Art & Photography Design

Art and photography web designs for painters, artists, photographers, music, film, and theater. Customized for creative businesses.

Photo by Jim Grieco

We build websites for painters, artists, photographers and people working in music, film and theater. For creative work the website is the gallery, and the design's job is to stay out of the way. Everything we do here starts from that: the work is the interface, and the site around it should be quiet.

Image quality that survives the web

Images are prepared so they stay sharp without making pages slow, which matters more than it sounds: a gallery that takes several seconds to appear loses the visitor before the first piece loads. Collections and series can be organized however you think about your work rather than forced into a fixed structure.

Selling directly, when you want to

If you sell prints, originals or bookings, the same site takes an online store with live credit card processing, so you are not sending buyers to a marketplace that takes a cut and keeps the relationship. You add new work, retire sold pieces and update your statement or exhibition history yourself through the content management system.

Commissions, licensing and enquiries

Not every enquiry is a sale from a shopping cart. Commission requests, licensing questions and exhibition enquiries all need different information from you before you can answer sensibly, and a single contact form asking for a message rarely gets it. We build enquiry forms that ask the right questions per type, so the first reply you send can be useful rather than a request for more detail.

We have been building and hosting websites since 1999, and we work with artists at every stage, from a first site to replacing something that has not kept up with the work. Contact us using the support button at the top of any page and tell us what you make and what you need the site to do.

 

Design

Venue Communications, Inc. consists of a team of specialists, each with unique skills from custom database development to custom web site graphic design.

Hosting

Venue Communications, Inc. offers state-of-the-art hosting services customized to fit your specific needs. Our server admins maintain our servers for peak efficiency.

Domains

Our philosophy is to make your web site easy to manage. Registering a domain name with Venue Communications, Inc. is just as easy. Search for an available name and purchase it.

Marketing

Venue Communications, Inc. goes beyond basic web design, we can assist your business in developing a winning web marketing strategy.