website question

["Clive Murray-White" <clivemw@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Dear Norman,

The only thing that I disagree with on your list things that you think
should be on an artist's web site is the enlargeable pictures, they quite
often drive me crazy as they can take quite a long time to come up and then
you are left wondering why you clicked the button in the first place.

Each to their own of course, but my view is that you can only ever expect to
wet the viewer's appetite for your work on a web site and set up the
situation that makes them want to see the stuff in the flesh.10mm or 5mm
images make little difference in the end when the sculpture itself can be
well over a 1000mm. For more established artists a web site may just be a
vehicle to reinforce the viewer's perception that this is an artist of some
note.

In the end it has to be a series of trade offs dodging all of the pit falls,
too cool can put the general public off too folksy, cute, souveniry or homey
will really turn the art world off, groovy contemporary architects can often
have the most infuriating cool web sites. (clearly these must work for them)

cheers Clive

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