Free Websites for Art Students: Making Gallereo Even More Awesome

Sunday 10th April 2011

This April, Gallereo started a campaign to offer free artist websites to art students at Universities across the UK. The reason behind the campaign was the fact that it's no secret that graduating this year is going to be tough for everyone, no matter what subject you're involved in.

We've reported the state of affairs with funding in the arts in the UK, and there are definitely winners and losers in that game. Unfortunately it seems that most are on the side of the losers, especially when trying to get that initial foothold in the art world.

Therefore we have rallied to offer soon-to-graduate students the chance to build an artist website for free, with all of the facets and features that you would get with a full paid version of Gallereo.

We hope that this will allow the students to start building an online portfolio and profile for themselves as they build towards their end of year degree shows. From there, they have something concrete to take away when they do graduate, and use it to continue to attract attention to what they are doing.

Gallereo also comes fully fitted with an ecommerce option, allowing artists to sell their work online, which is something else that we hope the students can take advantage of as they build their websites.

What We're Getting Out of It

We haven't asked for anything in return from the students who are participating in the campaign, but that being the case, we'd be lying if we said that we weren't getting something out of it.

As it turns out, students have been very vocal in pointing out areas that they've struggled in, or what they would like to see on Gallereo in the future, which is great. That means that we have something concrete to work on to make Gallereo much better for everyone that uses it.

Also, by seeing how the students are building their sites, we are able to see areas that we could streamline, or make easier in terms of administering the sites. We had a lot of ideas for how we would like to do this already, but now we have actual evidence of what is likely to work, and what isn't.

So, a big THANK YOU to all of the students who have joined the campaign already, you're helping to improve Gallereo, without having to do anything particularly special, other than being yourselves.

The Future

We hope to continue to run the free websites for art students scheme for as long as possible. Each University that gets involved just needs it's own unique code, which is used by the students when signing up to active the free site.

If your University isn't involved yet, please get in touch as we'd like to help as many students as we can before they graduate this year.

If you're not a student, but would still like the opportunity to get hold of a Gallereo website at a discounted rate, why not enter our $15 artist website competition. Submit your email address once, then everyday we choose a winner, who gets to create their very own artist website for a single $15 payment.

Posted on April 10th 2011 on 12:36pm

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