Websites for artists, designers and craftspeople must visually embody their work.
Sites vary from a richly-illustrated online resume, an elaborate online brochure, a portfolio of previous work or e-commerce if they have a product that it is appropriate to sell online.
Often the site design is a collaboration with the artist.
Above right: Steven Slipp has designed a lot of the signage you see around Halifax, as well as museum exhibits and postage stamps.
Wee Giant Theatre (above left) animates festivals, parades and special events with its giant puppets. It also offers workshops and co-creates grand outdoor performances for all ages and runs a summer art day camp for kids.
Fireworks FX is a world-class pyrotechnics company.
The rich textures of de Weever’s Wovens’ hand-loomed wool cloth grace their pages (above right).
Writers have text, themes and ideas which should be brought to the screen in an appealing and appropriate way.
Reach Into Life Books (above left) is an e-commerce site set up with PayPal to promote and sell Doris Halstead’s books about horses and consultations on physical therapy for horses.
Travellers Joy (above middle) offers shamanic pilgrimage tours to ancient sacred sites in places such as Ireland, England and Mexico and is also developing “Sacred Nova Scotia” as a tourism destination.
Do Re Me and Maria’s website (above right) uses a PayPal shopping cart to sell a unique product, a one-year preschool music curriculum complete with lesson plans, CDs and other supporting materials. She also has fun music CDs, MP3s and activity guides for preschool children and their families. Lots of functionality on this site: free downloads with newsletter signup, video and audio, etc.