BR Ukuleles
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Brad Donaldson's thread on his new website got me thinking that there is a lot of stuff that we have to do that is not directly related to building instruments, but does have a great deal to do with how we present and market them. Since so much of this is not very intuitive and lets face it, down right foreign to many that were born more than 20 years ago. So I thought that I'd tell you what I use to get some of that across.
First up, I work on a Macbook Pro so software is Apple centric. But I'm seeing that over 1/2 of the hits on my website are on Apple products, so it seems that the instrument type of people are gravitating to this platform.
For web development I gave iWeb a go, but it was just way too limiting. Dreamweaver I had used for years on a PC but while it does everything under the sun, none of it is easy to do, and learning curve is extremely steep. Cost is way too high as well. I settled on Rapidweaver and use a "theme" that is both iPhone and iPad compatible so I don't need to worry about whether navigation is going to work on those devices. It will publish a web site to just about anywhere and doesn't require any special extensions to work a basic site. It does require php to run some things but my site doesn't use php, so you can do a lot without it.
Images are handled with Apple's Aperture. It supports Photoshop plugins if that is of interest to you. Exports in any format that you can think of.
Movies are handled in iMovie. An Apple program that is part of every system. I shoot them with my iPhone or a Nikon DSLR.
First up, I work on a Macbook Pro so software is Apple centric. But I'm seeing that over 1/2 of the hits on my website are on Apple products, so it seems that the instrument type of people are gravitating to this platform.
For web development I gave iWeb a go, but it was just way too limiting. Dreamweaver I had used for years on a PC but while it does everything under the sun, none of it is easy to do, and learning curve is extremely steep. Cost is way too high as well. I settled on Rapidweaver and use a "theme" that is both iPhone and iPad compatible so I don't need to worry about whether navigation is going to work on those devices. It will publish a web site to just about anywhere and doesn't require any special extensions to work a basic site. It does require php to run some things but my site doesn't use php, so you can do a lot without it.
Images are handled with Apple's Aperture. It supports Photoshop plugins if that is of interest to you. Exports in any format that you can think of.
Movies are handled in iMovie. An Apple program that is part of every system. I shoot them with my iPhone or a Nikon DSLR.