TommiRulz wrote:
That's interesting - because I tried Smug Mug and found it very difficult and absolutely NO customer service! So I tried just using the Pro Gallery at Shutterfly and that is kinda working for me. But I am still looking for a good photography sale sites. I'll be watching this post too
Not sure how you managed to have a bad experience with SmugMug. They are dedicated to photographers. Their services are excellent and the support is outstanding. I get an immediate response from a "hero" at SmugMug when I have a question or need help. I'd recommend them to anyone. Many professionals use SmugMug. Check it out for yourself... 👍😎👍
While I know many photographers use Squarespace, I found that getting started was not easy. So instead I tried Adobe Portfolio, which is FREE with the Creative Cloud subscription. It is extremely easy to use, and the templates are designed to showcase photography. Easy and free (with CC subscription). Can't beat it.
Hi, I've tried most of the ways to create a website. The first was with 1&1 in the late 90's using their builder. Once I got serious I started looking around, took a couple $10 classes on Udemy, also looked at some free ones. Finally looked on YouTube, search for wordpress photography and you'll find many with full instruction. Wordpress is one of the best out there and you can't beat the price, $0. It also gives you the best blogging that I know of...give it another try with YouTube as your coach and I think you'll be happy. I currently use Divi with my Wordpress sites and find I can make my site just the way I want. I've even built sites for others, mostly racers, and it keeps me up to date. So far I've built 37. I'm 72 years old and no computer geek, just wanted a certain look for my site and was able to get it.
For building your own website, check out Site Origin. It's a free Wordpress builder with lots of videos. Here's a link to a video about one of their solutions, from there you can find more,
https://siteorigin.com/one-page-websites-page-builder/?autoplay=1 , copy and paste from "https to ?autoplaty=1" and you can decide. No matter which way you go, I've found more free stuff for wordpress on YouTube than any other builder. Good Luck
Scott Rosenthal wrote:
Too many choices and no clear-cut answers.
--Scott
Definitely! Your chart shows photo-hosting sites, which are more expensive than plain web hosting for someone building their own site. Unfortunately, the web hosting prices rise dramatically over time.
dannac
Loc: 60 miles SW of New Orleans
TommiRulz wrote:
That's interesting - because I tried Smug Mug and found it very difficult and absolutely NO customer service!
Surprised by the customer service part ... there was live chat during the week, and emails were answered over the weekend.
This was in 2014.
Check out Zenfolio. Not that expensive, sell your pics, good customer support. Good luck
capturedbywinograsky wrote:
I am desperately seeking any advice / guidance on programs to develop a photography website … I am looking to create a website on which I can display, blog and market my photography. Looking for something user-friendly and inexpensive, if such a thing exists. My husband is encouraging me to use WordPress, which has been a nightmare thus far, as I don’t feel it is geared towards photographers, nor is it user friendly for ME (my eyes glaze over when it comes to all the background functions, plug-ins, etc)… I have heard rumors that SquareSpace is a decent program … I would like to develop a site in THIS lifetime, and not end up in divorce over the process. Any suggestions on a program would be greatly appreciated … ease of use and cost are key. Thank you!
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If you find one, let me know. Been searching myself. There's a lot out there but useless tutorials on how to use them. If you have the adobe cloud; it includes two programs that are for that and some support ones to go along. Dreamweaver is the big one that uses html code but you practically need a degree to use it. Muse is simpler to use and more limited but for both the tutorials are old so they don't match the present ones and they all assume you know web building software from somewhere else. It's ridiculous, especially when using ones you pay for.
Bozsik
Loc: Orangevale, California
capturedbywinograsky wrote:
I am desperately seeking any advice / guidance on programs to develop a photography website … I am looking to create a website on which I can display, blog and market my photography. Looking for something user-friendly and inexpensive, if such a thing exists. My husband is encouraging me to use WordPress, which has been a nightmare thus far, as I don’t feel it is geared towards photographers, nor is it user friendly for ME (my eyes glaze over when it comes to all the background functions, plug-ins, etc)… I have heard rumors that SquareSpace is a decent program … I would like to develop a site in THIS lifetime, and not end up in divorce over the process. Any suggestions on a program would be greatly appreciated … ease of use and cost are key. Thank you!
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WIX.com has all the tools you need. Many template you can configure yourself. I just have the basic plan, but you can pay for more features. My site is
www.naturescamera.com. It has a blog feature(which I use), as well as many other things I don't use.
magpix wrote:
While I know many photographers use Squarespace, I found that getting started was not easy. So instead I tried Adobe Portfolio, which is FREE with the Creative Cloud subscription. It is extremely easy to use, and the templates are designed to showcase photography. Easy and free (with CC subscription). Can't beat it.
I was looking at the Adobe Portfolio system last week. I was impressed. A surprise was that I get it with the $10 per month CC plan.
bkyser
Loc: Fly over country in Indiana
Don't give up on wordpress. Download a plugin called "tinymce advanced" (I think that's it. it's really close, anyway)
You can find plenty of youtube videos on it. It actually makes the wordpress into a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) website editor.
I'm probably the least computer savvy person there is, but I found that when doing the tinymce plugin, everything just came together. I only have one issue, and that's with my gallery showing everything the same size. I've downloaded several gallery plugins, and I think I'm getting the galleries mixed and matched up and messing it all up. Going to be working on deleting the whole gallery section, and starting over.
Not that mine is anything special, but it certainly was easy. (for a super novice)
DWU2
Loc: Phoenix Arizona area
bsprague wrote:
I was looking at the Adobe Portfolio system last week. I was impressed. A surprise was that I get it with the $10 per month CC plan.
Is there any way to
sell photos via Adobe Portfolio? Does it track visitors?
SMUGMUG .com
Like you 5 years ago I was looks to build a web site. I ONE FOR $500. and $200. and $50. a month and got F... Then meet a web site builder by email her price was $1,000 she seen I couldn't go it then told me about smugmug best $40. a year I ever spent. I can display my work, sell, and just talk about ?. And they put you on search engines to help you get google's first page (me
www.bbnpb.com and the first domains name I used
www.snapshots2010.com what you need to start with.
1.domain name from godaddy keep it short and sweet. Like bbnpb.com is BillyBobNoveltyPHOTOIibooth.com I have 7 domain names go to
www.bbnpb.com Domain names and KEY words help you in search's and what your all about.
2.Smugmug.com
3. Put your domain name on every FREE search engine you can find on google.
All this cost me about $55. and time doing it.
It worked for me just make it a fun thing.
O I find out the way to get your site to come up like mine dose is the
www. in front of your domain name. Don't think this works over night it takes months.
Your web hosting is smugmug. Also your email should be info@ your domain.
And try to get .com
I've been slowly building my site (
http://mynebraskakitchen.com) with WordPress, but writing custom pages with WordPress can get complicated, especially if you want features not generally available or aren't satisfied with the standard templates. (It also helps if you have good artistic skills and sense, which I admit I do not, I tell people if it wasn't for click-drag I couldn't draw a straight line!)
I think Wordpress-hosted sites are more cut-and-dried because they limit what templates and plug-ins you can use. You can put up a blog quickly, select a few options and, voila, you've got a blog site. Of course it'll look similar structurally to 1000 other blog sites.
I expect to spend more time upgrading my site after I retire next month. I hope to spend a lot more time out taking photos as well.
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