steveritchie.net
“Two words: responsive design. I wanted a site that works on all devices, not just a PC. In addition, I liked the clean, modern lines, and the lack of excessive ornamentation. Now, if I could only reduce the size of the banner, I'd be ecstatic!” — Steven D. Ritchie
T. P. Peter Image Collection
“Sandvox has allowed me to organize a relatively large number of images so that they can be accessed and researched in a multiple of different ways. Not only can one search for an image by location, the same image can be located by identity of the person (as available) as well as by subject matter...” — T. P. Peter
Autism and the Art of Communication
“I chose "Outside the Lines" because that describes how we work (and the visual matched our artistic content). I like the fact that we can replace the photo banner with our own picture featuring the artwork of individuals on the autism spectrum - it gives the site more individual character.” — Sheila Bell
ArtsCounselor.com
“I regularly change the designs I use. Currently I'm using Simply for the combination of color and clean design.” — Barry Beach
Arthur Lopez
“I felt the smooth dark was the most suitable for an artist website. The dark background helps to showcase the work in a much better way.” — Arthur P. Lopez
Katie Hoffman Fine Art- Intuitive oil paintings, whimsical watercolors, and imaginative monotypes
“It's a little early for that, but it was nice to have my daughter tell me that my website no longer looked "deep web internet 2.0."” — Katie Hoffman
Arthur Huang - Conceptual Archivist
“I wanted to rebuild my website for my studio practice. I was unhappy with the website design application that was provided with my hosting. I had an older web design program which also lacked templates that appealed to my design sense and was not as user friendly as I would have liked. I decided...” — Arthur J. Huang
Spotlighting Southeast Chicago
“The website, begun new, has not had a lot of time to develop such anecdotes. However, on the day after its first post on the Internet, it gained this comment: "In one paragraph, you effortlessly move from Native Americans to farming, you are one amazing writer Kevin!"” — Kevin Murphy
Leonardo Schiavone Photography
“My website is designed to make business with my photographic work. At the moment, the site is a work in progress; the final aim is to sell pictures and to get collaborations all over the world. The site gathers some my artworks, not the best maybe, but the ones I consider as most representative of...” — Leonardo Schiavone
Don Menges Photography
“I chose the "Rounded Blue" design because it was graphic, yet simple. I didn't want a complicated design to distract from my images.” — Don Menges
Public Art by Juanjo Novella - sculpture in open spaces
“The grey is a neutral color to enhance the pics, and also is adaptable to a modern style. It is relaxing to see.” — Juanjo Novella
www.mattphillipsart.com
“I paint and sculpt both people and landscapes, using a variety of materials and sizes. Media includes metal fabrication, oil paint, plastic, and plaster. Throughout my painting and sculpture is the common thread of identity, and how environment and emotional conditions affect our notions of...” — Matt Phillips
Colecciones Almela
“You will find in my website a gallery to my work as painter of the light and sun found int the Mexican countryside, that seeks to inspire and provide a space for contemplation and reflection to the visitor.” — Mario Almela
Frank Spears
“To spread and publicize the name "Frank Spears," a well known South African painter” — M. J. Spears
Pacific Coast Percussion Music Instruments
“This design really showcased the very simple use of three colors throughout the website. I felt the style would give me a professional looking environment that would create contrast to my instruments.” — Stanley P. Corpus
Fred Bell Paintings
“My paintings involve people and how they relate to the world around them. I start with an idea and remain open to what may evolve. In my current series, I explore the relationship between people and their cats. In the process, it is the personalities of the cats that emerge while the people become...” — Fred Bell
BA Wygant Studio
“Sandvox is easy to use & integrate. Updates are a breeze and her web page is hands down the best of all the artists at our shows. We get tons of compliments on it.” — Lacey M Wallace
James Shefik
“My website is mainly to share my artwork with people and explain a little about why I do it.” — James Shefik
Bert Feringa
“The design Krypton Pro left side bar has a very professional look and is well suited for showing paintings.” — A Feringa
Saans Lena Studio
“We were fortunate enough to find a design with our team colors that does well to highlight our photo driven site.” — Chris Hazewski
L.P. Baker
“I wanted a design that was simple, easy to navigate, looked good both on desktop and mobile browsers.” — Lindsay Baker
Cliff Rossberg- Rossberg Fine Art
“I choose Kryptonite because I thought the darker background had clean lines and provided a good platform to showcase my oil paintings.” — Cliff Rossberg
Michael Reafsnyder
“Website for artist Michael Reafsnyder including information about him, upcoming exhibitions, CV, bibliography, info, and links. Represented by Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, New York.” — Michael Reafsnyder
Fusako NAKAGAWA Works
“My website shows examples of my doll making work. This varies from ‘Japanese traditional Hina’ dolls, to creative dolls. I work in a traditional way using wood, Japanese paper, silk, and white Spanish chalk (shell powder fixed with glue) and fine stone powder. I use Meiji, Taisho, Showa...” — Fusako Nakagawa
fritz a. auweck - Conceptual Photography
“It was necessary to reduce the data size of pictures in a separate work step, because the program transferred them well but included the original data size.” — Prof. Fritz Auweck
Ron Brunsvold Photography
“I am using a third party plug-in for Sandvox that matches my needs perfectly. I looked at a lot of other sites before finally deciding on the look and layout that I wanted.” — Ronald Brunsvold
Donald-Rizzo Abstract Verism
“I'm a visual artist and my website showcases my work and style of Abstract Verism. Abstract: art that does not attempt to represent external, recognizable reality but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures. Verism: From the Latin word meaning “true,”...” — Donald Rizzo
Mark Attebery Studio
“My website helped get my first commission to sculpt trophies for a vintage and custom motorcycle rally.” — Mark Attebery
Kashima-Shinryu UK
“Kashima-Shinryu is a traditional Japanese martial art that has just recently opened a branch school in the UK. The website is intended to provide contact information for potential students.” — Gestur Christianson
Muzart
“We found the sidebar to be very helpful and not intrusive while keeping the Facebook and video integration on every page.” — Sharbel Dalal
Paul Walden Art
“My web site is designed to show my paintings currently for sale at Southwest Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Also to show the limited edition prints that I'm now producing. There is also a little writeup about me.” — Paul Walden
Creativity Planet Arts Workshop
“My daughter's and friends think I am a tech whiz..I know I could teach a child to build a website with this easy to use product and maybe I will.” — Patricia A. Rieger
Angling Artifacts
“We selected this Sandvox template because it is simple, clean, yet robust and allows the site to transition into a separate shopping cart program that is similar in its design.” — Yuriko Hirsch
Joyce K. Jensen Original Fine Art
“I chose this design because it's very simple, direct, clean and modern. My paintings are high key, very vivid, and ofter quite complex. I want to showcase my art, not show off a fancy site design. I was delighted with the choices available, was able to quickly narrow it down to three, then chose...” — Joyce Jensen
John Pike Art Products
“This website contains a small store where artists can purchase John Pike products, including the "John Pike Regular" and "Big Well Palettes", the books "Watercolor" and "John Pike Paints Watercolors", the videos "Watercolor Demonstrations" and the "Biography of John Pike", and the "Wonderful...” — Laura Jacobs and Shauna Reynolds
Pat Borow
“It was suggested by Sandvox that I build an index item on the home page that would link to the blog, therefore making the site appear more dynamic to the search engines. A great idea! I used Adobe Photoshop Elements to resize some of the images and save them for the web. I wanted to make sure...” — Patricia Hall Borow
ONYX
“This design is the same one I used for my book's site. I like working with the simplest possible format since I find that that allows the maximum expression for the work I'm presenting and lots of flexibility in how I present it.” — Ronald Williams
Purple Cat
“Sandvox is instinctive to use, and its great range of choices and designs makes it flexible and meets my needs so well.” — David Abse
Wildwood Crafts
“I have been approached by a local craft joiner to act as subcontractor on a letter cutting commission for a project of national significance which will be prominently displayed for generations to come. It is not in the public domain yet, so I cant divulge its exact nature but I'm seriously chuffed!...” — Richard Douglas
Caffeine 'n' Diesel
“At three days old, our site already has 54 Facebook likes, and an inquiry from a realtor who says our images are "absolutely stunning" and she thinks they would make good housewarming gifts for her buyers. All comments we've had about our site have been very complimentary!” — Sharon Shuttleworth
Michele S. Morris
“I chose the particular design I'm currently using because it is simple and plain. I didn't want anything too flashy taking away from the information. I also wanted something that was very easy to use for anyone visiting my website.” — Michele S. Morris
Regina Atwood Art
“It's all about art. My website displays a variety of paintings and also illustrated and published children's books.” — Regina Atwood
Kristine Suhr
“I chose "distinction grey" because I wanted a very simple and clear website without confusing elements or colors. I want that the focus is only on my work.” — Kristine Suhr
Real People Art
“My website showcases the art of Jerry Patterson expressed in a number of different mediums, including watercolors, acylics on wood, mixed media, digital art, and photography. The watercolors and digital works focus on people in their lives and at work and are designed to make people think, smile,...” — Gerald Patterson
Heat Records-Tommy Lockett
“I tried many designs, but ended up with the current look, because of the way I could use pull down menus for my columns, and the boarders where I could feature art work.” — Tommy Lockett
rocknwrap
“I wanted a clean white design with separating bars - no colour as the pictures and content provide that.” — Eleanor Holland
Christel Ibsen
“Eighteen teen years ago, I suddenly lost my hearing. From leading a productive, exciting but frazzled life - shuttling between Paris, New York and London - within a few years I had become 95% deaf. And that is when I started to paint... With the silence of deafness came peace and the blissful...” — christel ibsen
Rick Parsons
“Artist Website” — Richard Parsons
Artist Bonnie Maffei
“You will find the following pages on Bonnie's website: Art Exhibit, oil paintings, Bonnie's TV Interview, Drawings & Prints, Movies, Screenplays, Books, Travel Articles, Eurythmy, Sound Bytes, Blog and 2012 Calendar of Events. The purpose of my website is to show the various art forms I have...” — Bonita Maffei
World Wide Vails
“I chose the design Clockwork Blue because it has a banner across the top and it's simple and uncluttered.” — Ginny Vail
Tep Art Foundry
“I used one of the simples templates ('Serengeti' 'Smooth dark'). This suited me best because it provided a perfect background to the pictures that I used. I wanted my site to look serious and professional, yet colourful.” — Ellen van Heijningen
Linda Calvert Jacobson
“I looked through all of the designs several times, narrowed it down and finally settled on the one I am using. I wanted my website to be classy and elegant. I didn't mind if it were somewhat playful, but I wanted to keep it professional. I also like the drop down menus and the arrows to click from...” — Linda Calvert Jacobson
Canvas Shed
“Irish Photographers & Digital Artists Derek & Laura West showcase a large and varied portfolio of stunning landscapes, portraits, & abstracts from across Ireland and other continents in a virtual gallery of amazing photo artography. All images are beautifully printed using Giclee techniques and...” — Derek West
Irish High Crosses
“At this point in time I have kept my website design very basic. Photos and text have allowed me to share my study of Irish High Crosses without knowing much about website design or computer programing in general.” — Barney McLaughlin
Fine Art by Evan Roy Dahlke
“I prefer a simple, clean design with most of the background dark. This allows my work to stand out more.” — Evan Roy Dahlke
Deedee Hampton
“I chose this website design because I think dark colors work well for art work- it makes the colors "pop".” — Deedee Hampton
Galleons Lap Photography
“I like minimalist designs, and I find the selection of these designs to be 1st rate in Sandvox (and their 3rd party designers. I like my websites to get out of the way of the content, and so gravitate to those designs that do that.” — Michael Robb and Seth Berkowitz
Michael Robb
“This design is a nice simple one. The dark background serves really well to show-case Michael's art, and the minimalist controls get out of the way of the real content.” — Michael Robb and Seth Berkowitz
Susie Loucks
“I chose the templet "Clean Sheets" because I wanted control over the style of my pages. Since I have a site for artwork, I didn't want any images, colors, or layout that might be distracting to the viewer's interests.” — Susie Loucks
Marci Katz Art & Design.
“I eliminated anything extraneous on the pages so I could highlight my work. I used primarily photo pages, and a couple just for text.” — Marci Katz
JosephLitzinger.com
“I wanted as blank a canvas as I could use with Sandvox (the artist in me) to make this site look very pleasing to the eye, simple and easy to view and navigate. It was important to me that the art work and artist was the main focus on each page.” — Joseph Litzinger
Jack Hanzer Susco
“Hanzer's sparkling repertoire includes a wide variety of tastes and styles from Warhol art inspired pop and music culture subjects, to images of flowers, nature and imaginative free flowing unrestrained images. They inspire, shock, sooth and please the astute eye.” — John H Susco
Paula Schoen / Contemporary Art
“Building my website with Sandvox forced me to get all of my digital photos in order. In the process, I was able to revisit some great exhibitions, trips and paintings that I had not seen for a few years. Plus, my newly designed site gave me the opportunity to contact others in the art community...” — Paula Schoen
Silent Tree Studios™
“Everyone that has looked at my website that I made with Sandvox mentions how professional it looks. I have been told that it is really easy to get around, and that they thought the design was very attractive to look at.” — L. Micki H. Moss
Susan Felter
“I liked the dark but not black background, and the gradation of tones. Such tones seemed just right for a simple but elegant photographic art website.” — Susan Felter
Mark Bisset Fine Art
“I am using smooth dark because it is clean and professional. It makes the artwork on my site the focus, not the design.” — Mark Bisset
Betty Hafner - Books and Art
“I don't sell my art on my site but I have gotten two sales from people who contacted me and bought two drawings they saw on my site.” — S. Elizabeth Hafner
Distinctive African American Art
“The Sandvox design I used is elegant and simple; it shows art very well. The menu design is intuitive, and works by the artist can be displayed in a collection. Like all Sandvox designs, this one is easy to update as inventory changes.” — Scott Kisling
David Abse - Art
“Paintings, drawings and prints, movies, iPad drawings - the site shows off my art work.” — David Abse
yellowbird gallery
“I needed a black screen to show off the paintings and as wide as possible..... for the font I chose avant garde and added a shadow...not that I wanted a shadow but with one it makes it an object.... and therefor should be picked up by everyone.” — John Thompson
Studio Juliano Art on the Edge
“I've used several designs but, the Blueprint Classic has an open and unrestricted appearance. I works well for the art.” — Dyann Juliano
MDC Master ArtStudio
“I was thinking about a website for my society since a long time, but working a lot on my art-work, i haven't the time to contact a webmaster for a net page elegant and ambitious. Someone recently told me about Sandvox. I find it so easy to build a website that i try to make it by myself with...” — Matthieu-Donald Caillot
RH Art & Bildhuggeri
“I looked at the instruction movie and tried to do like the integration with video but i can't get it working. I would love to have [it] so I will go on trying,” — Ronnie Holmberg
CanTejas Art
“I just created this Sandvox site and will report on the results in the future. So far, the customer support has been outstanding!” — Raymond Schmitz
Judith Carlin
“I chose Smooth Dark. It's a great theme for displaying photos. It's a sophisticated theme that doesn't distract from the art work.” — Judith Carlin
Jeff Skelly Fine Art
“I was looking for a design that would compliment my paintings and since I am a landscape painter the earthy colors matched well.” — Jeffrey Skelly
Kari Huhtala + Associates
“I downloaded the Accordian Plugin. It works very well, is excellent value, and was given excellent support via email from the developer.” — David Whiting
William Lee Artist and Sculptor
“After our website went live, we realized how prolific my husband has been as an artist over the last few years. Seeing all of the sculptures and other works assembled in one place made us proud of his accomplishments and the variety of his work. It is easy to make a "beautiful" website when it's a...” — Suzanne Lee
Edel Filzdesign
“I want to show all my friends and the interested public my felting design art work. Allen Freunden und der interessierten Öffentlichkeit möchte ich mein exquisites Filzdesign und die stilvollen Filzobjekte zeigen.” — Ludmila Goller
Botanical Photo Art
“The Sandvox design that I selected was a perfect match for the artistic fine art photo content that I wanted to display. The art deco features of the template design showcases the art beautifully.” — Susan Johnston
Joy Laking Gallery
“Before Sandvox, this site was maintained in a basic HTML editor. Since I took it over and used Sandvox, changes happen in a controlled and immediate manner.” — Robert Wyatt
Betsy LePlatt Design & Illustration
“I chose the design I did because it is very clean and light. I wanted the artwork to stand out, not the design of the background.” — Betsy LePlatt
Klimt Posters
“I chose Cirrus for this website because of its clean yet stylish presentation. I didn't want anything too overwhelming as the content of the site includes some striking images which really should be the focus of any visit to the site. Yet Cirrus still manages to offer a very professional look...” — Paul Strange
Watching Europa
“Watching Europa is a digital animation artwork which takes a speculative look at life on another world. The website features a stills gallery, some animation clips and will also have sound and music in due course.” — Peter Miller
Yenney and Imara
“My website has allowed me to make interesting contacts in the art world as well as sell some art and keep friends and family up to date on what I'm up to.” — Jennifer Hammar
ArtsCounselor.com
“My website has definitely helped me network locally. I try to set up links to it regularly to ensure good search engine placement.” — Barry Beach
Brownedge Festival
“Introduction, Calendar of events, Art competition, Photo competitions, Floral displays, Workshops, Festival photo gallery - ll to inform potential patrons” — J. Raymund Livesey
natupho by Hermann Kraemer - nature photography and more...
“The particular design gave me the possibility to enlargen it a bit and to support my photographic artwork with its reduced color scheme.” — Hermann Kraemer
African American Artist Eugene J. Martin
“Many visitors like the design of the new website about the prolific artist Eugene Martin as it is an easily accessible and essential reference source about his works of art, press, books, videos, exhibits, museum and galleries shows, interactive links, and contact information.” — Suzanne Fredericq
www.MosaicOfArt.com
“Through both formal and informal interviews, we engage the big themes: identity, memory, process, spirituality, etc. But we also talk about practical issues in an art professional's working life: tools and materials, organization, dealing with the business of making a living.” — George Fishman
Carin Glaser Photography
“My website is designed to provide not only information on the services I provide but to allow my clients to view and order their finished products online. My goal is to display my work as well as assure my clients that they are going to get the quality and style they are looking for.” — Carin Glaser
Dreamgifts
“We use raw html objects usually filled with php code to display fresh content from product data rss feeds whose content may frequently change. Page code injection is used extensively to add the structured data meta tags for publishing on social media, as described above.” — David Paul
Cheryl Hutto Fine Decorative Painting at Crowhill Studios
“I received a request from "the Old Fahioned Milk Paint Company" asking if they could post photos of my work on their site. They had discovered the photos on my Sandvox site of my completed projects which featured their milk paint. They must have Googled "milk paint"!” — Cheryl Hutto
Art by Rebecca Torrington
“I am using Cathedral design, but I have slightly tweaked it to include some of Rebecca Artwork, thus creating a more thorough work flow.” — Huw McGregor
black sweater art
“Smooth Dark was the template design I used for my black sweater art web site. The template is set up to highlight photographs by darkening all the surrounding space using various shades of gray. The final effect dramatically increases the color and luminosity of photo images.” — George F Mayfield
Jody Racicot - Furniture Maker
“As a busy actor my name often appears on websites dedicated to movies and television. Many fans have been surprised to visit my website and find that it is not dedicated to my acting career rather to my passion for building furniture.” — Jody Racicot
Ross Racine - art
“I choose a grayscale design because my work is already grayscale. I prefer a design that doesn't interfere with the artwork.” — Ross Racine
Olga Motta - Regie, Bühne, Kostüme
“I like dark designs becaus I am a photographer. I searched a lot to find one . This was heard. Most themes are to "noisy"” — Thilo Nass
Goesta's Private Corner on the Web
“During a period of fairly deep depression, I nevertheless had these moments of insight into what creativity means to me, and thanks to Sandvox I could just immediately write down these thoughts into my blog as they came. Having a frame for this, and imagining that I am talking to someone "out...” — Goesta Struve-Dencher
Bella Arte Studio, Inc.
“We chose Night Breeze because the black background makes our work "pop", and the structure of the page had a desirable format.” — Mark "Marco" Bell and Monica Spain
Sarjakuvakurssi (comics course)
“Main material of the site is comics and images made by children . They are motivated better when they can see their works at the web, show them for their friends and parents. Also they get more self confidence. The site also informs people about different happenings related comics.” — Esa Holopainen
Genuine Simulated Paleolithic Cave Art
“I went through about a half dozen different designs as I was building my website. I finally settled on "Clean Sheets" because it was a simple clean design that let my art stand forward. My primitive art is all earth tones, so any color bars or boxes might look great on one page, but not another. I...” — C. Buck Reynolds
ChrisBeachamPaints -- My Journey into Art
“I chose the Night Breeze design because I liked the dramatic look but also because it works with the modifications I wanted such as my logo that replaced the default graphic.” — Chris Beacham
Annika Romeyn Illustration
“I choose clean sheets because it was a clean minimal template without a generic or cheap feel to the format, leaving the focus on the content.” — Annika Romeyn
Suzanne Ally Painting
“My husband and I live in different cities. He is my best critic of both my paintings and my writing. Every morning he checks to see if I have written anything in my blog or posted a new painting. During this time we are living apart we have my website as our secret meeting place, in plain view of...” — Suzanne Ally
Hahn-Photography - Photography on the Highest Level
“I needed a black background and a supporting picture that had to do with traveling, Asia etc. The choice was obvious. It shows the only human made structure that can be seen from the moon: the Chinese Great Wall.” — Johan Hahn
Just Plain Pix
“The purpose of our website is to promote my artwork. I am a disabled photographer and pastel painter. My artwork is one of the joys of my life and makes it easy for me to get up and face another day.” — Kym Nippes
www.donzelenche.com
“information about our little village off the traditional cevenol environment where we rent a couple off restored houses to spent your holiday” — Maarten Hans Brandt
Impressionist Quilts
“Having this online presence is allowing the "long tail" of business to function for me. I am based in Petaluma California and I just got a sale from someone in Detroit Michigan. Never could have happened otherwise.” — Marien Grace
Rent a Stork, Gift & Art
“When I had my first baby, my mother in law rented a stork for my yard. I was touched, but the stork was hideous. I determined then and there I could make a better one and make this business a success. God gave me the talent of painting and I used it. So far, everyone who has rented my stork...” — Amy Stone
The Artwork of Nancy K. Brown
“The watercolor and block print artwork of Nancy Brown. There are galleries of her work, and an artistic profile.” — Mark Brown
