31 December, 2005
  • ArtWanted.com Staff
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New ArtWanted.com Updates

Here are a few new updates that we completed for ArtWanted.com this week...

1) E-MAIL COMMENT REPLIES

When you click on the 'reply' link on your image comments and post a reply to the member that gave you feedback, you now have an option to e-mail your reply to them. The e-mail will include your reply, their original comment and a link back to your portfolio image.

2) LIMITED DAILY UPLOADS

It has been suggested that we limit the number of uploads for our Premium Members, because many people didn't like seeing dozens of artwork from the same artist on the 'Daily Uploads' page. We don't like the idea of limiting our paying members, so instead we have changed how our daily upload page works.

Starting today, only the first 3 images you upload will show up on the 'daily upload' page. If you upload more than three images, they will still be put in your portfolio and in our image search areas, but just not on the 'new daily artwork' page.

As a side note, our statistics have proven that artists get more hits & comments if they only upload 1 image per day, instead of a handful of new images on the same day. If you are looking for more hits, exposure and artwork feedback, we recommend you only post one new image each day.

3) TOP TEN REPORTS CHANGE

We have also made a slight change to the Top Ten reports that had been requested by many of you. We changed the reports so that the same artist can only show up once per page. This change was done to allow more artists to be included into our Top Ten reports.

For example, if you had artwork that would have fallen in the #2 and the #7 position on a specific report, only your #2 position will show and the #7 position will be given to another artist that will get bumped up from the bottom of the list.

We also fixed a bug that was including artwork that was posted today on the reports for yesterday's numbers.

4) PRINT PROGRAM BACK ONLINE

The print program was taken offline in mid-December, but it's now back up and running again. You can upload new artwork directly into the print program, or you can go to the EDIT IMAGE page and attach a high-resolution print file to artwork you have previously uploaded. Each day we see an increase in the print sales from our members. For more information on the print program, visit:

http://www.artwanted.com/members/prints/

5) DECEMBER CHANGES

For those of you that haven't been to the website in the last few weeks, you will now notice a bunch of new changes we did in mid-December. This list of changes include: Greatly improved surfing speed, a new main menu bar, removal of the default blue background, improved navigation in the members area, improved artist search, many more spots on our site for random images, improved shopping cart, a new help/support section and many other improvements.

6) UPCOMING CHANGES

We hope you enjoy these new changes, but we are just getting started! We have a great year planned for ArtWanted.com in 2006. We have many new changes that will be done in January and all throughout the year. Please continue to give us your suggestions on how we can improve the site. You will be amazed at how many suggestions we receive turn into reality.

Happy New Year!

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27 Comments

Kukua Akumanyi 31 Dec 2005

Hey AW, have not heard back form you since the test. I replyed. how are you doig location gthe problem?.

I have also noticed: 1)the show/hide tab on on the Reports option on the portfolio statistics page is not working. It is a great addition to the page. It a great help tosee the image without having to go to the page or flip throw my physical portoflio. I do hope you are keeping that option And 2) I noticed that my year top ten listing has disappeared before the year is officially out. Is that how it works?

Happy new year to you beavers working at AW

AW REPLY: As for the problem you are having, we are not able to send a specific ArtWatch e-mail, because of the way our site is programmed. However, if any of the artists you are watching upload new artwork, then it will get sent out to you.

The Show/Hide function for the thumbnails appears to be working for us, please give us more details.

As for the top ten reports, we just changed the way they are calculated, so some rankings have changed.

Pat Abbott 31 Dec 2005

How do you access the top ten reports? There used to be link at the top of the page, it is gone.

AW REPLY: We moved all of the text links at the top of the page, into their corrisponding area. The Top Ten reports are found in the BROWSE section of our site.

T.D. Ruley 31 Dec 2005

Thanks for having limited image upload! I admit I was no better at this than anyone else out there, but at least now, when I put up an image, it's more likely to be seen now. Sometimes I put up an image and never get a comment on it. Then I go to look for it, and it's hiding way back behind 4 other artists that uploaded 5 to 8 images each, that same day. I'm glad this issue is therefore rectified. Thanks!

31 Dec 2005

joan warburton 31 Dec 2005

Thank you AW. These are wonderful updates!

Andree Lerat 31 Dec 2005

Fantastic new changes. Great job AW or (Andy)...

Happy New Year :) Andree

Bob MacPherson 31 Dec 2005

Thanks again AW.

Jane McIlroy 01 Jan 2006

Happy New Year, AW staff, and thanks for all your hard work!

joost tielemans 01 Jan 2006

Happy New Year A.W.And thanks for the great work and changes...

Megan Seitz 01 Jan 2006

Thanks for all the great changes.

I'm having a problem with the new reply to a comment/email. When I try and submit a reply to a persons comment with the email feature, I get an OOPS Message.

Desiree Walstra 01 Jan 2006

great!!!!

I AM STILL WAITING FOR THE SHER'S BOARD AND THE 'PRAYER'BOARD, WHEN WILL YOU DO THESE? yOU PROMISED TO DO IT SOON BUT THEY ARE STILL NOT THERE!

C'MON AW. I THINK IT'S NOT VERY HARD TO DO, JUST GIVE IT MORE PRIORITY, THIS WILL BE VERY POSITIVE FEATURE'S TO HAVE AROUND HERE.........

joost tielemans 01 Jan 2006

And i hope that you can resolt my probleme about vewing the new images etc etc .I Have make a post about that and i have send you a few e-mails. Thanks and kind regards,Joost...

Desiree Walstra 01 Jan 2006

there's a problem with replying to comments, I got this message.........

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Sylvia Jackovitch-Kallay 01 Jan 2006

Thanks for all of the work you have done -it's great. The only problem I have is the black background. I find it hard on the eyes and distracting of the artwork. Thank you AW. . Happy New Year!!

harmind arora 01 Jan 2006

Hey Thanks AW nice changes... Neway Thanks for such a good platform for an artist.... Happy New year!

Rita Ria 01 Jan 2006

Happy New Year,

I think these are great updates. :)

Rita


ArtWanted.com Staff 01 Jan 2006

We have fixed the issue with the comment reply, it should now be working for everyone.

As for the message board changes, there are many of them coming soon. We have a long list of suggestions that we work every day to complete them.

Megan Seitz 01 Jan 2006

Yes, the email/reply to comments is up and running...Thanks AW

Steph Salt 01 Jan 2006

Thank you AW for your continued work at improving the site.

Don't worry I won't make my usual request. Well not yet any way :D

Happy New Year Andy and Staff.

bert cortes 01 Jan 2006

AW, I still don't see the number of hits under Manage Portfolio, the way it was. You said it was going to be ready before the end of the year. By the way, Happy New Year to the staff. You're all doing one great job.

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