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Website software

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Posted by Dave Gill on June 28, 2007 at 7:18 PM
Is there a software product that you like for building a website to display and sell nature photographs? I'm long over due in setting up a website.

Posted by James H Egbert on June 29, 2007 at 12:03 AM
I used FrontPage 2003.
Posted by Liz Masoner on June 29, 2007 at 8:41 AM
JAlbum produces really professional looking albums for online viewing quickly. It even pulls in EXIF data if you want and will do automatic watermarks.

http://jalbum.net/
Posted by Sharon Menke on June 29, 2007 at 11:44 AM
I do the same thing as Barbara. I set up my website with GoDaddy.com. As a matter of fact, they are having a sale right now. I have a couple of my photos on my website [due to small space], then have a link to my portfolio at PhotoPortfolios.net. That has worked out fine, so far. :wavey:
Posted by Danny on June 30, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Aww, sorry folks but I don't like those ads on godaddy.com. I use them for domain names only.

I use Namo web editor, but there are plenty more out there. Mind you, I have no interest in selling though.

Danny.
Posted by Harley Goldman on July 26, 2007 at 6:51 PM
I used Web Studio 4.0. It took about an hour of reading through the manual and I was under way. It was quite easy. If you go that route, feel free to email me and I will give you a few tips to make it quicker and easier. Web Studio offers a free 30 day trial and you can download the manual.
Posted by Dave Gill on July 26, 2007 at 8:12 PM
Thanks! I'll look into each.

Dave
Posted by Walter Rowe on July 26, 2007 at 8:47 PM
Do you want to conduct commerce through your site (i.e. accept orders and receive payments) or do you simply want to display your work for marketing purposes? There are some excellent places for displaying your work such as Zenfolio. If you want to accept orders and receive payments, you can look at SmugMug and a few others similar to it. The other options are to create your own from scratch, pay a web site designer to build it for you, to look for a free template on the Internet and customize it, or to pay for a template and customize it.

I built my own site and used Coppermine for my gallery. I did a little PHP work to allow Coppermine to accept orders and payments through PayPal. My modifications are available for free on my web site.