Comments on: Artists Website Software

By: Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:42:34 +0000

Classic ASP is somewhat out of date nowadays – it’s been replaced by .NET a few years back. On the open-source side, PHP is a very good, fast, server-side language.

By: john

john — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:32:52 +0000

Hi,
I’ve noticed .asp is a good lang. for art type sites, loading data and the likes really fast,
john..

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By: Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:40:32 +0000

Nice ideas, Joe! I think both are fairly easy to program into the basic functionality.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:45:19 +0000

Along with the exhibitions/events listing function, it would be nice to be able to list which paintings are in each event, along with start & end date. Keep that historically, along with the price it was shown at, and you have a nice exhibition record for each painting (viewable by the artist, probably not by the general public).

For the meta data fields created by the site owner, would be great if each field could be set as public or private, ie viewable by the general public, or only by the site owner.

By: shaun belcher

shaun belcher — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:55:13 +0000

Great idea. Agree re. overall blog software e.g. Wordpress. Have you seen a couple of new variations on theme

WP Remix

http://wpremix.com/

and
Chris Pirillo variation

http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/03/03/social-media-questions-and-answers/

I am passing on to my students as great project…..

By: Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:30:36 +0000

Hi Jennifer,

I’m happy to say that meta-data fields that can be created by the site owner are already in the spec I’ve written for myself. I very quickly realised that I could never guess all the possible fields, so I have designed the back-end database so that such fields can be created by the artist/site-owner.

I’ll certainly be needing beta-testers. I suspect the beta version will take several months to create, but keep an eye on this blog (or sign-up to my newsletter) and you’ll be kept up-to-date.

Thanks,

Paul

By: Jennifer Montes

Jennifer Montes — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:22:42 +0000

Hi Paul,

I would really appreciate a software solution that is geared directly towards artists. I’m currently using modx CMS software and coded various snippets to get the functionality I want, but an integrated solution would be much better in the long run.

As far as the features that are important to me, I think it’s important that there are a few fields for image meta data. For painters this information could be about mediums, materials, etc; for photographers it can be camera, f-stop, etc; as well as some common fields like title, caption, customer… Since the breadth of different visual artists will have different meta data needs, it might be best to give the user the ability to add custom fields somehow.

Something like this would be a killer app for me, so I appreciate your effort and your intentions to make it open source. Let me know if you need a beta tester!

By: Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:47:52 +0000

Hi Sikiu

A Twitter gadget is definitely on the wishlist. Never heard of Upstream.tv but I’ll look into it.

A zoom tool – yes, that’s an interesting possibility.

Disabling right-click – no. It doesn’t achieve anything (it’s easily circumvented just by disabling JavaScript in your browser) and just annoys your potential customers (I’ve written about why disabling right-clicking is a bad thing to do before). What I will be doing is adding a facility to automatically watermark the images in the galleries if you so wish.

By: sikiu

sikiu — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:00:41 +0000

On my blog I have two features I really like, one is live video with Ustream.tv and a Twitter gadget. Something I don’t know if you can offer is disabling right click on pictures and a very good zoom tool to see textures and brushstrokes with detail.