Happy Halloween!

Google Analytics is a must if you run a website, since it shows how many people are visiting your site, where from, and how they got there. One of the interesting exercises to do is to check up on how all those link exchanges or forums are doing for driving traffic to your site. For my site, I have listings on Artspan, Top of Blogs, Blog Catalog, Top Pencil Artist, Colored Pencil Central and the CPSA website. I occasionally post to the art forum Scribbletalk, and to Prismacolor’s gallery forum, and also have a link to my website from my Facebook page. So how’s all this stuff doing? Here’s the current breakdown from most referring traffic to least: Read more »

A while ago I added my blog address to a few link listing services, including Blog Catalog, Top of Blogs, and Artspan. One of the quirks of increased traffic to your site is…well, increased traffic. I received my first art scam email about two weeks ago, written in bad, broken english offering to urgently buy two of my works. This is a variation of the “Nigerian prince” scam where a check is sent for more than the selling price, you are asked to return the difference, and then the check bounces. If you’re really unlucky, you’ve also shipped the artwork during that time. A good example of sample scam letters, and how to properly respond to them can be found here.  Fortunately I immediately tossed it into the junk mail folder.

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Eight months after our wedding, it’s time to take down the wedding webpage – but we really liked it, and decided to archive it here on my site.  You can view it here.

This past weekend Kiersten and I put up the tree.  Happy Holidays!

After our warm-up last weekend, today Kiersten and I carved our pumpkins.  Now they’re outside guarding our front steps.