Devine Designs Jewelry

Today's post will be on my experience having a web page on Artspan/Jewelspan. I found out about Artspan from one of the jewelry magazines that I read. First month free trail, sounded good to me. Here's what I thought about it. I stayed on for 6 months. Signed up for the monthly fee of $14.95. They do have wonderful templates to choose from,and ease of service. Very easy to navigate, e-commerce, and complete tutorials to help you set up your site. From your "control panel" you can add multiple photos, create galleries, create pages for your bio, events, email sign up and more. There is also a resource section, where you can find marketing articles, and better business practices. What I liked was the statistics section, complete with charts and graphs so that you can see how many visitors your site had per day, where they came from, most viewed pages, and how many were new visitors/or returning visitors. After 6 months I found that I only had 2 or 3 visitors...

Today I thought I would share with you some interesting web sites out there that I've discovered while reading other's blogs. The first being "The Bead Museum", located in Glendale Arizona, which showcases beads from around the world, the history of beads, their various cultural representations, and more. If you like history, and value art work, you must check out this museum. Here's their web address: http://www.beadmuseumaz.org/exhibitionspermanent.htm I found this information on the "Art Bead Scene Blog", another good read! The next few good sites I found while browsing through a wonderful metal smith's blog: http://doxallodesigns.blogspot.com/2009/05/favorites-friday-ff.html where she sights one of her favorite places for gem resources (and great customer service) http://www.gemresources.com/ Wow! Great prices right now on gemstones! Raw and cut stones plus lots of information. And if you go to their "shop talk" page: http://www.gemreso...