lorvey Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska

You may want to take a look at Zenfolio.com. I am surprised that no one has mentioned it yet. I set up my web site ( http://www.photosbylorvey.com/) over a month ago as a result of recommendations from many UHH members. I registered the domain name with GoDaddy and Zenfolio is hosting the website.

Zenfolio has several pricing plans and many more features than I am using. I found the set up to be very user-friendly and flexible. Just wanted to mention it.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

www.redstick-images.com
I've been with Smugmug about 3 months now, very satisfied at this point. Took a while to put everything together for the site but it flowed pretty good. Thing that impressed me was their marketing, now on 3 of the major search engines. Have had a lot of good feedback and comments etc. They are set up really good with support, I have heard of some sites that sort of drop you after you get published and are of no help.

I have had good luck so far. can't say Smugmug was the main reason but the site layout sure helped me. I had taken my portofolio by a physicians offfice on request one day and to get his business I discounted the picture he wanted. When Fed Ex delivered it to me I went to his office and he told me that he had purchased 7 more. They had gone to my site and ordered the additional 7 that day before I made delivery. I didn't know it at the time but he was moving his office into a new hospital they have just opened here. He will have one wing and 6 other Doctors with him and he wanted one for each of their personal offices. He is to set up a meeting with the hospital Admin in about 2 weeks for me so hopefully that will work out.
I had to give up 50.00 to get the first business but it sure has paid off. The Doctor told me not to discount anything else because it was all in the budget for the new hospital.

I have a neice over in a suburb of Houston that has been a photographer for about 4 years and I talked her into starting with the free account that Smugmug offers. She isn't so much into sales as she is into sharing but she is happy. The help section at Smugmug was a great help to her she said.

russelray Loc: La Mesa CA

I tried SmugMug for a year. $150 down the drain.

For what you want, I would simply recommend using FineArtAmerica.com.

brokeweb Loc: Philadelphia

Biting my tounge.

GEEJAY Loc: witness protection

having a web site is not to hard to achieve.Marketing the site is what needs to be done.I have a web site for 12 years.In 2006 I started marketing it.I have ten million page views since 2006.

Jer Loc: Mesa, Arizona

So I take it you were able to sell you work at FireArtAmerica . I haven't had a chance to look at the site outside of their opening page but the first 90 days are free. How much do you get for selling a photo?

Aagaard Loc: Sahuarita, AZ

I thought you were moving back to Canada. Are you staying in Texas?

MWAC Loc: Somewhere East Of Crazy

We are in between. Hubby will be traveling back and forth for 6 to 8 months. The kids and I will move up over Christmas break, it will make filing taxes a little easier as he will continue to be paid by the US branch of the company and we will still have a US address as our primary residence.

Keithmphoto Loc: Seattle area

I have been using "Livebooks" for about 3 years now. I can't say enough good things. Just a bit more per month, but a big step up in looking professional. I can change the site to benefit the client I am seeing tomorrow. Lots of choices for design and color.

Aagaard Loc: Sahuarita, AZ

I have been using webmasters.com for my hosting service for the last 10 years or so. They have been very helpful. It costs me $9.95 a month, and that includes a free domain name registration.

I use that hosting service because I do not sell photos on-line, although I suppose I could. I started with them back when I had my advertising agency.

I now have two additional "Add-On" websites on the same account. There is no charge for these.

I kept my original business account for my business web site (http://www.baagaard.com) only because I wanted to maintain my email addresses (I have unlimited pop3 mailboxes available).

One of the add-on websites, http://www.pcqc.org, is for our photography club. We currently have 178 pages on-line and about 195 photos.

The other site, http://www.qcgunclub.org, is much smaller.

With all of these web sites and albums, I am still at only about 5% of the total storage I get with Webmasters.com.

I use Xara Web Designer MX Premium for the design and construction of the web sites. It is extremely easy to use and extremely powerful. It's also relatively inexpensive. The regular version is $50 and the premium version is $100.

russelray Loc: La Mesa CA

Totally up to you. That's what's nice is that you set whatever price you want.

The first 90 days are free but I don't think you get access to all the cool stuff they offer to help you sell whatever you want to sell.

Scoutman Loc: Orlando, FL

Try a "SmugMug" search here for more info, if you haven't already. Several Uglies use it. I have for several months and do not feel it was a waste of money. It appears that some folks have more than one.

SmugMug has a pricing scheme I have not used, but it appears it would be very easy to employ.

digiman Loc: Brooklyn, NY/Greenville, SC

I went with Vistaprint where you have a choice of templates and other features. I'm building my site and will never be finished because it will always be updated. I enjoy the aspect of building it because you can set it up the way you want it. Vistaprint is very user friendly, they host and they provide s.e.o. and analytical data. I have been up and running the day that I went with them and that has been about five months ago. The total cost monthly is $27. I'm extremely happy.

Here is my site so you can see what it looks like, let me know what you think. sephotography.vpweb.com

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

Looks good girl!

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

As I said earlier I have no complaints with Smugmug they have met all my requirements. But I think one cannot expect their one web site to bring any decent money. I am on photo500px.com also just for the exposure, trying to get peoples interest in my Smugmug site redstick-images.com. Bay printing handles all printing, framing and distribution for me. The Smugmug site is all inclusive, one thing that impressed me was that the buyer has the chance of seeing their pic in the frame including the matting of their choice. Your domain name is yours, anywhere you go on the net it's yours to use. If you decide to sell it you can do that as well.