 Welcome
to The Incredible Art
Department. This site began in late 1994 as a showcase for my
elementary art
students in a school in Indianapolis, Indiana. This site was the second
educational website in Indiana. The first was a 5th grade classroom in
Brookview Elementary. My district was not ready for this exposure
so they told me to remove the site. Instead of completely folding it, I
decided to open it up to the world. The response was phenomenal. I
received
8,555 visitors the first year. Now the site has received millions of
visitors. This site has had the following designs:
As the number of visitors
grew, the site kept getting booted off my internet providers' servers.
In one case, the site took down their entire server when Netscape featured IAD on their index page. As the visitors to this
site grew, I could not find any companies willing to host the site for
free. I went through four moves until I found our current home.
Later I found
that I could not keep up with the hundreds of submissions and link
requests.
After posting on the IAD listgroup that I needed help, Judy
Decker contacted me and said she was willing. In addition, she had an
art site of her own. What you see now is a merger of the two sites.
Because visitors loved the moving eyes of Mona Lisa, I incorporated her
into the new design. The new design reflects my playing around with Flash.
I am the moderator of
the art education listgroup hosted on this website and continue
to update about half the site. I work on primarily the Art Stuff, Teacher Toolbox, Cartoons, Pet Peeves and Art Jobs sections. Judy works on the Art Lessons, Resources, Art News, and Art News sections.
I have enjoyed the friends I have met here
and welcome your continued e-mail. I am grateful to Princetonol.com for putting up
with the bandwidth demands of this website (Although the Google ads are now funding the site). Below,
you will find the final counters of each year from 1997 forward. On this page I am only reporting the annual visitor count. If you want to see details, click on the Go Stats counter. I hope you enjoy the website!
Sincerely,
Ken Rohrer
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The Incredible
Art Department
in the News!
During the first few years of its existence, IAD made news in
newspapers across the country.
Lassen County Times
Needham Times
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Visitors in
1997:
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1998:
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1999:
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2000:
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2001:
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2002:
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2003:
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Visitors in
2004:
4,797,947 |
Visitors in 2005:
5,552,016 |
Visitors in 2006:
12,730,308 |
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