While working on this website project I found a cool menu effect to highlight their products. The module is mfDockMenu, the difficult thing about using this module is that there are not any live examples of it working with Joomla! After tweaking and going through the comments a number of times to try different things I was finally able to get it to work and now have a working version of the script on a Joomla! installation co-existing with Front Page Slideshow.
If you have any questions on how to make it work please feel free to contact me via email.
Their original website was done by Dex Media which was part of Tranquil Health’s yellow pages advertising package. Gayle Martinchick, owner of Tranquil Health Massage, contacted me because she wanted to cut some of her costs associated with her Dex Media website. By canceling her Dex Media website and having her newly redesigned website hosted with us she will save approximately $2000/year in hosting and search engine optimization costs. Not to mention that her re-design represents her business much more professionally than the dated design that Dex provided.
The results of our search engine optimization has been very much worth the investment. If you enter ‘Fort Collins Massage’ in google you will see that Tranquil Health Massage & Wellness Center is on the first page. This term is searched an average of 3600 times / month! Another key element to the SEO strategy is placing a listing on Google Local Business Center, Tranquil Health Massage receives over 700 impressions a month through this free service which has led to a multitude of actions by potential customers.
Loveland & Fort Collins, Colorado - family portraits done commercial photography style! We have provided portraits to many Northern Colorado families throughout the years. Our photography style is unique and will be individualized to each family’s personality and interests.
Call (970)412-0583 to reserve your FAMILY PORTRAIT sitting now and receive $50 off!
This is a beautiful time of year for family portraits but the fall colors will not last long.
(Only $125 for a 2 hour portrait session, offer ends October 31, 2009)
Architectural photography of luxury homes located in Fort Collins, northern Colorado - subdivisions including Harmony Club and Fossil Creek Ranch. The homes in this gallery were built by Brannen Design & Construction. If you are a subcontractor and would like to use these images on your website and other marketing materials, please contact Warren Diggles Fort Collins Commercial Photographer to discuss details.
Our Loveland & Fort Collins, Colorado - Senior Picture Photography gallery has been upgraded to the New Photoshelter social marketing flash gallery
Loveland & Fort Collins, Colorado - Senior portraits done commercial photography style! We have provided portraits to many Northern Colorado high school students throughout the years. Our photography style is unique and will be individualized to each student’s personality and interests. Call (970)412-0583 to reserve your SENIOR PORTRAIT sitting and receive $75 off!
(Only $100 for a 2 hour portrait session, offer ends August 31, 2009)
Me with some of the familiar faces of Photoshelter (Rachel, Me, Allen, Grover and Andrew - Photo by Mellissa Diggles)
If you have read my blog before you will know that I am a big fan of Photoshelter. If you are not familiar with Photoshelter, they are the place on the web where photographers get seen and sell their work. It is my opinion that Photoshelter provides photographers with the most complete set of tools available to maximize the benefits of the web. With my Photoshelter customization website northerncoloradostock.com, I am able to set up a searchable archive for my stock images, provide traditional customers with access to their images via the web, offer online order fulfillment, and seamlessly integrate all of this with my existing portfolio website and blog.
While on a family trip to the east coast for our niece’s wedding I took the opportunity to visit the hub, the center, the heart of Photoshelter. When we got to Union Square where Photoshelter is located we noticed that a commercial photoshoot was going on, very cool, I thought that Photoshelter was behind it so I looked around a bit but came to the conclusion that they weren’t - the funny thing is that when looking at Photoshelter’s blog today there is a post about it - you can read about it on A Picture’s Worth.
Anyway, we found the building located at 33 Union Square West and headed on up to the second floor. When the elevator opened I saw the Photoshelter logo and knew we were in the right place. First I want to mention how friendly everyone is and how my family and I felt very welcome. After introductions and a brief tour I talked a bit with Allen and Andrew about marketing a photography website. They shared with me some of their insights and let me know they are getting close to unveiling the next set of PSA upgrades - can’t wait to see exactly what they are…
What I gathered from my visit reinforces what I already know, Photoshelter is about photographers. A company that is continuously providing us with web based infrastructure, effective web marketing tools and the knowledge to utilize both with the free SEO resources of sites such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and whatever comes next.
Thank you again Photoshelter for your hospitality. Allen, my family agrees, the pizza at Patsy’s is delicious!
…What words are better to use for gallery description and gallery name. Stock photos, stock images, stock pictures or stock photography. I understood about your research that images is not the best solution. But I have seen a sites in Google like it http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.grand-canyon.html if I wrote grand canyon stock photos. You can see in gallery description words like pictures and stock photos too. What do you think. Do you have any idea for best solution… There is a lot of other factors for good SEO too what we should to use. By the way do you have had some success with good SEO ranking. I mean does any photo buyer found your stock images thanks to your good ranking. There is philosophical question for me. I think that serious photo buyer use a stock image banks like Getty, Alamy only. So a SEO is not important for them. SEO is important for people who do not know about image banks. My conclusion is that some not serious picture buyer will found our images thanks for good ranking, but they do not pay money for pictures. I hope that I am not right….
Just ran a few terms through Google Adwords Keyword Tool and these are the average worldwide search totals/month:
stock images - 165,000
stock photos - 550,000
stock pictures - 22,200
stock photography - 201,000
stock photos is the most popular, but photography and images are searched a lot too. My thoughts would be to have images, photos and photography in your seo. I use “stock photo image” in my page titles - iptc headlines for images. Because my site name is Northern Colorado Stock Photography then I have “stock photo image and photography” all in the page titles. For my filenames I am putting a descriptive term with the file # name. ie A8EW0225-Chocolate-Milk-Glass-Bottle.jpg this way your filename numbers are not messed up and you have a descriptive name in the title. Still a work in progress though, I don’t have quite half of the images ready yet.
So far I have not had great success through Photoshelter with SEO, but I know that what they are saying to do is good SEO and I believe that Photoshelter will continue to improve on their end so I am integrating their recommendations into my site.
Just a couple of days ago I was reading the Alamy blog about their much anticipated Manage Images v2.0, the online batch image IPTC manager for the Alamy stock photography archive. If you have ever tried managing the keywording of 1000+ images you will know right away why this is a much anticipated release.
I saw that only 250 photographers would be chosen for the test phase before the first site wide version becomes live. Something to look forward to, well I guess it will be a while before I have a chance to use it…Then there it was, right in ‘My Alamy’, nice!! Plus an invitation email, I have been chosen as one of the beta testers!
Alamy.com, buy and sell images at the web’s largest stock photography site with 15.77 million stock photos. It takes a lot of photographers to produce that much professional reproduction quality rights managed stock photography. Very cool, I guess I get to be one of the first to try it…
