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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Website Madness!

We tried adding a bookmark feature to Wotwebsite but couldn't find a working cross-browser compatible version. We tried adding a tell a friend link to each website listing on our site, but we succumbed to the inevitable reality that these are often abused by spammers and dropped the idea. We thought of adding an individual website hit counter to each listing but came to the conclusion that it was to gimmicky, too much unnecessary info. The Internet and website design and planning is a strange beast, it invites us into a world where we get drugged and high on the adventure of possibility only to be brought down to reality once again as one inevitably re-focuses on what it is one is trying to achieve.


Maybe we are slow or does the Internet experience twist our minds, contort our judgment to such a degree that it takes time to realise that to go to the local shop is a lot easier on foot, than to create some weird hybrid monster with numerous functions that will get us there, yes, but two years too late. You have to give things a go though - just once!
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Languages

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The other day an Italian friend asked me what WOTARTIST stood for. I am not sure an explanation is necessary as you either get it or you don't, and that is pretty much dependant on if you are English or not! The title of our site simply doesn't translate, but it doesn't need to either.

The written text on WOTARTIST has been deliberately kept to an absolute minimum, but what there is, we are in the process of having translated into several other languages, namely Spanish, Italian and French and German.

How frustrating and limited must the Internet experience be to non-English speakers! Well WOTARTIST is making its small contribution to addressing this!