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Photography Website - Where do I start?

epicwelshman

epicwelshman

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Hey all,

I'm an occasional freelance photographer, and it's got to the point where I need a professional-looking website - photo galleries, bio, contact, etc.

I don't like flash, but I may not be able to help using it, and for better or worse it does display photos in a very pretty way.

I looked at Template Monster and the prices seem reasonable, and some of the templates are pretty snazzy, but how easy are they to customize? I'll need to edit text, logos, add in my own photos, etc. Is this doable (with very little web experience)?

I don't have the money to have a site custom built for me. Is a template the way to go? Can someone recommend another template site?

Thanks!
 
Photo galleries are ideally based on XML.
This allows you to easily add photos, change captions and titles, etc... without having to recompile the application.
I've looked at a few templetes and they are usually relatively complex to edit.

FlashLoaded has an excellent photo gallery template that is very easy to edit.
 
for a whole site, I think a template would probably be best or try iweb like Beaverfish suggested. Using blog software could work well too in terms of easy of use.

For displaying photos, I think zenphoto is pretty cool. It looks nice, easy to setup, relatively easy to customize.
People can leave comments too!
 
Thanks for all the replies; I appreciate it.

I have PixelPost on my photoblog in my signature. What I really want is a portfolio website. Essentially something like the pros use, but without spending anywhere from $200 to $1,000 or above for professional and sophisticated flash websites.

Could Autoviewer help me out?
 
I just went through all of this. I made a simple one in dreamweaver. I am working through a little kinks still but it is up none the less.

www.shaunlavery.com

You can make something like this very very quick.
 
Pros get professionals to make the sites, or do their own if they are good designers.
 
have you checked out wordpress I don't know the prices and I don't think you need any experience to put something out.
 
omgitskevin said:
have you checked out wordpress I don't know the prices and I don't think you need any experience to put something out.
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Wordpress is free. If you host your own Wordpress blog you have full control, but of course you need to pay for hosting and a domain, but that's always the case.

You would need some sort of savviness to get what you want out of Wordpress. I'm sure there are photo modules you can install for it but then you're going to have to modify templates and everything to get exactly what you want. Wordpress is probably going to be harder than just creating it yourself in this case.

Here is another site called Gallery that is made to easily create photo galleries. I'm not sure if this is something you'd want but check it out.
 
Slideshow Pro

I just finished building my own photo site and although it's still a little rough at least it's pretty much the way I envisioned it.
I utilized a program called slideshowpro which for me was a godsend. I am not that accomplished at flash but for $35 you get a boatload of templates/looks that you can use to create slideshows into a div tag. There is a version for Flash that is a little more customizable (which I prefer) or a plugin version to be used w/adobe bridge. I bought the bridge version first but dont ever use it now- would sell it to you but I don't think the license is transferable!
 
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