A database is a file (or set of files) which contains information about stuff. In our case the stuff is paintings, sculpture, jewelry, and ceramics. And the information is such tid-bits as artist, name of price, price, description, size, image url, and such.

A static webpage is a webpage which is static -- meaning the page is present constantly for browsers, search engines and robots. This helps present a wide profile of art to the web through search engines and spiders.

For small to medium sized websites we find this to be the ideal solution. If you want a website the size of Amazon you can hire yourself a medium sized army of programmers and they'll get you a better solution. Until then we're confident this is the best balance of processor speed, exposure and maintenance.

However, bottom-line, none of the above matters to an artist or an art buyer. They just want to present art for viewing and browse for desirable art -- respectively.

Hence, the good news is that an artist or artist's agent needs to know none-of-the-above to make it work. They just type in name, title, description, price, et cetera, and the programs do the rest.

Currently, hundreds of thousands of images never make it to the world-wide-web simply because it is too, too, much hassle. Not so with Xap. The hassle is removed.

So, since few of the details are actually required to post or buy let's just ignore all that and go on about our business of painting, posting, and purchasing.