Published by Cris Mitchell
These days you can pick up a domain for as little as 7 bucks, a far cry from the first domain that i registered back in 1995 for 50 dollars. With these kinds of prices, it makes sense to grab up domain names that are relevant to your business even if you don’t plan on [...]
. Nov 04, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, INTERNET TOOLS, domain name, godaddy.com, network solutions, register.com, registration
Published by Cris Mitchell
Ever wanted to know who’s linking to your site or blog?
Simple, just open your browser and head on over to Google, in the search field enter the following:
link:yourdomain.com
Click enter and view all the fine folks who have linked to your site
Bookmark It
. Oct 20, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, INTERNET TOOLS, following, google, quick tip
Published by Cris Mitchell
While everyone wants to optimize their sites for the highest possible search engine rankings, remember who you are and what you do. Most of us can only dream of big market art directors hiring us to shoot the next Pepsi Campaign. So why are we spending so much time optimizing our sites for the global market and completely overlooking the obvious business right in our own backyards.
. Oct 19, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, INTERNET TOOLS, MARKETING, SEO, chamber of commerce, city guide, Internet Yellow Pages, newspapers, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, web directories
Published by Cris Mitchell
I’ll be the first to admit that I had no idea how time consuming it was going to be to maintain a blog and as you can see so far it shows My last post was well over a month ago.
Between my normal day to day design business, running ProPhotoResource.com and working the upcoming [...]
. Oct 18, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, INTERNET TOOLS, MARKETING, BLOGGING, Facebook, myspace, social networks, twitter, writers block
Published by Cris Mitchell
First my sincerest apologies for not posting in the past couple weeks, it’s been a little crazy around here. I’ll do my best in the future to stay on top of things here at PhotographersHandbook.com. I do have a few blogposts in the works including one on Online Backup Solutions and another on Web Based [...]
. Aug 22, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, MARKETING
Published by Cris Mitchell
In this blog post we cover our favorite tools for sending large file attachments to our customers when our personal email systems just can’t handle the job.
. Jul 28, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, INTERNET TOOLS, WEBSITE SOFTWARE
Published by Cris Mitchell
Learn the difference between the save as and save for web functions of photoshop
. Jul 09, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, WEBSITE SOFTWARE
Published by Cris Mitchell
We’ve painstakingly selected the best images for our online galleries, but now are paranoid of visitors pilfering them from our websites. As any good photographer would do, we spend all our energy watermarking, downsampling and finding alternative methods such as using flash for keeping the cyber thieves at bay, all along totally neglecting one of [...]
. Jun 28, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, INTERNET TOOLS, WEBSITE SOFTWARE
Published by Cris Mitchell
There is no question that the Apple iPhone has taken the world by storm over the past year, photographers everywhere are using their iPhones for everything from checking email to sharing portable portfolios.
One of the coolest features in my opinion is the Mobile Safari browser which displays websites the way designers intended them to [...]
. Jun 22, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, INTERNET TOOLS, WEBSITE SOFTWARE
Published by Cris Mitchell
From time to time I scour through google looking for websites that are talking about or have mentioned anything regarding ProPhotoResoure.com, call me a control freak if you will, but PPR is my baby and if someone out thre has put PPR in a negative light, I want to know about it and if need [...]
. Jun 22, 2008
Filed under: GENERAL INFO, INTERNET TOOLS