I went today to see one of the gallery owners whose website I maintain. I finally did a workup of a site redesign for the gallery. The site really needs it. The pages are a darker grey. It needs something fresher. Also, it was built with FrontPage. When I took over I removed lots of the coding. The design firm in NYC that originally designed it built the artist name menu as a graphic file. That is such insanity. I’ve added and dropped artists names at least several times over the past two years. I got rid of the graphic and made it text with CSS rollovers. I haven’t done much else with it because it needs so much work. Now, I just want it to look better since my name is associated with it. She respects and like my work and says so openly. I appreciate that greatly. Part of that is that I just take into my hands and update the site without asking her if there are updates. I just do it. The gallery was closed today. It is open on Saturdays most of the time. Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
I stopped by another gallery when I saw the owner’s car parked out front. She was in the process of finishing an installation. She was complaining about her webmaster again. I had an opportunity to take this site over some time ago but, the person would built & maintains the site did it with ColdFusion. I don’t know CF and I would have to redesign the site. There is no real need for a database with the site as the images would change on a regular basis and not be available in a database. The site is not dynamic in the since of calling up specific data based on your region of locale like a news site would do. I told her we should talk about it later.
Both opportunities for some work had been made but, only one resulted in meaningful dialogue. The latter gallery also pointed me to an artist residency that could be very meaningful next summer. I have several grants, fellowships, awards, etc., to look at in the next few weeks. Something has to be of value for me out there.