The Junction


Archive for May, 2008

We’re going for a literary tone today, and Nina mentioned Bill Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Well, blogging is like being on stage, reciting your lines… with no real idea whether anyone’s listening or not.

We’re not up with the big guys yet, but it’s great that our blog is now attracting some regular, thoughtful comments. – So who won this month’s free PJ subscription?

Well, we considered Megan for “PJ rocks some major bootie”. But sorry Megan, Daria offered tea and bikkies as well (where in the world are you, Daria?)

Then there was Nina. She writes vividly, Danny and I both love Blue-Grass and I’ve never been to Kentucky.

But the winner has to be TomK – for thoughtful comments, and several of them, most recently here. A plug for Tom’s blog, too. Hard to do well, but what a great way to market, differentiate and present your work.

Thanks to all – keep an eye on Junction Newsletter 2 for our next freebie.

Cheers, Ian

I recently spoke at seminar in Christchurch for the NZIPP. The other speaker, Bruce Gabites talked about measuring where your leads come from.

TomK mentioned the same, very relevant, issue (hey, wanna write for this blog ;-) – thank you for your input).

In times of economic instability it highlights the importance of knowing where your leads / bookings come from. You’ll be able to react to and encourage the successful channels.

A starting point. Word of mouth, Magazine, Bridal Fair, Web, Venue Referrals…

A slightly, temporarily mercenarily-minded,
Danny

If you read Junction News No. 1*, you’ll know we’re giving away a 12-month PJ Remix subscription free every month. This month’s freebie goes to the person who writes the best Comment on this blog.

Be in to win! We’re picking our favourite at the end of this week.

Cheers, Ian

We’ve enjoyed what we’ve read so far, both funny and thoughtful, so Danny’s Aunt Dorothy has missed out ;-)

*Our monthly newsletter to PJ subscribers.

We’re pretty happy that Remix v1.10 is ready for you to download. We’ve done pretty much nothing but bug-fix and test for weeks. It’s still beta but…

We’re REALLY looking forward to our first final, so we can get back to coding new stuff!

If you haven’t already, please take our baby for a spin, and our sincere thanks in advance.

The PJ Dev Team

To auto-update to the latest version, just open up your current version of Remix while you’re online.

We’ve posted a bit about PJ templates here, but apparently not everyone realises they don’t need to be vendor-specific. Anything you can grab off our template download page will do. Just drag the template corner to fit your page, and ungroup to edit.

HTH, Ian

Of course you can also author and share your own templates. We understand some photographers are working on collections (try googling Photojunction templates occasionally).

Why is it when I chat to photographers about their flash memory, they say things like…

“Oh, that card’s a bit dodgy,” or

“I don’t really trust that one”

BUY NEW ONES! Compact Flash, SD, or whatever you use has never been cheaper than it is now. Even if it wasn’t, imagine the cost of losing a wedding.

A slightly concerned and conservative,
Danny

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We’re building up a lot of juicy PJ tips here, with plenty more to come. To turbo-charge your PJ experience, click on the “Tip” tag (eg on the right of this page). You’ll get a list of “handy hints” with all the other blog posts filtered out.

HTH, Ian

PS – apologies for our last post, made meaningless by the missing image. Here it is.

We’re growing. Two more Dev Gurus have started at PJ HQ after this advertisement caught their eye. Does it appeal to the geek in you?

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