Hi again everyone!!!
Since the last blog post Shot Time has been busy. We now have a website and facebook page up and running, and I'm pumped about it. First here are the links (but open them in a new tab and read the blog first of course) www.facebook.com/shottimeproductions and www.shottimeproductions.com. Exciting right?! So I thought I would talk a little about the exciting world of facebook pages and website designing.
The facebook page was pretty straight forward. You fill in the blanks and pretty much get what you get, but we spent a ton of hours pulling stills from movies and getting behind the scenes photos for the site. I personally am a big fan of branding so when my awesome graphic designer pitched putting a watermark on each and every photo... I was all for it. Ya it made the process of uploading pictures way longer, and I really don't care to terribly much who makes copies of our photos because our goal is to get as many people to see our work as possible. My thought is that if our logo is on every picture we can pull a nike where every time your turn around you see there logo. Anyway... Pics uploaded, fancy description posted and the make public button is pushed. That is the point where we have the most exciting part of the process, watching our 'likes' climb up rapidly. Well that didn't exactly happen. You see I posted it sometime around three or four in the morning when the normal people are asleep and only a nerd like me is working still. We did get a couple hits that night, and I think I annoyed my team a bit by yelling how we got seven 'likes' instead of six now at 4AM when they were having a beer and watching a movie. I calmed down later, not much, but some. We ended up being able to gather around 135 'likes' in I think about three days. I think that's pretty cool. Now I have always found facebook to be pretty fun and relaxing much like anyone else, but I have learned the biggest drawback to having a facebook page for a company is that it is now work to be on facebook. I fear that I may begin to ramble on the facebook page, and I still want to talk about Wix.com so let me just say business facebook pages are awesome but a lot of work and if you're going to do one you NEED to keep updating it. I know to many people who have made company facebook pages or personal pages to advance a career where they post it and never update... What's the point? If anyone has more questions about the facebook page making process just ask, and we shall answer.
Now the website was a bit trickier. We didn't want to get a web designer just yet, and we don't know how to write code or design websites from nothing so we searched around and found Wix.com. Wix is a pretty good website. It basically starts you off with a template and you go from there, choosing colors, link, fonts etc. Wix made it really easy for us to make our sit, but it did have it's flaws. The first being that on wix you don't have the option of making a screen that scrolls down. You can choose only screens that are square and that's about it (unless I missed something, which if I did please tell me). The website is somewhat counter intuitive for someone who has spent years working with software like final cut pro or photoshop. It definitely takes time to figure out how to order a page or link a tab. It also has the issue of being crazy slow sometime. I would NOT recommend using Wix if you have a slow web connection. That said when all was said and done the sight looked good. I think it may be a bit wordy looking back, but that is something easily fixed with time. The best part of Wix, besides having a template to work from, is that when you are ready to launch your site you can buy hosting from them for relatively cheap. With that price you can also get your domain name and some coupons for facebook and google advertising worth $125. Overall I loved and hated Wix. Knowing we could never have created a website from scratch on our own it was great, but it was extremely frustrating at times when we would be sitting and yelling at our computer for not linking to the right page. O and Wix is free to design until you want to post, which is a huge incentive to at least try it out. I say give it a try and see if you like it. If you don't you only lost a few hours and can search for an alternative.
So as alway please send us any questions or comments you may have. We would love to reply to any questions our reader may have in another blog or just in comments. Also 'like' us on facebook and post something on our page. We are more than happy to answer questions or give our opinion on just about anything that isn't politics or religion. So thanks to all of you for reading!
-STP
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