Identify the theme of your slideshow and brainstorm some images you might like to include. Silly-looking animals, attractive women, food...think of the best photos for your vision!
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Set up an account with Getty Images or another stock-photo service and find and purchase the images you would like to use for your slideshow.
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Write informative captions for each image using Microsoft Word or another text-editing program.
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Make sure the words in these captions are spelled correctly and logically correspond to each of your slideshow images!
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Start a website. Purchase and register an appropriate domain name such as theonion.com or myslideshowpage.com.
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Let your website develop for anywhere from one to three years to get a solid following. Make content that people like and enjoy in order to get them primed for your slideshow.
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Using PHP, Perl, or another dynamic programming language, build a script that will allow you to input and organize slideshow images through your website’s content management system. Also, build a content management system.
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Upload your completed slideshow onto your site. If you don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account, STOP HERE and set those up first. Then upload your slideshow onto your site and promote it using those social media tools.
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Also, hire a social media analyst capable of using web metrics to identify and incorporate those search engine–friendly words and phrases that will draw the most traffic to your slideshow.
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Congratulations! You’ve just created your own slideshow. It will get exactly 15,567 page views.