I had a talk with my several fellow designers and artists about building their own website and an interesting thing  came up, they don’t know where to start. Obviously, they want to show the best of their works, have the website clean and uncluttered,  user friendly and of course unique and speaking about the author. No need to say that simplicity sells, so in our todays post we decided to study several most popular and successful approaches towards simplicity in design of a website home page for designers, illustrators, photographers, painters and other people of art.

Tip 1. Splash page can save it all.

If you feel that your home page turned out to be not that simple and balanced as you wish, make a splash page, a very simple one. Find some of your creatives that people like most and place it somewhere on page (the less expected the location is the better). The feeling of simplicity from the splash page will stay with the website visitor once he launches on your home page. Same thing about your artwork, even if the website itself seems somewhat disappointing, the great work on the home page can save it all.

Arturo Elena. Graphic design and illustration.
http://www.arturoelena.com

Candybird. Graphic design and illustration.
http://candybird.free.fr

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