Japanese Body Painting Artist

Facebook has been messing around with the news feeds of Facebook Pages and totally disrupting workflow for those managing several Pages. I can only assume that they don't realise that people actually "like" the Facebook Pages of others so they can read them. What used to happen I used to log in to my Page from my account - and the profile pic would change from my account profile pic to the

Do you know what questions to ask when considering what to do about your artist's website - and whether or not it needs improving? Working your way through the 30 questions in this post will give you a "to do" list for improvements you need to work on. I look at a lot of websites while writing this blog. Some of them are very good, some are shambolic and a lot could be improved in both major and

An approach from a major art website has prompted today's post about reasons NOT to link to a website. First the letter. Next and my response. Finally some of the reasons why it's not a good idea to link to a website ....and finally - what Google thinks about schemes to swop/trade links and why they are a bad idea. The 'request to link' email and my response I've removed the name of the

Earlier this week, the Share button disappeared from all posts on Facebook Pages for a number of people. [UPDATE 22 January 2016: Finally the 'share' button has returned to Facebook Pages - nearly two weeks after it disappeared. Seems like a long time to me for something that ought to be fairly straightforward to fix. Did it take Facebook this long to notice - despite all the feedback?] This

First of all I'd like to take the opportunity to wish a Happy New Year from Making A Mark here in London. May you and your art enjoy the best of times in 2016 wherever you live around the world. Next I have a celebration....... New Year fireworks in London 1st January 2016 Making A Mark was born on 13th December 2005 in terms of the first time I published a post. However I did then change

I've now been reading camera reviews for three days and feel like I've been reading them almost non-stop for the last 24 hours! So here's where I'm up to!  Comments and suggestions continue to be very welcome. I'd have never looked at the one I think I might get if it hadn't been for comments on the last post I'm shopping for a new camera ! First the general conclusions which have emerged

As more and more art competitions and open exhibitions change over to digital entry, it's becoming more and more important to know how to photograph your artwork. One thing I do know from the very many images of artwork that I see on people's blogs / websites / Facebook is that lots of people do NOT know how to produce a good quality image which avoids photographic distortions loses the grey

I'm having a MAJOR problem uploading images to Blogger when using the Chrome browser When I click the picture icon while writing a post - to upload an image - instead of getting the normal 'upload an image' screen, I get this huge pop-up with a completely nonsensical message The message says "in order to select an item from your online storage, please sign in" The problems with uploading

Ever wondered how Google rates websites to determine how they rank in their search engine? The aim of this post is to: tell you the latest news from Google - it will impact on whether and how often people find your website or blog relate what Google says about how to rate websites to things that artists do on or with their websites. Every so often you will see a TIP. What's New? Google did