Web 3 Websites for Photographers, Artists and Musicians Prove Authorship, License You Work, Get Paid

Thu, 9 Jul 2026

Photographers, artists, musicians, and other creators have spent years depending on centralized stock photo, stock music, and stock media platforms to get discovered, licensed, and paid. But those platforms often control the audience, the pricing, the visibility, and the relationship with the buyer.

In this tutorial, I show how creators can build their own Web 3 website, like Marquez.web3, using simple static HTML, CSS, images, and music files, then prepare that site for blockchain inscription.

The goal is simple: publish your creative work, prove authorship with a public blockchain record, make your media easier to license, and create direct ways to receive tips, downloads, and license payments.

In this video, I cover:

- Why Web 3 websites matter for photographers, artists, and musicians
- How centralized stock media platforms limit independent creators
- How to start with a simple static website using HTML and CSS
- How to organize images, music, and other media files
- How to buy a Web 3 domain name
- How to prepare your pages for inscription
- How to update asset links using resolver/indexer links
- Why you inscribe assets first, then CSS, then HTML
- How to update your HTML with ordinal transaction IDs
- How to inscribe ordinals
- How to set up DNS for your Web 3 website
- Tips on what to avoid when creating blockchain-based websites

A blockchain inscription can help create public, timestamped evidence that your work existed at a certain time and was published by you. This can support authorship claims, licensing, and creator monetization, but it is not legal advice or a replacement for formal copyright registration where required.

If you are a creator who wants more control over your media, your audience, and your payments, this tutorial is a starting point for building your own Web 3 presence.

Title:
Web 3 Websites for Photographers, Artists and Musicians: Prove Authorship, License your work and get paid.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction to Copyright, License Fees and Stock Industry and Creators
03:10 The Alternative - You can make your own Web3 Website to take control of your artworks
04:50 How Musicians, Artists, Photographers and other Creators can use Ordinals
07:00 Introducing Marquez.Web3 - Demonstration site of creating a Web3 website
16:53 Step 1 - Get your Web3 Domain Name
19:16 Step 2 - Design a Static Website (Web 1.0) as opposed to a Web 2.0 website
24:00 Step 3 - Convert your Static (Web 1.0) to Web 3.0
25:19 Step 4 - Inscribe Ordinals. Get their TXIDs
37:00 Reminder - Be careful of what you inscribe on the Blockchain
41:00 Step 5 - Prepare your Stylesheet - CSS file
42:00 Step 6 - Update your HTML files to cite stylesheet on Blockchain
43:00 Step 7 - Update Navigation Links and links to all other Digital Assets (eg image and sound files) using Absolute Links
45:00 Step 8 - Set Page Routes/DNS at the Domain Name level
48:30 Using a Web 3 Browser: Browser.Ordnet.IO
53:00 Advantages and Implications of a Web 3 website for Creative People - Authorship, Payment metod
55:00 Cross-Referencing the inscribed files and accessing them from WhatsOnChain and similar tools in the future.
57:00 How to update a page
59:00 Last Thoughts