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… Continue reading Uploading PDFs to your clickbooq website and other FTP tricks
Category: Marketing
Hosting your wordpress blog with clickbooq
Ready to jump on the blog bandwagon? clickbooq makes it oh-so-easy for you to add a blog to your clickbooq website. We’ll setup and install WordPress for you in the folder name of your choice (for example, yourdomainname.com/myblog). Since the blog resides on your domain name, it’s a great way to drive search engine traffic… Continue reading Hosting your wordpress blog with clickbooq
Wedding Photography Competition
clickbooq is one of the sponsors for WedComp ’08, an international wedding image competition open to all wedding photographers. Leading wedding photographers Susan Stripling, Brooks Whittington, Garrett and Joy Nudd, and David Beckstead are judging the competition. The overall winning image will receive a free annual subscription to clickbooq plus a $1,000 cash prize. WedComp… Continue reading Wedding Photography Competition
Launching your new portfolio website
So you’ve finished building your new clickbooq portfolio website and are ready for launch. How can you make the most of your new website launch? Here’s a few pointers to drive traffic to your new website: If you haven’t done so before, submit your website to directories so you can get some inbound links to… Continue reading Launching your new portfolio website
Photographer Print Fulfillment Services
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… Continue reading Photographer Print Fulfillment Services
Optimize your website images
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… Continue reading Optimize your website images
Non-portfolio pages for your photography website
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… Continue reading Non-portfolio pages for your photography website
Planning your website
Whether you are getting ready to design your site for the first time, or planning a major site redesign, here are three important things to remember as you start designing your website: No. 1: Know your audience Spend some time thinking about who your target audience is – are you reaching out to a professional… Continue reading Planning your website
clickbooq, Created by You
Just want to announce a small but important change for all of our users. Previously, at the bottom of your website, it said “created with clickbooq”. But after getting requests to have it removed and giving it some thought, we decided our users deserve a brand-free environment to promote themselves, not clickbooq. You’re the ones… Continue reading clickbooq, Created by You
Google is a friend of mine
Today we announced a search engine friendly HTML companion site for all users. You don’t have to download anything or upgrade any software to get it, in fact your HTML site has already been up for the past few days. This site is for users who don’t have javascript installed (about 4% of browsers according… Continue reading Google is a friend of mine