Photography Marketing

Creating a website outline is at the core of how to link a website for a local business. This outline represents the domain name (homepage), directories, sub-directories, and page structure of your website. You can have as many nested directories as you like but it is best to keep it to a minimal level for SEO purposes. The deeper a page is nested inside directories and sub-directories the less relevance it is attributed by search engines. Continue reading →

When choosing how to name a website for your local business what you are really choosing is a Domain Name, also called a Web address or URL. This name is linked to an IP address which represents a physical point on the Internet. When someone types your domain name into a Web browser, your Web page displays. Your domain name is arguably the most important aspect of creating a small business website.

This article includes three strategies you can use when choosing your domain name, plus lists three pros and cons of each strategy to consider before making your final choice… Continue reading →

This is an example of a simple brochure postcard for Colorado Luxury Homebuilder Brannen Design and Construction. Because they only wanted to purchase a small quantity of brochures at a time we chose to go with HP Indigo press printing which is a digital printing solution with unmatched offset quality.

The reason I choose to go with HP Indigo is because the quality is excellent (better than any other digital printing technology imo), customers are able to choose from the same papers as traditional press printing (most digital printers have a very limited selection). Finally the price is very competitive and the turnaround times are about 1/2 that of traditional offset printing.

We have been working with Jon Rentfrow for years photographing his Colorado Luxury Home designs. His home designs have won numerous residential awards and this month The Avalon is featured on the cover of Cygnus Publishing’s Residential Design + Build magazine. The Avalon was awarded Cygnus Publishing’s 2011 Design Excellence Award for the Spec/Model category. This speculation home was designed at the request of the developer for a high end development in west Loveland nestled in a valley bordering Devil’s Backbone park. You can see the article on page 42 of the magazine.

As a photographer in Colorado I really enjoy getting a chance to photograph well known Colorado places. Alpine Visitor Center at the top of Trail Ridge Road is definitely a landmark of Rocky Mountain National Park. Steve Lane, a local Colorado architect hired me to photograph this newly finished interior remodel. Steve is the founder and principal architect of Basis Architecture, Colorado Architecture Firm located in Estes Park.

One of the difficulties for this project was that we only had a short amount of time to set-up before the center opened for the day. As soon as the doors opened the visitors flood in, so there were a lot of tourists in the visitor center during the shoot. I really don’t mind this because I actually like having people in the pictures when photographing buildings. People could definitely see us working and the people that didn’t mind being in the pictures milled around the areas I was photographing. The staff of the visitor center were also explaining to the crowd that we were there to take pictures of the facility. This allowed them to avoid being in the pictures if they were sensitive to that. Continue reading →

A properly optimized website will get you high rankings on web search engines. My small business website ranks #1 and #5 on the organic Google search results for my targeted term Northern Colorado Photography.

Neurotherapy Center of Northern Colorado, Custom Joomla! website using Joomlashack Reserva template. Fort Collins Web Design by Warren Diggles.

Generally when creating a Joomla business website I have started with the templates that come with a standard Joomla installation. Recently Michaela Johnson, owner of NCNC, Neurotherapy Center of Northern Colorado hired me to help her develop a website for her business. Continue reading →

Joomla – Add CSS style to Tinymce Text Editor drop down menu.

The main purpose of creating a Joomla CMS website for Miracles of Health is to give them the tools they need to add new content without having to call the web designer, me. Joomla comes with a WYSIWYG editor that is designed just for this. Sounds easy, but in practice it took some trial and error to get things to fit their needs and work smoothly for the customer. Continue reading →

Colorado State University’s College of Business Dedicates Rockwell Hall-West, Holds Open House and Hosts Retired Gen. Colin Powell April 30. Colin Powell’s talk reaches out to the northern Colorado attendees with a message emphasizing leadership and local community… This image is available as a rights managed stock photo download through our online store.

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Astragalus Root Slices, Cloves, Thyme, Garlic, Sage, Yellow Powder 599, Peppermint, Hibiscus, cinnamon sticks, Psyllium, Pumpkin Seeds, Cayanne Pepper, Alfalfa, Root, Ginger photographed in studio white background. This image is available as a royalty free stock photo download through Getty Images.

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