Web Design 101: Study Group

My reason for taking this course is so I can help my wife display and publicize her artwork. Currently, she is working with ceramics, but she is also a painter and illustrator. She is able to sell a few items, but she really needs some more PR material to get the word out. I thought we could make up a simple flier with a few images and contact information; she has been talking about wanting to have a website to give her artistic statement and display her work. This seems like a great idea, but she is not very computer literate. She is starting to read up about web site creation, but she's just starting on climbing up the learning curve and I would like to help her. I'm a bit better with computers, but I'm not very knowledgeable about creating websites. I've made simple websites using the “easy button” method, but things like css and xhtml are currently beyond me. That's why I want to participate in this class/community environment. We can put the web URL on a flier or business card, which she could hand out to people.

My idea for the website would be pretty simple: a home page with an artistic mission statement, contact information, some of her beautiful artwork , and links to pages containing images and information about her various artworks in different media such as ceramics, ink, pencil, etc. You understand this is just my thoughts – Liz (my wife, the artist) may (probably will) have other ideas. She's the client here. I'm looking forward to this class.