. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GENERAL NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

         • Note  to Webmasters / Web Designers / their Clients •
Questions
  Designer Sites
  Links lists
  Will slow loading sites become a dead issue when Broadband abounds?
  Artsite as Art Object 
         • Note to Arts Publicists / Event organiser / Festival Directors / Curators •
 
         • Note to Artists / Crafts-persons / Groups / Performers / Managers •
 
         • Note  to Arts Businesses / Galleries / Institutions •
ID number / code
  Important...emergency use 
         • Suggestions for creating or refurbishing your own Artsite •
Text
  Backgrounds
  Advertising and counters
  Up-dating
  How it works for you 
          • Plan for the Future •
 
          • ADU  on-line Arts Showcase •
 
          • Contact •

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Databases like this one, are specialist fast loading text-only websites: A registered user with an encoded ID places and accesses data there via a form with selectable text fields, and can directly edit content anytime.

 
 
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• Note to Webmasters, Web Designers and their Clients •
 

To make ADU QuickLinks useful and valuable to any Arts and related sites you’re designing or maintaining or updating, make Event Calendar, News, and CV pages quick-loading by limiting unnecessary graphics. Realise the value of placing any forms on a dedicated text-only page also.
If re-designing a working site entails URL changes, please return to ADU and update the specific URL you wish to QuickLink. Use the clients ID number, or E-mail ADU for it stating the clients authorisation.
If you decide to utilise ADU, please consider adding our link-logo somewhere in your site layout. A variety is available under "Link" on any ADU page.

 
  Questions:  
 

• Do Site designers and their clients want their site to be or seem to be a Database for everything else, as well as the specialty of the house? It seems so. Why?... for show or for function?

• Why must we be set navigational "Tests" every time we open a new site?

• Why must a site be "Bigger"?...define "better".

• Designer Sites: if viewers have to wait uninformative minutes for what is often a poor and disappointing "Home Page" solution to appear, can we call it good design? Is the desire for a site to have visual unity and a unique visual appeal just a designer looking for a prize?..a mention somewhere for free as a novelty item?...even a review in an old-style hard-copy media magazine?!

• The argument for Artsite as Art Object doesn’t stand up when you consider that very nearly every site has a "Links" list leading away from such "design unity" to the same ubiquitous list of other sites…sites often gathered simply because they exist as an URL. What’s being suggested here? …that the look of database browse-search-submission results pages can easily be quiet and discreet, and uniform across the Arts spectrum…an "understood" presence in all sites…just another link, but always reliably there?

• Links lists: these are very often padding dressed up as service, and are usually presented as one long Alphabetical list…a sure indicator of the shallowness of the research, rather than as having some focussed relationship to the original site and it’s uniqueness. Better Links lists have no broken links, are searchable, have subject headings, a brief outline, and best of all…a rating…a valid reason for inclusion…a "real" editor and referee at work...seriously educational.

• Will slow loading sites become a dead issue when Broadband abounds? I suspect that when broadband speeds up connections, designers will throw more onto a site, and waiting-time will be much the same. It’s traffic and freeways. The ideal would, of course, be small quick attractive sites, cleverly timed and trimmed…artfully scripted to lead the viewer into a total experience….and updated more often than quarterly. Hey, doesn’t that sound a bit like the definition of a Video clip, a Tropfest entry…or a TV commercial?........or a good lesson by a careful teacher or parent?

  

 

• Note to Arts Publicists / Event organisers / Festival Directors / Curators •
 

If, when browsing / searching ADU, you find that you are not included on the "QuickLink / Showcase" search result pages, go to "Edit ADU" and use your ID to add your links. QuickLinks will work immediately. If you don’t have an ID number, go to the Submit ADU page and submit your details: again, QuickLinks will work immediately. Check the "Submit" and "Edit" tutorials...and the notes on emergency use below.

  

Questions:
  
 

• Would a central text-based Arts service devoted to About Us, News, Updates, Stop press, Exhibitions, Calendar, Events, feedback, forms, subscriptions and linked to a similarly titled button in external Artsites have any benefit over each and every site maintaining it's own?

• Would a Super Event Calendar "Portal" be useful? A place in the Whole rather than an obscured part of the Chaos must be a benefit to all…particularly to tourism (planning itineraries etc.). Such a calendar would always link back to the Home Pages of included Websites…as usual.

  

 

• Note to Artists / Crafts-persons / Groups / Performers / Managers •
 

The area set aside in ADU’s database for individuals exists for your CV’s, your personal creative / administrative histories. Many of you have Websites including such information, or you are included within other sites where there has been some obligation on the behalf of the Manager of that site to promote you via past accomplishments. ADU invites you to archive your CV’s in its database.
Many individuals in the Arts are already included in ADU, and use their ID number to update their CV.
Arts publicists and interviewers need a reliable and consistent reference base for research, catalogue introductions, programme notes, press releases and interview questions.

• If you are to have a show / performance / publication / award / celebration concerning your Art Life, then use ADU to share it. Be your own publicist, you don’t need your own Website. ADU is free…and you can manage it yourself.
If you do have a Website and include a CV there, register with ADU and submit your CV page URL to Quicklinks. If you’re about to show or perform, or if you are seeking collaboration on projects...add details and your "News" page URL.
These simple strategies will lead potential clients / fans / kindred spirits directly to you. Check the ADU on-line Showcase notes below.

• Warning: as always, carefully consider the dangers of publishing a personal E-mail address in any public domain record.
A link to ADU's Privacy Policy is available on every page...please read it, and the quote below:

  



"If you don't want to receive even more junk email than you do already, never post your email address publicly and always use a phony email address when websites require you to register before downloading a program or MP3 file. And never "unsubscribe" to spam email as that is a ploy to get you to confirm that your email address is valid! Finally, never open unexpected email attachments from anyone, even your best friend. Many viruses propagate by sending a copy to everyone in the infected computer's address book, so a friend can send you an email virus without even knowing it".

From an article in "Keyboard" Magazine
February 2003 issue
"Keep your Music PC Happy, Part III"
by Ethan Winer

  

 

• Note to Arts Businesses / Galleries / Institutions •
 

The value of ADU QuickLinks in this sphere of activity is obvious when one visits every Arts-related Website in Australasia and the South-Western Pacific, and examines each... ADU does. So many are top-heavy, slow loading, overly complex, unfriendly, repetitious, typo-ridden design nightmares. Very few are quick to load, concise, easy to navigate, regularly updated, pertinent, discreet, well designed or attractive.
Art sites in general need a re-think. Artsdownunder is dedicated to this thinking process and the reduction of the time wasted in getting to the nitty-gritty.

• ID number / code: every entry in ADU (except those to Much ADU and Visitors Book) already has a unique identity number. Test the database now by selecting your KIND of search from the "Search ADU" page and following the directions (or go to the "Search" tutorial). If you find yourself or your business, organisation, Institution, etc., then you already have such a number. E-mail ADU for it. This service is free. If you can’t find yourself there…no matter how many ways you search (the obvious ones: specialty, place, name)…then go to the Submit page, join up and receive your ID number and open your page (check the "Submit" tutorial). You can waste time if you type your information. Prepare and save your submission off-line, then copy and paste it in a planned on-line session. Review it or rearrange it...then Submit and go to the Search ADU page to see how it looks. Come back and edit using the Edit ADU page. Your ID number is necessary now…try it.

• Check the Tutorials "Submit ADU" and "Edit ADU".

• Warning: as always, carefully consider the dangers of publishing a personal E-mail address in any public domain record.

• Hint: keep your ID number prominent in any prepared Arts Management Folder, so that when you open ADU’s edit page, you can copy and paste the number exactly as it is, minimising mistakes...and then quickly enter your own page to make modifications…..try it now…if you don’t want to make changes, don’t click the Submit button or the Delete button…just exit the page.

  
Important:
 

• EMERGENCY: if you have forgotten your ID number or it’s on a piece of paper somewhere else, or you're working at a foreign computer away from your own work station, and you need to edit and up-date NOW..."Don't Panic"...simply go to the Submit ADU page and start from scratch as if you are a brand new user. You will receive a new ID number straight away.

• Our records are monitored regularly, and duplicates deleted. For security reasons, any updated information will be transferred to the original ID number, and the new number erased. You will be notified by E-mail of such changes.

• On the other hand, realise that if you find a lost number after creating a second one, you can make the choice yourself. Whichever ID number you delete will not work again, and the records cease to exist.

• BE TIDY: ADU would appreciate self management of repeated records. If you make a mistake when submitting / editing or just practising...resulting in a string of duplicates, keep at it until you are satisfied. But remember to write down (or copy and paste) the ID numbers your efforts generate, so that you can search for them and Delete...thanks.
It's necessary to know what the "Delete Record" button does...so practise. Generating new numbers and deleting them does not inflate the quoted number of entries in "About ADU" up-dates and search page contents count.

• Use E-mail for contact…it is monitored daily:

  

 

• Suggestions for creating or refurbishing your own Artsite •
 

• Start small…one page, one picture... suitably compressed for quick loading…aim for an absolute maximum of one minute for text and image to load…give the viewer something to read while this is happening…something that takes about a minute and maintains attention. Get the most out of a minute…the hook…it’s very much like making a TV commercial…a small Doco.

• Don’t include a page of links…but if you must, offer few. Make them very pertinent to you and your work, and explain their significance. It’s best to evolve a site from a simple truthful core. Gems are small and well polished…consider yourself the gem…and what you do, it’s facets.

  


Text:  
  • Use a sans-serif font and avoid Italics. Serifs and Italics make reading difficult and slow. Keep font sizes to 1 and 2...this text is size 2, and the headings are size 3. Don’t let lines of text stretch right across your monitor, the eye scans lines most effortlessly when they’re 150 mm wide (6 inches or 500 pixels) and smaller.
Don’t "justify" text for Artistic projects…it’s too "newspaper", too "technical". Make lines of text as long as a sentence (the inter-mingled text of the ADU Introduction pages are put together using this "rule" loosely…does it work for you?...can it be decorative?).

• Coloured text is easier to read than black and white, and is used to best effect on coloured backgrounds…but take care. Consider the different monitors, browsers and browser versions that your information will be seen on…what you see is not necessarily what others will see…so test your efforts … and practise fine tuning and management.

• Always use Web-safe colours for text, backgrounds and graphics…and don’t over-do "Op" effects.
  


Backgrounds:  
  • Avoid using white as a background; the CRT Monitor is a glowing medium, and white is glare and glare is tiring…think theatre and lighting…looking at visuals for their own sake is a leisure and recreational activity and should not be a trial.
Try this: decide what the general colour of your graphic, artwork or photo is, then select it’s complementary…the colour least represented in that visual. The colour should then be neutralised to your taste ("greyed"...adding complementaries together results in "browns", "slates", "olives", "russets"...the "quiet" earthy tertiary colours)...and adjusted in tone (adding black creates a "shade"...white, a "tint". These are the colour qualities of tonality). Try a mid-tone first…find the right settings. Avoid raw colour backgrounds unless the same colour is a part of the image...and avoid those made of "tiled" patterns with busy all-over textures.
  


Advertising and counters:  
  • Avoid advertising and counters: a site can only ever be an advertisement for itself...for yourself...and for whatever you do. Consult your tax agent / accountant.
If you have to use a counter, select a discreet one and place it out of sight. Counters are meaningless to anyone but you, they tell you when interest is wanning…when an up-date is necessary…but they are very corruptible…in any site.
Ask, does a counter affect how you respect a site or it’s designer?…is it "old-hat"?...something for sheep to follow?...a strictly commercial gimmick?..."thousands can't be wrong"...can they?
For far better performance data concerning your site, consult your ISP (Internet Service Provider).		  


Up-dating:  
  • We’re all guilty in this department. The management word again.
It’s impossible to tell a dead site from a dormant one if you include a "last up-dated" caption. Don’t use dates on home pages…but this is fudging. Realise that Artsite surfers (potential clients / followers / fans) will stop returning to your site if it doesn’t change and a nearby date read-out underlines the fact. It seems that they seldom return without a great deal of effort spent updating, conventional media advertising, a press release or two, bulk E-mailing, a good (or bad) review in an established magazine (on-line or otherwise)…or an award. Message: don’t lose them in the first place...take pride in being known as a regular "Up-dater"...underline the date!

• As soon as content becomes outdated, up-date or pull the total display except for an address page. It’s more important to have a static visual presence on the Web with an expectation suggested. The Web, at it’s simplest level, is just another telephone book…but it's something that can be managed to be more than that…something you can use as a facade to build behind…a studio with a brass plaque on the "door"...an exhibition or performance space under your control.
Open the door every now and again and let QuickLinks and Showcase direct viewers to your display from ADU’s Home page... simply by opening your ADU record using your ID, typing an extra line, and submitting changes…you will appear at the top of prominent lists as active links.

• Use your site more for display than for information. Concentrate on story, sound, vision, and movement. Impress us...entertain us...educate us.........."the next exciting episode of..."?

• Realise that if you do make regular up-dates to the textual side of your independent site, only regulars and chance surfers will ever find you and justify your effort, your promises…and your Deadline. But you have another option in this case…
up-date your site as usual and then register with ADU…if you follow the instructions found behind the "Submit ADU" link, you will henceforth appear on ADU’s Home page and QuickLinks Search page every time you up-date the ADU database. You will be linked directly to your site's Home page…AND…linked to your site up-date by Quicklinks and Showcase. This service is free. Test it and see. Use the Tutorials to find out about Quicklinks, Showcase, and Submit.

• You have complete control over privacy…you enter what you are prepared to offer as public domain information.

• Warning: as always, carefully consider the dangers of publishing a personal E-mail address in any public domain record.
  


How it works for you:  
  • If you up-dated today you would be at the top of the listings, or near it…and very available to ADU users internationally.

 
 

• Plan for the Future •
 

• Concentrate on the direction Website form is evolving…the Broadband possibilities…"real time"…vision, animation and sound…Screen Culture…everything as Documentary...everyone as Director. Will text be limited to titles, credits, sub-titles?...will sites ever need to be or look like a database again?...should they?...will the generic website duplicate the generic TV Station out of existence?...will we all become directors, producers, writers...and create our own little moment?...will there be many moments?...will we ever tire of them?

• Get proficient in DreamWeaver, Photoshop (Adobe), Digital Performer (Motu), Director and Flash...and of course, get a Mac G4 or more, a Wacom tablet and stylus…exterminate your mouse and its relatives…learn to touch-type…get some exercise. Then there’s Synths and sequencers…and samplers…and…..

• Digital Scanner: don't throw away your conventional camera yet...especially if it is a "Reflex" camera (see TTL below).
A scanner is an essential piece of studio hardware...the primary tool of COLLAGE / MONTAGE / DUPLICATION...
A scanner cancels processing time just as a Digital camera does...and it makes all your slides, prints, and even negatives useful...consider them your image archive. Digitise everything, save the folders and files to CD (with CD backup copies). Learn how to clean images and perfect them...make repairs, make slide-shows...make progress, make Art.
A scanner is a desk-bound "digital camera"...a digital converter...a visual sampler...a flattener. Be aware that 35 mm slides and negatives...and anything termed a "tranny", can only be done photographic justice using a specialist drum-type scanner...because small pieces of film are seldom flat...the scanner must limit the out-of-focus effect caused by the "popping". Scanning text, musical notation, positives (prints or artwork) is a straight-forward process...it's easier to flatten the image support (opaque paper or card) to get an even all-over focus. Don't abuse your scanner...lock it's mechanism when transporting.

• Digital Camera: get a Digital Still Camera (USB equipped) rated 3 to 4 megapixels with "Through-The-Lens" eyepiece / viewfinder, as well as the usual Liquid Crystal Display finder / monitor.
Cameras equipped with LCD viewer alone are meant to be held out away from the body when photographing...this has allowed for overhead and ground level use...
but has it's weaknesses:

1. You have to trust the auto-focus and hope too much...especially if you use specs.

2. It is difficult to keep photos "squared" in the frame when the camera is used at arm's length or held against the waist...this results in work...computer cropping or distortion. Using "through-the-lens" or nearly-so cameras, the photographer can easily make the sea's horizon parallel with the frame...making maximum use of that frame...all those pixels you've paid for.

3. It takes three "hands" to take the perfect "hand-held" photo...the left hand, the right, and the forehead...two hands are less stable...and one hand seems merely to be fashionable. Stability gives detail...but play with dynamism.

4. The most limiting feature: when photographing outdoors in bright sunlight, the LCD...whatever size or adjustability or coating, becomes useless in some situations...usually the most interesting ones.

Cameras must have eyepieces, even if the view is of an inferior low resolution LCD...see what you want to get rather than hope that it comes near to it...the result is always disappointment. Any TTL camera is a WYSIWYG aid to direct expression and creativity.


Buy for Optical zoom rather than digital zoom. "Digital Zoom" can be done in the computer, so switch it off and save battery. Hand-held tele-photos are always inferior…wide-angle and 1:1 (normal) photos of the same subject will deliver the zoomed-in area as well as supply enlargements from the rest of the frame. An optical zoom of 4 - 7 has only marginal advantages, and these are dependent on the use of a tripod. Zooming wastes battery and shortens photo sessions in the field.
Try using a zoom for the distortion effect of visual compression alone…photograph from a distance at or near maximum zoom-in, and enlarge only a small focal centre using your photo-editing programme back in the studio...or on-site with your USB-linked laptop. Wide-angle "zoomed-out" settings give better hand-held results. Some digital cameras allow re-sizing in-the-camera...someone may find a use for it.

In the "studio": get an AC-DC adapter for the camera and a good French tripod. Make sure you can charge batteries and also run the camera from a car cigar lighter socket.

Drawbacks: Digital cameras have frustrating reload times...they sometimes balk at focussing just when you need them…can’t function as motor drives do…are not good for snap-shooting…especially when spontaneity and movement are the subject…they are too automatic, yet are indirect to use.
Most offer a "Manual" mode, but it is seldom easily accessible or user-friendly...never as straight-forward or direct as the old-style 35 mm TTL film camera. Only solution so far…buy ten.

• Hint: Don’t shoot at the lowest resolution…to have a camera full of hundreds of photos is not a good way to work. You can’t make bad photos useful without some work. Shoot at the highest resolution so that you have fewer photos, but all with high quality and lots of possibilities…for example, when you want to insert close-up details of your work or subject within itself…a detail accessed by a "hot spot". Always look for compositions within compositions...themes and variations.
Purchase 2 or 3 smaller memory cards or sticks rather than one large and expensive one...dedicate one for E-mail format and the others to higher resolutions. This is safer in the long run, and easier to manage.
Don’t store your photos in-camera for any length of time…it places your work in considerable jeopardy...upload to your hard disc often, and back-up to CD as habit. Have I forgotten a Digital Video Camera, a real fluid-head tripod and Video editing software?…no, they’re understoods.

• Note: check the "Showcase" Tutorial for more about Digital Imaging and Cameras.

  
 

• ADU on-line Showcase •
  The Showcase sets out to be the visual and graphic parallel of Quicklinks.
How do you create this on-line space?…you add an extra page to your site OR re-dedicate an existing one (or have ADU create one within it’s database if you don’t have a website) and become part of a perpetual "On-line Arts Showcase".

• Click the "Tutorial" link on any ADU page and then go to the "Showcase" tutorial for more format suggestions and ideas.

How it works:

Visitors to ADU choose "Quicklinks" or "Quicklinks / Showcase"...and a page appears with a scroll-able list of sites. Opposite each entry are four links...one for the Showcase, and three for text (that's if the four URL's have been included in your submitted data).
Clicking on the Showcase link takes the viewer out of ADU and to your site and the new page you’ve created... where you’ve inserted your image and promotional information. Check the "Showcase" tutorial and it's parallel "Quicklinks"…and visit the "Submit" and "Edit " tutorials.

The extra "page" needs a few standard specifications:

• Page size and format: make a new page, and insert a "table" 550 pixels wide by 600 deep...divide vertically into two cells…one for image and one for text…centre the table on the page…make the border of the table zero (0) so that the lines don’t appear. Check the cell and layout details for the "Showcase" tutorial page samples.
Remember that the monitors used to view the Web will rarely be more than 800 pixels wide. That's the window you aim for even if your monitor is larger. So work within a rectangle 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels deep.

• Image cell Properties: make sure that the format properties of the cell containing the image are centered for both the horizontal and vertical alignments.. but if you're creative, adjust cells for an interesting arrangement...consider the work of the artist Piet Mondrian.

• Image size: the "image" is artwork, photograph, "screengraph"…but excludes text or captions…text uses far less memory than images, and loads quickly.
When sizing an image, make one dimension around 400 px and observe the result. The image used in the tutorial is 562 x 400 pixels = 224,800 pixels...use this as a loose guide. Properly compressed, this image should take 22 seconds to load (appear on screen) using a Modem rated at 28.8 Kb per second. Make 225,000 pixels your maximum. Remember that several smaller images may be used as long as their total space use is around this maximum...check cell size...add cells as needed.

• If your "image" is a printed poster, design it with this size reduction in mind from the start, or have a separate web version…but it must be readable…at least the major headings and captions. Try enlarged sections, COLLAGE, transparencies…design it.

• Image compression: Digitised images used for web purposes must be"compressed"...the same size image has it's detail simplified to a point that is useful and economical. The compression type used in ADU's images is known as JPEG (jay-peg) and is most often set at 60 value for colour work. An image reduced to these specifications does not need to be protected by a disfiguring copyright stamp or watermark. Low resolution images may be pirated, but for what purpose I don't know...it's not like MP3 and the accessible high resolution sound files that worry arts industrialists and their lawyers. If an image is borrowed for wallpaper or screen-saver or whatever, consider it advertising for the "high resolution" original...whatever it's medium. Digital watermarks only make sense if your business is a commercial photo / image library. Stolen ideas are more of a worry...but hey...what's new?
The full-colour RGB image used in the Tutorial has a final memory file size of 75.58 Kb after this compression from 10. 7 Megabytes. Greyscale and Black-and-white versions of the same image use less and even less memory and are faster to appear on screen.

• Total file size: keep 100 Kb as goal and maximum…less if possible. The Showcase page must load reasonably quickly. This total includes all text...if you can do all that is suggested in the Tutorial and keep total kilobytes under 100 AND still have an acceptable visual, you have succeeded…but play with compression, it is where gains will be made. Check the details in the Tutorial.

• Keep text minimal…use the font "Arial" sizes 1 and 2, aligned left or right (flagged) ... but check the effect... this introduction has been constructed using all three alignment settings (left, right, and centre) as well as inter-leaved, as examples for consideration.
Those using the access for "Gallery" purposes should make their entry in the "Gallery" format…Title, Date, Artists name and date(s), Nationality / Origins, Size, medium, support …even price. If you have a statement to make, keep it concise, and carefully decide where to place it for best effect... where it doesn’t compete with your visual. Centrally aligned text is more useful for scrolling credit lists, where it is best used in two-line units...it is easier to organise and read the "aligned left" text than the other two...but in some situations...

• Link: use one only…remember that we are in your site when we visit to view your up-date…so to enter the rest of your site should be one click away…we’ve seen your artwork or your invitation and want to know more, so include one discreet "Contact" or "Enter Site" button or link to your Contact details. Keep the Showcase page un-cluttered.

• Big Don’ts: no scrolling…keep everything in view from the start…the Showcase page shown in the tutorial is 800 by 600 pixels...this rectangle is small enough to be seen completely on an average users screen without scrolling down. Many designers think in terms of this average...information grabs and images with these dimensions as their maximum. The next page, or "grab" follows the same format, whether it is a page with its own unity and URL, or simply tacked onto the bottom of the first page and made accessible by scrolling. It is now one page 800 x 1200 pixels with one URL. If you need to scroll, maintain the "first" page as a unit, and place text below on the lower "page"...but only do so if the whole Showcase file remains under 100 Kilobytes. Remember not to let the viewer sit waiting at a blank screen.
Don't include "picture" frames unless necessary...although "dropped shadows" is acceptable…no "Italics" or fonts with "serifs" (difficult to read)...and avoid "tiled" or textured backgrounds, these use valuable kilobytes and slow down loading time.
A flat background of any colour uses only 1 byte and loads in a blink...be aware of this. A gradient background is the least expensive "tiled" background. The gradient on this page uses 577 bytes and adds very little to loading time...a fraction of a second.
See the "Showcase" tutorial for notes on bits, bytes, and pixels.

• Invitations / Promotions: Gallery and Venue owners, and Event managers etc., …select a representative work to insert…use the text to "Front Page" your next occurrence…If you have had invitations, posters, or catalogues printed, chances are their front pages or colour separations will exist in digital form…get more value from the investment by using those files, or edited versions of them, for your "Showcase" page. Use the Showcase to extend invitations and supply a taste of what's on offer .....POSTERISE.

• Click the "Tutorial" link on any ADU page to go to the "Showcase" tutorial for more format suggestions and ideas.


  
 
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• Contact •


• Address:

 THE ARTS DOWNUNDER
  ~ P.O. Box 61, Barraba, New South Wales 2347 Australia ~
   

• Tel:

 6782 1214 (local)
  02 6782 1214 (interstate)
  +61 2 6782 1214 (international)
   

• Fax:

6782 2080 .(local)
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• E-mail:

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         • Note  to Webmasters / Web Designers / their Clients •
Questions
  Designer Sites
  Links lists
  Will slow loading sites become a dead issue when Broadband abounds?
  Artsite as Art Object 
         • Note to Arts Publicists / Event organiser / Festival Directors / Curators •
 
         • Note to Artists / Crafts-persons / Groups / Performers / Managers •
 
         • Note  to Arts Businesses / Galleries / Institutions •
ID number / code
  Important...emergency use 
         • Suggestions for creating or refurbishing your own Artsite •
Text
  Backgrounds
  Advertising and counters
  Up-dating
  How it works for you 
          • Plan for the Future •
 
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          • Contact •

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