Photo prof hosting

[EasyJimbo]

Gents

I am looking to register a website and utilise the hosters own or even 3rd party elements to allow me to create a photo album on. I already have a flickr page but want to create my own site now. Can anyone recomend how best to do this, is there a hoster of sites that offers a photo album element to the site or a 3rd party app that you can integrate into your own site?

any advice much apreciated.

thanks
James

[Muska]

I don't know a great deal about this as I opted for a blog but check out Clikpic. Cheap but sounds like it does what you want, and offers a good deal of customisation.

Regards,

Matt.

[muppetdave]

I'm no good at web-stuff, but I came across www.simpleviewer.net the other day - you pay to remove their very small link, but otherwise it's free. No idea how customisable it is I'm afraid, but I know it matched the remainder of the guy's website I was looking at.

[itsnotarace]

I initially went down the standard route - buy domain & hosting, install Wordpress and Coppermine, customising to suit, and faff about learning MYSQL, CSS and whatnot and for the amount of time and effort I spent I don't think I'd do it again, I'd just pay someone else to do it all for me

A couple of my friends use http://www.photoshelter.com/ - it's relatively cheap at $10 dollars a month for standard hosting but you need to be pretty serious if you want to integrate ecommerce into it as the cost ramps up pretty fast

[Dave^]

If you don't want to spend much money, and seeing as you already have a flickr account, you could give this a try...

http://www.flash-gallery.org/demo3.html

It uses your flickr photostream (or your sets), so you don't need any further hosting space, and keeps all your photos in one place, rather than having to upload them to your flickr and to your webspace/host...

All you need is hosting for a couple of Mb's worth of code and a homepage...

I found it (by accident the other day and threw this together to see what it'd look like...

http://www.vtecyo.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

As I said, it's free, and you can probably tell in my efforts, but a bit of tweaking and you'll have a simple, clean looking site...

PS - the "site" I threw together uses the Photostream - If you have a lot of pics it can be quite tedious flicking through... but if you use small sets or only have a few shots in your photostream, you might be ok with it..

[size13]

If you ok with making a few changed to templates etc, I used zenphoto ( http://www.zenphoto.org ) and added links to paypal so people can order direct off the site. ( http://www.sailpics.co.uk/zenphoto )

Edited by size13 on Friday 26th February 11:31

[grumpy bear]

I use Zenfolio. Prices are reasonable, template driven so pretty easy to use and you can set up your own domain.

http://clickmotorsport.zenfolio.com/ or www.clickmotorsport.com

[Yellabelly]

grumpy bear said:

I use Zenfolio. Prices are reasonable, template driven so pretty easy to use and you can set up your own domain.

http://clickmotorsport.zenfolio.com/ or www.clickmotorsport.com

I use Clikpic, excellent application and easy to use and configure

http://www.foto-rebel.co.uk/index.html