One of the delightful and unexpected gifts of joining Facebook earlier this year and creating a Fan Page there for my mandalas, has been meeting so many other artists and interacting with them online. Many of them, like me, market prints and gift items made from their artwork through Zazzle.com. I’m creating this post to encourage you to explore our Zazzle Stores and consider giving art gifts as holiday presents. Many of us have holiday cards and postage available to purchase as well. Let me introduce you to a few of these Zazzle merchants.
Click on either the name or the picture to see the Zazzle Stores:
(If you are an artist on Facebook with a Zazzle Store and would like to be included in my Merch Store there, just send me a message on Facebook with the name of your Zazzle store and I’ll be glad to add you to my Merch Store.)
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Today I’m going to introduce you to a website building course designed specifically for artists by Cory Huff (TheAbundantArtist.com) and Matt Mansfield, Selling Artwork Online. Corry specializes in helping other artists sell their work online, so knows intimately the problems artists face. He and Matt have created a six part course that takes you from setting up a simple WordPress site through setting up an e-commerce system to sell your art.
The course includes 28 step by step videos that aim to answer all your questions in the process of getting your site going. They include:
1. Start here:
The-Dashboard
Left-Column-Overview
2. Designing your site:
Working-With-Themes
Working-With-Widgets
Custom-Menus
Custom-Theme-Options-and-Editor
Settings
3. Adding content to your site:
Creating-and-Managing-Posts-Overview
Creating-and-Managing-Posts-New-Post
Creating-and-Managing-Posts-Advanced
Categories-and-Tags
Working-With-Media
Working-With-Links
Working-With-Pages
Comments
4. Adding more functionality and features
Users-and-Tools
Plugins
Updates
5. Setting up and image gallery
NexGen-Gallery-Overview-and-Image-Upload
NexGen-Gallery-Galleries-and-Albums
NexGen-Gallery-Tags-and-Options
NexGen-Gallery-Posts-and-Widgets
6. Selling Art from Your site:
WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Activation-and-Overview
WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Categories-and-Variations
WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Products
WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Widgets
WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Settings
WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Marketing-and-Upgrades
WP-e-Commerce-Plugin-Variations-Fix
And if that isn’t enough everyone who purchases the course gets six months free at The Abundant Artist Community, an online members-only forum for artists who are serious about growing their business. If you need hosting you’ll get six months of hosting for free as well. And all for the price of $150. AND…
The Guarantee: If you can’t figure out how to build a website using these video tutorials in the first 90 days, or if you’re unhappy with the course and the community for any reason, they will refund your money – no questions asked.
Here’s a quick look at the tutorials:
I think this is a very comprehensive program at a great price. And there is a money back guarantee! If you are an artist ready to create or recreate your website click here or the banner below for more information and purchasing options.
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Last post, Mandalas from the Heart of Peace, Part 1, we looked at the first 6 mandalas that will make up this year’s mandala calendar. Today we will see the second set of 6. So let’s let the mandalas do the talking!
Atmara Rebecca Cloe – New World Creations
