 | | Our mission |
Zhibit.org was launched in 2005 with the simple premise of empowering artists to showcase their art online as inexpensively and as easily as possible. In today's world an internet presence is more important than ever yet the technology for creating and hosting a website still eludes many due to its complexity and cost. As an artist, we know you want to concentrate on that which you do best - art - and not worry about designing your website, nor pay through the teeth to have a web designer do it for you.Zhibit.org is our small way of helping the artist community help itself. | | Founded 2005 |
The idea for Zhibit.org sparked after Brian Willis, founder of Zhibit LLC, visited Union Square in San Francisco. As often is the case, several artists were exhibiting their art for sale during that Sunday afternoon. Brian developed a liking to the work of one of the artists and asked her for her business card with the intention of checking her website later. The artist replied that her website was in disarray and out of date. Brian suggested to design her a new website in exchange for one of her paintings but the idea was quickly dismissed because the cost involved in creating and hosting her website would have been too great.Two weeks later it dawned on Brian that the same effort that it would take to create and host one website could benefit more than just one artist. The idea to offer website creation and hosting as an online service was born! It took quite a few months to get the right people together and develop Zhibit.org but eventually Zhibit.org went online in 2005. And the rest is history... Today Zhibit.org remains a small shop. We believe it puts us in a position to be on the artist's side rather than on that of a large corporation. Our small group of committed individuals are themselves artists in their spare time and as such are attentive to what artists need. The services we offer on Zhibit.org are the same ones we'd like to see ourselves. 
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