About Artsphere
Pricing
All new subscriptions incur a $100 setup fee which covers the cost of installing your site and over the phone or in person training.
For artists, a website subscription costs just $300 per year. More info for artists.
For galleries, a website subscription costs just $450 per year. More info for galleries.
Each subscription includes hosting which normally retails for $220 per year.
Domain Names - $30 per year
If you need to buy a domain name, we charge $30 per year for any common domain name (.com, .net, .org, .com.au etc). If you have a domain name already we will set it up to work with your Artsphere website.
Additional Features
All three following features can be purchased for a discount price of $200.
All prices are setup only - there are no ongoing costs associated with each feature.
Video - $100 setup
You can now add video content to your website. Firstly, you must register with Vimeo at vimeo.com. We use vimeo as they don’t place ugly watermarks on your videos, allow you to add video in HD format and are easy to use. Once you have registered and uploaded a video you’re ready to add video to your Artsphere website.
Google Optimisation - $100 setup
Keen to improve your search ranking in Google results. Well, Artsphere websites are designed to maximise the likelihood that your website will be easy for people to find. We have employed search engine friendly URLs like http://artsphere.com.au/works/2009 to give people a sense of what content they should expect on that page. If they make sense to people, the URLs will make sense to Google.
We’ve also built into the system the ability to add keywords and descriptions to all of you pages so you can completely customise the meta-tags that Google uses to record your site.
But, there is always more that can be done to enhance your presence in the Google-sphere. If you take up the optimisation feature we will create an XML sitemap of all the pages in your site and submit it to Google as part of setting up a Google Webmaster account for you. This improves the likelihood that pages other than just your homepage will be visible to people.
As part of this service we’ll also setup Google analytics on each of your pages. Google analytics allows you to use free Google services to review detailed information on how people are using your site. This will help you when adding the keywords and descriptions to each page as well as the content on the text pages.
RSS Feed - $50 setup
You can now at an RSS feed to your website. RSS mean Really Simple Syndication. It’s a way of publishing information to a wide audience by syndicating content automatically. People can subscribe to your RSS feed and each time you add a new news item, blog or alert they will be notified rather than you having to hassle them with another email.
Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email.
People can subscribe using a range of different programs, including Microsoft Outlook. There are currently over 2,000 feed reading applications.