Website Hosting… Buyer Beware

Finding the cheapest website hosting company is not always the best solution. Read about a painful recent experience and learn how to avoid it yourself.

Color Part 2 - Tools

Two of my favorite design tools for creating color palettes. Adobe’s Kuler and Color Schemer Studio.

FireFTP

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed, and for the latest in How To Articles for the Professional Photographer be sure to check out ProPhotoResource.com. This Message will disappear after your third visit here. Every once in a while I stumble upon an online application that makes my online [...]

Domain Name Registration

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 [...]

Sunday QuickTip!

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

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Web Directories - Think Global Act Local

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.

Blogging Blues

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 [...]

Internet Radio - A Photographers New Best Friend

Nothing makes a client or model loosen up and feel more comfortable during a shoot than to be able to listen to their favorite music. Most of the time my clients will bring their iPod or favorite CD to a shoot.
If you have a computer with speakers connected to the internet in your studio there [...]

Sending Large Files

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.

Micro-Blogging … What on Earth?

There is a new internet marketing tool in town and it’s called Micro-blogging find out what this new rage is all about.