Website for Review
http://missmalleeart.info

Additional Comments
I know the site needs a lot more work but any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Tips, problems with the site, things you like, things you hate..feel free to say anything. thanks in advance!

G'day Miss Mallee. Welcome to the forum.

I don't usually bother with site reviews because of all the users and abusers. However, I see the progression in your reviews of the sites of others and I hope I'm not mistaken in thinking that you are for real. If you're a true artist, then you're for real.

You haven't told us much, if anything, about what you hope to accomplish with the site. You need to do this so as to get a proper review. The alternative is to have other newbys say whether not not they like the colour.

So are you expecting to:

1)  Enter the site in the social networks and get lots of messages saying " Like your site. Keep up the good work?"

2)  Have a web presence to direct your word of mouth, prospective clients to.

3)  Show your mum and your friends.

4)  Get targeted, buying traffic from the search engines.

A review depends very much on your answer to these questions. You've no hope of achieving #4 without a lot of work.

To create a great website will involve a hard slog over an extended period both in terms of study and building the site. It will also involve constant upgrading of the project to keep on top.

So what are you hoping to accomplish? If you're hoping to accomplish something substantial, are you up for the work? If you're just wanting to have a bit of fun building your very own website, then you're there already.

Best Wishes,
Laurie.

laurie_m wrote:

G'day Miss Mallee. Welcome to the forum.

I don't usually bother with site reviews because of all the users and abusers. However, I see the progression in your reviews of the sites of others and I hope I'm not mistaken in thinking that you are for real. If you're a true artist, then you're for real.

You haven't told us much, if anything, about what you hope to accomplish with the site. You need to do this so as to get a proper review. The alternative is to have other newbys say whether not not they like the colour.

So are you expecting to:

1)  Enter the site in the social networks and get lots of messages saying " Like your site. Keep up the good work?"

2)  Have a web presence to direct your word of mouth, prospective clients to.

3)  Show your mum and your friends.

4)  Get targeted, buying traffic from the search engines.

A review depends very much on your answer to these questions. You've no hope of achieving #4 without a lot of work.

To create a great website will involve a hard slog over an extended period both in terms of study and building the site. It will also involve constant upgrading of the project to keep on top.

So what are you hoping to accomplish? If you're hoping to accomplish something substantial, are you up for the work? If you're just wanting to have a bit of fun building your very own website, then you're there already.

Best Wishes,
Laurie.

I would love to create a great website and im definitely up for the challenge. Im still getting the hang of building new things and experimenting with new features. luckily, i have my bf who is extremely knowledgeable with building websites/ coding/ running game communities/etc to help me along the way. He's been teaching me things I need to know about building & running the site which is great because I dont want to have to be completely dependent on him to help me with it. I hope that my website will be something that sticks with people...i dont know if that makes a lot of sense. I want it to be memorable and hopefully get a good number of people who keep up with my new products and become returning customers.

OK Miss Mallee. That's a great, positive response.

I would love to create a great website and im definitely up for the challenge.

I'm not sure that we would understand the same thing by "great website".

1)  You can have a website that looks great and functions well. That's easy using WordPress.

2)  You can have a website that gets lots of traffic from the search engines. This is the hard part.

3)  You can put #1 and #2 together. That's not much harder than #2 on it's own.

I'm going to assume for the moment that you want a great looking site that gets heaps of buying traffic from the search engines. Would you please confirm this.

I'm about to say some fairly drastic things about your website, as it stands. These are not meant to be offensive or crushing. How you take them is up to you, but please don't come back on me if you don't like it.

Your site has practically no content. That is, no words. Most of the few you have are duplicated either on your site or somewhere else on the web. SEs (search engines) are interested in providing quality, unique content for their users. In order to be well ranked in the SERPs (search engine results pages) you'll need about 200 words of keyword rich, unique content on each page.

So, what is your site about? Boobie Art, you say. OK. Boobie Art, it is. On each page you need 200 words about Boobie Art. Boobie Art needs to be in the page title, in the head, in place of pageid?=6 and the like. Boobie Art needs to be in the page heading and sub heading. Boobie Art should be in the minor subheadings down the page as well as in the text.

See how I've used your key phrase in the paragraph above? Well, that would be a bit much. About once per paragraph is OK, plus the headings.

I've had a look at the competition in the SERPs for the search term Boobie Art. It shouldn't be hard at all for you to rank #1 for that term. The competing sites are very poor.
Trouble is, as far as I can see, practically nobody searches on that term.

So you have two alternatives:

1)  Create a massive interest in Boobie Art.

2)  Find a different search term to target.

To create an interest in Boobie Art, set yourself up in the middle of town with TV crews and news papers. After giving your interview, get your shirt off and get on with your Boobie Art. As the police lead you toward the paddy wagon, be sure the cameras get a good picture of you shouting with joyous abandon, Boobie Art! Well, if you don't like that idea you'll need to think up your own.

Or

Use the following sites/tools to find good keywords/keyphrases:

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchi … uggestion/

http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/login.html

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

A good KW/P (keyword/phrase) is one with a high search volume and low competition.

Boobie Art is low competition and low search volume. That's why you're ranking near the top but getting little traffic.

So, Miss Mallee, that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's so much more to it, but that's a good start. Hope you're not crushed or put off. Definitely not my intention.

Others may come along and say what a great site it is and wish you well. They may like the colour or not like the colour. Make what you will of it all.

Best wishes,
Laurie.

Your site is so girlish. It really reflects a female artist's site. As to navigation, it's. The overall look is fine, too. Don't have RSS feed?

I found your site very warming even though the colors are so cool.  To me the site does not have to go anywhere.  I just found it very peacefull and sort of fullfilling.  Didn't care about code or anything else.

Why dint I think of this.... Genius!!! The concept could take you a long way..... You are very pretty and your website is tasteful for the content... I would suggest a lot more art displayed throughout the site.... (40 -50+ paintings)...... center the site on just your painting with lots of info on each. you could even get away with three or four pages max (Intro, Paintings, Ordering and Comments page)  I like it alot....... Has potential to be great... once you get the final version go nuts on advertising and watch it explode.

Miss Mallee, I have to ask this. Do you sign your paintings with your boobs?

Well WaveShop, and the others, I've got to tell you that it looks like Miss Mallee is not coming back for the rest of her site review and the help she was promised.

Maybe she got cold feet or cold something else. Maybe she followed my suggestion about publicity and is still looking out through the bars because she can't raise the bail money. Or maybe the light dawned, on the magnitude of the task ahead and she quit.

WS, it's a dumb question about signing the artworks with her boobs. Mate, she paints them with her boobs and signs them with a nipple.

"How do I know?" you ask.

Well, as you may have noticed, I spent quite a bit of time helping Miss Mallee before she got locked up. The effort I put in included not only what's written above but a good bit of SE research.

I found that Miss Mallee has based her art and her website on the work and website of another lady from Tasmania in Australia. This copying even extends to copying some paintings. See the two cherries painting.

The other lady, who is built a bit more generously than Miss Malley, tells us that she signs her work with her nipple and offers the purchaser a photo of the signing process as evidence.

Funny thing: they both make the claim that their work is non sexual.

It's regrettable, WS, that Miss Mallee isn't around in person to explain all that and that it fell to me to guide you to a fuller understanding of the boobyart process.

Another funny thing: in my SE research I found an Australian bloke who does shows in clubs where he paints with the end of his...... well you'd better work the rest out for yourself.

Anyway, there seem to be very few searches for the keyword boobyart.

Regards,
Laurie.

Nice site, but took a long time to load.
If that is truly your art though you are very good.

Rick Sullivan

<edit>snippety snip - please use the signature feature</edit> WS

laurie_m wrote:

Well WaveShop, and the others, I've got to tell you that it looks like Miss Mallee is not coming back for the rest of her site review and the help she was promised.

Maybe she got cold feet or cold something else. Maybe she followed my suggestion about publicity and is still looking out through the bars because she can't raise the bail money. Or maybe the light dawned, on the magnitude of the task ahead and she quit.

WS, it's a dumb question about signing the artworks with her boobs. Mate, she paints them with her boobs and signs them with a nipple.

"How do I know?" you ask.

Well, as you may have noticed, I spent quite a bit of time helping Miss Mallee before she got locked up. The effort I put in included not only what's written above but a good bit of SE research.

I found that Miss Mallee has based her art and her website on the work and website of another lady from Tasmania in Australia. This copying even extends to copying some paintings. See the two cherries painting.

The other lady, who is built a bit more generously than Miss Malley, tells us that she signs her work with her nipple and offers the purchaser a photo of the signing process as evidence.

Funny thing: they both make the claim that their work is non sexual.

It's regrettable, WS, that Miss Mallee isn't around in person to explain all that and that it fell to me to guide you to a fuller understanding of the boobyart process.

Another funny thing: in my SE research I found an Australian bloke who does shows in clubs where he paints with the end of his...... well you'd better work the rest out for yourself.

Anyway, there seem to be very few searches for the keyword boobyart.

Regards,
Laurie.

No cold feet here! I've been on vacation for about a month and I'm finally back home with my comp. I've done some more work on it since I've been back (flew in lastnight). Theres more content - still not enough but im getting there, adds, and new pages.

*My work / website is not based on any other boobie artists out there such as the woman from AU. there are several boobie artists i can name off hand and we ALL have cherry paintings. no two paintings are the same...saying that i copied someone elses work because we use the same tools to create our work (our breasts) and happen to both have a painting of cherries is a bit far. just because we use our breasts doesn't mean our work is anywhere near the same.

ninak wrote:

I found your site very warming even though the colors are so cool.  To me the site does not have to go anywhere.  I just found it very peacefull and sort of fullfilling.  Didn't care about code or anything else.

thanks! as someone else already said, the colors are very girly which might be a turnoff for some people but i find the peaceful as well:P

PennyRolls wrote:

Why dint I think of this.... Genius!!! The concept could take you a long way..... You are very pretty and your website is tasteful for the content... I would suggest a lot more art displayed throughout the site.... (40 -50+ paintings)...... center the site on just your painting with lots of info on each. you could even get away with three or four pages max (Intro, Paintings, Ordering and Comments page)  I like it alot....... Has potential to be great... once you get the final version go nuts on advertising and watch it explode.

Thanks - aside from actually putting the site together, making more paintings is the hardest part - decent painting supplies are so expensive lol!

waveshoppe wrote:

Miss Mallee, I have to ask this. Do you sign your paintings with your boobs?

nope can't say that i do. good question though

i've done so major updating and changed/added a few things. Theres more paintings now and plenty more to come,  I've worked on adding more content to the overall site. I'm still having trouble with coming up with decent, lengthy description of the paintings. can someone have a look and tell me what you think?

Midsummer Poppies

Three red poppies displayed on a fiery background, the very essence of summer.

Colors interacting in complimentary harmony.

The warm feel, the visual stimulus: a welcome reminder of summertime with it's long hot days and balmy nights; days at the beach and nights by the pool.

A fitting title: Midsummer Poppies.

>>>>

Knock that into better shape, Miss Mallee, and you've got it.

Oh! And be sure to run spell check.

Here's a writing tip:

You're an artist. You deal in self expression and self revelation. You're dealing with feeling, reaction, effect, consequences, observations. You need to write a whole page without one use of a personal pronoun. Do not write in the first person.

If she's about, Lynn might give you some more writing help. She's a writer.

Best wishes,
Laurie.

laurie_m wrote:

Midsummer Poppies

Three red poppies displayed on a fiery background, the very essence of summer.

Colors interacting in complimentary harmony.

The warm feel, the visual stimulus: a welcome reminder of summertime with it's long hot days and balmy nights; days at the beach and nights by the pool.

A fitting title: Midsummer Poppies.

>>>>

wow thats beautiful.  you should be a poet
i notice that when if i write a lengthy description, it takes up a lot of space on the main product viewing page which is turning out to be a problem because as i add more paintings, the page gets way too long. Id like to have a set number of items to be displayed per product page but i dont think the shopping cart software im using has that feature. also the current shopping cart software only allows me to upload one image per painting (id like to show close ups of some of them). as of now, i havent found another free cart that works with paypal with the additional features i think i need

does writing it in the first person make it sound unprofessional? i thought writing in the first person might make the site seem more persona (if that makes any sense). should anything on the site be written in first person?

should anything on the site be written in first person?

Your shopping cart pages are your main content pages. I'd write all of that content in arty farty. (Don't know the proper name for it)

You might have an about page that tells how you create your work, perhaps about framing and about packaging for safe delivery. Write that in the first person, but still avoid personal pronouns as much as possible. It needs to be about the customer and the product, not about you.

id like to show close ups of some of them)

You need a cross between what you have and this: http://www.southimage.net/atv-outback-c … eks-01.php

You'd be able to upoad and link to large images on a separate page or a pop-up, but you'd need to learn a bit of html and possibly javascript, first.

Your best solution would be to find another shopping cart. However, it may be that the features are there in the cart you're using but you just don't understand enough about the programme.

If what you are using is based on WordPress it should be fairly easy to upload a larger image and link to it, quite independently of the shopping cart.

wow thats beautiful.  you should be a poet

I just threw that together. You'll need to keep your keywords in mind when writing for the web.

when if i write a lengthy description, it takes up a lot of space on the main product viewing page

You might consider a limit of five paintings to a page. This must be possible.

Then group those five so that you target one main keyword/phrase and up to two secondary keyword/phrases on the same page.

So you might have a summer page, a winter page, a fear page, a happiness page, a doom and gloom page and so on, each with five paintings and their descriptions.

Regards,
Laurie.

I've added separate links to close up images of the items in the descriptions. the link goes to a new page with just the new image. I uploaded the images to a folder in my file manager in the cpanel. I looked over the shopping cart features and also checked for a newer version i could download and it doesn't allow for multiple images for one product. I actually found a better shopping cart but its not free so I'm going to wait until I sell a few more paintings to buy it.

I'm still working on lengthy descriptions for each painting which is going to take some time

overall, does the site look professional?

Yes, ok your site is quite friendly and have a social meaning - cancer health and so on thats a + for SEs
For a beginner thats a realy nice page

cheers