www.jazzypicsnpixels.com

So I thought today that I'll give you a background of www.jazzypicsnpixels.com

While the idea of buying a domain name was Gurneet's, the ownership of setting it up from scratch was mine. The whole idea was to showcase my photography work to the world out there!

With that idea in my head, a template from sitebuilder in GoDaddy, some great pictures and my know-how of HTML, I put up some very basic stuff on the web to begin with. The foundation, I must say, along with well structured ideas and baby steps helped me put up a site which now looks like –

Am I going to discuss HTML with you now? Naaaah! Just want to put down some stuff that might help others thinking on the same lines, to implement, if not better, a similar website on their own.

So …

• the structure of the site can very well be changed; what GoDaddy gives you is just a template – go ahead and customize it based on your ideas/thoughts.
• my GoDaddy package is a basic one and doesn’t give me only 1 GB storage space for all the pictures that I take. BAD!!! Solution? – I setup a flickr account which gives me 1TeraByte of data storage free! Isn’t that great? I’m sure you won’t need more than 1TB of space to save your pictures.
• Daddy’s all setup – I mean the basic stuff is out there with content and page structure already provided by the template.
• Next Q – how you let people know that you’ve started a new venture? Here are some of the ways to go about it:
• use your social network; don’t have one? OOOOOOOPS .. start building one! I deleted my old facebook account and created a new one – just to use as a weapon for selling my stuff.
• next: start posting on your social network – twitter, google, facebook etc. Even if your posts are redundant and have to talk about the same thing over and over again, it doesn’t matter!
• eventually: make you start doing changes to the site in bits and pieces and letting people know “what has changed since the last time they visited”
• what’s more important to know now, is that, there are search engines on the web which in technical terms “crawl” your website. Know of google or yahoo or bing? Yes, they are primarily search engines.

How the hell do you let the search engines know that you want them to crawl all the pages in  your website, index it and so people are able to reach to your website when do a search?

I’ll answer this part of the question in my next post …