04 September, 2006
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New 'Pics of the Day' Gallery

We are excited to launch a new section of our website today...The Pics of the Day Gallery.

This is a special gallery of artwork on our site that is selected by the members on a daily basis. Each ArtWanted.com member can add one artist per day to this new gallery. This is done by adding any image on our site to your favorites list.

PURPOSE OF THIS NEW GALLERY

The concept of this new gallery first started by Sher Richardson, who has now passed away. She started a new thread on the message boards each day to highlight members of the site and the artwork they create. Each member could then add to that thread by picking other artists/artwork from our site. This trend has continued even after her passing and has been a great way to see the artwork of many artists that may be hidden throughout our site. We have simplified the process to feature an artist and it should be a very popular area of our site.

HOW IT WORKS

To highlight a member of our site on our 'Pics of the Day' gallery, simply add them to your favorites list. Once you do this, there is a link that will say 'Add this Artist to the Pics of the Day Gallery'. When this link is clicked, they will be added to our new gallery. You are allowed one artist submission per day and can't select yourself. Each day you can return to this area of the website and see the featured artists.

We invite everyone to view and add to this new gallery on a daily basis. Please give us your feedback so that it can continue to improve, too. Enjoy!

http://www.artwanted.com/browse/pics.cfm

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60 Comments

joan warburton 04 Sep 2006

Where can we access this other than here on this thread?

ashok nayak 04 Sep 2006

(browse)

My submission on this historical inagural day of 'Pics of the day' Gallery is.....

Artist: Marie Krause Title: Shania Twain

Congrats Marie!

bert cortes 04 Sep 2006

Good idea.

joan warburton 04 Sep 2006

I still can't find where we can go back and view the pics of the day, LOL!

Unless I come back to this message board I can't access the gallery to view what people have chosen.

Is this one of my "light-haired detours off the information superhighway"?

Is it staring me in the face somewhere?

Martha Miller 04 Sep 2006

We need an easier access to the gallery.. I posted one but now i can not find it. Can't you make a simple click on link? If it is to difficult to be found.....It won't be used. And that would be very sad. Cut down the Steps. It should be visible on the home page. How do you see what has been chosen for the day?

Steve Farr 04 Sep 2006

I luv it! Thanks AW and peace be with you , Sher!


ArtWanted.com Staff 04 Sep 2006

The new gallery is found in the BROWSE section. Just click on BROWSE, then click on the PIC OF THE DAY GALLERY and there you are. Just two clicks away from any page you are on.

joan warburton 04 Sep 2006

I knew it was staring me in the face. Thanks AW!

Cheryl Singleterry 04 Sep 2006

I'm going with the Clay Aiken one!! :-)

Martha Miller 05 Sep 2006

ok Iam having trouble getting my seclection on the new Sher's Gallery...What am i doing wrong?


ArtWanted.com Staff 05 Sep 2006

Please tell us what you are doing, and we can walk you through it.

bert cortes 05 Sep 2006

AW, I was under the impression that your staff and moderators were going to select from the "Pics of the Day"those images you thought were the best. Guess I was wrong. What you're doing is what others were doing. Is this corrrect? If it is, the "I do you and you do me continues" when it comes to the Top 10. I find nothing new, except that you're doing it instead of some artists.

joan warburton 05 Sep 2006

Observation:

I think you can only get your pic of the day into that gallery if you choose to put it in your favorites, correct?

I noticed that if you remove it from favorites it is also removed from pic of the day.

Bear with me.... this is going somewhere, LOL!

I thought 'favorites' was like 'all time favorite images' from the site.

What if we want to add to the pic of the day but don't want it in our all time favorites? It seems that we have to leave it there in order for it to stay up in pic of the day.

What we're going to wind up with is 365 pics in our favorites. Is it supposed to work that way?

bert cortes 05 Sep 2006

Joan, I'm keeping the pics in my favorite for three days only, then I delete them. You certainly don't want 365 pics in your favorite, neither do I.

Martha Miller 05 Sep 2006

I Choose pictures That go into my favorites.......Once there it asks do i want it in my picks of the day.......i clicking on it, but it does not go in Sher's gallery............i don't know where they are going.....i tried it three times last evening.and three times more this morning.... They are floating somewhere in Cyberspace.

Bo Fransson 06 Sep 2006

Well, it's a good idea..but I miss the personal touch; I want to know who choose who! And it would be nice if one could add a comment to WHY you think the artist/artwork need extra highlight. As it is now it just looks like another random image thing.

joan warburton 06 Sep 2006

I agree, Bo.

There's something very impersonal about it.

It was nice when it was up in the discussion group. I would really like to see it put up there in it's own forum.

Yes, it takes time and effort to copy the pic and URL but if you really like something you make the effort.

The problem is that if right click is disabled, which most people are in favor of, Sher's Board will cease to exist.

Dan Perez 06 Sep 2006

I like the fact that it's anonymous and that there is no opportunity for comments to accompany the selection. It may help cut down the instances of reciprical selection as in the top ten. If the artwork selected is actually good, it shouldn't require an explaination as to why it was chosen by someone.

With the top ten, I stopped looking at a long time ago becasue it got to the point where it was the same group of people with similar work This feature is allowing me to bring some recognition to a couple of artists whose work is different and very powerful without them knowing that I picked them and feeling obligated to check out my work.

Dan Perez 06 Sep 2006

Now, of course, the pic of the day doesn't seem to be working. It's telling me that the artist I selected is added but the image doesn't show.


ArtWanted.com Staff 06 Sep 2006

This is good feedback, please keep it coming. We are sure there will be upcoming changes to this new feature, based off the feedback we get from those that use it.

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