Within ChatGPT, you can create custom versions of GPTs with specific instructions tailored for unique tasks. I’ve been having some fun experimenting with my own custom GPTs and wanted to share what I’ve created with you.

 

Ed's Art Buddy

Ed’s Art Buddy

An art assistant providing constructive feedback, advice on creativity, and encouragement.

Art Buddy aims to provide creative guidance and support, emphasizes experimentation and embracing mistakes as part of the creative process. Hopefully, it can also help in finding one’s unique voice. You just have to ask.

This has been a lot of fun to use when asking it to interpret a new painting, because sometimes it will see things that I overlooked and can even give it new meaning. And ironically, it often serves as a good antidote to the social media validation blues.

Play with this GPT

 

Ed's Art SEO Helper

Ed’s Art SEO Helper

Creates clear, objective SEO descriptions for artwork.

If you have an art website, you might have individual pages dedicated to each piece of artwork (this is what I do) instead of a gallery page of clickable/zoomable images. If you don’t have much text to add with the image, search engines will mostly ignore the page.

This Art SEO Helper was created to assist artists by creating SEO (search engine optimization) meta tags by analyzing their uploaded artwork, the title, the medium used, and any additional details provided by the artist, such as a source of inspiration or a more detailed description of the artwork to work with. It generates at least 5 comma-separated focus keywords that include the artwork’s title, ready for easy copying into SEO tools.

The tool also produces a keyword-rich description, ranging from 600 to 2500 characters, that is clear, concise, straightforward and mostly objective. The description focuses strictly on the artwork itself without subjective interpretations. It aims to highlight the factual elements, such as the medium, colors, forms, and structure, in a concise manner. If no additional details are provided, the GPT will generate a description based on the available information.

You can then use the keywords and description provided as a basis to add to your page’s SEO keywords and description fields which hopefully will help search engines better understand and index your content.

I’ll know if a few weeks (months?) if this approach even helps with SEO.

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Ed's HTML Simplifier

Ed’s HTML Simplifier

Cleans, simplifies and optimizes messy code and converts it into basic HTML.

This GPT assists users in cleaning and optimizing HTML for blogs. It ensures that the HTML code adheres to specified rules and standards, making the code cleaner and more efficient. The GPT will take the provided HTML, apply the rules below, and return the optimized code. The focus is on simplifying HTML to basic formatting, retaining only the necessary elements.

Specifically, it …

  • Removes all DIV tags.
  • Replaces special characters with proper HTML entities.
  • Removes any attributes within anchor (a) tags, including ‘target’.
  • Strips out any non-basic HTML code.
  • Removes unnecessary tags, classes, and styles (including style attributes).
  • Removes inline JavaScript.
  • Removes empty tags.
  • Removes code comments.
  • Normalizes heading tags to follow a logical order.
  • Ensures self-closing tags are properly formatted.
  • Applies consistent formatting rules (2 spaces for tab spacing).
  • Validates URLs.
  • Standardizes common attributes like ‘alt’ for image tags.
  • Ensures HTML is compliant with HTML5 standards.
  • Removes any strong/bold tags within headings.
  • Ensures list items are formatted without nested paragraph tags, maintaining proper indentation and structure.
  • Removes paragraph tags within BLOCKQUOTE elements.

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I’ll be keeping track of any GPTs I create on my Info page.