Create Your Own Photo Blog

preface

This book was written with two purposes in mind: to help you publish your own first photo blog or to help you make changes to improve the performance of your existing photo blog. A photo blog is the natural end result of owning a digital camera, much like a photo album with plastic pages was the natural end result of a snapshot taken with a film camera. All the cool kids are getting one these days.

All you need to get started is a computer, an Internet connection, a camera, and this book. You don't need special software or experience with Web publishing, and you don't need to be a professional photo-grapher. Using the instructions contained here — and the support information on the companion site, www.createyourownphotoblog.com — you can, after reading the entire book, have your own domain, your own photo blog, and a wealth of information about maximizing the experience.

Whether you want a photo blog to share pictures with your friends and family, further an artistic or professional career, or create a site on which to publish your club or group's projects, you will be able to do so with the material in this book. This book gives you valuable resources, whether you already have a blog and simply want to expand your audience or you're looking for fresh ideas for making photographs to display or want to understand the market better.

Part I of the book introduces you to the world of photo blogs, shows you some of the most popular and often-visited blogs on the Web, and gets you ...