Site of the Day: Ceramic Arts Daily

Ceramic Arts Daily

Quick Facts

Ceramic Arts Daily Home Page

• Address:  ceramicartsdaily.org
• Produced by:  The Ceramic Publications Company (part of the American Ceramic Society)
• Domain Name Registered:  August 11, 2006
• Alexa Rank:  Approx. 112,000
• Inbound Links:  Approx. 160

Overview

Ceramic Arts Daily is a fantastic resource for potters, students, and ceramic artists.  It is the online home to popular magazines Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated as well as the Potters Council.  Informative and interesting content is added almost every day, usually in the form of a short article or video.  There is an incredible amount of free information available.

Features

• The “Daily” section of the site contains the recent features, videos, and a place to browse information by topic.  There is also an extensive glossary.
  • Many different techniques are covered all along the ceramic art spectrum.
  • Articles and videos cover real artists and their personal styles.
• A ceramic arts bookstore is available and many of the quality books have a free excerpt for download.
• Under “Education” you can find long lists of ceramic classes, colleges, guilds and some upcoming workshops.
• There is also a section of the site devoted to galleries and artist listings.
• If you sign up for an account you will be able to download extra information from a list of interesting articles and excerpts.
• Ceramic Arts Daily offers an email newsletter subscription which will send you an email almost every day with news and updates.
• An RSS feed is available as well.

Final Thoughts

This site is an extremely valuable resource for any potter or ceramic artist.  You could spend days surfing the site and still have plenty of things to discover.

• Content Quantity:  A+
• Content Quality:  A+
• Navigation:  B+ (so much content might be overwhelming, some navigation isn’t where you might expect it at first)
• Presentation:  A (very clean layout, easy to read, no over-the-top ads)
• Interaction:  B (visitors can leave comments on most items)

Overall:  A