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I'm trying to set up a gallery on my website specifically to sell "fine art" so i'm looking for an easy on the eye, clean and simple gallery where I can integrate a shopping cart for the sales.

At the moment I have experience with Gallery 2 for other galleries but it always seems a little cluttered for what I want it for. I've had a quick look at Gallery 3 but that doesn't seem to be mature enough yet. The other options I've seen are Zenphoto and also Joomla (which I could use to make an entire site from as well).

So what i'm asking really is what do you use for low volume "fine art" sales websites and if you have one can you post it up so I can get a few ideas of what they can look like.

Thanks! :)

(Oh and the website needs to be free, so no clikpic etc unfortunately as I don't have the money spare).
 
Well I just spent the most frustrating 4 hours of my life on this and have got no further other than deciding joomla is the biggest pile of junk available. Not only does hit come included with about 15 Billion random articles and bits you don't need from the outset (be careful what you delete as it could b****r up the entire joomla install... :bang::bang:) but you can't even make a simple link to a home page... Drupal I tried as well, looked not too bad, far easier/simpler to use than Joomla but I couldn't get it to install any new modules or themes so that's out too...:bat:

So... That leaves me back where I have started, either trying to stick a cart into a poorly designed website or using gallery 2 in a poorly designed website...

(Sorry, really, really frustrated at the moment and need to vent!:bang::help:)
 
Zenfolio, they handle everything and do it well. It's a paid product unlike Joomla, Drupal etc but it's built to do sales/gallery and image management unlike Joomla, Drupal, etc.

I've got several friends who use & highly regard them and I'm going to be opening an account with them soon too :)
 
Thanks but that's not really what I'm looking for. (they also seem to charge comission on sales!)

I'm suprised there isn't any CMS joomla style software for creating photography websites. Anyone know of any (that are free)?
 
There are a couple for jalbum that are free - I currently use one called Turtle... needs a bit of customisation when I get around to it, but it's not bad out of the box tbh.

The best one IMO (flash based, but if it's only for galleries, not so much an issue) is a paid for one called fotoplayer.. it's around $80 or so, and I will be upgrading at some point, just don't really have the call for it at present.
 
Thanks. :)

I've looked at Jalbum but couldn't find a cart feature so had to drop it, which part of your website uses it BTW?

At the moment i'm in two minds. I've been playing round with Gallery 2 integration with Wordpress (wordpress for the site and Gallery 2 for the sales gallery) but am having trouble integrating the two properly at the moment (gallery 2 is really small for want of a better description, see here at the moment, it's liable to change). Anyone else have this problem? The actual gallery 2 cart is excellent so I may just end up staying with it and trying to integrate it into a standard html site...
 
The client galleries :)

It seems like it's not wide enough... can you change it in the CSS to make it wider? You might have to create a new page template for the galleries page in WP to do it though...

The other alternative, which could end up being a ball-ache if you've got quite a few "products" is something like WP-Commerce, a plugin for WP which enables payments...

EDIT: Turtle and Chameleon jAlbum galleries offer a cart solution from memory :)
 
Has a password unfortunately. :)

Yeah, the text has also shrunk. I know how to sort the text out (in CSS) but can't work out how to sort out the size issue yet, going to have to delve deep I think. I actually realised wordpress probably isn't going to be brilliant for the entire site anyway unless I can remove the sidebars on certain pages, have it visible on the blog page only (plan is to have two static pages (home and onfo pages) then a blog page and a gallery page.)...

Thanks, I'll have a look into the WP commerce plugin, not sure about the gallery built in to wordpress however yet.

As for Jalbum, it seems I was using turtle all along, didn'tnotice the option for sales... However I now have another problem, I seem to have lost the tab at the bottom that has the sales bit in... lol
 
I *think* it's probably auto-resizing and conflicting with WP, but can't be 100% sure!

You can remove the sidebar for certain pages;

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/314019

You have to create a new template page in the theme you're using (copy page.php, or single.php) and remove the call to the sidebar.

et voila... Possibly.
 
Right, update, just in case anyone is actually interested in future (I hate wading through old threads that ask for answers and never give the end result! :p)...

I decided after all the options to stick with a normal HTML site and embedding Gallery2 into one of the pages. After looking around for a theme that would work/I could customise easily I stumbled across "X treme", a theme that has all the options you'd normally have to go into the CSS and .php pages to edit which made it remarkably easy to create a gallery to my needs, with an excellent cart feature.

Almost finished the site now, the last main thing I need to do is embed Wordpress for my blog page, I'm sure it isn't going to be as easy as Gallery2 was... :lol:
 
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