Creating a website
Sep 8, 2011 15:57:46 #
Hi Ronny,
My site, currently, is merely a reinforcement to my word of mouth clients. I admit I get most of my clients from current or previous clients and I have all that I can manage with my available time. I focus on 'children at play' during the summers, plus a few weddings, and then Fall and Spring are spent on local theatre productions. Business has expanded each year over the past 5 to as much as I can manage. My website was created as a "testament" to possibilities and experience to share with others. I'm not using my website to solicit business so much as to provide access to examples.
75 years old and still going... I applaud your energy and goal to remain creative! Good for you.
My site, currently, is merely a reinforcement to my word of mouth clients. I admit I get most of my clients from current or previous clients and I have all that I can manage with my available time. I focus on 'children at play' during the summers, plus a few weddings, and then Fall and Spring are spent on local theatre productions. Business has expanded each year over the past 5 to as much as I can manage. My website was created as a "testament" to possibilities and experience to share with others. I'm not using my website to solicit business so much as to provide access to examples.
75 years old and still going... I applaud your energy and goal to remain creative! Good for you.
Sep 8, 2011 16:04:45 #
mirobins wrote:
I am thinking of creating a website for my photos. I'd be interested in hearing from those of you who have websites whether you paid to have one created or whether you tried one of the free products you can find on the internet. Other thoughts welcome.
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/joso111/sets/72157626531629475/ $25 dollars for the year for flickr, then you can use flickriver as a slide show presentation.
Sep 8, 2011 19:18:04 #
I also have a website question. I recently started a photography club here at the vets home. It took about 3 months to get 5 members but in the last 2 months it has grown to about 20 with 1 or 2 more coming every week. I want to set up a website for us so we can share photos with others on the campus (there are about 1000), family, and friends. I'd like to give each member a space to show their photos in. Also space to list info, and send emails. A small yearly fee would be acceptable. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Sep 9, 2011 04:18:55 #
Hi!
I would like to have a website but know nothing about them. I am starting a business and would like to spend as little as possible, BUT I still want to be found on the internet. What words would I need to use and who do you recommend. I will spend some money on this but I don't know where to start or what to ask. Hope you can help me out.
Ruth
I would like to have a website but know nothing about them. I am starting a business and would like to spend as little as possible, BUT I still want to be found on the internet. What words would I need to use and who do you recommend. I will spend some money on this but I don't know where to start or what to ask. Hope you can help me out.
Ruth
Sep 9, 2011 07:08:37 #
Ruth, I would look at SmugMug. They have several options to offer you. They have tools to help you design your own website too.
Sep 9, 2011 10:16:07 #
I'm a web developer and programming teacher. I wanted a good way to index my images in a particular way that I could modify until I got it to a way that really worked for me. So, I wrote my own PHP program and have an off-web app that
a. takes a list of images of any length,
b. splits them into 20/web page in 5 rows of 4 each,
c. figures out whether a particular image is portrait or landscape,
d. extracts some information from the EXIF metadata,
e. puts that text below the corresponding image,
f. spits out the page(s) into separate web page files.
All the pages created from the same list have the same name with a,b,c,d,e,f,etc. appended just before the period separateing the file name from the file extension.
I mention all these because you might want to evaluate open source or commercial software in the context of what I decided I wanted.
It takes a longish time to create the pages (the last group I created indexed more than 1200 images), but finally I have something that looks the way I want.
drjuice
a. takes a list of images of any length,
b. splits them into 20/web page in 5 rows of 4 each,
c. figures out whether a particular image is portrait or landscape,
d. extracts some information from the EXIF metadata,
e. puts that text below the corresponding image,
f. spits out the page(s) into separate web page files.
All the pages created from the same list have the same name with a,b,c,d,e,f,etc. appended just before the period separateing the file name from the file extension.
I mention all these because you might want to evaluate open source or commercial software in the context of what I decided I wanted.
It takes a longish time to create the pages (the last group I created indexed more than 1200 images), but finally I have something that looks the way I want.
drjuice
Sep 9, 2011 11:03:25 #
Sep 9, 2011 11:31:58 #
A couple more thoughts about your website:
1. Take a look at the Cambridgeincolour.com website. Two things really impress me about the site:
a. The way each gallery photo is visually and physically separated so that you're looking at a series of little jewels, not some monstrously large images, i.e., make thumbnails of the appropriate size and link them to larger, but not full-sized images (remember, you may want to do something else with the full-sized images to make money).
b. Part of the reasons that (a) above happens is because he has the full black background with the dark gray middleground (#3E3E3E) which both frames each individual image without distracting from any of them.
2. Be sure to rotate the images so up is at the top. You'd be amazed at the number of sites I've evaluated where you have to tilt to look at portrait-oriented images. If you're starting from RAW, most apps will automagically detect the orientation of each image and rotate it when the conversion from RAW to TIFF or whatever takes place.
drjuice
1. Take a look at the Cambridgeincolour.com website. Two things really impress me about the site:
a. The way each gallery photo is visually and physically separated so that you're looking at a series of little jewels, not some monstrously large images, i.e., make thumbnails of the appropriate size and link them to larger, but not full-sized images (remember, you may want to do something else with the full-sized images to make money).
b. Part of the reasons that (a) above happens is because he has the full black background with the dark gray middleground (#3E3E3E) which both frames each individual image without distracting from any of them.
2. Be sure to rotate the images so up is at the top. You'd be amazed at the number of sites I've evaluated where you have to tilt to look at portrait-oriented images. If you're starting from RAW, most apps will automagically detect the orientation of each image and rotate it when the conversion from RAW to TIFF or whatever takes place.
drjuice
Sep 9, 2011 14:06:37 #
Sep 9, 2011 17:51:28 #
I'm sure some will jump in and hammer me, LOL, but I use GoDaddy. I have never had a problem with it and it was easy to use since I know nothing about nor do I want to learn web designing.
See for yourself if it is something you could use.
www.towerphography.info
See for yourself if it is something you could use.
www.towerphography.info
Sep 9, 2011 18:38:26 #
When I tried to open www.towerphography.info I got the message of non-existance.
I have 5 domains registered with godaddy and they are all hosted by www.hostgator.com because of the new website procedures in wordpress.
I have 5 domains registered with godaddy and they are all hosted by www.hostgator.com because of the new website procedures in wordpress.
Sep 9, 2011 19:14:05 #
Ronny wrote:
When I tried to open www.towerphography.info I got the message of non-existance.
I have 5 domains registered with godaddy and they are all hosted by www.hostgator.com because of the new website procedures in wordpress.
I have 5 domains registered with godaddy and they are all hosted by www.hostgator.com because of the new website procedures in wordpress.
Maybe because one of us typed it wrong?
www.towerphotography.info
Sep 9, 2011 19:15:50 #
lindysuewho wrote:
I'm sure some will jump in and hammer me, LOL, but I use GoDaddy. I have never had a problem with it and it was easy to use since I know nothing about nor do I want to learn web designing.
See for yourself if it is something you could use.
www.towerphography.info
See for yourself if it is something you could use.
www.towerphography.info
sorry...
www.towerphotography.info (sheesh all thumbs)
Sep 10, 2011 06:27:24 #
Kathi wrote:
Hi. There are lots of options... I use www.vistaprint.com and pay about $18/month. I am totally NOT tech-brained, and I was able to create mine pretty easily, and it was fun! Feel free to take a peek at mine and see if it matches what you're aiming to do. The "Portfolio Images" page is the one that will most likely be what will interest you. www.candidsbykathi.com
Kathi do you know if it scores on SEO or not? I checked out your site and absolutely loved it. Your work is terrific. I was surprised to see you are from Allentown, PA. I lived in Bethlehem PA right at the Allentown line during my jr. and senior high school years and loved it there. My husband and I have gone back to PA a couple of times to shoot the Amish farmland in Lancaster County, oh so beautiful there especially where my passion is in barns.
Sep 10, 2011 07:31:18 #
Hi, KathyinNH. Glad you liked my pics, and thanks for checking out my site! I don't know if it does what you're asking. You could check the host (vistaprint) and click on the "contact us" tab with your question. I've found them to be very responsive and helpful!
Lancaster area is a beautiful place to find photographic opportunities, that's for sure!
Lancaster area is a beautiful place to find photographic opportunities, that's for sure!
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