DRM wrote:
Sharing images in any fashion includes risk of theft. Only way to eliminate that risk entirely is to avoid any and all sharing. Obviously, not sharing makes it pretty difficult to sell; potential theft is a risk (or cost) of doing business, therefore.
Hosting sites make it difficult (though likely not impossible) to download or copy images. I am unable to download or copy images from my own website, but then I'm definitely not a techie. One solace is that images on websites are usually at low resolution, not really suited for making prints of any significant size. Personally, I would never deface images with an obtrusive watermark--if someone is interested in purchasing an image I want them to view the best representation of it I can provide.
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It really depends on what you want the pictures used for ...
If you intend for the pictures to be used on the web, you're stuck.. people will take just about any resolution for use on the web.. I actually say a used car dealership posting 400x200 px images of their stock and the owner thought the pictures were excellent.
For high resolution pictures 20Mpixels and up you can use steganography to embed copyright data into the image to provide proof of copyright if you are willing to involve the courts.
Longshadow wrote:
That's the page title. and is quite correct as it is the "Home Page".
The "page title" is for browser display, not what search engines key on!
What needs to be added or changed for search engine indexing is the keyword metadata in the header section:
<meta name="keywords" content="my mind's eye, mind's eye, minds eye, images, photography, harbison, bill harbison, scenic, photo, acadia, landscape, valley forge, jeffersonville, phoenixville, cloyne, Longshadow">
Google search "Bill Harbison photography" and look at the page TITLE of what comes up for my site.....
Nothing to do with the search criteria entered.
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You are partially right. "Home Page" is an ok title, but what is the meta text associated with it? If there is no meta text then "Home Page" becomes part of the SEO page scoring and now you are competing with probably half of all the websites on the internet :-)
Particularly if you want to make money from you website you have to do ALL the underlying HTML work to get the SEO doing the right things with your site.
Longshadow wrote:
Whatever one builds, make sure it looks good on a laptop and a phone!
I've seen many where on my laptop, the banner (header) was the top third of my viewing window; the footer was the bottom third of the viewing window; and the content area was the center third. The banner and footer didn't move, and the content went up and down in a vertically narrow area. Everything in the content area was mostly not visible in its entirety unless the "-" view resize is used. Some i've had to shrink as much as 50% to view an entire image in the content window. Not very appealing to me.
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Looking good across the device spectrum is called building a responsive site. When done with the right tools, by knowledgeable people is a relatively simple thing. However, depending on the template you have chosen, it might entail making multiple versions of each image available .. alternately design for the smallest device and remember that things will move as the device gets bigger.
What you are seeing is the template design. A lot of UI and some UX people find that style appealing because you have all the control information constantly visible, but it does make display photography more difficult. If done right, the image is clickable to a popout and provide a walkthru ability of all the related images.
nitrophil wrote:
Where did you go to start one? Does it cost a lot, mine would be basically just for me and a few close friends to share with.
Cost is based on a lot of factors. Where you host, what platform you use and how much work do you want to do versus how much do you want to farm out.
Hosting: you have your big dedicated farms that only host WordPress sites. your big lockdown sites ( Wix, Weebly, Duda, etc), and finally your all-purpose hosters.
Hosting starts around $3/month+tax ( 3 year commitment) or $10-$30/month+tax ( no commitment ).. additional charges for additional features ( SSL certificates, backups, security assistance etc).
Design will start at free ( pick a photography specific template ) to $$$$$ depending on who you pick and what special features you want included.
Professional build time will be 4-12 weeks depending on the amount of custom work and the number of photos.
And yes, you can build in auto rotation between sets of photographs.
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Some nice work in there.
Is there a reason you didn’t make it a working link by including the “
https://“ at the beginning?
Most modern browsers will automagically apply an
https:// to any string entered in the URL bar. The danger
is that it is misinterpreted to be a search term vs a URL.
The other danger is if you have not set up your website properly or applied an SSL certificate your visitors will get
either an "insecure" instead of the padlock or worse yet get a big page saying "Potential Dangerous Site"