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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / General Topics / November 2007Website design for Photography Business
I would like to apologize in advance if this turns out to be a duplicate post by me. I tried to post my questions in another post, but it never appeared, so I am not sure if things were running slow or if something was out of whack when I attempted to post the original. So...getting to the point...I am attempting to create a website for my photography business. I want something that looks professional, yet I have little to no experience in web design. I have considered purchasing one of the flash design templates and was wondering if anyone had any experience with this approach? If so do you reccomend this option for having a quality professional looking website? If not can you recommend some alternatives? Also, I would like for my clients to be able to review the proofs from their session via a secure link on the website. What I am wanting is to be able to send my client a password and a link to my site where they can log in and review proofs, select quanities and sizes, and place orders. Does anyone know of a software/freeware that I can get to be able to offer this to my clients? If I need to clarify anything or need to provide more information please let me know. Thanks, Jeremy > I would like to apologize in advance if this turns out to be a > duplicate post by me. I tried to post my questions in another post, [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Thanks, > Jeremy IMHO - if you want a 'quality professional looking website' then hire a professional. I'm sure you can cobble something together, it may even look passable. But there is more to creating a web site than simply hooking pieces together. You may be able to create a web site, but you probably still know very little about web site design (design and implementation are two different subjects). If you want a fairly simple site it should not be very costly - web designers/creators get around $50 an hour and it should not take a great deal of time for a pro to do one. I would also try to find a professional who will provide a w3c validated site. This is generally not much of an issue for desktop users, but can be very important if you want your site to view properly on the new generation of low powered handheld devices. You can visit mine to have a look. I am getting a bit of sale going on http://www.roentarre.com > You can visit mine to have a look. > > I am getting a bit of sale going on > > http://www.roentarre.com Not bad. I don't care for your people shots, but the others are quite nice. I wouldn't put the people tab as he default, as a result. Also, your "thumbnails 1-13 of xx" never updates.  Signature- Burt Johnson MindStorm, Inc. http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html > You can visit mine to have a look. > > I am getting a bit of sale going on > > http://www.roentarre.com I called my wife over to see your nature shots, and she was oohing and awing so much I had to email her the link so she could do it on her own computer. She then stayed up a couple hours past her normal bedtime examing all your shots and saying "Wow! That's the kind of photo I want to take!" I think that means she likes your photos. :-) Signature- Burt Johnson MindStorm, Inc. http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html > I would like to apologize in advance if this turns out to be a > duplicate post by me. I tried to post my questions in another post, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > photography business. I want something that looks professional, yet I > have little to no experience in web design. I'd suggest that if you want a site that makes money, either spend a year or so learning to design sites in your spare time or go with a pro. Using Frontpage or Dreamweaver, etc. will not turn out well! > I have considered > purchasing one of the flash design templates and was wondering if > anyone had any experience with this approach? If so do you reccomend > this option for having a quality professional looking website? If not > can you recommend some alternatives? Please, whatever you do, do _not_ rely on flash as the main page layout. Use CSS and (X)HTML or get your web designer to if you're not making it yourself. There are a lot of reasons why but I wont list them here - search google to find out more. > Also, I would like for my clients to be able to review the proofs from > their session via a secure link on the website. What I am wanting is > to be able to send my client a password and a link to my site where > they can log in and review proofs, select quanities and sizes, and > place orders. Does anyone know of a software/freeware that I can get > to be able to offer this to my clients? Yup - it's called a '.htaccess' file - it's used to configure the Apache web server you'll probably be using. It can be set to control access to a directory or files using a username and password > If I need to clarify anything or need to provide more information > please let me know. > > Thanks, > Jeremy If you're interested in learning to do it yourself there are numerous HTML related groups that are (mostly) happy to give advise, just watch the many trolls there. A good place to start with web design is the w3schools (www.w3schools.com). - -- Brendan Gillatt brendan {at} brendangillatt {dot} co {dot} uk http://www.brendangillatt.co.uk PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBACD7433 > I would like to apologize in advance if this turns out to be a > duplicate post by me. I tried to post my questions in another post, [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Thanks, > Jeremy BTW - if you're bound and determined to do this yourself, I highly recommend "Web Design for Dummies" and "Integrated HTML and CSS". They can help you make a 'professional looking' website. On Nov 13, 5:23 pm, "jupri...@gmail.com" <jupri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to apologize in advance if this turns out to be a > duplicate post by me. I tried to post my questions in another post, [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Thanks, > Jeremy Jeremy, I use a combination of my own business portfolio site and PhotoReflect for secure login, view and purchase of prints. My site http://CaptureThisPhoto.com links to my online store at PhotoReflect.com. As a web developer, I designed and developed CapthreThisPhoto. If you are interested in a modified version of this site, please let me know. But I did not want to spend a lot of time on the rest, customer login, albums, shopping cart, credit card processing, etc... and I found PhotoReflect to be very reasonable. PhotoReflect charges a total of 18% of the sale for hosting, bandwidth, and Credit Card processing. Also provided is a tool DigitalDarkroom to manage the online store, accounts, settings, albums, pictures, etc... DigitalDarkroom communicates with Labtricity enabled labs, so you can transfer images to the labs electronically, order the prints and have them shipped to you or direct to your client. These labs are all across the US. I am open to critiques and suggestions to improve my site if you take a look. Jim > On Nov 13, 5:23 pm, "jupri...@gmail.com" <jupri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I would like to apologize in advance if this turns out to be a [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > > Jim I'd suggest you look at w3c.org validation if you're interested in having folks view it properly on handheld devices - it's not even close. > > On Nov 13, 5:23 pm, "jupri...@gmail.com" <jupri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would like to apologize in advance if this turns out to be a [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Ray, Jeremy, the OP, never mentioned that he wanted to show or sell his photographs via a small hand held device. Thanks for checking, but for showing photographs or enabling clients to ordering photographs online via a small hand held device is the least of my concerns. Althought the site views quite nicely in many browsers, the regular web documents validation showed showed quite a few issues and just for fun I may just fix them. Jim, When people order photos off your site, do you have to then order the photos and ship them, or does the site automatically print, and ship the pix and they get their cut? Is there a charge to belong, it says free and unlimited storage, but I did not see any other fee structure besides the 18%... It also says unlimited storage... do you find this is a good way to set up a gallery site to sell your pix?? is it simple and effective... looks very good, but I am in Canada, so I wonder how it would be for us canucks... tnx kk kevin k > I use a combination of my own business portfolio site and PhotoReflect > for secure login, view and purchase of prints. My site [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Jim You've had lots of good advice on the two postings, I can only echo what some of the others have said... make sure any web site is valid HTML & CSS and section 508 compliant, also research your hosting arrangements to avoid paying too much for bandwidth. Finally, make sure you consider search engine optimisation (SEO); after all there's little point in having a web site that won't get indexed. All of your requirements are easy to achieve; but (IMHO) you should avoid Flash. Rich http://richheadhosts.com I might be better off if you join the fora in these photo selling websites, finding out the best sellers' ways of capturing photographs. Sometimes, market demand can be important. cheers http://www.roentarre.com You've had lots of good advice on the two postings, I can only echo what some of the others have said... make sure any web site is valid HTML & CSS and section 508 compliant, also research your hosting arrangements to avoid paying too much for bandwidth. Finally, make sure you consider search engine optimisation (SEO); after all there's little point in having a web site that won't get indexed. All of your requirements are easy to achieve; but (IMHO) you should avoid Flash. Rich http://richheadhosts.com I think you should need some photo editing softwares. I hope ZC Dream Photo Editor and artword editor can help you. I use these tools to create a good-looking website that is so attractive. You can get these trial versions on Http://www.zcstar.com |
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