A couple of weeks back I announced my new art online presence. I wrote about this return to my roots at the time. I'm a mixed media artist and really needed a way to showcase my work. My day job (and second love) is in Web Development. So, I built a system to show and sell my work. I wanted to do it with as little fuss as possible. I wanted to use open source software. I used Drupal and some key contributed Modules and a contributed theme. I needed a shopping cart, carousels for images, blogs, and static pages. I wanted to be able to phase in additional features as I have time.

While I was constructing it, it seemed to me that what I was assembling was:

• replicable
• of value to other artists
• visually simple - allowing art to speak for itself (thanks Acquia!)
• Robust in its shopping cart (thanks Ubercart!)

I talked to a few artist friends who looked at the site prior to my launching. They all seemed pretty stoked by what I was doing and thought it might be of use to others. Shortly after launching the site, I made a sale.

So, last night I finished off a little site to market assembly of similar sites for artists at minimal cost but with maximum flexibility. From the little marketing site, I'm offering:

1. A place to showcase your artwork with a cool expanding copy of each of your images
2. As many detailed insets as you desire
3. No limit to the number of pieces you are offering on the site
4. NO commissions to others ever
5. A fully featured Ecommerce Cart setup and configured to work with PayPal - other payment gateways can be set up as well for additional fee for service
6. A complete invoicing and sales management tool
7. A robust administrative system structured on the award winning Drupal Content Management System
8. Additional Customization is available as fee for service
9. Great Search Engine Optimization
10. ONE time setup fee
11. Once the store is set up, YOU control the code and can make changes as you please
12. Different looks and feel can be applied quickly including development of custom designs
13. It is provided under the General Public License