My first reaction to Rykk's suggestion of separate galleries for more experienced artists and beginners was that I'd be really unhappy to see such a split. Few people would look at chains of beginner's pictures (I fear) and so the little snippets of encouragement would be lost compared to being checked out alongside the experts. However, I did get an offshoot idea. Many forums/bulletin boards have a star system for number of posts. If you have made say... ten posts, one star, fifty posts two stars, etc etc (just suggested numbers). The trouble with that, as I can see straight away, is that number of posts is far from indicative of how pleasing to the eye an image is! But it's a starter idea that might trigger someone to come up with something better :) ... that way there would be like age groupings in child art competitions... people who are one to three stars in a different category to the real high flyers and maybe just have a hot five of each or something. Sorry, just thinking out loud and probably writing all over the place. Kathy