Web Services

If you are an artist, and want a website with a provider who does art and understands artists AND computers, this may be your new home!

I can provide a total solution: from professionally photographing and digitizing your art, to designing and implementing your site, possibly with custom programming, group discussion and database features, through publishing it on my battery- and generator-backed server, connected to a national "Tier 1" Internet backbone provider.

(To complement your site, I can also supply gallery-quality reproductions or economical publicity material.)

Or if you prefer (assuming you have basic computer skills and access to web authoring software), I can tutor you, so you can maintain your own site. See prices for details.

A simple "web presence" site, with a couple samples of your art and basic contact info, can be done in an hour or two. A custom "exhibit" site with numerous pieces of artwork, indexed by thumbnail, may take several days of work.

I now have a fixed-price solution for those who don't need heavy customization! I can have your gallery website ready for you to begin uploading images of your work in a couple days! These sites feature a searchable, sortable gallery with multiple-size images and on-line ordering via PayPal. See prices for details.

Here are a some sites I developed and host:

• Champagne Beadworks -- Betty Gibbs' finely detailed beadware
• Crafted By Carol -- fine beadwork and jewelry.
• EcoReality -- sustainable living in the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia.
• Ecovillage Newsletter -- Diana Leafe Christian's news of her travels.
• Environmental Education Outreach -- providing environmental education worldwide.
• Gemini Gypsy -- fused glass frames.
• Green Chipper -- light forestry and environmental services.
• Salt Spring Island Society for Community Education -- community education on our island of 10,000.
• Veggie Van Gogh -- vegetable-oil-powered, transportation, lodging, and warehouse for gypsy artisans
• Veggiemog -- life and times of Kelly O'Toole's Unimog, running on biodiesel
• and of course, my own site, which is constantly changing.

Capabilities

• Power Macintosh G5 2.5GHz quad server, 2.5GB RAM, 400GB disk, MacOS 10.5 (Unix).
• APS SmartUPS 3kVA and custom 2,400WH battery will power web server for up to 24 hours.
• 6kW biodiesel-powered generator for longer outages.
• 250,000 BTU biodiesel-powered emergency heat.
• 4MB, business-grade DSL Internet connection.
• www.yourname.com virtual domain hosting.
• you@yourname.com email forwarding.
• talk@yourname.com discussion groups.
• Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl, MediaWiki, WebObjects, and other web languages supported.
• Domain Name Service, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Mailman.
• SMTP email forwarding, or POP3/IMAP email.
• SPAM filtering via MAPS RBL.
• Monthly web site statistics via AWStat.
• Bytesmiths Gallery infrastucture, gets you on the web quickly with an artist-maintained gallery site.