A website is an invaluable tool whether you just want to post family pictures for your relations overseas or whether you want to market yourself as a professional photographer. This book will teach you how to set up a basic website for free, as well as arming more serious photographers with the knowledge they need to go about creating a professional web site and avoid all the pitfalls. Uniquely, the book will be accompanied by specially built example websites, with ideas and techniques clearly demonstrated in a live online environment, alongside forums and message boards for readers to use.
Contents:
Introduction
- Photography on the web - facts and myths
- Why you need a website
- What kind of website is right for you? Why Diy? Cheapest you can get away with
- Decide on 'the look'
- Some simple rules
- Low-tech start
- Get organised
- First page
- Navigation - the three click rule
- More simple rules
- Managing growth - search engines, directories, webrings
- E-commerce (selling online)
- Going pro
- Useful information
- Index
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