Arts Montana is back!
Following last Winter’s drama with Melbourne IT, Arts Montana is back up and running. The site is now at ArtsMontana.net.*
The change in plans has ended up being a good thing. Although I lost a few months of posting, I came back to it with a new focus. The emphasis now is on artist and arts links, and the links are now coupled with thumbnail excerpts of the artists’ works, so visitors can get a small taste of what a particular artist or designer does.
The site also has a page for visitors to contribute posts, and I hope that will be a way for folks to spread the news about their shows and events, or anything else going on with their work in particular or in the arts in general. It’s a very simple form, no log in required, and allows for image uploading to go with the post.
* I had hoped to recover the artsmontana.com domain name, but in the end it was not about the exorbitant rates that Melbourne IT demanded after my domain name slipped through their loopholes, it was the principle of the thing. Instead of putting the domain name on the open market after their expensive “redemption” period ended, they sold it to a squatter company, one of those ticks on the body of the internet that buys up good domain names and gouges people who might want to buy them. So far, no bidders for artsmontana.com, and I hope there are never any.