Karin Hurt on thu 21 feb 02
When you open a Website, do you need a business license, local, State, what=20
do you need to be legal?
Sorry for my naivet=E9, but this is the place to ask.
Thanks for any replies.
Karin
Laughing Bear Pottery
Arizona
Sharon Villines on thu 21 feb 02
> When you open a Website, do you need a business license, local, State, what
> do you need to be legal?
Think of a web page as a publication -- like printing and distributing a
catalog or brochure. You are making information available.
Web pages are good for publicizing your work but they are even better ways
for people who hear of you by other means to check out your work easily.
From a newspaper mention, seeing a pot in a shop, etc.
Be sure your have a designer who understands how to use the description tags
and metawords in the header so search engines can find you. These are
keywords that are particular to your work -- salt glazes, raku, plant forms,
tiles, American Indian, etc. Anything that is distinctive about your work.
There are millions of web pages, probably billions and billions, so just
putting one up isn't enough.
Also, skip the fancy graphics. Text with photos of your work. Don't
overshadow your work and don't discourage viewers with a page that takes
longer than 30 seconds to download.
Sharon.
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Sharon Villines
Arts Coach
http://www.sharonvillines.com
Cindi Anderson on thu 21 feb 02
Hi Karin
Having a website by itself is not a business and doesn't require anything to
be legal. It is the business (what you are doing on the website) that would
determine what you need for licenses. If you are simply putting an existing
business on the web, nothing extra needs to be done.
Cindi
Fremont, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karin Hurt"
When you open a Website, do you need a business license, local, State, what
do you need to be legal?
Karin
Richard Jeffery on thu 21 feb 02
not sure this addresses the issue of legality - useful advice though it is.
I'm not sure what you have in mind, but the web and legislation have the
potential to come unstuck in these areas [at least]:
collecting information about people
selling
publishing materials that your local legislature frowns on.
the last we will ignore; the first two are complicated by the fact that the
web is global. if you offer a service globally - such as sales - it is not
at all clear which legislation governs the transaction. You could only be
confident that it is your local law if you can afford a fancy lawyer. even
stipulating on the web site that all transactions are governed under
US/wherever you are law isn't good enough if the consumer protection folk
in, say, Germany feel you have a case to answer.
the ;laws on data protection are very hot in Europe - in fact we're mightily
teed off by European companies that have registered US offices so they can
try to avoid outré legislation, and our laws have been revised to take
account of that.
beyond these three areas, I'm not clear what concerns you - but just
remember that in most countries, in the absence of any specific web
legislation, there is a tendency to expect you to conform to whatever laws
would govern you if you had a high street bricks 'n mortar set up.
narrow down what worries you - then if you are still not sure, get some
professional advice.
good luck
Richard
Richard Jeffery
Web Design and Photography
www.theeleventhweb.co.uk
Bournemouth UK
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Sent: 21 February 2002 16:40
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Web Page question
> When you open a Website, do you need a business license, local, State,
what
> do you need to be legal?
Think of a web page as a publication -- like printing and distributing a
catalog or brochure. You are making information available.
Web pages are good for publicizing your work but they are even better ways
for people who hear of you by other means to check out your work easily.
>From a newspaper mention, seeing a pot in a shop, etc.
Be sure your have a designer who understands how to use the description tags
and metawords in the header so search engines can find you. These are
keywords that are particular to your work -- salt glazes, raku, plant forms,
tiles, American Indian, etc. Anything that is distinctive about your work.
There are millions of web pages, probably billions and billions, so just
putting one up isn't enough.
Also, skip the fancy graphics. Text with photos of your work. Don't
overshadow your work and don't discourage viewers with a page that takes
longer than 30 seconds to download.
Sharon.
--
Sharon Villines
Arts Coach
http://www.sharonvillines.com
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Jonathan Pennington on thu 21 feb 02
* Sharon Villines [020221 16:07]:
> Also, skip the fancy graphics. Text with photos of your work. Don't
> overshadow your work and don't discourage viewers with a page that takes
> longer than 30 seconds to download.
God, as a webpage designer, I know this to be true. Yet as an Indian
*and* an anthropologist, I *really* hate it. We have become a society
that will actually push the "Door close" button on an elevator (well,
the fact that we *need* elevators...)- knowing that it will do
nothing- because it's at least a distraction to break the pain of
waiting 10 seconds for the door to close. 30 seconds is too long to
wait. Fasterfasterfaster. Ironically, many of us went into pottery
because it's contemplative and slow- at least I did.
-J
Getting closer and closer to buying a plot of land and building a
house with no electricity or running water (yet making this statement
on a laptop, wirelessly connected to a DSL line on the
internet... Whose the hypocrite here?)
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"There are no pots, there is only clay." -original
"It's hard to take life too seriously
when you realize yours is a joke." -also original
Sharon Villines on thu 21 feb 02
> Getting closer and closer to buying a plot of land and building a
> house with no electricity or running water (yet making this statement
> on a laptop, wirelessly connected to a DSL line on the
> internet... Whose the hypocrite here?)
It isn't hypocritical. You are choosing your technologies.
Most of us have much more technology than we need or even use. A computer is
essential to me but a microwave isn't. I could use a smaller refrigerator
(if they weren't more expensive). I don't have or need or want a car. I
never use all four burners on my stove or fill up the oven. I have a digital
TV and cable.
I'm about to buy a second computer so one can be online and one off. I have
DSL and would love to get rid of my telephone but I have too many clients
who still use them.
Sharon.
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Arts Coach
http://www.sharonvillines.com
GlassyClass on thu 21 feb 02
Did some research on the little utility that a friend gave me to use to check
website linking when I did the church website, I found the old freeware version
on a website if anyone would like to grab it. It is about 3 MB in size.
LinkBot Express 3.6b
http://www.lemon.com.br/collection/browser_detail.cfm?Indice=78&SubCategoria_ID
=127
The page is Portuguese (I think, at least that is the translation that makes
the most sense, the screen shot of the program shows that it is in english), if
you would like to read a translation, plug the above link into this page. (the
=127 is part of the link)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
And select "Portuguese to English" translation in their selection box.
Here are the direct download links from their download page.
http://lemon.provide.psi.br/download/Desenvolvimento/HTML/linkbotexpress.exe
ftp://lemon.compuland.com.br/pub/desenvolvimento/html/linkbotexpress.exe
http://download.unincor.br/Desenvolvimento/HTML/linkbotexpress.exe
Great little program.
Sincerely,
Bud Britt
m markey on fri 22 feb 02
Sharon,
Thanks for your advice and tips on web page building.
Is the 30-second download time made on a high-speed computer with DSL, or is
this made on a conventional computer, with a rural phone line modem? Many of
the best webpages that fit your description sometimes takes longer out here
in the Mojave Desert!
Best wishes!
Mohabee NakedClay@hotmail.com
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From: Sharon Villines
Also, skip the fancy graphics. Text with photos of your work. Don't
overshadow your work and don't discourage viewers with a page that takes
longer than 30 seconds to download.
Sharon.
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Arts Coach
http://www.sharonvillines.com
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Cindi Anderson on sun 24 feb 02
To add a couple things.
Yes, the images should be small, no more than 10k per image. But these can
be thumbnails. Then the person can click on the photo to enlarge it and get
a bigger, higher resolution image. I am always disappointed when people
don't allow me to click for a larger version.
Also, if you identify the location of your photo in the html, then the
browser will continue to load the rest of the text on the page while it is
loading that photo in. If you don't, then it will just stop and nothing
will happen until the photo is done loading. This can make a big
difference. People are more patient when they have something to look at,
and can see something is going on.
Cindi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Villines"
> It means 30 seconds for the average user. Computers have come a long way
and
> most of the old clunky PCs have been retired but ....
>
> Think about your intended audience -- each web page has a different
"average
> user."
>
> People will generally expect an artist's pages to download a bit slower
> because they are there to look at pictures but adding animations may not
be
> a very good idea. Putting one or two photos on the homepage with
explanatory
> text may be a better idea than hitting the user with a full page of
pictures
> and no information. They may leave before the second one downloads. Text
> loads faster and they can read it while the pictures are catching up.
>
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