Question and Answer format. I invite and pose questions and give honest and specific answers drawing on the following themes as a framework: websites and portfolios, blogs, hosting, speeding up your website, SEO, social media, online advertising, workflow, one size fits no-one, making a website for the long term.
Presenters: Mike Hartley
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Question and Answer format. I invite and pose questions and give honest and specific answers drawing on the following themes as a framework: websites and portfolios, blogs, hosting, speeding up your website, SEO, social media, online advertising, workflow, one size fits no-one, making a website for the long term. I draw on the participants’ experience and ask them to share the solutions they have come up with. Attendees will be able to submit questions (anonymously if they wish) before and during the session using: http://askawebdesigner.tumblr.com.
While studying manufacturing engineering and economics at university in England, Mike Hartley discovered he was a creative trapped in an engineer’s body. An MA in Applied Social Research and four (4) years of HIV Education practice later, the internet was invented: a space that allowed him to thrive as both a creative and an engineer in me to thrive. Since then he has been running bigflannel in New York City.
He was the Creative Director and a Partner at ZOOZOOM, a multiple Fashion Webby award winner, and he currently helps out at aCurator, a website he designed and built. He has a B.Eng Joint Honors, Manufacturing Engineering and Economics and an MA in Applied Social Research.
Hartley has been making photography websites since 2000. He has worked with a wide range of photographers from Karsh to advertising photographers like Mark Katzman, from social commentators like Jim Mortram to editorial shooters like Eric Ogden. He has collected a bunch of photography competition awards along the way (PDN [Digital Imaging 2002, Digital Imaging 2003, Digital Imaging 2003, Photo Annual 2005, Photo Annual 2011], Alt Pick [Annual 2003, Annual 2004], American Photo Magazine Cover [05/06]).
He’s honest, blunt, knowledgeable and personable. He sell products and services to photographers, but is no means every photographer’s solution.
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