing is what you are going to gauge your happiness or frustration by. It’s what people are going to remark on about your site–in the positive or the negative–depending how right you get this.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
"I’d like to see more of your work. What’s your website?"
What goes through your head when you hear those words? Pride and excitement? Fear and shame?
I want you to have a website you are proud of. One you like and you can maintain. Starting today, this series will help you get there.
In the weeks to come, we’ll be rebuilding KarlaAdolphe.ca. I invite you to come along for the ride. Read these posts, but follow along, too. Take this opportunity to give your own website an overhaul. We’ll be working with specific tools, but also with general principles that will apply regardless of the tools you choose.
You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.
