We prefer to focus on creating templates and products that will work for you like our new Deco Mobile websites or the Splash Page creation tool we have under beta testing right now and leave the SEO to those who work on it each and everyday!

Instead we are going to suggest some resources for you use in working on this pieces of your website design.

1. Google Webmaster Tools (free and something you need to know about — this is where you will register your website for google to search it!).

2. Google Analytics – this tracking code will give you details about your website visitors and allow you to refine your SEO as you continue to grow your business.

3. Photographers Guides to SEO — this is a great set of resources by Zach Prez.  Take a look and see if you find anything that interests you.  He now has an online workshop — which may take some of the mystery out of SEO for you!

You want the clients to go to the mobile site as soon as they come to your main page with will be www.your url.com

Hope this Clears things up.

Shannon

This is easy.  Deco Mobile now has a code you can place in the header section of your splash page that will automatically bring up your mobile website.

The code is:

<script language=javascript>
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i)))
{
location.href=’http://YOUR URL/FOLDER NAME FOR YOUR mobilesite‘;
}
</script>

To put it in your FlashPalette website splash page you will have to do it manually, but it’s not hard.

1. Go to your My Documents/Flashpalette Website folder.

2. click on your index.html file in that folder.

3. For PC users right click and open with note pad, for mac users Control-Click on the file’s icon, then select text edit.

4. You will see a page of writing, look for the code htat says </HEAD>

5.  copy the code below to your index page placing it just before the </HEAD> tag.

<script language=javascript>
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i)))
{
location.href=’http://YOUR URL/FOLDER NAME FOR YOUR mobilesite‘;
}
</script>

6. Change the line in red.   you will want it to have your URL and your folder name that you gave your mobile website.

7. Click save as — then save as index.html  We recommend you save it to a separate folder. This way your editor will not overwrite the changes you have made to the page when you update other parts of your website.

8. Load the new index.html page on your server, making sure to over-write the old file.

I know I should have but we are so excited to announce our new venture with our sister company Deco. Deco Mobile is a GREAT way to enhance your current website without getting a totally new website.

You can now have a site viable and designed just for viewers using small screens like iPhones and Droid phones.

Check it out at Deco Mobile — they are even running a special for existing Flashpalette clients 50% off until 5/24. To get your discount just email support at flashpalette.com for the code!

Since not everyone can attend and get in on the great vendor specials at the show, we thought we would do a sale for all our clients.  The sale goes until Saturday the 13th of March.

You can save 30% on all Flashplatte Websites and Deco Imaging Websites too!~

To start with make sure you do a backup.  I recommend using an online backup service. I use and love Backblaze.  They have fantastic support and their fee covers external drives (many do not).  SO I always start by reminding everyone to back up your website files, just as you should your regular files.

If you have had a computer crash you can find the steps to reload your website here.

08A – newest version is 3.5.8

Team Steve – newest version is 3.53

Gavin – newest version is 3.5.12

Tristan – newest version is 3.5.4

Happy Updating.

This is easy to do and will require just a bit of time.  With FlashPalette websites we recommend that you use the html verification tool.

1. Sign up with Googles Webmaster Tools

2. Click on Add site

3. After you add your site click on Verify.

4. Select the HTML option

5. Download the html file Google has provided.

6. Load the File Google provides into your public_html folder on your server.

7. Go back and click Verify

8. After the code is loaded correctly you will see the statistics for your website show up.

Shannon

These are the two resources that Google has for you (if you have not signed up you should today).

The next is you want to write good text — and that requires the following:
1. Write clearly and keep your text to a minimum, you want your information to be easily found.

2. Make sure your images match you desciption of your style

3. EDIT EDIT EDIT — you need to make sure you avoid misspelled words and other errors.

Use colors that are pleasing and complimentary one of my favorite places to find color matches is kuler it’s a free site and I just love the various combinations of color that appear!

Then the rest is up to you — you need your site to reflect who you are as person and as a photographer.

Shannon