Galeria Surreal

Today I read an interesting article written by Katherine Tyrrell in her blog “Making A Mark”. She writes about what artists should consider as they build their webpages. Part of the article – in addition to a very good chart – is a poll, which can be taken until the end of the month. You should also read the comments, which are interesting too.

I absolutely agree with most of the no-go’s described in the article and the comments. Whether it is music being played unwanted or pop-up ads, which jump into your face as too bright colors. I am sure there are some universal rules about what is “good” or “bad” in webdesign, even if webdesign – like almost everything – is not free from what is considered to be “in” at a given moment. I’ve kept my page rather simple, in the hope that there is not too much to distract visitors from the content…

But how should artists build their online gallery? Based on which criteria should they group their artworks? Material or topic, or perhaps artistic creation phase (“my blue phase”;))?
And when they found a way to sort/group the pictures, how should they present their art? Clickable thumbnails on one page? As a flash slideshow? A long page full of pictures?

I’ve seen very different solutions for this and I most of them I found pretty good. So perhaps this questions is not so important if the general rules are not broken, e.g. that visitors do not have to click 20 times before they can see a picture in a viewable size…

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EDIT 02/12/2012
In the meantime, Katherine Tyrrell wrote about the results of her poll. You should take a look, it’s interesting