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jdawg said:
Jon,

Sorry, I had a mixup with the posts! Actually Rob has the iWeb
website. I am losing my mind. Too many hours in front of the
computer. Don't even worry about it. Thanks for offering to help.
iWeb is great for it's simplicity but not so friendly when it comes
to customizing the code. I took a look at Joomla once. The welcome
page makes my head spin. Web design is just not my thing.

J.D.
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Don't worry about it at all. I used to do web app development, mostly php/mysql, and I perfectly understand not wanting to get into the web dev end!

However, with iWeb (I had a go), you can easily publish the finished site to a folder, and open each page and paste in your pre made set of meta tags. This would be safe and easy (even with limited skill / understanding). Then the folder of docs and subfolders would need to be ftp'd up to your domain - there's a number of ways of doing that, and it shouldn't present any great problem. iWeb seems to create all links within the site as relative, so you should be able to move the folder containing the site files about as much as you like, without a problem: Please note, I haven't tested this (time constraints) but would appear to be true from a quick look at the source code.

Hope this helps
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Jon Stewart
 
I too faced the fact that wannabes were destroying the wedding business so I adapted by one going to a high end wedding planning service for representation, I'll be doing fewer weddings and making more money than last year, and two the industrial market with photography and web design services. The wannabes cannot compete with me there.

Ted

http://www.silverlightimaging.com

Skill in photography is not obtained by purchase. it is acquired by practice.
 
SilverLightImaging wrote:
I'll be doing ... web design services. The wannabes cannot compete with
SilverLightImaging said:
me there.

Ted
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It's interesting you say that Ted, because where I'm at there are far more wannabies doing web design than photography. The problem with web design is that anything that is not static, and even some that are, can start to throw up problems a few months down the line, when Microsoft, or whoever, brings out a new browser, and then you charge for fix (clients unhappy) or fix foc (clients happy but where's the profit gone?).

This is why I don't do web app development any more, except for my own business interests.

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Jon Stewart
 
This is why I don't do commercial photography ! With portraits there is none of this not paying bull...98% of the time !!! and not many cheapies if you have quality work !!! Wedding are a lot of go-sees and looky lous for every buyer !
 
Business is down across the board heres why.

1. digital wonder newbie on every corner along with the cut-rate prostitutes.
2. perception of recession by customers weather there is one or not.

Repercussions : photographers in denial until the price of their stock get dumped overnite !
 
My mentor from the 1970s said to me that "Cream always rises to to top" I'm good at what I do I will not prostitute myself to the wannabes. I will only do ten weddings this year ( I did 38 last year) and I will put my heart and soul in to them. It is, and always will be about the image. Money is only the by product of what photographers do. If you think I'm "brown nosing" put your work up there for people to see. Here's mine, where's yours?????????

http://www.tjm-imaging.com
 
Friend, your photography is OK. The wed photos all look like the subjscts have been cut out and pasted on differnent backgrounds. I know that they used to do that in the 60's. I guess now you use PS...no ?

Your photography is not anything that stands out among other advanced amatures, and i don't feel it would give you any great marketing advantage in a large market like NY or LA, but maybe in the midwest somewhere. If I feel the need to show you mine I will let you know, but maybe I'll just show you my big SUV or Gun, serves the same pupose does it not ?
 
Good for you. But I'm unclear why what you characterize as "wannabies" can't compete with you in the web design market. And, more importantly, web design is not photography.
 
This post has reduced to the lowest in gutter talk. I thought this was a pro forum. Is it time to file a complaint to the moderator?
 
Some of it is 'gutter talk'. But even in the rubbish there still might be something useable.

I choose to ignore/skip certain comments. Works for me. Nobody's throwing stuff yet, so I think we're still good.
 
5D Monster said:
no, my prices hadnt changed for 3 years plus... in fact some had
decreased...

the point is, family portraits are not as important to people
anymore... with digital and photoshop, people are doing it
themselves...
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Well, this morning I came to the same realization you had eight months ago. That the portrait business has become much less lucrative (for the majority of photographers).

You've already stated the reasons why this is the situation. Yet, I don't see people getting discouraged. They keep on coming. And they offer free sittings and don't mind doing it 'for fun'.

Eventually, I see the end of selling by-the-print. It will become more of a shoot and burn-a-disc type of service.

So for now I've pulled the plug on the portrait business (stopped the advertising). I believe it to be the right business decision. Time to shift focus to other more lucrative areas, both photographic and non-photographic.

But I am thankful for the information I have received here. A lot of it can be applied to my other projects.
 
Our main business is equestrian event , Its been an odd year so far, last year was a very good increase on the year before, and the first 3 months of this year we have taken nearly double the same period as last year from photography and done less work. My plans for this year were to expand our income sources outside of photography which last year was 95% of our income. My thinking is that in a highly saturated market with a recession happening it was time to build alternatives, that is going well but I have no idea why takings have nearly doubled from photography which as only been 70% of our income so far this year.

So in conclusion things are going very well at the moment but I am preparing for things to get worse.

tony
 
Slow as I hear it is for many others. General consenus is the economy.

No matter what the reason, we'll all have to adjust or perish, I suppose.

A local photographer near me has taken matters into his own hands and developed a studio management software solution. I remember him working on this months ago. He said he didn't want to have to rely on shooting all his life to make a living.

http://www.myfotobiz.com/MFB/Default.aspx
 
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