ATPI Lessons #1

Photo by Ndidi Duru

I'm only using this photo because it was right after the lesson we'd gone to.
I only had one class that I thought was interesting, except Jay's. We went to a class telling us how to build our own online portfolio. He gave us some good information on free/cheap things to use.

• Buy your own domain name. Find a cheap host, and but your own domain. It looks much more professional to have an email be yourname@yourdomain.com than yourname@yahoo.com.
  - That also means you can host subdomains. That means you can use these pages to make client pages, to pick up/view their images.
• wordpress.org- Use the SOFTWARE, not the free blog. Much more useful.
  - Completely customizable and free.
  - Widgets
  - Mobile apps
  - Photo libraries
• Don't put a music player on your page, for goodness sake.
• BUY a theme. They're rarely more than $50. You can handle it.
• Vimeo/Youtube for videos

There is way more, but I'm kinda in a hurry, so I'll leave the basics there.
I thought it would be incredibly useful to at least get started, and for cheap. The total he gave us was around $300, so I thought it was an excellent workshop. :)