About our website
& other electronic communications
as of January, 2012

The Gualala Arts website, GualalaArts.org, currently contains approximately 1,400 web pages, 6,000 images and over 1,000 pdf documents.

Summary

The website provides information on upcoming performances, exhibits, workshops and festivals, as well as information about our interest groups and committees, and displays the work of local artists.

You can buy tickets to upcoming events, subscribe to Gualala Arts' email lists, download registration forms, explore opportunities for artists, and view photos & videos of selected events.

The website provides information about accommodations, food, beaches, parks and art galleries in the area for visitors, as well as information about renting the Arts Center for private events (weddings, conferences, etc).

Archive

After an event has occurred, its web page remains as part of our archive, to become part of Gualala Arts' institutional memory. When we need to remember the details of a particular event, it's easy to find.

Information about every performance, exhibit, workshop, festival, and edition of our Sketches newsletter since 2004 is still available on the website. You can view the archive chronologically by date (Past Events) or by category (Past Chamber Music concerts or Past Dolphin Gallery Exhibits, etc).

Navigation

Finding your way around the website is easy - you can get to any page in two or three clicks. Some examples:

• Want to know what exhibits are planned at the Dolphin Gallery?
  Just click Exhibits   >   Dolphin.
  
  
• Want to know more about the Chamber Music concert in July?
  Click on Performances   >   Chamber Music   >   Summer Chamber Music Weekend.
  
  
• You could also get there by clicking Events, scrolling down to July,
  and then clicking on Summer Chamber Music Weekend.
  
  
• Want to find something but don't know where to look? Click on Search / Sitemap
  [in the left menu bar], and then enter your query to search the entire website.

Visitors, 2004 - 2011

Statistics

Over 200 people visited the website per day in 2011, on average (not including search engine robots), which makes it one of the most popular websites in our area. And it's getting more popular - six years ago, there were about 40 visitors/day.

[The number of visitors is a more accurate measure of website activity than hits, but many websites report hits, so for comparison, the Gualala Arts website got over 2,700,000 hits in 2011.]

Facebook

The Gualala Arts Facebook page has been up for more than two years, and has attracted over 500 people who "like" us. Recently, there have been about 200 active users per month.

We have more than 140 photo albums on Facebook documenting events at the Arts Center. We encourage you to comment, tag and send photos to family, friends and artists who might exhibit or perform at the Arts Center.

Broadcast email messages

Since we began in 2009, we have sent more than 44,000 messages to subscribers, who clicked on more than 2,400 links to visit our website for more information or to purchase tickets.

Our weekly events calendar is sent to about 350 subscribers (a year ago there were 300 subscribers, and 250 a year before that). We also have email lists for information about workshops, the online edition of our Sketches newsletter, Calls to Artists, the Summer Art Program for Youth, plus special announcement messages that go to all members who have given us their email address.

To subscribe, go to any page on our website and click on the "Email sign up" link in the left menu bar.

Website designs
through the years