Hi all, I currently have my photos featured on an iPage website. I'm not happy with the limited functionality and template layouts they give you to work with. It's not really geared towards showcasing photography. I'm looking for recommendations you can provide on experience you've had with elegant layouts, easily editable and relatively inexpensive costing websites. I've looked into livebooks, qufoto and clickbooq so far. Livebooks is more than I'd like to spend per month. Qufoto is the most attractive to me at this point (for a variety of reasons, but one being the month to month plan) - can any of you offer reviews of using them to host your work?
My ideal website would be a mix of the following: space for large images to (almost) fill the page, simple, streamlined layouts, easy to customize, responsive customer service and effective search engine optimization.
I appreciate any and all advice you can offer!
Thanks in advance,
Naomi
I have a blog with Google's blogspot.com. I like that it has so many customizable features and such a user friendly interface, and the photo uploader is like a dream. It shows the photos at about 3 and a half inches wide within the blog posts, but you can click on any pic to view it full-screen.
However, I would recommend Wordpress. If you use Wordpress.com, which is free, you have several themes to choose from, you can customize a pretty good deal, and it's very easy to showcase your photos. Of course, showcasing your photos in this manner is more like writing stories with photos rather than just galleries, but I still recommend it. I use Wordpress.org which costs me $35 a month, which I think is the best plan, at http://blog.jasonbarnettephotography.com
If all else fails, Flickr and Facebook Pages are good ways to get your photography out there as well.
I strongly recommend against Wix. Although it has a free option, it is completely Flash-based which means Google searches will never find your photos.
I have one through smugmug... feel free to check out my site and see if its something you're interested in. I'm just starting out, and haven't had any experience with other places / host sites, so I can't offer any comparisons. I am quite happy with them though, and cost is pretty good.
I use http://www.photobiz.com/ They have website templates and many other helps geared towards photographers. After the initial set up cost it's about $15 a month. They are very helpful and it's an affordable way to go.
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However, I would recommend Wordpress. If you use Wordpress.com, which is free, you have several themes to choose from, you can customize a pretty good deal, and it's very easy to showcase your photos. Of course, showcasing your photos in this manner is more like writing stories with photos rather than just galleries, but I still recommend it. I use Wordpress.org which costs me $35 a month, which I think is the best plan, at http://blog.jasonbarnettephotography.com
If all else fails, Flickr and Facebook Pages are good ways to get your photography out there as well.
I strongly recommend against Wix. Although it has a free option, it is completely Flash-based which means Google searches will never find your photos.
That's what I use on the "Gallery" page of my site - http://www.manek.org.uk/gallery :)
http://www.sacred-snapshots.com/
http://www.zenfolio.com
pricing is from $25 per year for basic account .
,and costumer service is awesome and usually very fast to respond.
cheers
http://www.stkimage.com
http://davecarter.smugmug.com
it's free.. ^__^
http://bandbphotography.zenfolio.com/