Hello and welcome!

Hello and wel­come to our new web­site! Fi­nally, it is com­pleted and launched, and we are very ex­cited about it. There are sev­er­al reas­ons for our ex­cite­ment. We have ad­ded more beau­ti­ful works to our gal­lery, we have ad­ded more in­form­a­tion about our artists, we have ad­ded the new Lib­rary sec­tion, we have made our web­site avail­able in three lan­guages, and we have im­proved its over­all look and func­tion­al­ity. We truly be­lieve that we have made our web­site bet­ter, and that you are go­ing to like and en­joy the view­ing ex­per­i­ence and the im­proved in­form­a­tion in the new ver­sion of Fine Arts Boutique.

Our Gal­lery Ad­di­tions and Im­prove­ments. We have worked hard to im­prove our gal­lery, and we have built a com­pletely new gal­lery view­er. It works like a ca­rou­sel, it un­der­stands the mouse scrolling and key­board con­trol, and it even auto­mat­ic­ally ad­justs to the size of your screen for op­tim­al view­ing ex­per­i­ence. Of course, no mat­ter how good the view­er is, the works of art are what makes our gal­lery. We have ad­ded many new items from from our artists, item prices and their avail­ab­il­ity for sale, and bet­ter de­tailed item de­scrip­tions and re­marks. We will post two sep­ar­ate up­dates later with an over­view of all items ad­ded to the latest ver­sion of our gal­lery.

New Sec­tions and In­form­a­tion Ad­di­tions. When we launched our first web­site three years ago, we have real­ized that there is so much know­ledge about the art and craft in our gal­lery, but there is no single well or­gan­ized know­ledge base. We star­ted read­ing and learn­ing from vari­ous sources, and we have col­lec­ted a pretty good amount of ma­ter­i­al, which we have re­worked and in­tro­duced as the new Lib­rary sec­tion on our web­site. Check it out, and tell us what else you would like to know, so we can make it even more help­ful and in­form­at­ive for you and oth­er vis­it­ors. We have also ad­ded more in­form­a­tion about our artists, and we will be adding even more in­ter­est­ing facts about their ap­proaches, their tech­niques, and their art as a whole.

The Web­site Avail­able Lan­guages. In the past three years we have had many vis­it­ors from al­most every coun­try in the world, and we al­ways wanted to en­able our in­ter­na­tion­al vis­it­ors to view our gal­lery in their nat­ive lan­guage. Today, we are ex­cited to an­nounce that we have made it avail­able in three lan­guages: Eng­lish, Rus­si­an, and Hebrew. We trans­lated the pages of our web­site manu­ally with help of sev­er­al pas­sion­ate and pro­fes­sion­al trans­lat­ors. We are will­ing to make our web­site avail­able in more lan­guages, and we are ask­ing for your help. And even though, we con­stantly and eagerly search for an ap­pro­pri­ate in­ter­na­tion­al­iz­a­tion tool for our gal­lery, Google Trans­late, ABBYY Lingvo, and oth­er auto­mat­ic trans­la­tion ser­vices just could not de­liv­er the ex­pec­ted clar­ity of con­tent. If you are an in­ter­na­tion­al vis­it­or, who would like to help us trans­late our web­site in your nat­ive lan­guage, we will be glad to hear from you and ar­range a con­ver­sa­tion.

Web­site Design and Func­tion­al­ity Im­prove­ments. Be­sides the ma­jor design and func­tion­al­ity im­prove­ments in our gal­lery, we have ac­com­plished many little things that should make our web­site easi­er com­pre­hens­ible, faster ac­cess­ible, and simply more in­tu­it­ive. We have re­worked our web­site nav­ig­a­tion menu and have made it com­pletely ex­pand­able and avail­able on most of pages. We have ad­ded over­lays for in­ter­act­ive forms and for pho­to­graphs out­side the gal­lery, so you do not have to leave the page you are vis­it­ing to send us a mes­sage or to view a photo. And we have de­signed a new search res­ults page, which lists the res­ults of your search query sep­ar­ately for our gal­lery items and for the rest of pages.

Your ex­per­i­ence and feed­back. Of course, these are just a few things we think are worth men­tion­ing in the first news post, and you can do a much bet­ter judg­ment of the work we have done by check­ing out our web­site on your own. Wheth­er it is a hon­est praise or con­struct­ive cri­tique, please feel free to get in touch with us by send­ing us a mes­sage, giving us a phone call, or writ­ing us a letter. We are al­ways glad to hear what you think about our gal­lery, our artists, and our web­site. Please send us your feed­back and let us know what we should do to make our boutique even bet­ter.