hi P�l, > Have any of you with your own web pages had any success in selling images for stock use > through the web?
My site is a typical example of a non-promoted wepage. Sure, it's listed with Yahoo and the Nature Photo Index, but that doesn't account for much. Statistics say that there are about 5-10 visitors per day, and so far the page has earned me exactly one sale. So just putting it out there has no effect at all. > For those who have experiences with this, have you actively marketed your images > towards potential clients? I haven't. If I should do so, I'm a bit uncertain how to go about it. The problem with referring to a website is that you are not sure they will ever bother to actually browse it. > How much work is it to make your own (well designed) web page for someone who has > never done this sort of thing before? Depending on your scope, there are different solutions. If you just want to set up a simple showroom with a few static pages, I'm sure you can do that fairly easily in a WYSIWYG editor for HTML. However, if you want something more like a webshop or database solution, I think I would have looked for some ready-made stuff. There are many commercial solutions around, and some ISPs even offer them as part of a package when you register a domain name with them or buy web-hotel services. One example of a guy who has done fairly well is http://www.villmarksbilder.com He's working in a camerashop also, but after all, the number of full-time nature photographers in Norway is only a handfull and barely that. Jostein http://oksne.net
