pact software offers not only the best photos but also photography related software tools.

For the past weeks I have been contemplating on what to do with the website. It just isn't doing a proper job. Main reason is that it is actually two websites into one. A combination of pact software and pact photography. Both of them aiming at totally different visitors. Most visitors are photoshelter users looking for the photoshelter export plugin for photoshelter. Many of them are highly skilled photographers who are not the least interested in my photography. So it is time for a change.

pact software

pact software will target the following user groups

• photoshelter users that use the lightroom plugin
• joomla users
• people interested in seo and internet marketing

Quite a variety, and time will tell what it will look like. For now the focus will be on the lightroom plugin. For which a new release should see the light of day in the next few weeks.

pact photography

pact photography will be targeted on improving my photographic skills. So it will include articles on:

• composition
• locations
• post processing
• etc

Within the next few weeks the website(s) should see changes. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

Photoshelter published the results of of their "What buyers want survey".

It is a must read for photographers who want to make the best of their online web galleries. 

Do's

• thumbnails
• search
• pricing
• low-res downloads
• contact information

Don'ts

• flash intro
• slideshow
• obtrusive watermarks

The changes may look minimal, but I changed a lot for the website these past days.

First I picked a new Joomla template for the site. With the old template it was just to hard to change it to my liking. And it wasn't SEO optimized either. I choose the Bolt template from Alledia, which is simple, fast and SEO optimized. Modifying it look similar to the old website proved to be fairly easy. If you are familiar with css, joomla templates and know what you want, it can be done in a few hours.

If you are looking for a good and easy to use Joomla template, I can highly recommend this Bolt template. It is well worth the money. If you like the advantages of the template but don't want to change it to your likings yourself. Feel free to contact me, to discuss what service I can offer.

After change the template I also decided that the site url's should also be search engine friendly. So I also enabled the sh404sef component for Joomla. This component is now (finally) compatible with the latest version Joomfish. All this worked fine for the articles on the site, but the download component still showed the ugly url's. Spending an afternoon writing a sh404sef plugin for jotloader also solved that problem.

Now only wait a little while and see how it does in the google rankings.

 We are also going to use this template for an informative website on vitamine called vitaminewijzer.

Export directly from Adobe Lightroom to your Photoshelter Archive.

Features

• automatic login
• export to selected archive folder
• create new archive folder
• rename existing archive folder
• refresh archive folder list to reload external changes
• mark uploads as "Tagged" and/or "Searchable"
• export lightroom rating with each photo