I agree with Luke, that
> > it's less about having a website (free hosting
> and content management via Blogger or Google Pages gets you a site in
> literally 5 minutes), and more about allowing it to be found.
Send
so something like a portal, which can dump out-of-date stuff or have an
automatic check on the links, and can enable artists to update their own
entries.
Perhaps with a very broad tagging system, perhaps one artists can add to,
because like in any world, professionals and those in particular fields tend to
label their work differently to amateurs and that way the portal could function
more effectively for various clients without being exclusive. If artists could
add their own tags, perhaps even create categories, it would also mean that the
portal could be bi-lingual or multi-lingual. a bit like a wiki for NZ artists
perhaps?
The same portal could have info on what artists could do to get their own
website / presence, although it might make more sense to link to something like
the floss manuals, which already explains stuff like that and is likely to be
kept up-to-date.
There are various Dutch state-sponsored artist websites. I'm on one run by the
province, but it is a waste because the level of the work on the website is
very traditional and tends towards the amateur. The set-up of this website has
too few tagging + category options to be useful in my view.
sonja
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