Sunday, 21 October 2007

WOTARTIST growth

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There are currently 950 artists listed on wotartist. This is an important milestone on our journey through cyberspace and we are well on the way to our first year target of 1000. Ideally we would like to present the work of up to 5000 artists as an ultimate goal, but whatever number we reach from now on does invite a debate as to how big wotartist should become before, the effort involved out ways the benefits of further growth. From the beginning we considered the pros and cons of automating the listing of artists and concluded rightly, as has been proved to be correct, that a human edited directory would be superior.

To control the choice of image that we display is of utmost priority to us in our determination to provide the visitor with the most varied and interesting gallery of work possible. To engage with our artists personally is important, to invite confidence in us as a website and to monitor closely the listed websites for their actual state or broadcast on the Internet.

So often is the case that one pays a visit to an automated directory, only to find every second link to be a dead end link and a mish-mash of work by artists of contrasting quality. The sole purpose of these sites and of many directories is to act as a link conduit, the power of which the owners use to increase ranking to the sites which they target. WOTARTIST does not seek to promote any site apart from itself and does not have external links with that purpose.

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1 comments:

Michael said...

Hi Richard,

I notice that some of your wotartist pages aren't Firefox compatible. An issue you ought to address.

Michael