Wordpress Themes and DeviantArt Rant
Friday, February 9th, 2007Smashing Magazine made a list of 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes. Just another reason for any artist to use Wordpress as your preferred blogging tool.
As long as I’m mentioning blogging, which lends itself to RSS feeds, it reminds me how crappy the RSS feeds are on DeviantArt. If your an artist, don’t use DeviantArt as your primary tool to promote yourself and your artwork. You will only be reaching other DeviantArt members, though this is a very big artist loving community. If someone wants to keep track of your progress or your artwork and they are not part of DeviantArt, it is much more cumbersome. The RSS feeds for the gallery don’t provide dates and seem to miss a lot of the updates. The journal is not really good as a blogging tool. Overall I think DeviantArt is a great community, but it is not outsider friendly, which is a shame because there are tons of great artists there. Lots of these artists should get a wider audience, but oh well.
For now I just keep going to the website to check up on some of my favorite artists there, but it’s a pain compared to checking on other artists with blogs.