ArtSites Updates

Not sure what to gift your artist friends and family? How about an ArtSites Gift Certificate! We're offering gift certificates for:

• Our Quick Start Option ($50) or
• One (1) Year of Hosting ($100) or
• A Full-Service Package including Hosting & the Quick Start Option
  ($135 - 10% off) or
• Any other combination(s) you'd like to gift :-)

We've had several requests to offer our workshops ONLINE and have recently found a service that we hope will make this possible and easy for you. We're offering the following 3 FREE online workshops in the coming weeks:

Geoff and I are pleased to announce a new full-service, Quick Start Add-on for $50! Here are the details:

ArtSites Quick Start Option

With this new service, any artist can get an ArtSites trial website setup with images, bio, and/or resume for an additional $50. All that's required is sending us images (either via email or a CD via postal mail), and a bio and/or resume. We will then setup a trial website within 48 hours and show the artist how to update and manage his/her ArtSites trial website.

Based on feedback from our workshops, many artists said that this would be a service they would appreciate. So, if you know of anyone who has been putting off setting up their website because they are either overwhelmed by technology or don't have the time, there's now an even simpler option to get a brand new website setup and launched in 48 hours for a total of $150! (We think that's still a pretty good deal :-)

If you have any other questions or suggestions, we'd love to hear them!

We've been emailing with many of you over the years, and recently, we thought it might be helpful to assist you more immediately. As a result, we now have a "Live Chat" feature that allows you to chat directly with us when you're having an issue.

To launch a Live Chat, simply click on the dark grey button in the lower right-hand side of your browser. It says 'Online - click here to chat' and it will launch a chat session with us (provided we're available). However, if we're not, it will send us an email and we'll get back to you as soon as possible!

We hope these Live Chats will allow us to answer your questions much more quickly and allow you to continue updating and managing your website without getting stuck.

As we've always said, we're here to support, assist and empower you! Please feel free to reach out whenever you have a question or issue!

One of the benefits of being a Canadian/American household is that we get to celebrate Thanksgiving twice a year!

As many now prepare for the US Thanksgiving, I (Rochelle) once again like to take stock of all the things I am grateful for. Today (and most days :-), I am incredibly thankful for:

So, on this US Thanksgiving weekend, we especially want to thank YOU for:

• your art,
• your continued support of ArtSites, and
• for being part of the ArtSites family!

Words simply cannot express how much you mean to us!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Geoff and Rochelle

Today, Geoff and I wanted to share and celebrate a major milestone with you:

We signed up our 500th artist! - Malcolm Armstrong

Malcolm was a long-time mariner and is now an accomplished Marine Artist. The history he shares about the vessels he paints and the energy with which he presents them are simply magnificent.
(Malcolm was also at our Pender Island Workshop :-)

Geoff and I are SO thrilled and happy to be empowering artists like you as you share your amazing art with the world! As I've been saying at all of our recent workshops:

Sunday, October 14: South Delta Artists Guild Longhouse from 1-4 PM (Please sign up online)

Sunday, October 21: Ashcroft, BC at Jo Petty's Artist's Studio

Sunday, October 28: Pender Island at the Studio at Hope Bay

If you'd like for us to host a workshop in your community, please let us know!

Hi Everyone,

It's been almost 4 months since our last email about Geoff's transcontinental bike tour. We are now one week away (650 km or 400 miles) from our final goal of St. John's, Newfoundland! Geoff has already bicycled 7,775 km (4,830 miles) and has done incredibly well! VanGo - our (T)rusty Van - has had some hiccups along the way, but is persevering! Once we get to St. John's, we are planning to drive all the way back to Vancouver. However, our route is still up-for-grabs! Here's where you come in...

As part of our trip back, we would love to connect with you and your artist communities! So, we are offering free ArtSites Workshops to your artist friends, Artists Guilds/Associations, Artist Collectives, or Artist Co-ops. If you know of a group of artists who might enjoy getting together and setting up a website (individually or as a collective), please let us know and we will plan our return trip accordingly. We have all the technology necessary to do this and all we need from you is a space and 6-10 artists who'd enjoy some sweets, interesting conversation, and of course, some hand-holding and support in getting their artwork online. As an added bonus, we will offer a 20% discount ($80/year) to anyone who purchases one of our websites at the workshop.

As we embark on the end of this phase of our journey, Geoff and I want to sincerely thank you again for your patience, support, and cheering over the past months! We have so appreciated emailing and meeting some of you! And, we sincerely hope to meet many more of you on the way back!

Thanks again for being part of the ArtSites family!

Cheers from Deer Lake, Newfoundland,

Rochelle and Geoff

P.S. If any of you (or your friends) are near Cape Spear, Newfoundland on Monday, September 17th, please come out to celebrate Geoff's mammoth accomplishment! :-)

We're thrilled to announce that you can now upload more than one image at a time! This has been a requested feature and now you can do this quite easily. Simply go to your 'Images' tab in your Administration Panel and click on the 'Upload Multiple Images' link. There are more detailed instructions there and if you have any questions or issues, please feel free let us know.

We've also added an easy way for new trial accounts to remove all of the pre-loaded images that we've provided. To remove these, simply click on the 'Remove Trial Images' link in your Images Library and those pre-loaded images will be removed.

Please continue to let us know what features you'd like to see and we'll continue to improve our system! Thanks again for your help in making ArtSites a better service!