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Digital Photography Categories Fleshed out

Well I have been thinking for a long time about putting together the tutorials and articles that I want to publish on this site.  Over time I have tried to break up the concepts into a few categories.  Here are the parent categories I will be focusing on:

• Announcements, News, Misc
• Digital Photography Equipment
• Capturing Digital Photos
• Photoshop Tutorials and Helps
• Printing Digital Photos
• Photography as a Profession
• Personal Ramblings

Most of these categories are broken up into sub categories.  I fully fleshed out the sub categories on the Forums.  When I get the time I will add these sub categories to the main blog as well, but I don’t think I have time tonight.  I am packing (or at least my wife is and I need to stop and help sometime) for a 4-day trip to the in-laws.

I leave tomorrow, but I’ll be sure to make an entry before I go to the frozen north - for tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of my epiphany that I could probably be a professional photographer if I wanted to learn it.

Looking Forward

I am excited to go forward!  It will probably take a while to get enough content on here so that people find it a place worth visiting.  Hopefully by then I will also have some traffic visiting this site.

As of yet I have not linked any page to this site.  I want to finish setting it up a little more, included making sure the security preferences are all good.  Because of that, I think about 6 people beside myself have seen this site. 

Frankly, that doesn’t bother me.  As I said, it has been on purpose, but even so I feel that I will enjoy writing despite how quickly people come to read and participate on this site.

In my experience with building websites (I have built around 25 so far - from the mundane and insignificant to ones that I am really proud of), I have found that it takes about a year and a half for my sites to mature.

By “mature” I mean not only the content is finally tweaked to where I am almost, kind of, comfortable with it - but also it matures in how many people visit it.  It takes a while to build your “street credit” on the web, or what experts like to call page ranking and referring links.

I am sure that when a year and a half passes, the site won’t look quite like it does today, and it will hopefully be full of rich, juicy content.

Maybe then I’ll link to this post and discuss it.

Until then . . .