Alltop and Art Blogs
It would seem, if one uses Alltop as a gauge, that most artists and art bloggers use wordpress or typepad or other free blog hosting services. This confused me at first. Owning a domain name seems so important, installing WordPress, refining the blog to fit my taste, and creating my own unique website -well, isn’t that a no-brainer?
Turns out, I’m wrong. It’s not about the cool factor of one’s own, paid for hosted at GoDaddy or elsewhere, blog website. It’s content. It’s daily posts, it’s information and links. Turns out, many artists are not geeks. Turns out, many artists aren’t married to geeks. I’m both blessed and cursed by my web knowledge. The skill-set used in creating this website do come in handy BUT creating and maintaining also demand much of my time. Whereas I could be in the studio with my assemblages, I delete spam comments, rearrange HTML to fit my taste, and other web maintenance duties which would not be necessary if I just posted on a free-blog service.
Tis’ a conundrum. I suppose it all boils down to be a bit of a control freak, of wanting a web page designed “just so” and not settling. I have this insane need to fidget, to re-invent my web space. I will subdue the freak, put her in her proper cage, and just blog. From now on, I post and I do not design. I remain content with this layout. Rob says artists with free blogs will eventually realize how they need to brand themselves, that they need domain names and specific sites. Perhaps he’s right… wonder what the average time frame is for this to occur?
*mark this day, oh faithful friends and when you see the template of this website change, when the design is not constant, please contact me and remind me to stop this insane re-building urge.
