National Photographer was setup 3 years ago by Photographer Rory Witham, Rory’s idea was to give photographers a platform where they could be involved with more photography services that maybe outside of their local area. With the photographer directory, members also have free listings and to benefit clients the photographers also have a 0845 telephone number making it more inviting for client to call you for business.

The main backbone of National Photographer is that we check the members on a regular basis, after the news of the SWPP members being taking to court for such a poor service, something needed to be done for a more substantial service for clients, giving them peace of mind. For photographers meeting the requirements are an achievement and the rewards that come with the branding of a national Photographer.

We look at photographers work when they apply to become a member to see what the quality of their work is like, we also look at a full set of images and also check client references at least twice per year. This ensure that the photographer continues to meet the standards and requirements that we set. Our requirements are:

• Your chosen areas of photography are good to exceptional.
• Your work remains at a high standard continually.
• Your clients regard you is high esteem.

Photographers pay an application fee to cover the costs of administration their application, a yearly membership fee is payable where the photographer receives:

• A personal website hosted by National Photographer.
• A mini website Hosted by National Photographer.
• A local photography site hosted by City Photography.
• A email address @ national photographer.
• A 0845 telephone number.
• Listing on the National Photographer directories.
• Access to post on the city photography and national photographer websites and blogs.
• Two shirts or blouses with the national photographer logo.
• Referral jobs from National Photographer websites and City Photography websites.

When the photographer is a member they will be expected to add content to the websites & blogs, this can be self promotional and city websites can also have links to the photographer own website. The website are all managed by National Photographer were photographers just have to send text and images into us by email and the site is updated, Blogs are simple websites where the photographer can add content and upload images.

To find out more about joining National Photographer, or joining City photography please contact us for more information or post your comments below.

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joining National Photographer originally appeared on National Photographer on July 26, 2010.

Marketing your photography website so it is shown in the top listing of results in Google and other search engines is paramount; After 1 year in the research and development of web applications and best pratice to deliver quality content to clients, National Photographer are offering photographers the oppertunity to own there very own optimised website or domain, which can be purchased annually or as a managed service.

With a choice of design templates you will find there is a choice of designs of website if you wish to select this route for your photography business; Also we have domains (website addresses) that have been listed for optimal coverage for your geographical area allowing you to maximise the coverage you want in the local areas around you.

Which ever route you select to take, you could be looking at a growth in business by around 200 clients per month. Photographers using our services have reported a good return and growth in business with our help and assistance using our network.

Simply contact us if you would like advice on which option can benefit your photography business the best if you are not sure, we can tell you the pro’s and con’s of each of the options for you and your photography business, allowing you to make an informed choice.

As an outline to the proposed offers:

Website design that is hosted:

• By selecting a template design, you can take full advantage of our year long R&D in websites, design and optimised design and phychological and practicle aproach in website development.
• Partly Managed websites means that you can spend less time working and editing your website.
• A choice of websites Suitable for mobile, slow speed internet access or High speed full media websites.
• Submitted site maps and SEO /SEM corrected content on Managed sites.
• Online all the time.
• 24 hour support.
• First page listings in most search engines.
• Quarterly Payment of £200.00

Domain Purchase:

• Purchase a linked trusted domain that is established.
• Optimal URL for local area.
• URL resloves to your own server or host (hosting optionaly provided by us)
• One off Anual Payment of £100.00

Site example – London Photography - Oxford Photography

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Bad website design -

Many photographers have bad website design. There can be too little information or too much and the sites are not well planned out to make the most of  of the possibilities, some photographers websites also fail to work, but with our services and support we can change this for you.

Mobile websites -

This is nothing to do with moving your websites around it is simply being able to view your website on a mobile telephone, Not many ( and I mean very few) actually deal with mobile telephones in the design and layout, which of course makes the photographers site impossible to display, navigate and use.
It is important to also note that Mobile web searching is growing and accounts for MOST of todays Internet searches.

Targeted website -

Photographer need to look at targeted websites to deliver websites to their client and target markets. There is no reason that a photographer offering a mix of photographic services should not have a website that is designed to meet one area of photography, this is both in the geographical location and also for the area of photography that they undertake.
This has the benefit of delivering the client with the correct and relevant information from the outset; remembering that you only have 5 seconds to grab the views attention.
If you are looking for alternative websites you could try city photography which offers geographically targeted websites.

What can National Photographer offer the photographer?

National Photographer is backed by a leading Internet company and also understands the need of photographers. Getting the best of both worlds with award winning website design, advice and assistance National photographer has a FREE photographers database which you can add your details on this link to the photographer directory.
National photographer also has a wide range of social networking tools, these are Word-press, Friend feed, twitter and Facebook as well as a range of targeted websites on photographic subjects and also geographical website through the city photography network.

National Photographer members all have a local website with City Photography, as members they also have leads forwarded from the National photographer sub sites (boudoir, Wedding, Portraits and Commercial photography etc). As we are ran by photographers for photographers you do not have to pay commission as the membership fee pays for the cost of offering you the photographer a great service.
Members also benefit from a personal page, this is a quick list of your attributes that is some-what like a resume that offers links to your website and gallery. This is a little like a photographer directory in itself and allows the photographer to be to the point with out needing to add sales information but only the factual information.

With over one year of detailed research and development in photographic websites, we offer some of the most simple solutions allowing photographers to do the work that they enjoy the most, taking photographs; all the website, SEO side of the work is all taken care of via our team of website designers and SEO specialists and best of all; it is affordable.

Some of our users have found a great deal of benefit to the growth in their business with the use of our services.
Our clients have reported a “good growth” in clients from their city photography website and SEO work that has been undertaken by National Photographer.

While we do offer a large range of services for photographers as members we also offer preimium services to other photographers and our members. Here is a quick list of some of the services that we offer:

• Website consultation
• Website design
• Social Media networking
• Software services (management and studio workflow)
• Articles (across our network about you)
• Hosting
• Awards
• Back up photographers
• Business planning
• Marketing
• Guides
• How to’s and training
• Discounts (services, computers and camera kit)
• Referals
• Search engine marketing (SEO and SEM)
• Articles of interest
• Localised photography website
• Out of the box and forward thinking services
• Lo-call mobiles and phone lines
• Spam protected Email addresses
• A personal service.

Contact us today to find out how we can help your photography business take off  or hold its head up above others. We offer many services and solutions for photographers that you may think is not available or cannot be achived, why not ask us to find out if this multi award winning team can help you.

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The wedding photography site has seen a rise in the visitors over the week that it has been online and the duration of their stay be extended as we have planned the website to have a 3-way navigation system which offer the wedding photography hunters.

The new website  uses a top navigation button system for the basic information that couples may want and then there is buzzwords that help clients find the information  such as their wedding venues or certain posts that may have wedding photography or wedding albums contained within the site.

The wedding photography websites search function also allows users to  ask questions which will guide them to the answer, and we will be working on this system to cover more content and questions that couples may want to ask the photographers here at national Photographer about their wedding and its photography.

Not only did we post up articles about wedding photography that we do, but we have also given background information into the photography, the styles and how we do some of the things that we do. 

The site has averaged 511.37 hits per day over the last 8 days and we will be looking at some subtle changes to the sites content as we believe that there may be too much textual content on the pages. As you know we have wrote many articles about promotion wedding photography and designing wedding photography websites, so why don’t we do it ourselves? well that’s just one of those things that happens.

With the wedding photography site monitoring we can also see what clients are liking within the content and how this effects their use of the website and the contact which is being made. by the clients.

CEO of National Photographer Rory Witham Said ” It is nice to be able to see everything in detail about our users as often you just don’t get the feedback.. I believe that the wedding photography website provides information to the client in a number of ways so that they can have as much or as little detail as they want when on the site.”

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We have been looking at making the site workable from day one as the old website was 4 years old and out of date and a little older fashioned.

The new website was planned  and announced about 7 months ago but work has been slow due to the other websites we have updated and work we have done. The new website is under development as we run through the  layout of the website and  also  give user rights and format that’s simple.

The NEW Training website has videos and more online resources for members and clients from the training website. It is a work in progress as we add the content to the website over the next few weeks, it will be a little slow going at this time.

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The National Photographer  UK photography database  was hacked during the summer and we are about to renew the directory along with this website update.  We are unsure if we will keep the details or start a new directory.

We do offer our  apologies if you have to enter your details and sign up for a  new secured directory but we want the website to be enjoyable and we lost the data as the providers  we found out do not back up the data correctly. Now with GTWCMT’s help the systems are all backed up on a regular basis.

 If you would like to go into the directory  that’s currently online once again please contact us and we will send you the details that you will need to create the account and to add your details.

The online directory will be renewed over the next coming months as we  go through the mountain of work that we need to do and are doing on the websites. 

Is going on the National Photographer directory worth doing?

Yes, we have over 300,000 hits on the directory every quater, and it certainly puts your website in perspective, and the site grows and are page rank climbs so will your website. You can find out more on the links page in the photographer section.

Will the data entered now  go onto the new directory?

Unless we keep the directory  then the data will not be transferred, the problem came from a third party service provider that did not carry out the correct security measures on there hardware that lead to the security breach.

What did the hackers do?
They were  white hat hackers and changed the coding of the directory to flash up messages and a link to their website. We tracked the Turkish person via our logging system. National photographer is often targeted by hackers  especially during the school holidays. Within two days we had corrected the main damage to the site and enter some of the details back on the directory, but we haven’t touched it since then… something they  didn’t know about our directory

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We are trying out a plug in for the site which will enable  mobile users to view the websites, and those who use the Iphones.. havent taken a look at it yet, but I have been told that the wedding photography website looks real nice.

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The new site introduces more wedding photos and also album design previews to help clients see how their wedding photos may look inside one of our stunning wedding albums.

Currently there are 768 photos of weddings and wedding albums on the website for you to browse. However;  due to the amount of information and photos from weddings we have, we have off set the posts which currently date back to nearly the end of Feb. You may not get to see all the photographs just yet but you may have to keep going back to the website for an update. 

We have added more wedding  albums  which can be seen on the website, making the selection that more simple. But on a side note to the wedding albums, did you know that we never limited the album selection available for our clients, so you could have any wedding album in the world!

We have put back the slide show videos on the website allowing you to sit back and relax to watch full screen wedding videos and see the joyful wedding days of our clients. We hope they don’t make you cry as many of our wedding client have done so.
Just like the wedding slide shows, the slideshow have been stagered to post across the next few weeks.

The wedding photography website will give you lots of information on wedding venue reviews, as well as give you information on the photography and how us professional wedding photographers do are thing.

 Go to the  Wedding Elegance Wedding Photography website.

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For those who have been following our progress over the past 18 months would have seen the wedding photography  website launched last at the end of 2009 as we took a break from wedding photography and moved on with our boudoir photography service. In between the website updates we have been blogging and doing a lot of R&D in photography websites to find the common ‘best practice’ for the websites by running around 30 different websites each with different content and ‘eye candy’ to find out what worked the best.

If you are a client looking for wedding photography, this post is not for you, this post is for photographers and those interested with our behind the closed doors work that we do.
To go to the wedding elegance wedding photography website click here.

The New wedding elegance ‘wedsite’ has been born from the research and development offering a range of choices for all users.

The top navagation leads the client through a fast track view of the site, services, gallery and packages. With teh current market, we have offered a range of packages  to include the disc only wedding photography along with 3 other levels of services to cater for the more upmarket clients with the packages.

We have added more wedding albums for the client to select from and view on the website as it was always our policy to  give the wedding photography client the full range of albums that they could select from.
Our next step on the wedding photography packages is to add a  custom wedding photography package builder, this will allow for the client to select the package that they really want with the trimming that they want.
Currently the packages are below the average cost for a wedding photography package as this is a new website which we wish to grow trust within.

Some of the older website pages are still ranking high in the search engine results so some users may find themselves  on the old website before moving to the new website.

Wedding site Navigation.

The Navagation of the site is tackled with in 3 ways:

The top menu buttons, the categories post links and the buzzwords.

The Buzz word Navagation allows the client to see a word or venue that will give them information on that subject via that posts which we have made.  For example:
Kingscote barn wedding photography:

The client viewing the website can search for kingscote barn  Click the Buzz word for Kingscote barn or look for the buzz word  Barn weddings which would bring up all the barn weddings which have been posted. If a client was also looking for wedding venues, they could click the subject categories for wedding venues, and then look at the venues listed to make a short list for their wedding venue based on the images we have provided.

We also invite photographer who have been a regular at a venue to post a review so using the venue name and  word review in the search will bring up the review for the venue.

Website images.

The website has a lot of images showing a real wedding and the posts now cover up until late February with around  one post every two days.  We have split the posts into parts if the wedding venue and reception is at different wedding venues.
We have made posts about the weddings as a whole and provided posts showing sample albums or /and slide show videos for each of the locations.

The website has currently 768 wedding photographs( including album preview) on the website, therefore the client viewing the website will have a fair idea of the photography and albums they could receive. There are also around 7 video slide shows also on the website, which may not have additional photographs from the wedding itself.

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Wedding photography site originally appeared on National Photographer on January 15, 2010.