I’m looking to launch one (possibly two) photography related sites in the next few months. The first, I have been working on for almost a year now and I’m so pleased it’s nearly complete!

The basic idea of the site is that it lets photographers upload and manage their photography portfolio. Users can upload photo’s, create galleries and change the look of their site with the click of a mouse. There are some other features that I’m still working on such as site statistics, and a CSS editor so you can edit the colour of your chosen theme.

Anyway I need to find some photographers to give me their opinions on the new site, you’ll get to be the first to see the site in action through video, and then when it’s ready, you’ll be the first to get a login too!
The site is a pay monthly site but I’d be happy to offer anyone that helps me out 6 months free use of the site in exchange for a tiny bit of their time.

Similarly, if you own a photography related site, I’d like to talk to you about advertising!

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post with your email and I’ll get back to you.

You can also follow the sites progress on twitter.

If you’re looking to buy or sell your templates, icons, flash elements or audio/video clips then Envato have launched something you should really take a look at!

Graphic River - For icons, vectors and other graphic related stuff.

Theme Forest - For anything to do with web templates.

Flash Den - For anything to do with flash components.

And two that I don’t really use but you might find them useful.

Audio Jungle - For audio clips.

Video Hive - For anything to do with video clips.

I haven’t been updating this site anywhere near as much as I would like to because I’ve been doing some crazy hours at work. After doing work for 10 to 12 hours a day, the last thing I want to do is to get home and put on the computer.

Luckily, I’ve just about cleared the backlog of work I had to do so I’ll be starting on this site again! I’m aiming to get a minimum of 3 post a week and I’m determined to stick to that.

WordPress has been updated and I’ve added a new theme to this site which I’ll be spicing up in the next day or two.

Here’s a really cool tip I only discovered recently (I think it has been around for a while though).

Anyway, there’s a function in WordPress that will allow you to have your blog automatically publish an article at a certain date and time. All you have to do is write the article as normal. Add a title, some text, tags and select the categories etc.

Next if you look to the right of your typing area (just above where the publish button is) you will see some text that says “Publish immediatley” with an edit link next to it.

Click the edit link and you will see some date and time boxes appear. Here you just have to add the date and time you want the article to be published to your site.

Next, you MUST hit the publish button, if you don’t the article wont appear when it’s supposed to!

Then you can just sit back and relax while the articles publish themselves!

This functionality is great if, say you have a blog or site that you don’t want to spend time every day posting on. Just spend a few hours writing up a tonne of articles and let WordPress publish them of you every day.

I plan on writing a load of articles at the beginning of each month for some of my sites, then I’ll let WordPress do it’s thing and I only have to work on the site for one day towards the end of each month!

You could also use this if you’re going on holiday or wont be near a computer for a while!

I must admit, I’m a little (or a lot) behind when it comes to Twitter. I signed up for an account a while ago but never got round to doing anything with it. Well, today I finally twittered (or whatever you call it) for the first time.

So if someone wants to keep up with what I’m doing, you can find me at http://twitter.com/jmz360.