TriggerHappyDude Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Pirated software is illeagal you know. Link to comment
Deleted User 6 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 Yep. But for all those people out there who don't know, now they do. Link to comment
TriggerHappyDude Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I've bounced around between a couple of different pay-to-play type of sites and ended up going with Zenfolio this go around. It is not free, but for $40 a year, I have unlimited space, can pick and choose from a number of different templates, print using Mpix.com, have free backups of all of my photos, etc. You can check out my page here: http://abphotography.zenfolio.com/ and then go to zenfolio.com to check out others. There are a couple of different price ranges. At the $100/yr level, you can set you own prices and there aren't any zenfolio logos on the site. I've been happy with it and it's already paid for itself about 100X over with the business I've gotten from it. Just my two pennies though... This is a cool one...could you use your own domain name for the picture gallery? Link to comment
jeremai Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 smugmug is a good option as well, especially if you plan on selling down the road. Link to comment
Deleted User 6 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 smugmug is a good option as well, especially if you plan on selling down the road. I have a friend that just started using that. It looks smooth - I might try it out. Link to comment
TriggerHappyDude Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 thank god flash intros make me close windows Flash has its purposes...maybe intro's are annoying but some interfaces are well done. Link to comment
latazyo Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 This is a cool one...could you use your own domain name for the picture gallery? you pretty much always can use your domain name for anything if you redirect it you might be able to domain mask the gallery so that it always looks like www.yourname.com Link to comment
divecj5 Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 This is a cool one...could you use your own domain name for the picture gallery? Yeah, you can create your own domain name. Or, as Latazyo said, you could always mask it. Link to comment
TriggerHappyDude Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I'm liking the SmugMug sites, as they allow HD Video for $150 a year... Link to comment
Deleted User 6 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 I'm liking the SmugMug sites, as they allow HD Video for $150 a year... Yeah - I actually like the personalized watermarks. Not sure why those are just for the top pay tier though? Why not middle and top? Oh well. Link to comment
latazyo Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 EM has watermarks too I find this page interesting http://www.exposuremanager.com/compare Link to comment
jeremai Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Maybe it's just Chrome, but I don't trust a site that makes me hit ctrl+a just to be able to read the charts. Link to comment
AquaStud Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 microsoft small business live! Works great, very easy... check out my site at www.young-guns-outfitters.com its really cheap, maybe $40. Link to comment
latazyo Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Maybe it's just Chrome, but I don't trust a site that makes me hit ctrl+a just to be able to read the charts. oh good, so its not just me I thought it was a Safari 4 thing Link to comment
TriggerHappyDude Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 EM has watermarks too I find this page interesting http://www.exposuremanager.com/compare I didn't see any text, until I highlighted the page and it was the same color as the background. I am not sure if I'm missing it but does EM allow HD video? Link to comment
latazyo Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 don't know sorry about the lame comparison page its usually an excellent page, I haven't seen it in a while though Link to comment
n0rk Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Personally I'm a major whore for http://zenphoto.org, but that may because I know a bunch of people who work on developing it, know PHP and really despise Flash... I hear out of the box it's pretty good for a beginner too. E: that'd probably be reliant on having hosting with PHP/MySQL support, so if your host doesn't have that, you can scratch that option. Shame though because it really is a brilliant piece of software. Link to comment
TriggerHappyDude Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Personally I'm a major whore for http://zenphoto.org, but that may because I know a bunch of people who work on developing it, know PHP and really despise Flash... I hear out of the box it's pretty good for a beginner too. E: that'd probably be reliant on having hosting with PHP/MySQL support, so if your host doesn't have that, you can scratch that option. Shame though because it really is a brilliant piece of software. This one seems really cool for someone like me who knows a bit about coding etc...the technology side...nice post. Link to comment
Deleted User 6 Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 This one seems really cool for someone like me who knows a bit about coding etc...the technology side...nice post. DAMMIT. Blocked at work again. I'll check it out later. Do these options have an e-commerce component? With smugmug your customers can just buy whatever they want to buy, use a professional developer, and get their prints by mail. And I can set whatever markup I want to. That's a big plus for me who doesn't have the time to run a full-time side business. Link to comment
TriggerHappyDude Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 DAMMIT. Blocked at work again. I'll check it out later. Do these options have an e-commerce component? With smugmug your customers can just buy whatever they want to buy, use a professional developer, and get their prints by mail. And I can set whatever markup I want to. That's a big plus for me who doesn't have the time to run a full-time side business. Here are the features of the zenpoto.org stufff... FeaturesInternationalization/localization Multi-lingual titles and descriptions Plugin system Slideshow Automatically generated thumbnails, custom crops possible!, and sized-down images Upload via FTP or via the admin interface Move/copy/rename images and albums without loosing any data Upload images, albums (folders) or even zip-archives Comments on images and albums with powerful spam filters AJAX-powered edit-while-you-browse Sub albums; interface for moving/renaming images and albums. Video support for Flash Video (.flv), MPEG4 (.mp4), Quicktime (.mov) and 3GP (.3gp) Audio support for MP3 Password protection for gallery and albums EXIF and IPTC support Watermarks for images Powerful search with boolean expressions Tags: Categorize you images with tags Image and album rating Dynamic albums: Generate albums from searches! Manage custom pages and news section (blog) with the CMS plugin Zenpage Highly customizable theme engine RSS for gallery, albums and comments (Media RSS support for images) Multiple administrative users with varying rights Cruft free, search engine friendly URLs with mod_rewrite Link to comment
TriggerHappyDude Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 I signed up for the FREE 2gb trial on http://www.photoshop.com/express and it seems pretty cool for a place to just organize and edit your photos, maybe not sell... Link to comment
Deleted User 6 Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 I just signed up for smugmug. 50% off coupon: YaHoO Link to comment
Hoosierfan Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 FrontPage 2003............ lol...And of course, now my hosting provider doesn't support frontpage extensions, so I have to upload everything through Filezilla. I tried using Dreamweaver, but I'm too lazy to learn another program. Dreamweaver is SOOO much better than frontpage. However, if you have a decent understanding of HTML, I wouldn't recommend using WYSIWYG editors. The reasoning is that they don't really write HTML. At least not understandable HTML. Make a site and then look at the code, you'll see what I mean. W3 Schools is a great tutorial site that I highly recommend for learning this stuff. Link to comment
gurnie Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 i'm using a free template right now found at http://www.on3galleries.com/ I decided to use this because it's cheap and the code works well with dreamweaver. But for some reason this code tends to de-saturate these photos. here take a look http://www.christinagurnham.com/Kim&Sonny/index.html The photos look a lot better on my system, and are much more saturated. Might have to do with the color profile conversion flash makes. anywho this is something i am trying out. i use to use pictage, and they are way too expensive in my opinion. With this free plug-in, i can accept a paypal order and then i can personally submit an order to the photolab of my choice and not have to be stuck using one photolab. the bride hasn't seen this yet, so i'm not sure how she'll like this ordering system. I need to practice more html, and get it on with my dreamweaver (sigh) Link to comment
andykee Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 i'm using a free template right now found at http://www.on3galleries.com/ I decided to use this because it's cheap and the code works well with dreamweaver. But for some reason this code tends to de-saturate these photos. here take a look http://www.christinagurnham.com/Kim&Sonny/index.html The photos look a lot better on my system, and are much more saturated. Might have to do with the color profile conversion flash makes. anywho this is something i am trying out. i use to use pictage, and they are way too expensive in my opinion. With this free plug-in, i can accept a paypal order and then i can personally submit an order to the photolab of my choice and not have to be stuck using one photolab. the bride hasn't seen this yet, so i'm not sure how she'll like this ordering system. I need to practice more html, and get it on with my dreamweaver (sigh) it's not the code. your browser probably just isn't color managed. only safari comes color managed out of the box. firefox is capable, but the feature comes disabled by default. Link to comment
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