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Current mood:  accomplished Category: Art and Photography
I'm incredibly excited to bring to you the news that Artopium.com has gone through some wonderful and innovating changes, granting more freedom and flexibility for you, the artist to sell your Creative Works online. It's been a long journey, but I think you'll be impressed by all the new features. Here's an almost complete list of what I'm calling Artopium 5.0.
New Features
For everyone...
1) Artopium has a new, sleak yet simple look, helping to present your work in the best way possible.
2) Every single written article has been updated with the latest information.
3) The "Art, Music, Fashion, Video & Book" drop down menus have been fixed so that work in most versions of IE
4) You may now sign up for Artopium's Newsletter once again. Just add your name and email to the feature at the bottom of the home page. It shouldn't be too long before a new newsletter comes out.
5) Artopium now has a new and improved privacy policy, protecting your sensitive information.
6) The Artopium forums have been removed. Nobody was using it anyway. I'm looking into new forums or blogs or something to take it's place, however, I'm not putting much effort into it until I see a need for it.
For Standard Artist Members...
7) All reviews posted by Artopium onlookers are now secured by captcha (people must solve a simple code to post). Only a very few people were being harrassed by spam, but not anymore!
8) "Buy Now" pages are now a lot more appealing to buyers. By presenting more information to buyers in a nicely formatted design they will be more enticed to buy. Also, buy now pages are much easier to be indexed by google and other search engines.
9) All Artist profile pages as well as buy now pages contain a "Link to this page" box, enabling people to copy and paste HTML links from their blogs, websites, forums, myspace pages, etc. to your art work.
10) You can now add google and youtube videos to your Creative Works by simply pasting the video embed code into the appropriate box when you "add a video clip". This feature only applies to Video Creative Works.
11) Totals for the amount of money either Pending, Verifying, Cancelled, Refunded, Completed and Paid Orders are now presented at the top of the Orders page.
12) You can now change the order in which your Creative Works are presented on your profile page, as well as the number of works per page.
13) The Shipping Center has been completely renovated and upgraded into a full fledged and fully functional shipping preferences settings page which enables you to set shipping costs (and insurance for original works) for your Works.
For Premium Artist Members... (Beta)
14) Artists who choose to upgrade their accounts for a small subscription will get a host of more features including:
15) The ability to instantly add your Creative Works to eBay! Just pick a category and your Creative Work is immediately available for bidding!
16) 80 MB more disk space (a total of 100 MB) for uploading music, video and images to Artopium.
17) A higher base rating for every Creative Work listed, pushing them all higher in the Artopium search results as well as causing them to appear on the Artopium home page more often.
18) Longer ranging statistics. Your stats will be saved for two years instead of only one.
19) Premium account holders will be charged nearly half the commission for sales of their works on Artopium. In essence this is the best feature, as if you are a high volume selller you can instantly increase your earnings. In accordance to these new changes a fees chart has been created.
20) There's probably more that I'm just forgetting to mention, but do you really want to sit there and keep reading about it, or are you going to go check out the new site at Artopium.com now?
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