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Executive summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We recommend you read this article in full for our advice on how to choose the best template for your online art store. However, if you are looking for some fast advice here you go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Platform<\/strong><\/td>Best for<\/strong><\/td>Template recommendation 1<\/strong><\/td>Template recommendation 2<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Shopify<\/td>Most things! It’s our go-to platform. Easy to setup and good templates. Best -in-class e-commerce features.<\/td>Baseline ($280)<\/a><\/td>Studio (Free)<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Squarespace<\/td>Good for starting out, some decent templates.<\/td>Not recommended for galleries<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
WordPress\/ WooCommerce<\/td>The best choice of templates. Flexibility of design and modifications. Not the easiest to setup but there are lots of web developers out there who can help.<\/td>ART ($69)<\/a><\/td>Arte ($69)<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Getting started<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This article will take you through some of the best template design options for galleries, that is, sites that showcase and sell the work of multiple artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are an individual artist it is possible that you could use some of these templates, but please take a look at our companion article for the best website templates for artists to sell art online.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galleries differ from individual artists in that they tend to need different pages or collections for each artist they represent, and then subcategories for the artist\u2019s different projects. This means that the architecture for gallery sites is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artist site architecture<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gallery site architecture<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The templates that we have found on Shopify<\/a> and Squarespace<\/a> seem to have a single level of collections architecture, meaning that you could group artworks by artist, exhibition or project, but not group by artists and then group by exhibitions or projects. We would be interested to hear from anyone who has found one that does allow for this. In any case this might not be an issue for some galleries, who would naturally arrange their works sequentially into drops, exhibitions, projects and wouldn\u2019t need that second level of architecture. If you do need that functionality, then we recommend WordPress<\/a> and<\/a> WooCommerce<\/a> as this gives you the flexibility to develop whatever architecture you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we get into the recommendations it is really important to note<\/strong> that when looking at these templates, you have to see beyond the colours and fonts. You are looking at the way the products and pages are grouped, the available types of page in the template and the structure of the site. Colours, fonts and button styles can, of course, easily be changed to match yours. Lastly, aspect ratios of images can be changed too, but again, you need to think if a changed aspect ratio of an image would fit the page structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recommended art gallery templates for Shopify<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Shopify works well as a complete all-in-one site, or as the store section of a larger site on a subdomain, like store.yoursiteURL.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recommend Shopify above any other platform, especially for businesses (as opposed to individual artists) because its e-commerce features and easy checkout options are second-to-none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 1: Baseline<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We like the Baseline Theme<\/a>, although we appreciate it is a very bold design. This template literally has everything you need for a complete all-in-one gallery website, and with some stripping down (which is easy to do), it could also be the store section of a larger site. It costs $280, but for that you get the complete package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n