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
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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
clickbooq is Adobe’s Site of the Day
clickbooq was awarded Adobe’s Site of the Day for Thursday, October 11th! Adobe selects winners based on “their use of strong visual designs, superior functionalities, and innovative uses of Adobe products”. clickbooq is featured in Adobe’s showcase and on the Adobe homepage.
Creating Custom Content Pages
We’ve gone through the design of your website, your color choices, and showcasing your best images. Now let’s concentrate on your non-Portfolio pages, where people can find out more about what makes you tick, how far you’ve come, and what’s coming down the pipe. You can create up to five of these Content Pages and… Continue reading Creating Custom Content Pages
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
Make your own tripod lamp
Thought this was a fun idea for a conversation piece for any photographer’s living room. All you need is a tripod, lamp kit, and lamp shade to make it yourself. (From lifehacker, by way of TheDesignDirectory)
Creating your Color Palette
Creating your site’s design often revolves around the color palette you choose. Your background color, borders, inactive and active font color, logo, and images are all part of your site’s palette. Do you prefer a monochromatic look – all white or different shades of grey? Or do you want to emphasize the playfulness of your… Continue reading Creating your Color Palette
Using clickbooq’s custom BackDrop feature
How to create own Custom BackDrop We will be adding users tips and tutorials about how to make the most of your clickbooq website so first I’ll start with creating a custom BackDrop. You have the option of picking solid background colors and patterns, but you can really get creative designing your own BackDrop. What… Continue reading Using clickbooq’s custom BackDrop feature
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
Taking stock of the industry
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… Continue reading Taking stock of the industry