Web Design For Artists: Selling Your Art Work Online

With no experience necessary, create websites for your art, studio, band, or exhibit and start selling online!

What you'll learn

By the end of this course, you will have a working, gorgeous website to show off your material.

In this course you will learn how to create stunning websites without learning any tedious code.

Students will learn how to setup a hosting account, domain name, and Wordpress website.

Requirements

No experience necessary

Students will need to purchase a domain name and hosting plan (about $50) during the class if they don't already have one.

Having a domain name before starting the class is NOT required.

Description

100% Answer Rate! Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor. As an artist and musician, I learned how to create websites out of pure necessity. I am not a professional programmer - I learned through trial and error and studying on my own what works and what doesn't work. I've now written hundreds of websites for artists, musicians, bands, galleries, and other organizations.  I created this class, "Web Design for Artists" as a class a teacher in-person around my area. The class has been very successful, and I'm really excited to bring it to an online platform. My goal with this class is simple: I want all artists to have a website, be able to manage their website, and never, ever, have to pay someone to do it for them.  This is a hands-on class: I am going to make a website for myself during this class, and walk you through every step. Nearly every video is a "walk through" on how to do something. And because I'm not a technical web designer, we won't get bogged down with any abstract terminology - only what we need. Let's dive in!    Praise for other classes by J. Anthony Allen    "Dr. Allen does it again with his music theory for electronic musicians series. This course really opened up everything I learned from the 1st section and now I understand more about the composition side of things for music. I highly highly recommend this course to anyone!!! Really opened my eyes to many things I wasn't aware of."   "The Best Teacher Ever, who makes you understand the in & out Music Theory by all mean without giving what you don't want to know."  "I have never had any formal training in music at all. Trying to learn all the notes and how everything translated was a serious challenge. After going thru this class, Dr. J has totally brought down the barriers. The content was very useful and was easy to grasp for me."       

Overview

Section 1: Overview

Lecture 1 Welcome & Overview

Lecture 2 How We Will Learn

Lecture 3 Super Big Handout

Section 2: The One-Time-Only Stuff

Lecture 4 Setup Overview

Lecture 5 Mac or PC? Doesn't Matter!

Lecture 6 Picking a Hosting Company

Lecture 7 Picking a Domain Name

Lecture 8 Domain Setup and Hosting Walkthrough

Lecture 9 Transferring a Domain Name or Hosting to a New Company

Lecture 10 Transferring a Domain Name, Part 2

Lecture 11 Setting up Email Accounts

Lecture 12 Installing Wordpress

Lecture 13 Installing a Temporary Password on Your (New) Website

Lecture 14 Done with Setup!

Section 3: The Every-Few-Years Stuff

Lecture 15 Configuring Wordpress

Lecture 16 Finding a Theme

Lecture 17 Installing a Theme

Lecture 18 Configuring a Theme

Lecture 19 Dashboard Overview

Lecture 20 Pages Vs. Posts

Lecture 21 Creating Pages

Lecture 22 Organizing Your Menu

Lecture 23 Setting up Menus

Lecture 24 Setting the Home Page

Lecture 25 Using Widgets

Lecture 26 Using Plugins

Lecture 27 Selling Stuff! (Part 1)

Lecture 28 Selling Stuff! (Part 2)

Lecture 29 Selling Stuff! (Part 3)

Lecture 30 Hiding Comments

Lecture 31 How Embedding Works

Lecture 32 Adding Video

Lecture 33 Adding Audio

Lecture 34 Setting the Store Link

Lecture 35 Content Wrap-Up

Section 4: The Day-to-Day Stuff

Lecture 36 Day-to-Day Stuff Overview

Lecture 37 Integrating Social Media: Twitter

Lecture 38 Integrating Social Media: Facebook

Lecture 39 The Case Against Calendars

Lecture 40 A Word of Caution

Lecture 41 Updating Your Content

Lecture 42 Revision History

Lecture 43 Day-to-Day Stuff Wrap-Up

Section 5: The Bells and Whistles

Lecture 44 Overview of the Extras Here

Lecture 45 Password Protecting Pages and Scheduling Pages

Lecture 46 Take that Password Protection Off!

Lecture 47 Basic HTML for Widgets

Lecture 48 Thats All Folks!

Lecture 49 Advanced Paypal Features

Lecture 50 Bonus Lecture: Discount Offers & Mailing List

Artists,Musicians,Anyone in need of learning how to make a website to manage their own content.