getting your own photography site up

[Nixon]

hey there techy urbanites

im a photography student and the time has come where I think i really need to get a website up.i just wanted to ask what you lot think is the quickest and best way to do this..obviously presentation is important because it's a photography thing.im a total website making novice,so be gentle with me..

the other thing i wanted to ask is practically how easy/fast is it to update a website? because i know a fair few sites that don't update for ages..is it a case of they just can't be fucked or is it a long process of uploading and stuff?

cheers my dears

 

[Kanda]

Why not use zenfolio or some pre-packaged solution?

 

[Nixon]

huh? what's zenfolio?

oh and preferably cheapish suggestions would be great..

thanks again

 

[Kanda]

Try http://www.zenfolio.com

 

[big eejit]

Or you could use Gallery:

http://gallery.menalto.com/

Which has the advantage of being free, but the disadvantage that you have to do a bit of tech stuff yourself to set up and it's a bit clunky (IMO).

It's what we use for the photo comp here:

http://www.extracrispy.co.uk/gallery2/v/u75photocomp/

 

[Vintage Paw]

The cheap and cheerful photoblog route can be customised to have a more interactive gallery feel too.

I use pixelpost - straight up normal photoblog type thing.

As for updating - it can be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be. If you use a pre-packaged off-the-peg solution it'll be as easy as uploading a new photo and adding the title, if that's all you want to do.

 

[weltweit]

Could also use Pbase (www.pbase.com)

Or you could make one using 'html' which depending on how you want your site, need not be very complicated.

 

[Nixon]

thanks for the ideas so far.the blog route sounds appealing..I don't know why I didn't think of that

and with regards to like domain names how does all that stuff work? because ideally i'd like to be able to set up a site where it's like whateverphotography.co.uk or something like that.how would i go about doing that?

 

[boskysquelch]

http://sarachmet.carbonmade.com/

carbonmade is nice.

 

[big eejit]

thanks for the ideas so far.the blog route sounds appealing..I don't know why I didn't think of that

and with regards to like domain names how does all that stuff work? because ideally i'd like to be able to set up a site where it's like whateverphotography.co.uk or something like that.how would i go about doing that?

Go to a hosting company like these chaps and buy your domain / hosting service there:

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/

Careful when checking which domain names are taken. I once checked a name using a URL checker that one of these domain sellers offered (not fasthosts btw). I went back to buy it next day and it had been bought and was for sale for $500. I suspect they scanned the names people were checking and bought the good ones to resell!

 

[e19896]

Or you could use Gallery:

http://gallery.menalto.com/

Which has the advantage of being free, but the disadvantage that you have to do a bit of tech stuff yourself to set up and it's a bit clunky (IMO).

It's what we use for the photo comp here:

http://www.extracrispy.co.uk/gallery2/v/u75photocomp/

Thats is nice and easy pm me if desire something like this and it goes on what about drag n drop this means you take your images drop them into a directory upload it and it should work i could write you a simple drag n drop page..

 

[Firky]

banana album is canny good

34sp for hosting and domain

w3c.org for html

sorted.

 

[e19896]

Go to a hosting company like these chaps and buy your domain / hosting service there:

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/

Careful when checking which domain names are taken. I once checked a name using a URL checker that one of these domain sellers offered (not fasthosts btw). I went back to buy it next day and it had been bought and was for sale for $500. I suspect they scanned the names people were checking and bought the good ones to resell!

www.fasthosts.co.uk are shit i host with them and if i could get out of the contract i would ive had nothing but hassle with them from day one..

 

[boskysquelch]

banana album is canny good

I h8 banana.if i see it in a link or trying to come up I won't look at it. same with Flukr 95% of the time.

 

[big eejit]

www.fasthosts.co.uk are shit i host with them and if i could get out of the contract i would ive had nothing but hassle with them from day one..

I use fasthosts to buy a couple of urls and they were fine.

I use clook - http://www.clook.co.uk/ - for my website and they've been great. No problems.

 

[e19896]

I use fasthosts to buy a couple of urls and they were fine.

I use clook - http://www.clook.co.uk/ - for my website and they've been great. No problems.

Never come across them ill have a look, buying a url from fasthosts no problem but last year one hassle following another to much downtime one reason for going to flickr i need a good host and fasthosts are not this i would say stay away from them to be honest ive had nowt but hassles and last time i rang them i was 180 in there phone line with over a three hour time wait till i spoke with a human..