ralph_cooksey_talbott

<p>I use Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL to do websites and I don't recommend trying to do your own if you want to have dynamic uploads and e-commerce sales. The computer science part becomes overwhelming rather quickly.<br /> <br /> I have seen some nice sites using frameworks that are available via commodity web hosts like Joomla and Drupal. I have not tried deploying one of these skeletons but I will bet there is some skilled labor in there somewhere.<br /> <br /> There are two types of sites, active and static. An active site uses a database and a serverside scripting language to enable you to have blogs and galleries with uploads. Static sites require you to edit the page to add anything to it.<br /> <br /> Blogs are very important as they provide lexical "fish food" for the spiders. A spider is an application that reads web pages for inclusion in the search engines. They read text and not pictures so accompanying pictures with a good chunk of descriptive text will get you better page rankings. The page title and the description meta tags figure prominently into the page ranking formula.<br /> <br /> Have a look at my gallery pages in the gallery site to see this at work.<br /> <br /> I am working on integrating social media and blog sharing and am getting good results so far. I have a Facebook share link on my Free Desktops page and give the deep linking code with a link back on the large image page.<br /> <br /> I am getting good incoming linkage off of this program. Last time I looked I had gained 400 incoming links from posting the deep link code. In that past I had tried to hold tight to the work and that is a path to an epic fail. The rules have changed and we must change with them.<br /> <br /> Flash is a dead horse in that respect as it does not spider and the page ranks of flash sites are usually very low. If folks can't find you then all is lost.<br /> <br /> If you want a static site Google "Free Website Templates", pick one that you like and have at it with Dreamweaver or one of the free HTML editors. I have done many sites with free templates and get a good result but there can be a certain level of CSS adjustment and debugging that needs to go on with them. It is good to use DW's File->Check Page->Browser Compatibility and the W3C online compliance checker before investing too much time in a template.<br /> <br /> If you have a wedding or portrait studio and you don't have a web site get one now as you are losing money and working way harder then you need to on the proofs and ordering.<br /> <br /> If you do fine art it is better to start sooner then later but don't expect a gusher of money. It will pay off in the end but you need to do the work, I am headed for 2k this month from my gallery site which has been there since around 2000.<br /> <br /> If you know a geek try to work with them as web technology, while it seems simple, is very complex and you will take some lumps going it on your own. By the same token beware of folks selling snake oil for big bucks and shop around. If you pay someone you should get a very nicely designed active site in the 1500.00 to 3000.00 range<br /> <br /> Cheers,<br /> <br /> Cooksey<br /> <br /> http://www,cookseytalbottgallery.com/<br /> <br /> http://www.cookseytalbottstudio.com/<br /> <br /></p><div>[ATTACH=full]383828[/ATTACH]</div>

Interesting that Jeff Singer had found the real numbers...

 

I always have run the old Tri-x 35 at EI 100 for 10 minutes in A and gotten a neg that would print well and stand up to desitometric analysis.

 

I am about to retest the nex TriX and PX in Diafine and I will leave my results here.

 

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