7 free wordpress themes for professional photographers
Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by Luke in Articles
For a photographer looking to create a website cheaply, wordpress presents itself as one of the best options.
- It’s free
- It allows you to look professional
- You can set it up yourself
Unfortunately, looking through all of the free themes available out there is a time consuming process. Lucky for you, I’ve looked through the complete wordpress theme directory and found these 7 to be the best.
I’m only looking at free themes in this post. Premium themes offer much more in terms of design and funtionality, and it would definitely be worth considering some premium themes when you’re creating your blog.
The themes I’ve chosen aren’t necessarily photo blogs – blogs that feature a photo each day. Those blogs are great, but what we’re looking for here are themes that are suited for a website to promote a small photography business. The themes here all include a place to list and show off your different services – wedding photography, portrait photography, etc.
Without any further ado, let’s dig in.
Studiopress Black
Simplistic and sharp. Great room for a large image that showcases your work. I like how the pages are featured along the top, so you can easily create a page for each of your services.
Studiopress black
More info and download from http://www.geckoandfly.com/2008/05/10/studiopress-black-photography-wordpress-theme/
Station
Another dark theme. Again, pages are prominently featured so galleries and information can be added to the site in the traditional way.
Station professional photographer wordpress theme
More info and download: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/station
Tune
Another simple theme. This one isn’t so universal. Most photographers like black or dark themes because pretty much any picture works on a dark background. If you’ve got branding that matches this teal colour, Tune is definitely worth a look.
Tune photographer wordpress theme
More info and download: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/wptune
Dark Relief
A striking theme that will suit those that want a bit of extra flair.
Dark relief professional photography theme
More info and download: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/dark-relief
Autumn
If you can change the photo at the top left to a striking photo of your own, this is a fantastic looking theme for a photographer’s website and blog.
autumn professional photographer wordpress theme
More info and download: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/seasons-theme-autumn
Dark Smoke
Simple and clean.
Dark smoke professional photographer wordpress theme
More info and download: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/dark-smoke
Charcoal
A change from all the dark themes. This theme has a white background and looks quite stylish.
Charcoal wordpress theme
More info and download: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/charcoal
Once you have your website setup, take a look at our report on online photo sales. Find out a bit more about what’s involved in selling your photos online.
Increasing Wedding Photography Sales
Posted on 20. Mar, 2010 by Cam in Articles
Wedding photographers can increase sales of wedding photographs by enabling wedding guests to view and purchase selected photographs.
The Problem
The problem is that increasingly wedding guests travel from far and wide to attend a wedding. Meaning that they can not attend your studio or even the lucky couples house to view the photographs.
This inability to view the photographs means lost sales
Solution
The solution is consists of two parts:
1. Let the guests view, select and purchase photographs online in a secure area; and
2. Secondly be able to do it with the minimum of costs and effort to you, the wedding photographer.
Photography Orders enables you to do this, providing a secure area to view, select and sell photos, whilst enabling you to provide this service with the minimum of effort.
Additional Benefits
Photography Orders software can be easily linked to your website. Providing clients with a secure log in link directly from your website.
Then let your married couple and their immediate family promote the site and link to their friends and family!
This means you can promote your website to wedding guests as the landing point to log in to view photographs. This delivers two benefits:
1. Increased web traffic to your site – always good to help search engine rankings, and
2. Opportunity to promote yourself to the wedding guests, a starting point for word of mouth marketing.
Less is more with photography software
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Luke in Articles
There’s an old saying that “Less is more”.
The phrase is often associated with the architect and furniture designer Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the founders of modern architecture and a proponent of simplicity of style.
In software, the mantra is the same. Simplicity and clarity lead to good design.
“Less is more” is a part of every aspect of the way we do things. Here’s some examples of how less is more when it comes to Photography Orders.
Less clicks to get things done
In Photography Orders, it takes 6 mouse clicks for a photographer to create a client, create a gallery, and resize and upload all of the photos in a gallery; within 6 clicks, you’re ready for the client to login and place an order.
For your clients to login, find a photo, add it to their cart and be sent off to process payment, it takes 5 clicks.
Simplicity and clarity lead to good design.
There is absolutely no mucking around with post producing photos in Photoshop first. No ftp uploads. No special photo uploader programs like some competitors use. Photography Orders is completely browser based, super fast, and super straight forward. We’ve optimised the flow – javascript/ajax is used wherever possible to speed things up and remove unnecessary page loads.
Less clutter
Everything on every screen is there because it absolutely has to be. Not only can you get everywhere extremely quickly, it’s extremely easy to know what to do.
Less clutter means you don’t need a manual to figure out what you need to do. Throughout the application, you’ll find instructions are in plain English, not techno babble.
Simplicity and clarity lead to good design.
Less cost
Photography Orders has no monthly costs and no commissions. The price is small, and it’s a one off cost. Our theory – Why pay more for clutter?
When it comes to time, clutter and cost, we hope you’ll agree with us that less is, most definitely, more.
Photography Orders in 3 minutes
Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Luke in Articles
Want to find out all about Photography Orders in under 3 minutes? Here’s a video that shows you what it’s all about.
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