Art Guild Weblog #2 - Getting Started
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This is the minute inwards a SERIES of posts virtually fine art blogs for Art Societies as well as Art Groups. This post covers what to think virtually when getting started amongst blogging as well as earlier you lot start to prepare a blog.
The commencement post Art Society Blogs #1 - Why blog? looked at why an fine art weblog tin survive both suitable as well as useful to an fine art guild as well as its members
The adjacent posts are going to await at the procedure of setting upward a weblog for an fine art guild as well as how to arrive real effective. I've decided to interruption this out into topics thence behaviour amongst me!
The concluding weblog post considers what's involved inwards setting up a Group Blog for an Art Society - which allows guild members to write their ain weblog posts.
How to prepare an fine art guild weblog - commencement things first
First things commencement - this is what I ever inquire people to think virtually first.
It's the commencement thing I bring to explicate when people inquire me what they would require to exercise to prepare a blog. It's particularly of import if the Chair or Committee are non techie or familiar amongst blogging.
Here's my explanation.
A WEBSITE is commonly a relatively static site - as well as tin rest unchanged for long periods.
In addition, real many of them are former as well as prepare on antiquated software amongst pitiful pattern features.
Others tin survive hugely dependent on 1 person. Many is the even out I bring heard of fine art societies beingness held to ransom past times website designers / back upward people! Frankly I think it is highly unprofessional. However it happens - as well as far also oftentimes for my liking!
Typically a website comes amongst a Home Page as well as thence a navigation carte which leads you lot through unlike sections of the site. Typically you lot start at the plough over as well as follow the navigation carte through the site.
The website content relates to the principal functions of the society - explaining what it is, what they do, who runs it, who its members are as well as what their fine art is like. The exhibition page volition by as well as large upward appointment in 1 lawsuit a year. Old exhibitions may require to come upward downward depending on available space. New members galleries volition survive added from fourth dimension to time. The names of the business office holders may alter - in 1 lawsuit a year.
The intelligence page may update to a greater extent than oftentimes - however, for most societies, the intelligence inwards futurity volition survive delivered via the blog. Which way the website volition driblet dead fifty-fifty to a greater extent than static
Interestingly, I've establish it's the fine art societies which bring had to a greater extent than active intelligence pages as well as events schedules which bring seen the feel inwards developing an fine art weblog which tin thence deliver the intelligence to people - as it happens!
A BLOG is a dynamic site - its content as well as 'home page' alter on a regular basis.
Instead of a focus on the domicile page, the focus is on the latest weblog post.
In improver its content tin survive accessed inwards a diversity of ways. It's non hierarchical similar a website. Instead it industrial plant according to how you lot construction as well as label the content as well as how you lot take away to arrive accessible. The content on my weblog tin survive accessed via:
Webware also way that a weblog tin survive updated as well as maintained anywhere where you lot tin larn an Internet connection. I've written weblog posts - consummate amongst images - piece sat having breakfast inwards a French hotel!
Its dynamic content tin survive published - every bit as well as when it happens - via feedreaders as well as despatched to e-mail subscribers. That way something VERY of import - people exercise NOT require to come upward to the site to hear virtually what's happening. They tin grab upward piece reading other blogs on a feedreader (on a estimator / tablet or phone) or bring the intelligence delivered via e-mail to their inbox (or both every bit I do!). This is 1 of the principal reasons why a weblog tin larn a lot to a greater extent than visitors than websites.
In a recent development, art societies are instantly using blogging software to deliver a combined website as well as blog. Such a motion of course of education helps an fine art guild to continue its website costs to a minimum - as well as tin eliminate hosting costs as well as technical headaches inwards the process.
To exercise this, the blog/website uses the range offered past times blogging software to install Pages (you tin meet examples at the plough over of this blog) to deliver static content virtually the fine art society. This inwards plough tin eliminate the require for a dissever website - as well as the associated costs.
Key Question 1: List the ways a weblog powerfulness ameliorate the profile as well as marketing of an fine art society, its fellow member artists as well as their artwork - when compared to the existing website
Key Question 2: What are your priorities for what you lot desire your novel fine art guild weblog to do:
Once you've agreed your fine art guild volition bring a weblog you lot require to halt as well as THINK virtually branding as well as identity.
You require to exercise 2 things:
Also think virtually what you lot desire the mention to survive if inwards futurity you lot wanted the 1 site to survive both website as well as blog.
If you lot desire to continue it simple occupation the fine art society's mention - as well as thence add together "News" for a uncomplicated blog. However exercise delight recognise that people larn real bored if they require to type out long URLs as well as retrieve how they are spelt.
My advice would survive to bring a curt mention as well as a curt URL which is compatible amongst the mention of the guild as well as identifiable every bit belonging to it. Nobody wants a long URL! Even to a greater extent than importantly, nobody wants a weblog to survive hosted on sites which generate URLs which are a mile long as well as consummate gobbledygook!
Key Question 3: What's the simplest as well as best mention for a weblog for (name) fine art society?
Key Question 4: How is that expressed but as well as easily every bit a URL?
If you lot desire Google to recognise dissever words inwards your URL thence you lot require to hyphenate your URL. That thence way it powerfulness survive establish to a greater extent than easily via browser searches.
Hence my novel exemplar weblog is:
You'll annotation that its amount content to appointment is a novel page for Members Websites
The commencement post Art Society Blogs #1 - Why blog? looked at why an fine art weblog tin survive both suitable as well as useful to an fine art guild as well as its members
The adjacent posts are going to await at the procedure of setting upward a weblog for an fine art guild as well as how to arrive real effective. I've decided to interruption this out into topics thence behaviour amongst me!
The concluding weblog post considers what's involved inwards setting up a Group Blog for an Art Society - which allows guild members to write their ain weblog posts.
How to prepare an fine art guild weblog - commencement things first
First things commencement - this is what I ever inquire people to think virtually first.
- Understand the divergence betwixt a website as well as a blog
- Name the blog
- Agree a weblog URL
I've created an fine art blog, using Blogger, for this serial of weblog posts virtually fine art guild blogging. More of this later! What this way is that I tin demonstrate unlike aspects of blogging as well as demonstrate you lot hide dumps of what things await similar without messing virtually amongst my ain blogs!
Bear inwards hear I'm a Blogger someone - because it's all completely costless as well as I don't require a host as well as I don't bring to pay whatever bills!
Understand how blogs are unlike from websites
Key people inwards the fine art guild require to empathize the divergence betwixt a website as well as a blog.
Understand how blogs are unlike from websites
Key people inwards the fine art guild require to empathize the divergence betwixt a website as well as a blog.
It's the commencement thing I bring to explicate when people inquire me what they would require to exercise to prepare a blog. It's particularly of import if the Chair or Committee are non techie or familiar amongst blogging.
Here's my explanation.
A WEBSITE is commonly a relatively static site - as well as tin rest unchanged for long periods.
In addition, real many of them are former as well as prepare on antiquated software amongst pitiful pattern features.
Others tin survive hugely dependent on 1 person. Many is the even out I bring heard of fine art societies beingness held to ransom past times website designers / back upward people! Frankly I think it is highly unprofessional. However it happens - as well as far also oftentimes for my liking!
Typically a website comes amongst a Home Page as well as thence a navigation carte which leads you lot through unlike sections of the site. Typically you lot start at the plough over as well as follow the navigation carte through the site.
The website content relates to the principal functions of the society - explaining what it is, what they do, who runs it, who its members are as well as what their fine art is like. The exhibition page volition by as well as large upward appointment in 1 lawsuit a year. Old exhibitions may require to come upward downward depending on available space. New members galleries volition survive added from fourth dimension to time. The names of the business office holders may alter - in 1 lawsuit a year.
The intelligence page may update to a greater extent than oftentimes - however, for most societies, the intelligence inwards futurity volition survive delivered via the blog. Which way the website volition driblet dead fifty-fifty to a greater extent than static
Interestingly, I've establish it's the fine art societies which bring had to a greater extent than active intelligence pages as well as events schedules which bring seen the feel inwards developing an fine art weblog which tin thence deliver the intelligence to people - as it happens!
A BLOG is a dynamic site - its content as well as 'home page' alter on a regular basis.
Instead of a focus on the domicile page, the focus is on the latest weblog post.
In improver its content tin survive accessed inwards a diversity of ways. It's non hierarchical similar a website. Instead it industrial plant according to how you lot construction as well as label the content as well as how you lot take away to arrive accessible. The content on my weblog tin survive accessed via:
- labels / categories (Blogger widget - meet the side column)
- date: twelvemonth | calendar month | 24-hour interval (Blogger widget - see the Archive nigh the bottom of the side column)
- LinkWithin shortcuts (at the terminate of every post) These by as well as large prompt posts similar to the topic of the 1 precisely read. So if you lot wrote virtually 1 creative someone - they would by as well as large prompt other posts virtually the same artist.
- search (Blogger widget - see the Google Search nigh the plough over of the side column)
EXAMPLEThe focus of a weblog is typically on the POSTS (think "articles"). In full general these bargain amongst 1 topic at a time. The content of the post is (or should be) ever of or thence relevance to the fine art society.
- Put the search term "rotring fine art pen" into Google search which is nigh the plough over of the correct mitt column as well as you lot tin detect this weblog post - typically inwards microseconds
- MAKING Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MARK: The Rotring Art Pen 08 April 2007 a review of the Rotring Art Pen gain as well as its availability plus links to suppliers.
EXAMPLE:The webware which makes a weblog piece of work is typically establish on the Internet as well as accessed via the Internet. It's surely possible to bring a weblog without needing to detect a host or paying for whatever services from spider web designers. In other words somebody else looks after all the actually techie headache inducing bits - and, for the most part, you lot precisely provide the await as well as the content using the slowly to occupation templates as well as widgets supplied past times Blogger et al.
- This weblog is hosted past times Blogger
- I've posted over 3,000 posts inwards the concluding vii years
- Those posts bring been visited past times nearly 2 1 yard 1000 people
- Most bring at to the lowest degree 1 icon as well as sometimes a lot more
- Most tend to survive on 1 topic - but are long rather than curt or snappy
- All the posts are archived inwards a systematic way as well as are accessible at whatever time
- All the content is categorised as well as tin survive accessed via dependent patch matter
- I haven't paid Blogger a unmarried penny to host this blog
- I cannot fifty-fifty get to think how much it would toll to larn it hosted independently - fifty-fifty if I could detect somebody to exercise it for me!
Webware also way that a weblog tin survive updated as well as maintained anywhere where you lot tin larn an Internet connection. I've written weblog posts - consummate amongst images - piece sat having breakfast inwards a French hotel!
A weblog is real accessible as well as tin generate followers (subscribers) who desire to continue upward amongst what's published.
Its dynamic content tin survive published - every bit as well as when it happens - via feedreaders as well as despatched to e-mail subscribers. That way something VERY of import - people exercise NOT require to come upward to the site to hear virtually what's happening. They tin grab upward piece reading other blogs on a feedreader (on a estimator / tablet or phone) or bring the intelligence delivered via e-mail to their inbox (or both every bit I do!). This is 1 of the principal reasons why a weblog tin larn a lot to a greater extent than visitors than websites.
In a recent development, art societies are instantly using blogging software to deliver a combined website as well as blog. Such a motion of course of education helps an fine art guild to continue its website costs to a minimum - as well as tin eliminate hosting costs as well as technical headaches inwards the process.
To exercise this, the blog/website uses the range offered past times blogging software to install Pages (you tin meet examples at the plough over of this blog) to deliver static content virtually the fine art society. This inwards plough tin eliminate the require for a dissever website - as well as the associated costs.
Key Question 1: List the ways a weblog powerfulness ameliorate the profile as well as marketing of an fine art society, its fellow member artists as well as their artwork - when compared to the existing website
Key Question 2: What are your priorities for what you lot desire your novel fine art guild weblog to do:
- right now?
- in the future?
Once you've agreed your fine art guild volition bring a weblog you lot require to halt as well as THINK virtually branding as well as identity.
You require to exercise 2 things:
- decide on a mention for the weblog - retrieve you lot are deciding on a BRAND mention for the fine art guild weblog which reflects good on the fine art society
- decide how that is represented inwards price of the Blog's URL
Also think virtually what you lot desire the mention to survive if inwards futurity you lot wanted the 1 site to survive both website as well as blog.
If you lot desire to continue it simple occupation the fine art society's mention - as well as thence add together "News" for a uncomplicated blog. However exercise delight recognise that people larn real bored if they require to type out long URLs as well as retrieve how they are spelt.
My advice would survive to bring a curt mention as well as a curt URL which is compatible amongst the mention of the guild as well as identifiable every bit belonging to it. Nobody wants a long URL! Even to a greater extent than importantly, nobody wants a weblog to survive hosted on sites which generate URLs which are a mile long as well as consummate gobbledygook!
Key Question 3: What's the simplest as well as best mention for a weblog for (name) fine art society?
Key Question 4: How is that expressed but as well as easily every bit a URL?
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| Art Society News #1 - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 weblog title, a URL as well as the commencement page (for members websites) Expenses to appointment = NIL |
Hence my novel exemplar weblog is:
- called "Art Society News"
- with this URL http://art-society-news.blogspot.co.uk/
- and it has an explanation of what it is virtually precisely below the title. (I'll demonstrate you lot how to exercise that).
You'll annotation that its amount content to appointment is a novel page for Members Websites
Please annotation subscriptions solely driblet dead alive after you lot bring verified the link inwards the e-mail you lot volition receive
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