Can somebody please recommend a good website builder. which protects my photos and where i can promote my photos as well.
I'm afraid of just choosing any website builder as it may not protect my photos from being stolen or being corrupted.
I built mine with Wix (free) and have my 'watermark' on my images. Im running on a mac and it seems as though i cant drag and drop and image to save it. Im sure there are better sites out there though, but I went with what I could afford for the time being.
There's no website that can protect your photos from being stolen. If I have the ability to view your photo, I have the ability to save that photo to my hard drive. Even if you're able to put some control in place to prevent me from directly saving it, most of those controls can easily be bypassed and I can always just use print screen to grab the image.
@shortperson2002 Thanks Caren, actually i checked that Wix.com but it doesn't open maybe their under maintenance or I'm having problem with my location. i will check that back next time.
Haha, well as @azza_l says I am a website builder, but I don't do what you're looking for :)
First thing though: you *cannot* "protect" your images, so don't bother looking for that, because it doesn't exist. If the file is on the web, the file is on the web, and until we have end-to-end HDCP-style encryption (which I hope we never do) on the web, there's no technical way to prevent anyone copying anything you put on it, other than sticking dirty great watermarks all over it, which defeats the point of putting them up in the first place.
I'll have to cast another vote for Wix though, they're usable, at least. If you have any technical knowledge at all you could host your own with Wordpress or something. Also depends exactly what image you're aiming to convey to visitors.
I'm going to be building my own "professional" site this fall once I get through my web design I class :) I hope... @eyebrows what do you think of using wordpress with Go Daddy?
Don't know anything about Go Daddy in terms of hosting, but in my experience the large/cheap hosts tend to be pretty bad in terms of support if you do need help with anything, @terek55 . Smaller hosts can be good if you get lucky, but I don't know any US-based ones to recommend, only the guy I use over here - vidahost (link has my affiliate reference in it). Shouldn't make much of a difference where a site is physically hosted, mind, just add half a second to the load time or something - try hitting a few pages on my site, see what you think of the speed.
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First thing though: you *cannot* "protect" your images, so don't bother looking for that, because it doesn't exist. If the file is on the web, the file is on the web, and until we have end-to-end HDCP-style encryption (which I hope we never do) on the web, there's no technical way to prevent anyone copying anything you put on it, other than sticking dirty great watermarks all over it, which defeats the point of putting them up in the first place.
I'll have to cast another vote for Wix though, they're usable, at least. If you have any technical knowledge at all you could host your own with Wordpress or something. Also depends exactly what image you're aiming to convey to visitors.
@eyebrows what do you think of using wordpress with Go Daddy?