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Getting the Word Out
Making nice with Search Engines, by Owen Mundy
Art Resources
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for Flash and Director sites) or on a 'links' or 'about'
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Re-discovering
Indiana website it appears at the bottom of every
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WEB DESIGN RESOURCES
For starters, making sense of concepts of web design, from a designer's
perspective.
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/html/97/05/index2a.html?tw=design
When you're ready to get yer geek on, this is step one!
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/96/53/index0a.html?tw=authoring
The Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500's:
http://www.lipsum.com/
"Veer provides visual elements for use in professional creative work..."
http://www.veer.com/
http://www.digitalrefueler.com/
W3C CSS Validator:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Automatic Labs Email Enkoder Form (to thwart spammers' email harvesting robots):
http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform
Article about how users look at webpages:
http://iraszl.brinkster.net/creativebits/2004/09/learn-from-eye-tracking.html
The Best of Eyetrack III: What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes
http://www.poynterextra.org/eyetrack2004/main.htm
The dirty look...
http://veredgf.fredfarm.com/vbrush/main.html
http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000028.html
http://www.o2studio.com/
Source for the dirty look
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/collection.htm
WEB PROGRAMMING RESOURCES
PHP
http://www.php.net/
http://www.devshed.com/c/b/PHP#/
http://px.sklar.com/
http://www.phpwizard.net/
http://www.phpbuilder.com/
http://www.weberdev.com/
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/programming/php/
http://academ.hvcc.edu/~kantopet/php/index.php
MySQL and PHPMyAdmin
http://www.mysql.com/
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/programming/php/tutorials/tutorial4.html
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
http://nuketutorials.com/phpmyadmin.html
SSI
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/server_side_includes.asp
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol2/server_no8.htm
WEBMASTER RESOURCES
Get a DNS report for your domain:
http://dnsreport.com/
Google for webmasters
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
AOL Info for webmasters
http://webmaster.info.aol.com/
Email Reputation Service:
http://www.senderbase.org/
SITES TO SUBMIT YOUR
ART LINK TO
Please keep in mind that some of these sites have specific
requirements for sites they list. Also, some of these
sites give awards to those websites that are especially
interestin or push the boundaries of good web design.
digitalthread.com
designiskinky.com
upwardlink.com
styleboost.com
bd4d.com
macromedia.com
favoritewebsiteawards.com
newstoday.com
plasticpilots.com
designfirms.org
americandesignawards.com
internettinyawards.com
newwebpick.com
ultrashock.com
netdiver.net
moluv.com
fcukstar.com
computerlove.net
featured.se
turkeyawards.com
thedreamer.com.br
4efx.com.br
surfstation.lu
k10k.net
webstandardsawards.com
res72.com
dopeawards.com
bestflashdesigns.com
digitalrefueler.com
Making Nice With Search
Engines, by Owen Mundy, 9/06/04
After you make your website live, you'll want it to appear
on search engines like Google
when people search for your name or other related criteria.
Search engines follow links, so one good way to get good
rankings is to get lots of people to link to your site.
Google uses applications called "Googlebots"
or just plain "robots" that follow links to
crawl your website and index the textual content. This
is why they can return queries so quickly, since they
have in effect already looked for it for you!
The main thing to remember, though, is that if you don't
have any text the search engine can read (like if you
build a Flash or Director site with embedded text) then
you'll want to tell the robots what kind of content your
website contains. If you are using HTML or some other
form of mark-up then you won't need to worry about embedded
text, but the following still applies. Below I'm going
to tell you how to make search engines happy by putting
terms they can understand in special tags on your website.
Check http://yourarthere.org
for a finished example. Here's the code in the tags:
<html>
<head>
<title>:: YOUR ART HERE ::</title>
<META name="description" content="YOUR
ART HERE - The historical role of art in society has placed
upon it a significant value as it provides an arena for
discussing important cultural issues. A public venue for
art allows this process to take place as the culturally
significant and self-reflexive media it has been in the
past. Your Art Here is an organization founded on the
belief that everyone has the right to BE THE MEDIA.">
<META name="keywords" Content="your
art here, yourarthere, installation, free art, advertising
companies, billboards, art, propaganda, public art, space
101, bloomington, IN, calls for submission, art contest,
gallery, billboard 101, kids art">
</head>
<body>Here's where your page starts...
Above you see the
description
and
keywords
tags with content. You'll need to add these tags to your
html page between the
<head></head>
tags with appropriate descriptions and keywords. You can
view the source code of any html page for more examples
by going to View >> View Source in any web browser.
After that, go
here
and submit your site to Google!
NOTE: You really don't have to worry about other search
engines. Many of them use Google's listings or have such
a small market share that it's not worth bothering.
Also, if you think someone may search for your name under
a different spelling then you should add the usual wrong
spellings too. Here's an example: "Alyssa Hill" (correct)
| "Allissa Hill" (incorrect) | "Alisa Hill" (incorrect).
This will still bring visitors to your site who are looking
for your name, they just don't know how to spell it. Don't
worry, you can straighten them out once they get to your
site, the trick is to get them there in the first place.
I would also recommend using your full name beween quotes
as well. For example, "alyssa, hill."
Owen - Updated 9/18/04
ART
BCAC Resources
ARTISTS, GALLERIES & MUSEUMS
The SoFA Gallery
Fuller Projects
pixelgallery.org
artnet.com
allgallery.org
Camille Rose Garcia
Mine Control
The Indiana State Museum
Jason Salavon
Ni9e
Sasha Rubel and Dick Detzner
Space 1026
Female
Persuasion
xChicago
rhizome.org
soak.co.za
cloudking.com
PUBLICATIONS
becapricious.com
buffalomag.com
hobomagazine.com
CONTEST/CALLS FOR ENTRY
CPW
SPE National
Midwest SPE
Daylight Magazine
Buffalo Magazine (Photography, Quarterly)
texasphoto.org
slowart.com
http://www.myamericanartist.com/americanartist/resources/bulletin_board.jsp
http://www.artspace2000.com/Art_Impact/June/juried_art_exhibitions2.htm
http://www.artscouncilbuffalo.org/artist_resources/competitions.asp
http://www.xensei.com/users/adl/
artdeadlineslist.com
http://www.spenational.org/opportunities/submissions.html
artdeadline.com
Center For Documentary Studies
FUNDING
http://wyoarts.state.wy.us/VAgrantResidencies.html
http://www.pcadv.org/Library/funding.html
