anyone use photium?

[digitalfailure]

Hi Guys

Anyone out there use Photium for their website?

Currently got a free wordpress site and it's not ringing the right bells iykwim.

thoughts on reliability and ease of use would be handy.

 

[SK617]

I was using photium, simple setup, templates arent that great but they do the job.
Depends if you are just using it as a 'showcase', if its for business then it may be a bit stunted

 

[-Rob-]

Mine is a Photium site. It's ok if you just want to host a few photos but when you want over 2,000 it starts to get pretty expensive. I'm looking to get a custom built site with more flexibility.

Custom Support from Photium is 2nd to none. Excellent!!

 

[Harlequin565]

I found it a bit limited in functionality. You can get a very nice clean looking site up and running quite easily. There are SEO tools built in, which is handy, and the templates are very professional looking, but I found them quite "samey".

Will also echo Rob in saying their customer service was excellent. Even when I left. No sour grapes.

Ian.

 

[SAVA9E]

sorry i read plutonium

 

[digitalfailure]

I'm not after a full on website to rival Canon or Nikon, just a simple, clean and quick site that says who I am and what I do and allows previous clients to view and possibly buy images.

 

[Harlequin565]

I'm not after a full on website to rival Canon or Nikon, just a simple, clean and quick site that says who I am and what I do and allows previous clients to view and possibly buy images.

Then I reckon Photium will do the job. I think that's pretty much what it was designed for.

I believe they have a 30 day trial, so you can set the site up, (you get a temporary url) see if you like it, then just pay to upgrade. If you don't like it, no money lost!

-Ian

 

[-Rob-]

I'm not after a full on website to rival Canon or Nikon, just a simple, clean and quick site that says who I am and what I do and allows previous clients to view and possibly buy images.

It depends how many clients you have and how many photos you want to display in each client gallery.

If you are doing a shoot every week and putting 100 photos in each gallery then you'll fill 500 photos very quickly (costs £7.50 a month) and upgrading to 1,000 photos is about £13 and to 2,000 photos is about £16.50.

Functionality wise it will do what you want it to. My only gripe is the limited storage space.

 

[CT]

I use Photium and I'm pretty happy with it - it's very easy to set up and downtime is just non existent. The only gripe I have is that max image size is 800 pixels on the longest side, in fact if I do desert that will be the reason., but other than that I can't fault it at all.

 

[treeman]

Ive used it for a while but moved over to Wordpress, simply for aesthetics. I currently still use it for the proofing cart but will be be changing that imminently as the 2000 limit is way too low and the extra gets expensive.
For a basic but still fairly customisable site, I'd highly recommend it, especially as the customer service is unbelievably good

 

[viewfromthenorth]

Been using photium for over 4 years now and they're very good, never had any complaints and as said before, their customer service is outstanding!

 

[squizza]

Indeedy, click on the link below.

I find it okay, meets my needs for now, just wish they'd make the galleries/portfolios central rather than left aligned.

 

[tiler65]

Had a photium site and it is pretty good and as has been mentioned, fantastic customer service but

Get a wordpress site, host it cheaply then add a zenfolio package to it and it is better and cheaper.

That is the route I am taking next and for photography resale it is a no brainer.

 

[philthejuggler]

Another vote for Zenfolio - cheaper and better.

 

[digitalfailure]

Can someone explain the wordpress and zenfolio option together?

 

[philthejuggler]

Dunno about Wordpress but I use blogger and host the pictures on my zenfolio website. Zenfolio also allows me to password protect galleries, give custom urls for galleries and sell photos as downloads or prints through photobox.

I pay $100 per year for a premium account which includes unlimited storage - I think it is great value.

The only very minor negative is that because they are based in America when they do one if their features upgrades they take the site down in the middle of the night US time = morning UK time. Only happens about once every 3/4 months though.

Phil

 

[tiler65]

Can someone explain the wordpress and zenfolio option together?

Give Colin (Hacker) a tinkle, he uses it I think.

 

[Chubster]

HAs anyone successfully integrated zenfolio in wordpress...been looking but it doesnt seem as if this is any "easy" solution ??