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
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
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
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
Soteris Sam Roussi
“This year's design format utilizes the Blueprint design, blue linework on pale gray background. It is a particularly good match for Sam's artwork because of the linework in the design as well as the drafting notations of the page layout which mirrors how we have organized the site, by scale of the...” — Soteris Sam and Mary Ann Roussi
Debra Hyatt
“i don't think i did anything too clever. I just used photos with links to Vimeo and Youtube to give my pages more of a sense of continuity. I have used hyperlinks quite [a bit] so visitors can visit the sites the organisation I have mentioned.” — Ms. D. J. Hyatt
L.P. Baker
“I wanted a design that was simple, easy to navigate, looked good both on desktop and mobile browsers.” — Lindsay Baker
Stofer Gallery
“Viewers loved the slideshow feature of my homepage, allowing them to get an instant feel for what is on offer.” — Dawn Stofer
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
Grindstone Digital Imaging, LLC
“My website highlights the services offered by Grindstone Digital Imaging, LLC. We offer art reproduction, photo restoration services, film and print scanning, large format printing and print finishing and framing.” — Jeff Berg
Artist Colin King illustrator
“I used the simple drag and drop method for my images, which included a couple of simple animations, created in Photoshop.” — Mr. C. King
New at the Museum
“Yellow is used for attention getting, so it is a good color for a news announcement. The use of a sidebar adds continuity and coordinates the content. The graphic material selected lends dignity and importance without being heavily institutional and boring. The title of the design is Sunburst,...” — Steven S. Means
Chris Culy: Exploring the Visual World
“The Sandvox design for chrisculy.net provides a nice, minimalist background that allows the beauty of the art to standout.” — L. Lee McIntyre
MikeHendrixArt & Graphic Specialist
“My website has gathered attention in a short time. It shows my good natured personality while expressing my desire to do a quality job.” — Mike Hendrix
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
Gillian Palmer ARTIST /PAINTER IN NEW ZEALAND
“The design I chose in Sandvox is Distinction. After much consideration I decided that a clean look was needed to complement and not compete with the paintings. Also the menu type face is larger than Clean Sheets and I have the choice of changing the colour.” — Gillian S. Palmer
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
Todd A. Mueller
“Using Sandvox was easy and quick and I had my website up in running in no time. I have a business associate who was having a professional web company creating their website at the same time, and is still waiting to get a final product.” — Todd A. Mueller
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
Julene Thom
“My website is designed to showcase a gallery of my work, feature information about me, and share contact information. I create porcelain ceramic sculptures with mixed media elements and image transfers, addressing women's suffrage and other obstacles faced in political and social life.” — Julene Thom
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
PaulCottrell.com
“I sent out a mailer with the link to my new site and was blown away by the compliments I got. At that point I had not tweaked it yet.” — Paul Cottrell
Joie Villeneuve - Fine Artist
“I chose this design for the website because it looks "clean" and uncomplicated. Not a lot in the way of distractions, therefore, the paintings could stand out.” — Joie Villeneuve
Images by Fiona Nichols
“Not yet concluded any sales, but I have great hopes. The few people who have looked at the website are very impressed by it. That is due as much to the Karelia team as to my own works.” — Fiona Nichols
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
N. Ghorbanian
“To showcase various types of my original art works and information about the works.” — Nelson Ghorbanian
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
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
College Counseling by Barry Beach
“I was able to figure out how to incorporate my logo and play with the color and width of it across the page. Definitely added a customized look.” — Barry Beach
Michael Enfield
“I've compiled a sampling of my work, some of which you may recall having seen somewhere, sometime.” — Michael Enfield
CarriArte Loopbaanontwikkeling
“I chose the Clockwork Orange design. I like it because it gives ample room to the banner and the website title. The orange colour is striking and gives an optimistic feel. By using pictures that fit in the colour scheme, the whole looks balanced and natural (at least, that's what I hope).” — Mark de Beer
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
De Walden Press Miniature Handmade Books
“The Outside the Lines Blue design with the page of white hand made paper complements the content of my site. I like the clean white page, and the beautiful deep blue border, and the typeface used for the headings is slightly quirky but still easily readable. The layout is adaptable and presents the...” — Jan Kellett
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
David John Gallery
“I chose Smooth Dark as my design. It looked to me to be the "no nonsense" clean design that would impress visitors.” — David John
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
John Wooden Studio
“I was looking for a very clean, simple, uncluttered website and the "Clean Sheets" design suited me perfectly.” — John Wooden
David Williams - Nottinghamshire artist
“I was attracted to its simple, unfussy format. Something more elaborate would have detracted from the display of my paintings, which is the main impact I want to make.” — David Williams
Photography Workshop in Bali
“I purchased this template from Charlie at Blue Ball Design, because of its simple yet elegant design. It supports the message of professionalism that we are trying to emphasize.” — George Simian
Fernwood Writers Workshops
“My current Sandvox design has colours that match my emblem photograph: a fern and a piece of driftwood.” — Karen Lee Pickett
