Today is the culmination of weeks of work to bring the beautiful art submitted by our hundreds of artists to the iPad. There’s no better way to browse art than comfortably sitting on your couch and flipping through amazing artwork with your fingers on the amazing iPad device. We’re very proud of opening a new way to help our artists promote their art and hope you like it too.

Do you have an iPad? Check out our new iPad app. Download here.

For more information see http://artgonia.com/ipad

For our artists: Your art is now automatically showed beautifully on the iPad, no need to do anything!

Some of you have expressed the need to have a discussion forum where you can freely talk to other members about art topics. We’re happy to announce that the ”discussions” feature is now live. Check it out at http://artgonia.com/discussions.

With this first release you are able to start a discussion topic and have other users and yourself follow-up with comments.

It’s a great way to drive traffic to your profile page and art. The most discussed topics will raise to the top giving you great exposure.

In the near future we will be adding new improvements and as always feedback is more than welcome.

Enjoy discussing with each other!

Artgonia has been steadily growing in all parts of the world and it has become difficult to know where your favorite artists are located so from today Artgonia will allow artists to indicate where they are. The new Location feature can be found in you profile page. This enables your prospective customers know where in the world you are.

More exciting features are going to pop up in the site that use this information but for know let your fans know where you are and don’t worry, you can enter as much info as you’re comfortable giving. For example you can only enter your city, or just your country  (we know you’re in planet earth already Of course if you have a showroom open to the public, you might want to enter the full address.

This is how you can enter your location:

1. Sign into you artgonia account
2. Enter your profile page
3. Scroll down to the “Location” section
4. Enter a name for your location (e.g. My town, Gallery, Studio, etc…)  > this is optional
5. Enter as much info about your address as you feel comfortable
6. Check it out in you public profile

Thanks for your continued support to Artgonia. We hope you enjoy this feature.

We have completed our first release of the facebook Artgonia application. Check it out on http://apps.facebook.com/artgonia.

It’s a great way to showcase your art without never leaving facebook. It’s the easiest way to have your art gallery right on facebook with access to over  500 Million people. Try it out! Go find your gallery and start promoting it to your friends.

It’s easy and don’t forget to add your own “Art” tab in your facebook profile for even more exposure.

In order to help you promote your Artgonia Art in other websites, we have created a set of widgets that you can include in your personal website or blog.

Simply go to http://artgonia.com/art/widgets when logged in, see how they look and copy the code.

If you need any help don’t hesitate to contact us

We hope that you find them useful and that you let us know if you’d like to see more of them.

We’re glad to announce the release of the “my favorites” tab. This will allow Artgonia users to manage and track their favorite art and artists found on the site.

This feature can be accessed through the “my favorites” tab in the main menu or going to http://artgonia.com/favorites when you’re logged into your account.

In this tab you will be able to see:

• Art that you have selected as favorite
• Art that you have voted on
• Artists that you are following

We hope you enjoy the new feature and be sure that we will be adding more information and interactions in this tab soon.

The “activity feed” goes live today. This feature is shown in the home page right below the page title. It shows the pulse of the site.

Currently the following activities are recorded and shown:

• New user registration
• New artist account
• Publish of a collection
• New item added to a collection
• New favorite item picked by a user
• User following an artist

We look forward to your feedback on this feature.

Let your users know about it. We have added the “Internet Presence” options in your “Profile”.

You can add a facebook page or profile, a twitter profile and one website. With this you can now promote your own personal pages where your art is exposed or discussed.

We would appreciated if you would also link back to Artgonia.

Thanks!

Today we released the new “Dashboard”. This is the place where you can go and see how your art is doing in Artgonia. In the Dashboard, you’re able to see:

• Total number of times that your profile page has been visited.
• Total number of fans and information about the last 3.
• Information about the most visited Collections.
• Information about the most visited, best rated and worse rated items in your collections.

This will empower you to see how your art is being received by the Artgonia community as well as give you focus on what to promote next.

Enjoy tracking your art’s performance on the web!

Tonight we have released the newest feature to Artgonia Collections: The Slideshow. This allows published collections to be seen in slideshow fashion with a less distracting background and full focus on the art itself.

Check it out, here’s one of my favorite collections in slideshow mode:  http://www.artgonia.com/collections/slideshow/107

Artists can now use the direct link to the slideshow to call it from their blogs and websites and like pretty much anything in Artgonia, it can be shared in many of the social networks out there.

Enjoy watching art with The Slideshow!