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Jun 30,2006
My text all runs together. What’s with that?
Filed under: Support Tags: HTML Formatting+Text

The language used to format your data on your website and publish it on the internet is called HTML. For the most part, MyArtClub.Com looks after the formatting of data on your site so you don’t have to. However when you enter your Artist Information or Art Information, your data is subject to the read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 11:11
Sep 22,2006
Building your email list.
Filed under: Support Feature Email Tags: Email+List

You can review and manage all the email listings registered to your site. The email management feature is found under your "Member Site". Log in, click on the link "Build or Maintain information to Market your site" and look for "Add or update your mailing list information". Pay very close attention read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 09:09
Oct 28,2006
Loading your art images on the web.
Filed under: Images Support Tags: Manage+Images

Size Matters The size of the art image you want to display on your website is of some importance to artists. As digital cameras become more prevalent and produce images of larger size, it is necessary to resize your images so that: The images are easily loaded. The images can’t be used to reproduce read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 07:17
Nov 21,2006
Create a search engine description and key words
Filed under: Support Feature Tags: Meta+Data

Thanks to artist Graham Eagle www.grahameagle.com for this suggestion which is available to all MyArtClub.Com artists. Deions and keywords are used by search engines to help catalogue internet pages. The words describe the page without necessarily appearing on the page, acting as ‘behind- the-scenes’ read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 07:43
Nov 26,2006
Selling your art online
Filed under: Feature Support Tags: Selling+Online

If you take orders and sell your art online, you may be already aware that MyArtClub.Com provides the convenience of using Paypal or other payment providers to take orders. You can place your payment options with each work of art showing or you can create your own catalogue to show all your works on read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 07:07
Dec 15,2006
Resizing a folder of art images
Filed under: Utility Support Feature Images Tags: Manage+Images

Imagine being able to resize an entire folder of images, even a whole CD ROM of images, all at once! The “Photo Resizer”, will do just that, creating a new folder with the correct format and size all ready in one place for you to upload to your MyArtClub website. The AMAZING “Photo Resizer” read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 12:08
Sep 14,2008
Changing your colours – Part 1
Filed under: Feature Support Utility Tags: Manage+Site Formatting+Colours Web+Safe

This article describes the steps you can use to select the “web safe” colour range and set the specific colours on any of the Site Colour Options pages, for setting the colours of Frames, Backgrounds, Page Text, Links and Mass Settings for your studio or art pages. A bit of background Some years read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 06:55
Oct 15,2008
Changing your colours – Part 2
Filed under: Feature Support Utility Tags: Web+Smart Manage+Site

This article describes the steps you can use to select the “web smart” colour range and set the specific colours on any of the Site Colour Options pages, for setting the colours of Frames, Backgrounds, Page Text, Links and Mass Settings for your studio or art pages. In the first part of this article, read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 06:56
May 08,2009
Crop your images
Filed under: Feature Utility Support Images Tags: Crop+Image Manage+Images

One of the most often asked questions of the webmaster is how to crop or resize your art pictures. This is one of a series of articles on preparing your images for uploading to your website. There are dozens for image editing programs available for preparing your images to be published on the internet. read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 12:16
Jun 04,2009
Resize your images
Filed under: Feature Images Support Utility Tags: Manage+Images Crop+Image Resize+Image

One of the most often asked questions of the webmaster is how to crop or resize your art pictures. This is one of a series of articles on preparing your images for uploading to your website. There are dozens for image editing programs available for preparing your images to be published on the read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 12:12
Oct 05,2009
Use a word program to write your text
Filed under: Support Tags: Manage+Site Documents Formatting+Text

MyArtClub recommends for you to use word processing software for all of your text based entries. While you may be tempted to just write all your text on-line, and you certainly free to do so, using a word program has several advantages: Spell check. Nothing looks worse that a typo, and word programs read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 08:08
Mar 19,2011
Tags versus Categories
Filed under: Feature Support Tags: Meta+Data Manage+Site

In an earlier blog, we discussed HTML Tags as a way to control your text on your web pages. The tags we are discussing today are the tags which you can attach to your blog pages. When you have finished writing your blog, you can attach both tags and categories to your blog. So what is the difference read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 07:31
Oct 30,2011
Google that question you have!
Filed under: Support Fraud Tags: Instruction Formatting+Text

Each time you encounter a question or a computer error, just remember Let Me Google That! (LMGT) Here are a couple uses for Google that can save artists a lot of leg work, and even from losing money: Art Scam Research and Computer How To’s Art Scam Research: Over the last couple weeks, MyArtClub.Com read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 03:43
Nov 06,2011
Change your Find Artist image
Filed under: Images Support Tags: Find+Artist+Image

The image you show on MyArtClub.Com as your FIND ARTIST image is something you have control over. The image is selected automatically as the first image you load up. However, this image can be easily changed once you have loaded other images to be something you prefer to highlight your artwork. Every read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 10:02
Nov 26,2011
Posting a message to your Facebook Account
Filed under: Support Social+Media Feature Tags: Facebook

If you wish to take advantage of the MyArtClub.Com feature that allows you to post a message to Facebook when you upload your art or blog to your site, you must first enter the information into your site and authorize MyArtClub.Com to post the message on your behalf. Setting up your account to post read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 07:52
Nov 26,2011
Sending a tweet to Twitter from your artist site
Filed under: Feature Social+Media Support Tags: Twitter

A MyArtClub.Com feature allows you to tweet a message to Twitter when you upload your art or blog to your site. To start using it, you must first enter the information into your site and authorize MyArtClub.Com to tweet a message to Twitter on your behalf. Setting up your account to tweet to Twitter read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 08:14
Aug 30,2012
Creating active links on any artist website
Filed under: Utility Email Support Feature Tags: HTML Instruction

The great thing about having a website is you can build in links to anything. MyArtClub.com websites design enables artists and art groups to place links anywhere there is a text box. This is done using HTML code. Please refer to our earlier blog on the many uses of HTML codes, My text all runs together. read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 11:32
Nov 10,2012
Create an Artist blog on your MyArtClub site
Filed under: Utility Images Feature Support Tags: Manage+Images HTML Email+List Manage+Site

First, be sure you want to do this, it is a commitment, which we believe is worth the rewards. You build audience, and create a legacy of text based thoughts, focused on your audience. Not sure about having a blog, read our post about why. Best practices are to be regular, so try to commit to what read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 08:47
Dec 31,2012
Tagging your artist blog on MyArtClub
Filed under: Feature Support Tags: Tag Category

You have created your new artist blog post, and emailed it out to your audience. So you are done, right? Not so fast! One useful and important last step remains, to tag and categorize your blog. What are tags and categories? Categories are like big buckets for classifying what your blog posts read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 04:11
Jan 13,2013
Get rid of pesky ? marks for apostrophes, quotes
Filed under: Support Feature Tags: HTML Documents Formatting+Text

MyArtClub uses HTML so you have opportunity to put links everywhere you have text, and that includes links to videos etc. But sometimes there are drawbacks when you have the advantages HTML provides, and curly marks is one. It turns out that if your computer or word program inserts a curled apostrophe, read more ...

Posted by MyArtClub.Com at 04:11
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