Archive for the 'Tutorials' Category

Guest blog editor Chris Cummins, owner and chief photographer of Glow Imagery, a wedding and portrait photography studio based in Kansas City, shares his top tips for increasing the search engine visibility of your clickbooq portfolio website.
So you have your clickbooq website up and running. The portfolios look awesome, you’ve customized your website with your […]

We’ve just posted two new video tutorials. These have been updated from the previous videos to reflect version 3. The first tutorial is on Creating Your Website Design, and the second is on Organizing Your Images and Portfolios.
In the coming months, we will post more videos on various topics. Just click on […]

With clickbooq, you have the option to upload music to your portfolio site. Remember, most music is copyright-protected – ensure any music you upload is not infringing on any copyright laws. When visitors come to your website, the music player will automatically load and start playing. For this reason, it is important to optimize your […]

Using clickbooq’s PayPal shopping cart to sell your images
Recently we announced our partnership with RedCart to provide online proofing and ecommerce for our photographers. This is a robust system that allows you to create individual client galleries and apply custom print price groups based on your image sizes, paper types, and finishing services. You can […]

If you’re new to the interactive space, or just want to brush up on your web lingo, we’ll be defining some terms for you to help make sense of how the internet works.
Web Browser is the generic name for the software you use to view and navigate web page. The browser translates HTML code into […]

How to Post Price Lists and Create Lightboxes with Easy to Remember URLs

Here’s a few tips for taking full advantage of your clickbooq FTP account.
To post a pricelist on your clickbooq website, or any downloadable file, you can upload the file to your FTP account and easily link to it within a Content Page on […]

When using Adobe Photoshop’s Save for Web feature, you may have noticed a shift in color or a reduction in contrast from your originals. This change is due to the fact that Photoshop is a color-managed application and the Web is not. When you utilize Save for Web, the color profile saved to your […]

Take your clickbooq homepage slideshow one step further by creating a cool intro animation for your website.
To see the effect created in this tutorial, visit the clickbooq website of professional photographer, Maris Mezulis (http://www.marismezulisphotography.com).
To get started, download the Homepage Intro Template, an Adobe Photoshop template in clickbooq’s Support Center. Select three images you want […]

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 optimize […]

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 with […]