Today is again Tech Tuesday.  Today’s tips are just quick random things.

1.  MAC users — ever wonder why your files have to be on your main drive?  That’s one of the features of the platform the website is built upon.  They are working on a fix to it and will implement it across the templates as soon as they can.

2. The shopping cart offers check out via PayPal or you can have it send you an invoice.  You have to select which option when you enable the cart.

3. Try to keep your file sizes to 100-150KB for faster loading of your thumbnails, galleries and background images.

4. Music files are HUGE so if your site seems to load slowly that can be one thing that is dragging you down.

5. Today is National Night out here in the US!  I amheaded out to bbq with the neighbors!

Until next time!
Shannon

One of the most often asked questions we receive regarding SEO is what to put in your keywords section of your Splash Page. 

Keywords are the words you think a client might use to find you on the Internet.  Please note while keywords do not play the role they once did most SEO experts agree that you still need to have some.  The important part to rememer with this is that less really is more.   Search engines frown upon people who use more the 10-12 solid keywords and do a long list of EVERY word they can think of.  A better approach is to make sure you use the most likely words and keeping your list to just about 10-12 at the most.

If you need assistance figuring out what words to use, I suggest you go to Google’s Webmaster tools.  They have keyword helpers as just one of their many tools to assist you in maximizing your web presence.

So many of you are in the middle of working on weddings and seniors sessions.  One of the best ways to display your work is in an album.  However, it can be hard to translate how an album looks from flat pages into a three dimensional object.

That is where the album viewer comes into use.  This single tool will let you display your albums as a book.  The pages flip and allow your client to see what their final book may look like.

We offer two viewers for our clients to use.  The standard, which has a fixed page size and our premium which will allow you to change the page size to match the design of your album. You can do a square book, a horizontal book or well just about anything using the new viewer.

Here are some links to some amzing work done by TriCoast (also the guys bringing After Dark to you!).

Today is once again the start of a busy week for everyone. 

One of the best ways to stay on top of things when it comes to your website is to make sure you make a copy on CD or DVD of your site files and your images you prepared for use on your website. 

This will be a big help should you ever experience the inevitable computer crash or if you need to move your files to a new computer.

If you do have that experience and need to find your editor or just transfer your files.  Check out our blog post HERE

Today I am going to give you a quick tip for moving and creating new pages in your editor.

When you create a new text page or gallery on your website.  The default is to place the page below the contact page.  Now there are two things you need to remember. 

 The first is that the new page will default to the editors orgianl settings when you create it.  So if you do not change the menu text color and other elements you will not see your page. 

The second thing you need to remember when you are moving your menu tabs arond is that on the 08A editor the contact page needs to be the last item.  This is only on the 08A template.

That’s it and have a great Tuesday!!