Children’s book illustrators, like all artists, can reach their markets and audiences more easily than ever before, thanks to the Internet!
And I believe that WordPress, the open source content management system is one of the best ways to establish a presence on the web.
Erik Kuntz, designer, web consultant, instructor and web comic artist feels the same way I do about WordPress. Except he knows tons more about it than I do. He consults with small businesses and big companies on this stuff. (He’s also the intrepid webmaster of our Austin, Texas SCBWI chapter.)
Erik (standing, right) is joined by Austin illustrators and writers Don Tate, Christy Stallop, Amy Farrier, Torran Anderson, Louise Shelby, Ross Carnes and Martin Thomas.
A couple of weeks ago he conducted a special online workshop session for my Make Your Marks; Make Your Splashes class.
He did a brilliant presentation, showing us different ways to put up our illustration galleries on our WordPress blogs. By galleries I mean the tiny thumbnail pictures you click on to see much larger higher res versions of them. After showing us a trick for doing it on WordPress.com blogs, he showed us how to do it on our WordPress.org blogs using the free plug-in, NextGen Gallery.
Alas, things do not always work out perfectly. The recording did not take.
We were all so counting on the replay. Erik shared so much with us that it was hard to get it all down in our notes! I did what I had to: Asked him if he’d be willing to walk us through the workshop again.
He agreed to — characteristically, because he’s a helpful soul.
So we’re doing the same w
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