VT2000 Web Design Projects

Artists can benefit greatly from having a web site. The pages can showcase their work and publicize performances and exhibitions. The artist can explain his or her work and include reviews and awards. Craftworkers can present tutorials, recommendations for materials. And, all images are protected to the greatest possible degree.

The links below are to web sites created by VT2000. All are quite different and will give you a very good of idea of the wide variety of design available to you. Note: These links open in a new window, so you can just close them and be back to this list. And thanks for visiting!

Artist: Phil Godenschwager
This site is a work in progress for Vermont's Art of Action commissioned artist, Phil Godenschwager of Randolph, Vermont. The incredibly complex 2-D images required a safe way to enlarge them more than would usually be necessary on the web.

Non-profit: Saint Albans Artists' Guild
As a member of the Guild, I volunteered to redesign the site for a more modern and artistic look. The background images are taken from my photographs and manipulated to achieve the coloration. In addition to the site redesign, I also designed the logo for the Guild.

Art Button Works
This is a commerical site that showcases and sells one-of-a-kind designer buttons online. The gallery pages pull buttons and information about them from a web database; this makes addition of buttons and data extremely fast.

Artist: Meta Strick
This was an exciting site for me to do because I was able to photograph some of her work, and lucky enough to have a group of her sketchbooks together to get the image that backs the navigation section of the site.

Artist: Karen Linduska
I did this site for this Illinois Fine Art Quilter as a sub-contractor for an Illinois design firm. A slide show moves the work across the screen and each image in the show is "clickable" for a larger version.

Artist: Clair Dunn
This is the site for my own Vermont-based Stock and Fine Art Photography. The main purpose of this site is to showcase my images, background, and capabilities and to provide information for jurors, gallery owners, and stock agencies.

Ellen Powell, Jazz Bassist
This is a site in progress for Vermont Jazz Bassist, Ellen Powell. She can be heard Thursday evenings at Leunig's on Church Street in Burlington.


Vermont Peak Properties
This site is an example of a high-end business site and was completed in August 2007. Development time on this was a little over six weeks from start to finish.

Key-leveling Tabs
This client is a piano technician and inventor in my area who wanted a professional site to showcase his device that aids other technicans in the process of leveling piano keys—a tedious task. The layout is what is called ‥liquid” in that it shifts when you resize your browser window.

Treetop Builders, Inc.
I did not design this site orginally. I did however redo bits of the site in late 2006 to clean it up and correct mistakes. I also redid the portfolio page so that it would run faster. The link here goes to that page because it provides another example of an online gallery.

Green Mountain Piano
I first designed their site a number of years ago, and after a few years of phenomenal growth, they wanted much added to it and I suggested a complete re-design. Web standards and aesthetics are moving targets and it is important to refresh even the most static of web sites every few years.

Ishaya Sanskrit
Site supporting the study of Sanskrit, with an emphasis on using it as a meditation tool. (For my step-son who is off studying sustainable living!)

American Artifacts
This is a pet project, inspired by a fast disappearing phrase: "Made in America". I plan to make the site a visual and textual repository for small objects from our everyday lives that were, once-upon-a-time, Made in the U.S.A.

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Old Sites--Not Yet Re-coded

(These may not appear well in some browsers.)

My Personal Site
This is my personal site. Bits and pieces are occasionally added. It is an example of a personal content web site, as opposed to the professional sites above.
 

Bass Lessons Page
This is an example of a "geeky" site. Plain, fast, and loaded with rich, popular content. With these pages, VT2000 gives a home to some of the finest bass lessons from members of The Bottom Line, a large, online group of professional bass players. Basswork gets several thousand hits per month.

Fairfax Press
This is a fairly extensive site made to showcase the 19th century print shop I built up over a thirty-year period. It also acted as a resource for other private presses and prospective letterpress printers.

Old VT2000 Page
For a long time, this page was the home page of VT2000 (started in 1997). It is a page virtually free of graphics, very plain, but still appealing. I'm in the process of checking up on the links to make sure they all still work.

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 Web Images

As an artist, your images are your intellectual property. And, you want to show your work. Doing so on the internet is almost a requirement these days. But, there are issues surrounding how those images are handled.

There is NO way to completely protect web images from a determined thief. But, there are various methods for making it extemely difficult for them. At best, all that a determined hijacker could get would be a small, low resolution image. And, fast appearing on the internet, are programs that will track image use. There is some extra work involved in implementing this, but it's still not over the top as far as expense is concerned.

If you do your own web design, I have the first installment of a set of tutorials that explains some of the required steps involved in basic image protection.