JB Sallee, Photographer and Owner Sallee Photography joins Inside Digital Photo TV’s host, Scott Sheppard live from WPPI 2008 to discuss their latest Photoshop templates and actions designed to automate image effects and album designs. Based on digital tools they use every day in their own wedding studio, JB and DeEtte Sallee deliver time saving designs with Automated Designer Albums, Edgy Actions, Ten Best Albums, and European Grunge effects. For more information and demos visit: http://www.salleephotography.com

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Welcome to the ExpressDigital Darkroom Template Marketplace Guided Tour hosted by Becky Orser, Marketing Manager at ExpressDigital. For the first time, photographers will be able to instantly find, license and download photo templates directly inside of all editions of Darkroom software. The Marketplace contains over 700 templates such as album pages, holiday card designs, sports memory mates, trading cards, calendars, layouts, and greenscreen backgrounds that are immediately available for sale from a variety of industry leading graphic template partners. For more information visit www.expressdigital.com or call 888.584.0089.

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I am a professional photographer who is designing a website to get some more exposure. I have looked into two website design and hosting companies and gotten conflicting advice. One website design I really like uses tons of flash, the other does not photos are viewed using a slideshow and they have told me that people get frustrated with flash and want to see the information and move on, and for the ecommerce section will become frustrated with flash. And because of the ever increasing I-Phone I should steer clear of a flash site. Although I can’t envision someone shopping for a photographer using a phone. What are your opinions? Also is there a way I can take a template that is created with flash and use the basic concept without flash?

In my opinion, flash is a nice tool, but it is relied upon WAY too heavily sometimes. It’s good for special effects in a logo or a banner, but when an entire site is in flash, I usually don’t return to the site (unless I have to, and then it’s begrudgingly).

Here is why:

-Navigation: when the navigation of a site is in flash, I can’t open it in a new tab, which I like to do a lot.

-Load time: fancy graphics and effects are cool one or two times, and then they just slow me down.

-Content: if the site has their contact info, like an address or an email, I’d rather copy/paste it out of the page instead of retyping it. But often in flash sites, you can’t highlight the text. It makes it a pain in the rear.

-Search engines: they can’t read flash, so you won’t get indexed in search engines properly.

Also, check my sources for a link that has more elaborate responses on this.

My suggestion: If you like the look of flash, at least try to use html for the navigatoin. Design your site so that, if all of your flash objects couldn’t load, it would still be possible to view and operate.

And for the iPhone, a common thing is to design a version of your website specifically for mobile browsers (ie, m.example.com/ would lead to a mobile version).

Here’s a great example of where flash enhances a site, but the site is still operable without it:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/

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I’m 17 and planning to design a website for a friend of my dad’s who’s willing to compensate me for my time and labor. I’m pretty handy with XHTML, but I’m not an expert on markup languages and I’m not certified, but I’m a fast learner and pretty good at what it is I do. I’ve "designed" several websites for friends already via studying templates to get an idea of how to format layouts and where everything "goes," then customizing them using my own graphics and photos taken and edited by me (I’m also an amateur photographer).

This guy seems kind of professional. What is a good compensation to request for structuring a 5+ page website with personalized graphics, audio greeting, customized banner, an ecommerce store, a bunch of other stuff, and headshots of the guy and commercial photos of his business? Thanks alot!

trust me on this, i’ve been in the design field for some time – and have experience with the basic coding languages in order to make websites work. XHTML is not going to come in handy much for something like this. doing a site this complicated is not going to be easy WHATSOEVER even if you are a fast learner, the ecommerce bit especially. designing with templates is SOOO much different than designing from scratch. this is not going to be something i think you can do without any kind of extensive training or knowledge without having to purchase outside help, such as a premade shopping carts and flash components/etc..

however, if you still think its something you’d like to tackle…with training and at least 2-3 years experience, a freelance back-end developer will charge anywhere from $70 – $90 an hour (of course experience can bump this rate up further) the front end designer will charge anywhere from $40 -70 an hour (and experience will bump this rate up too). However, with out having any kind of training or any experience past templates – and combined with the fact that this job will require you to do much more learning than i think you realize, i think it would be unfair to your client to charge him an hourly rate and you should charge him a base rate with a limited number of revisions. He does want a hell of a lot of stuff though. I’d say what he’s asking for would go NO LESS that $3,000 – $5,000 for professionally trained people to do. In all honesty, I wouldn’t even take this project – it sounds like the biggest royal pain in the ass. And don’t take this personally, but from my experience it sounds like this guy will try to take advantage of you as much as he can…because you’re young and don’t know the ropes of the design/developing business yet.

I’d say for all that stuff, based on your experience and the time you will have to put in on your own to learn some of this stuff (which you should not charge him for, and which will put the deadline farther behind) my opinion is that you should charge him:
a base rate of no more than $700 – $1,000 for a 5-page HTML (NOT FLASH – that would be much more) website. and that includes the graphics, the banner, and the e-commerce bit, and the built in audio greeting. WITH 2 REVISIONS ONCE YOU GIVE HIM YOUR INITIAL WORKING SITE DESIGN. If you do not limit the number of revisions, a client will keep changing things, keep changing things, etc. and not pay you for them if you are working on base price – and if you do not specify up front. I also suggest that if he wants more than 5 pages in the site, charge him $75-$100 each additional page. make sure you know everything he needs up front. get half of the payment up front, and half upon completion. write up a contract so that if he backs out of the deal, you get at least half of the remaining amount so you get paid for your time.

I’d also play with the ecommerce thing a bit before you start, because I sincerely believe that you will not be able to do this right off the bat and will need to get payment from him to buy a premade shopping cart.

Charge him separate for the photos at an hourly rate. for your experience I’d suggest between $9-12 an hour. and that includes the time you spend retouching them.

I’d also suggest getting the book "pricing and ethical guidelines" by the graphic artists guild.

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I am a photographer wanting to build a website for my photography. I am wanting to get this template http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/Thickboxdemo/ on my freewebs page. I know this can be done because I have seen other freewebs pages with flash on it. I have looked at website after website trying to find anything helpful, but no luck. Can someone please tell me how to do this?

The template has no flash content. That will be something you have to add to your page when you edit.

To make the template your home page, log into freewebs.com, click "edit my site" link at top left, then when in File Manager, click the edit Icon for the index.htm. You will have to copy/paste the template code onto the index.htm file. Click in the file to bring focus after you have copied template code to Clipboard. Do a Ctrl + A to highlight all text, then do a Ctrl + V to paste template code.

If you can do a "Save as…" from the Freewebs’ editor, then rename file to index.html. If not, just save file as is, then from File Manager page, click the rename Icon for index.htm and add the "l" to end to make it your home page.

To prevent the blue floating Logo, add the code from Freewebs for one of their smaller logos. This will remove the blue floating logo.

To keep your pages free from ads, log into your account every 30-days.

Ron

I recently became very interested in designing websites. I know the basics of HTML and I am pretty experienced with the whole tables thing and also pretty good with the Photoshop graphics, but there’s so much more that I want to do and I just don’t know how.

I have designed my first website for a restaurant (www.brazilcountryrestaurant.com) and it wasn’t so hard -there wasn’t needed much actually.

But I currently am designing a website for a photographer and I want to learn how to make a Flash slide show. And also have another person interested in a eCommerce website but I have no idea on how to change PHP templates for osCommerce (or other).

I know I absolutely need to learn Flash and PHP, but I don’t know where to start nor which to get started on first.

I don’t have any money to pay for classes. All of what I have learned (designing websites and Photoshop among other stuff) has been my own online research.

Can you recommend me anything that might help me? I know it takes time to learn all of these things, but at least point me in the direction of the light! =]

XML? PHP? Flash? and all the other crazy acronyms; which? xD

Thank you for your time.
ADDITION: Making money online is my ultimate goal. For example, using AdSense, Tag Clouds, Tag Words and other things that I’m not aware of at the moment.

I will be designing a website for my own personal use in which I plan to sell my services (of web design) and also add in a blog (interested in learning PHP so I can add blog posts from the browser).

I believe that’s all for now. x]P

Thank you once again.
Thank you for all your answers! =D

Just to clarify a bit more:

->I do have Dreamweaver but I find it easier to use Sharepoint Designer (maybe just because I’m used to it)

->I do believe I have all the programs necessary to build websites, edit pictures, and many other things.

->I’m a bit funky with the CSS thing simply because I never payed too much attention to it even though I know what its purpose is for.

So in order:
1. It should be best for me to learn all the fundamentals of HTML and CSS till I know every code (even though I’m pretty good at it already).
2. Learn ActionScript and Flash.
3. Learn Javascript
4. and finally PHP

I’m gonna need a lot of patience. I want to do it all now!!! xD

Is that a good path?

Well, Action script is kind of easy since im learning it now it was alot easier to me than java script. But if you know java script it makes learning flash easier. But its not necessary for website designing much since flash is around.
It matters what parts of website designing you want to accomplish first and most of all?
For example
Designing a website you need Html, Xhtml is very very similar to Html except its rule base is very strict. You can’t slack off even on capitilization or your code won’t work.

If your going to do it for profit.
Php is deffinetly essential with MySql Databases
Ajax is more of a topping.

Foundation: Xhtml
Walls: Flash
Building Furniture: Php

Php basically is just a more database management sort of application when applied with flash. And is mainly necessary when your making a more interactive website. So that would be my order.

But I would also consider Ajax which is coming up and has alot of intresting features (here java script can be useful)