photographywired.com
http://photographywired.com

Photographywired.com was a personal project to give myself and fellow photographer Paul Broome an outlet to blog about our passion for photography. It was important that the design was simple but attractive. We harnessed wordpress and it’s ability to have multiple authors to make the site feel like it had different voices and opinions. I also played on this with the profiles pages and individual flickr feeds  that feature on the sites home page.

I  set up a unique twitter account and flickr group for the site that have both served really well in pulling traffic to the site and encouraging participation from the readers of the site in addition to standard features such as offering an RSS feed. Initially the site was setup with some affiliate advertising and google adsense areas but it was decided that generating revenue was not as important as the content and positive feedback from visitors. I pulled the advertising as it was seen to be distracting and a burden to administer.

The biggest challenge with this site has been keeping updated and fresh content when both of the contributors are busy on other projects. To that end the site will be reviewed and possibly more authors added.