How to create your own artist's web site like this one

"Hey I'm an artist and I need a web site!"
Well, you're in luck. Thanks to Blogger.com it's fairly easy to get your info up there for friends, fellow students, family and even potential employers to take a gander at - even if your computer knowledge is limited to doing email - and it's FREE. If you have your own URL (web address that you bought) Blogger can post to it too.

For now, let me show you what I did:

1.) Sign up for a free Blogger.com site.

2.) I chose this template (see above) called "Minima Black". You can use whatever you like, but this "how-to" applies to that one only.

3.) I clicked on the "Template" tab and edited the HTML to strip out stuff I thought unneccessary for an artist's portfolio site. To do this highlight ALL the code in the middle part of the page, Edit > Cut it, then I replaced it with some code that I tinkered with. Download it here then copy and paste it into the template.
Now hit the "Publish" button and you're set to start posting art! Don't worry if you mess up. If it doesn't work, just revert the code to it's original state.

4.) Follow the settings described here for posting a book - it's much the same for a portfolio site, only instead of "chapters" we have "samples", "resume'", etc.

5.) Images: Right, those are important. Luckily Blogger automatically re-sizes large art to fit on the page, but as a general rule of thumb:
- Scan your art at 75 to 100 dpi - more than that is unneccessary for the web and will just eat up your limit (Blogger limits you to 1mb per page - you can make multiple pages so don't worry). Save your images as JPGs.
- Keep your image file-sizes down to between 40 k and 100 k each for the same reason.
- Then follow the instructions on how to upload an image. Basically you click the "Add Image" button and navigate to the image on your own computer. Blogger does the rest.

The best part of all this is that creating each one of these pages, "Home", "Samples", "Resume'", etc., was as easy as composing an email. In fact, this is what it looked like to me creating the page:
That's it. Good luck! I make no promises except to say that it took me only about two hours total to make this site, and that includes fudging around with the Template code, which you won't have to do, presumably.