I'm not computer savvy. I am trying to get a decent looking website together for some upcoming shows and contest entries. I'm trying to use a template. I can switch to many different template designs but this one seems easiest to manage?
If anyone is so inclined, I would really, really, really appreciate input, suggestions, proofreading and any other thing I may be missing - I value each of you and your opinions so if you don't mind and have the time, can you tell me if there are some obvious, glaring errors or complications that I need to consider.
My verboseness probably needs some editing as well.
Thank you in advance www.juliannaohara.com
https://juliannaohara.com/
Comments
- Typo: "COMPETIION".
- Mix of "- September" and "= September".
- Under AFFILIATIONS, Monterey is indented a bit too far.
- Opinion: of the two photos, the one with the painting makes the other one needless.
- If you want the "Email Newsletter" menu option to go away (I did), you may have to ask FASO support to do it, unless you plan on sending out newsletters.
- Opinion: the tagline "Paint what you love" might be better as "Painting what I love".
- Opinion: I would remove your email address from the front page, and instead rely on the contact page doing the work.
- Opinion: Either add prices, or somewhere say "Contact the Artist for prices".
I never realized how much better your analogous study is than Henri le Sidaner's.Monterey still looks out of line - one backspace and it is out of line the other way now....
by the two photos, do you mean the profile photos? Just keep the one with the painting? Does it look stupid because it isn't framed? The painting was still wet at a wine function I was asked to display art
Your voice comes across very well on your blog post- it’s you!
Couple of things
Pricing- I always bypass artist websites that do not show their pricing.
The slideshow gallery- I would suggest alternating the warmer paintings with the cooler paintings- give the eyes a rest.
About the artist- I would leave out the childhood stuff ( an expanded version of this part would actually make for a great blogpost) and focus on your current work and accomplishments. One photo of yourself ( I really like the one of you with your painting) maybe a few close up detail shots of the juicy brushwork in your paintings in a banner across the bottom ( if the template allows for that)
Maybe some shots of the multi room ever expanding studio? (Ha ha- nobody needs to see that)
Excellent suggestions about switching up the temperatures to keep interest and some up .
too verbose with the boring life story...……. it's hard!
I did put prices...……… I don't understand why they aren't showing... it took me forever to add prices and diminsions and substrate and yadda yadda yadda...……….. let me try to figure out what I did wrong there.
Gosh y'all are helping a ton...……… truly, truly, truly appreciate it
I PM'ed you the URL. Not ready to make it public yet, it's not even half complete.
First you have to paint something that isn't red hot.
There is great help documentation there (http://support.boldbrush.com/faso). You might want to think about turning on the features that overlays a copyright on each image.
@Boudicca ~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! genius idea!!!! I am in the process of working on @Richard_P 's - I wouldn't know what to paint for you...………. animal control came and picked up the dead cat in my yard - Sophia Loren Scarlett O'Hara insisted upon it. I wish we could keep the swap going - it has been great fun!
OR , who enjoys exploring interior analogous scenes.
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Consider: Julianna was born in Florida, moved to South Carolina as a young teenager and, after graduating college, moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.
Consider: She now resides near Monterey, California, and she is affiliated with various art organizations - she paints almost daily and works almost exclusively from life - she only paints what she loves - she has to be moved in some way to put paint to canvas and luckily, many things move her.
1) the color of the text block on the left, if you could try some color that is close to the most common color used in your paintings, like a beautiful pinkish red
2) changing color of the background to a light shade of grey(It is just my personal preference). I feel it makes everything softer to the eye and also helps lift colors of dark paintings
3) Make an instagram account just for your art and have it on the website page along with the Facebook sign. The sooner you start the IG account the better, it takes so much time to get followers (who aren't related/friends
I will let you know if I can come up with anything else.
I sent the link to my physicist / (he also has a Masters in Computer Science) husband and he was ho -hum about it...…….. he said it is kind of slow - the recent awards are redundant and why didn't I mention the Museum Of Modern Art exhibit in Jan/Feb of 2018...……… OMG - how could I forget that??? seriously. MoMA He said my paintings are so much better in person and that the larger photos on the website don't do any of my paintings justice - the smaller ones in the "album" look much better to him.
@kaustav - that is disturbing that it looks even more juvenile with your error message - thank you for testing that.
@anwesha thank you so much. I don't know how to change any colors - I am just switching templates. I have Instagram but it won't let me upload from my computer - how stupid is that! I don't have my photos on my phone - they are all on my laptop. I spent about 1000 hours watching youtube instructional videos on how to upload to Instagram from your computer and none of it worked - Instagram is my enemy right now - how is it "Insta" anything when you can't even click a photo on your laptop and upload it????? So absolutely ridiculous to me.
P.S. I am not a cell phone person. I have mine for emergencies - I use my computer for everything - I hate Instagram now.
Thank you all for your patience and help - it is looking so much better but I have a ways to go....
I am going to switch templates to see if that helps anything. I have to say, FASO is easy when it comes to clicking a button and the design instantly changes - I also love that I have free entries into their monthly art competitions.
Thank you, truly, for all your help. I have made great progress today in spite of the uphill battle yet ahead.
@Julianna Instagram is very important. It's almost a direct communication mode. Simple to use, connected to FB. I feel that you should add an Instagram account. you can post through PC as well. There are ways to do that!
Your petulance is excused, dealing with clunky tech is enough to snap a person’s brain.
Come to Australia for a holiday and I’ll teach you all about it
@anwesha do you not find it ridiculous that one cannot add a photo to Instagram from their computer? I don't have any pictures on my phone to upload - they're all on my laptop - lightroom is on my laptop. My husband has NO phone - not even a flip phone
I'm in way over my head here you guys (gals) ---- I'm going to try to edit my "website" a little more today but I want to be painting. It's aggravating when one is special needs with technology - y'all have helped tremendously - there is a big improvement in the look of my website from where it was yesterday this time. Thank you....
Instagram made a deliberate choice to not let you post from a browser. You therefore have to use their app. Using the app gives them an awful lot more data about you and your habits which they exploit for gain. Business.
By the way I love the red in your website now. It feels like it has the essence of Julianna in it more now
The About The Artist section reads very well. There is one typo- an extra full stop where the sentence talks about what you are concentrating on.
I know you hate all this computer stuff but you’ve done a fabulous job.
70% of people use the Internet from a mobile device, most people will be looking at your site from either a smartphone or a tablet. It looks like FASO has optimised their templates to work well for mobile which is very important.
@BOB73 thank you for looking. I am struggling with how many photos of my paintings - I have about 100 paintings (many of them "failures")……. my attention span is short so personally, on other art websites, when they have 20 - 100 or more works showing, I lose focus. I was trying to get different sizes and colors and themes - I love doing self portraits but I think they are my poorest of finished pieces and I have no interest in doing portraits. I would like to get to where I can start adding figures into my paintings without avoiding it
I was struggling with deciding about one of those outdoor scenes I did - I still think I could do better and I have one sketched out that I want to explore. None of those are available anymore -
I really don't like the sunset, sunrise little paintings and think I just picked them for the size and variety - I have a Mission painting that has always been my husband's favorite - but I did it so long ago - it is hardly current and that was when I was much tighter. I think my website should represent who I am now as an artist...…..
thank you for your suggestions - you're making me re-think...… should I add more or is around 10 plenty???
I don't understand - if you have a DSLR RAW taking camera - how do you get those pictures on your phone?
I use Adobe lightroom - upload on my laptop - edit on my laptop
Do y'all do this on your phones???? I cannot imagine. I cannot imagine looking at websites etc... on a phone either so I'm obviously missing something. Are you editing your pictures on your phone?
I mean, sometimes, I like to look at things on my huge smart tv - I can see websites etc... so cannot imagine going the opposite direction and hardly seeing anything.
I also cannot imagine having a phone with that much memory - My picture file on my computer is massive. Why the hell won't Instagram just let me post from my laptop - it is so aggravating. (I know y'all already answered that)
Supposedly if I switch to chrome (that will be a chore in itself but whatev)… I can make my computer think it is a phone and post a photo but I can't tag it or title it.
so, the question(s) is(are) - do y'all use your phone for the camera, editing, web surfing.... everything????
It has taken me a very long time to figure out how to take good photos of my paintings - my cell phone camera is not even comparable to my dslr RAW - I refuse to get a new phone just for stupid Instagram. Im already trying to reconfigure a computer because of it. I do understand the importance of Instagram and I have some business goals to attend to so that is why I am trying desperately to find a way.