Imagekind Site Review
Site: Imagekind
Members: Over 50,000
Features: Imagekind (owned by CafePress) allows users to create, share, and upload their artwork to sell giving an international audience museum-quality and framed prints. The site has a community section (with standard profile features) as a backbone that allows users to generate, upload, and price their albums as well as communicate amongst each other. One of the coolest features about the site is the partnership they have established with various retail outlets:
Imagekind is the world’s first community to serve as a hybrid art gallery, photo-sharing service and a print-on-demand service. Imagekind has partnered with leading brands such as Walgreens, Snapfish, Flickr, HP and Costco.com to distribute its art and frames to the widest possible online audience.
Review: The interface is easy to get around and is pretty self explanatory, which is refreshing. It is a well thought out and well constructed site. Usually I would find something to nitpick about but I was able to find my way around the site quickly and easily. My only negative would be that the profile section could be fleshed out a little bit more besides the name, website URL, location, picture, and about me section. Also geotagging and mapping aren’t implemented yet but are going to be features down the road.
Imagekind is the highest trafficked site in the art category behind deviant art according to various metrics.
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