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Wix.com has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to users to build and administer websites: it has acquired DeviantArt, an online community for artists, designers and art/design enthusiasts with some 325 million individual pieces of original art and more than 40 million registered members, for $36 million in cash, including $3 million of assumed liabilities.

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Wow, 36 million dollars is a lot of money.

I think it could be a good time to use other sites like Flckr, Imgur, and other picture sites to share your artwork. Wix may change the rules and disallow art with copyrighted content, or pictures and non-family friendly content, or start charging money if you want to upload a lot of pictures to DeviantArt.
 
froggyboy604 said:
Wow, 36 million dollars is a lot of money.
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It's not, really, if we're talking about DeviantArt. It's literally the biggest site for independent comic creators, graphic artists, painters and even writers. I was expecting a lot more. There are Hollywood actors who get paid more than that for just one movie.
 
Huh, so this was what the buzz was about yesterday. I wonder what this means for all the adult pics on the site?
 
2045 said:
It's not, really, if we're talking about DeviantArt. It's literally the biggest site for independent comic creators, graphic artists, painters and even writers. I was expecting a lot more. There are Hollywood actors who get paid more than that for just one movie.
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There are not a lot of popular big sites for creative art work except for Flckr! which is owned by Yahoo, so it maybe difficult to figure out a fair price for an art website. The owner of DA is probably satisfied with the deal, and $36 million is enough money to start another large website or enough money to live comfortably as long as you don't buy a lot of big houses, cars, boats, and expensive jewellery.

I agree the owner of DeviantArt may have gotten more if he sold it to another company, or negotiated with Wix for more money. But, it maybe difficult to find another company who is willing to pay more than $36 million for an art website which can decline in popularity now that social networks like Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, ect are taking more people away from sites like DeviantArt.

Running websites with a large community and lots of visitors is very difficult for many companies, so finding a company which won't ruin the site is hard. The owners of DeviantArt most likely do not want to see DeviantArt become ruined by a owner who does not have the skills necessary to run it. Wix is a website building community, so running DeviantArt is kind of similar to running Wix.
 
Personally, I hardly know anything about Wix, besides the fact that they promote their site in YouTube video ads like crazy. One out of five YouTube video ads is about Wix.
 
2045 said:
Personally, I hardly know anything about Wix, besides the fact that they promote their site in YouTube video ads like crazy. One out of five YouTube video ads is about Wix.
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I think Wix is a web host similar to Weebly, and other drag and drop website builders where they host your site, and let you use their domain name. But, you need to pay if you want a custom domain website name, more bandwidth, and more storage space and features.

Wix does seem to buy a lot of online advertising on YouTube and website ads.

Hopefully, DeviantArt does not have too many Wix ads on DeviantArt where it affects the usability of the site.

I bet, Wix may of bought DeviantArt to advertise Wix to DeviantArt members who are artistic, but not always knowledgeable about web hosting, domain names, html, css, website software like WordPress, and promoting their website on search engines and social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Wix could be a good, but more expensive web host for DeviantArt members instead of using a basic shared web host plan from HostGator, and Namecheap where they cost around $10 a month, and $10 for a website domain name. But, regular shared hosting buyers have to build and maintain their own website's HTML, and CSS files with a desktop program like Dreamweaver or Notepad text editor, or regularly update website software like WordPress by themselves.
 
Now if memory serves correctly, Wix was in trouble with WordPress over some GPL licensing with their editor. It that was sorted remain to be seem.
 
froggyboy604 said:
I think Wix is a web host similar to Weebly, and other drag and drop website builders where they host your site, and let you use their domain name. But, you need to pay if you want a custom domain website name, more bandwidth, and more storage space and features.
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So, it's not a software that you can use to build a site on your own hosting server?
 
2045 said:
So, it's not a software that you can use to build a site on your own hosting server?
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You need to use their free or paid hosting depending on the plan you subscribe to. The website building software is built-into their website like Tumblr and Blogspot.com where you are need to use their website based website building software to build, and modify the website's template/theme and add content to your site. You can't install your own software like WordPress onto their hosting and need to use their website building software, and you can't use their software on your own hosting.

 
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froggyboy604 said:
You need to use their free or paid hosting depending on the plan you subscribe to. The website building software is built-into their website like Tumblr and Blogspot.com where you are need to use their website based website building software to build, and modify the website's template/theme and add content to your site. You can't install your own software like WordPress onto their hosting and need to use their website building software, and you can't use their software on your own hosting.

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Considering that they are hosted in the USA, that doesn't leave a lot of space for freedom of speech websites... Personally, I wouldn't use Wix...
 
2045 said:
Considering that they are hosted in the USA, that doesn't leave a lot of space for freedom of speech websites... Personally, I wouldn't use Wix...
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I wouldn't use any of those services like Wix or blogger: Main reason is that you quite often hit with limitation on what you can do. It better to get a proper hosting plan and upload a copy of WordPress or php-bbdr to start your own blog/site or forum.
 
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This is gonna go down real poorly:

Second, Wix will open up DeviantArt’s repository of art and creative community to the Wix platform, giving Wix’s users access to that work to use in their own site building.
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In other words... get used to shops and other sites using your fan art without telling you. Yeah, I don't think some DeviantArt members are gonna like this too much.
 
Danielx64 said:
I wouldn't use any of those services like Wix or blogger: Main reason is that you quite often hit with limitation on what you can go. It better to get a proper hosting plan and upload a copy of WordPress or php-bbdr to start your own blog/site or forum.
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Blogger and similar sites like Tumblr can be good sites for promoting your websites by writing a few good posts on blogger, following other blogger member's blog, and commenting on their blogger blog. Blogger members are more likely to read and comment on your blogger blog, and learn about your forum if you interact with them on their blog.

As long as your blogger site is not overly promotional where every post is about your forum, and asking people to join, you maybe able to get your blogger readers to visit your forum which you linked to in your blogger blog's sidebar or header.

I think for certain types of websites like self-help websites using sites like Blogger, Tumblr, Typepad, and Medium to promote your website to their larger community which can be useful for finding members who are interested in reading self-help posts.

Only relying on search engines, and social networks like Facebook and Twitter to promote your site may not work as well as the past, so writing a few good posts on other websites like Blogger, and telling people about your site on Blogger may help you get a few extra members to your forum.
 
froggyboy604 said:
Blogger and similar sites like Tumblr can be good sites for promoting your websites by writing a few good posts on blogger, following other blogger member's blog, and commenting on their blogger blog. Blogger members are more likely to read and comment on your blogger blog, and learn about your forum if you interact with them on their blog.

As long as your blogger site is not overly promotional where every post is about your forum, and asking people to join, you maybe able to get your blogger readers to visit your forum which you linked to in your blogger blog's sidebar or header.

I think for certain types of websites like self-help websites using sites like Blogger, Tumblr, Typepad, and Medium to promote your website to their larger community which can be useful for finding members who are interested in reading self-help posts.

Only relying on search engines, and social networks like Facebook and Twitter to promote your site may not work as well as the past, so writing a few good posts on other websites like Blogger, and telling people about your site on Blogger may help you get a few extra members to your forum.
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Yeah you do have a point. There's always forums like this one and others where you can post your youtube link (providing that most of the content is around gaming).


CM30 said:
This is gonna go down real poorly:



In other words... get used to shops and other sites using your fan art without telling you. Yeah, I don't think some DeviantArt members are gonna like this too much.
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Now that is not cool. I can see a lot of content being deleted.
 
A lot of DeviantArtists will probably move to Tumblr or some other alternative site like Behance or Flickr.
 
2045 said:
A lot of DeviantArtists will probably move to Tumblr or some other alternative site like Behance or Flickr.
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I think a lot of artist may already use Tumblr, Pinterest, Imgur, Twitter, Instagram, and Flckr to promote their art work since these websites are free, and have large communities of people who are interested in graphic design, and digital artwork.

Putting all your artwork on one free social network website can be a bad idea if you want people to find your content. Websites occasionally delete accounts, close down like Bebo and Friendster, or get re-made like Myspace which changed ownership many times.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
a lot of them get pretty irked badly when their stuff is used without permission. So yeah, they are going to blow up at that.
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I think that it common for graphic artiest to blow up on anything. There also a lot of people who doesn't upload their photos online and only display their works at art gallery and so on.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
a lot of them get pretty irked badly when their stuff is used without permission. So yeah, they are going to blow up at that.
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I think a lot of internet users gotten used to people using their stuff without their permission. If you run a popular blog, or news site, there are a lot of smaller sites which copy and paste your articles, and make money off your articles from like online Advertisements like paid to click text links and banner ads.
 
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