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my current website is up for renewal and I am thinking of possibly using someone else. I currently use clikpic and all has been fine. I currently pay £50 a year for 200 images.

My friend who is a fellow pro photographer uses Amazing Internet and said to try them out. They have a special price at min for £150 a year for 500 images. This will go up to £250 after the year. Has anyone here used Amazing Internet?? He says they are the best and was wondering if anyone can recommend any sites for building a site. Dont want to pay too much.
 
GDPics said:
I currently pay £50 a year for 200 images.
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way too expensive

GDPics said:
They have a special price at min for £150 a year for 500 images. This will go up to £250 after the year..
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way way way too expensive


I pay less than 50 quid a yr to fotopic.net and have over a hundred thousand pics with them...admitedly not full size pics but I ahve gigs of room left.. look at my website..a ll the galleries are on fotopic.. front page elsewhere but thats just me..
 
What sort of site do you want? HTML or flash?
 
Are we talking about renting a web page with room for images or hosting? I based my reply on hosting.... but still a better option IMHO :)
 
i like flash but understand its rubbish for smart phones and search engines.

i use my website for displaying basic info and showcasing some of my best images in various fields. I have a website already where I uploading on going events I have done and people can buy the images directly through there.

want a professional looking site which doesnt cost much.
 
Has anyone used SmugMug to design their website with?? Looks very neat I must say probably is flash but have heard its still searchable in web engines.

The top package is $150 but I would probably go for the $59.95 option as it comes with e-commerce buying stuff which is no good to me as all in dollars and i already have a site for this. Unlimited images and looks very good.

Any thoughts on this???
 
I pay £50 a year for mikesflying.com (http://blog.mikesflying.com and http://photos.mikesflying.com are live atm)

I've got 10Gb of storage and 500Gb monthly bandwidth. Getting your own webhoasting is definately the cheapest way to do this short of running your own servers.

Also, it's exactly this kind of overpricing that's driving me to start developing my own Photographer/Portfolio site software.
 
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Try tso host. They're very good, i've just bought a couple of domains and have hosting from them. Very good customer service! :D

Mike, did you create that site yourself? If so, what did you use?
 
Y15HAL said:
Try tso host. They're very good, i've just bought a couple of domains and have hosting from them. Very good customer service! :D

Mike, did you create that site yourself? If so, what did you use?
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The Blog is wordpress, running a theme I helped develop and quite a few custom plugins.

The Photosite is a straight Lightroom exported web gallery.

I've built many a website, but most of my development work is back-end, when I do have to 'design' a website I usually whip up a template of how I want it to look in Photoshop and then manually convert this to HTML/CSS before adding whatever clever functionality I want via JavaScript, Ajax, php, etc etc.. (and yes I'm one of these purists who'll coding everything by hand).

Speaking of which, I am available for freelance work if you want something built/modified :p
 
Mikebert4 said:
The Photosite is a straight Lightroom exported web gallery.

Speaking of which, I am available for freelance work if you want something built/modified :p
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wow, didn't know you can export a library like that! :)

Thanks for the offer, but i'm in the process of producing one myself using wordpress :p
 
Y15HAL said:
wow, didn't know you can export a library like that! :)

Thanks for the offer, but i'm in the process of producing one myself using wordpress :p
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:thumbs:

I'd like to see it when you've got it close to ready ;)
 
Blimey that's really expensive.
I use Pbase for just photo storage.
I currently have 182 galleries and 13108 images online, using 1720 Megabytes of storage space.
At the moment the cost is US$23 yearly for 600 Megabytes of photo storage.
or US$60 yearly for 1800 Megabytes of photo storage.

I'm about to cut my really old football stuff off to shorten storage

On top of that I have my website hosted with fasthostingdirect
unlimited bandwith, unlimited webspace, £20 a year with a domain thrown in for free
 
viewfromthenorth said:
I use photium and can highly recommend them! :)
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photium looks clean and good but @ £185 a year for 2000 pictures, would not take long to fill with sports pictures

I like the fotopic option ( Tony / Kipax did you put the paypal button into every page or is it setup via fotopic ? )

Oh the choices ........most come close but without spending alot fall short. I am looking for a photo hosting site that will let me upload pics ( ALOT ) and also have a shopping cart with the ability to disable the right click function ,
 
janbokev said:
I like the fotopic option ( Tony / Kipax did you put the paypal button into every page or is it setup via fotopic ? )
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fotopic has its own dedicated shopping cart.. the paypal thing is a little hack of my own :)... i got permision to use it as i knew the then owners of fotopic..
 
janbokev said:
Oh the choices ........most come close but without spending alot fall short. I am looking for a photo hosting site that will let me upload pics ( ALOT ) and also have a shopping cart with the ability to disable the right click function ,
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so you just described fotopic.net didnt you? :)
 
Cheers tony , Just been looking at the options on the fotopic site , it all looks good have you gone for the top package with all the photos you have on your site ? and with the paypal option ( best way for me ) did you do every page button or have you got it scripted so it collects the info from the page title ?

Picking your knowledge again .... :)
 
you cant do the paypal thing... use fotopoc shopping cart that uses paypal..

premium package for me.. although you can have as many free 250mb packages you wqant but get googlke ads on them
 
Lunaticsamurai said:
Agree with this. I pay less than £50 a year and can upload hundreds of images if i wanted.
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but he wants to upload thousands and he wants the photo options that come with a decicated photo hosting as well as shoppong cart.... so eeerm?

i would like to see your 50 quid hosting handle my 45 quids worth of a hundred thousand pics.. and growing :)
 
I use Photium, about £80 a year for 300 pics...BUT...

I have set up two Photobucket accounts, i.e. 20 Gig's worth - for free. Which I simply link to using .html IMG codes.

If you're interested check out the 'Urban Exploration' area of my site, and you'll see how i've set them up. It's ideal for me as I like to put a commentary to my photo's.
 
I have done websites in the past and always made online galleries in flash and html... but that was with a max 200-300 photos which is easy , this weekend I took 4500 pictures of which around 1000 would go up on the site , Ideally I would like to sell some for the club but defo the ability to stop people just taking them for free , I realise I ciuld script a no right click , but hopefully my daughter will be doing it soon so need a no hassle approach ,

Tony thanks for the fotopic link , I have sent them an email about the cart and hopefully will go for the premium version :)

Kevan
 
i have a reseller account that i pay very little for... i dont sell domains, but have gigs and gigs of space doing nothing. I use it to upload photos to, and mainly for personal email addresses. I get auto softaculous and fantastico deluxe and various other things that install word press automatically for you.

to the op, if you want some space that you can just bash around in, and mess with things let me know, i can give you a subdomain of one of my domains and you can just "play" to see if you fancy making your own or going down the pro route.
 
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