Keep em coming Lorelle of ‘WORDPRESS!’

Peace and Love,

Greg.
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It sounds like you are living your passion which is fabulous. There are some fantastic coffee table books honoring town landmarks, mostly unique and interesting buildings and statutes, from recent history. Who knows, one or more of your pictures could someday show up in such a book, or be a part of a book honoring the architecture of the area.

I assume you are getting owner permission of the business buildings on private property. That is required if you are to do more with the photographs than keep them in your files. If you publish them and attempt to make any money or take benefit for the images, you must have written permission from private property owners. Gads, I hate all this legalese, but it is the law, not an opinion.

I’m using a graphics program that is about as old and this is my business, and most of the tools I use for my business are open source and free, so it doesn’t matter. If it works for you, fine. Just take care that your operating system is up to date as there are viruses and worms around the web looking for out of date software and operating systems and exploiting their security leaks. It is for this reason that I update everything immediately as a habit, though I still have some old stuff hanging around on fairly secure servers.

To the point, in keeping with these blog exercises, here is some advice.

If you find an article that is irrelevant to your site’s content but worth of note, use Delicious, Evernote, or another online bookmarking tool to keep “notes” so to speak. If you wish to publish them later, they often feature easy-to-use tools to help you do so.

If the purpose of your site is home repairs, photographs of buildings and such off-topic content can confuse those seeking your services. Serve your clients first, hobbies separately, unless you can come up with some novel way of connecting them. It’s been done, but it is seriously hard work.

Make all your published articles relevant and your voice. You have a news report on the local Walmart that is copied out of a newspaper. That is plagiarism and copyright infringement and can get you into trouble if caught, so write an article about your feelings and thoughts on the store coming into the area and let people get to know you. Point to the newspaper article as a reference for facts.

WordPress.com is free. You can add a new blog easily, putting all your business images on there in a photoblog style WordPress Theme. Have fun with it, but unless you can directly tie it into the home repair work, keep it separate.

Remember, people will hire you because of you. Let them get to know you, and don’t try to combine hobby with business unless the hobby is your business. Be professional, but most of all be you!