Archive for the 'Photography' Category

One of the feature requests we’ve been getting is adding a shopping cart or print fulfillment service. Although we are continuing to investigate the best way to provide this feature, we realize it’s no small task to develop a competitive ecommerce solution that matches all the bells and whistles of the shopping cart and print [...]

Whether they are an art director, photo editor, or a time-pressed bride-to-be, visitors to your site don’t have the luxury or patience to wait for slow-loading portfolios. Bottom-line: if your images take too long to load, your site audience will move on. The easiest way to increase the download speed of your portfolios is to [...]

While the heart of your professional photographer website will be your portfolios and images within them, you should devote careful consideration to your non-portfolio pages as well. To follow up on the tutorial about creating your Content Pages, I thought it would be helpful to offer a few suggestions for the five pages that come [...]

According to the stock photography survey PDN published in their June 2007 issue, 52% of stock photographers surveyed said their stock incomes have stayed the same or decreased over the last five years. The decline’s beginning can be traced to the internet boom of ’99 when agencies increasingly used royalty-free images due to budget and [...]

The photography industry is changing rapidly and the successful photographer must change with it. More photographers than ever are shooting digital. And while this provides amazing turnaround time the demand for a streamlined workflow is greater than ever. Digital photography has also lowered the barriers for entry into the industry, making successful marketing tactics essential [...]