Welcome fellow Crafts Report Forum member!
I’m glad you’ve decided to take the time to visit my blog!
If you haven’t had time to check out my profile on The Crafts Report forum, here’s a bit more about myself and this website. My name is Nicolette Tallmadge and I currently run my own hand crafted jewelry design business. I’ve been designing and selling jewelry for over 11 years. In addition to being a jewelry maker, I’ve also been creating and designing websites since 1996. I created my first site by learning HTML in a magazine and used that experience to get a job designing web sites for a living.
While designing sites full time and on a freelance basis, I was also designing and selling my own handmade jewelry and used my web experience to promote myself online. After helps a couple of my fellow artists on their websites by giving advice and information, I decided to develop this blog, The Crafted Webmaster to help artists get online and promote themselves.
So now that you’re here and know a little bit more about the website, here are a few suggestions on where to go next…
1. Sign up for my weekly newsletter- each week, I send out a newsletter with articles on how to build, maintain, and promote your website. You also get access to all of my past articles, plus as a thank you for signing up, you can download an MP3 recording on How to Market Your Website Offline. Here’s a quick excerpt:
You can get the rest of the recording by filling out the newsletter signup on the right side of the website or by visiting this page.
2. Feel free to check out the rest of the blog- If you’re stumped for what to read, you may want to check out some of my most popular posts:
- Picking Colors for Your Web Site
- How to Change Your Email Address…Painlessly
- Web Design Color Inspiration from the Masters
- Link Roundup: Photographing Your Art
- 9 Ways to Prepare Your Site For a Television Appearance
- 9 Reasons Why Blogs Are Good For Artists
- Tools for Maintaining Your Web Site
- Do You Have a Domain Name? 5 Reasons You Need One Now
- How to Use Online Video to Promote Your Art
- More art video ideas
- Adventures in Twittering
- An Artist’s Guide to Twitter
3. Ask a question- Finally, if you have a specific question about websites, marketing, and promoting online, feel free to ask by using the Ask a Question feature on the right hand side of the blog or by visiting this page and I’ll answer your question as soon as possible.
Thanks again for visiting!
Nicolette Tallmadge
How to Market Your Website Offline [2:23m]: