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… Continue reading Website 101 for Photographers
Uploading PDFs to your clickbooq website and other FTP tricks
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
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
Make your images POP! online
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 image… Continue reading Make your images POP! online
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
Introducing New Features and FTP Accounts
While it has been quiet on the clickbooq blog front, it is not for lack of activity. This past month we’ve been hard at work tweaking clickbooq’s Toolbox – where you build and manage your website – and your front-end flash website. We’ve listened to your feedback and requests to introduce new features and enhance… Continue reading Introducing New Features and FTP Accounts
New Google Analytics Code
Google has upgraded their Analytics software and released improved tracking code. If you have already installed Google Analytics tracking code on your site within clickbooq’s Settings interface, we recommend installing the new code to take advantage of Google’s latest upgrades and improvements. The old tracking code looks like this (the x’s would be your unique… Continue reading New Google Analytics Code
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
clickbooq Tutorial: Make a Homepage Animation
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… Continue reading clickbooq Tutorial: Make a Homepage Animation