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The old portfolio thread has been archived; apparently we all need to update our portfolios more often. This thread is for both showing work in a fuller context, and discussion of it and its presentation. At the end of the last thread, people using hosted services seemed to be moving away from smugmug-type galleries to more customisable ones like zenfolio, 4ormat and cargocollective. Indexhibit was the most popular lightweight CMS, but they've since dramatically changed from a simple way to present images to something much fuller. Stacey looks to do what Indexhibit used to.  To kick off, my site is richardaldred.com. I just updated it to add a little text about each series.
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My website/portfolio, which is due for a massive revamp: http://bgillettephoto.com I also have a Zenfolio account that I use for proofing, but I've been considering using as a full catalog of my work: http://bradgillettephotographer.zenfolio.com/f763877211 This online portfolio thing is a lot of work.
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Feb 14, 2013 01:38
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Great sites to the both of you. Here's mine: http://www.highfieldmedia.com/ It's just a 500px-driven site. Edit: updated the url. No longer a 500px site, now using Squarespace. Inf fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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Feb 14, 2013 02:40
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Mine is at kellydavisphotography.com and is due for a major overhaul. Maybe more eyes on my page will inspire me to get cracking on that. Just a simple smugmug site, nothing fancy.
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Feb 14, 2013 02:53
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My site is https://chrishaydenphoto.com. Wordpress via Lithium Hosting (Yay SA Mart!). I'm completely lost with web stuff, so it's a basic free theme and no CSS. Can anyone recommend a better free/cheap wordpress theme for photography, or tell me how to fix the site? I'd like to be able to have a better category system, and be able to move the thumbnails around.
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Feb 15, 2013 17:51
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red19fire posted:My site is https://chrishaydenphoto.com. Wordpress via Lithium Hosting (Yay SA Mart!). I'm completely lost with web stuff, so it's a basic free theme and no CSS. Can anyone recommend a better free/cheap wordpress theme for photography, or tell me how to fix the site? I'd like to be able to have a better category system, and be able to move the thumbnails around. You can try google for photoblogging or photography themes - many of these will be "pro" and cost money. You can also go directly tohttp://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tag-filter/ and use the checkboxes they have to filter down to one that's fit for you. I bought one that I liked for about $40 that I'm currently installing and customizing; it's similar to my current homepage in what I want. I probably could have created one myself for free, but the time saved for me was worth the money.
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Feb 15, 2013 19:17
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red19fire posted:My site is https://chrishaydenphoto.com. Wordpress via Lithium Hosting (Yay SA Mart!). I'm completely lost with web stuff, so it's a basic free theme and no CSS. Can anyone recommend a better free/cheap wordpress theme for photography, or tell me how to fix the site? I'd like to be able to have a better category system, and be able to move the thumbnails around. I have a wordpress site and I bought templates from Elegant Themes. They have a bunch for like $79 and you can customize it pretty easily. If you don't know how to do something, their support team is really good at getting back to you too, so you can customize almost anything. Works well enough for me as a starter page. http://www.breanneunger.com/
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Feb 18, 2013 20:41
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hosted on DA: http://rashiedamini.daportfolio.com/ 
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Feb 19, 2013 15:17
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Okay here we go: https://www.danieldelidjakov.com I made it myself so it's static - I do want to move to indexhibit or something like that in order to manage my photos with ease.
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Feb 20, 2013 19:36
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Santa is strapped posted:Okay here we go: https://www.danieldelidjakov.com I quite like 4ormat - they've come along a lot since they started out. You could probably duplicate your current site fairly easily just with a more manageable backend
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Feb 21, 2013 00:11
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Yeah, 4ormat is great. They keep adding new features that I have yet to check out. My site is built with just on of their basic themes and took me almost no time at all. I really need to update it but keep putting off anything except the occasional upload. http://www.sometimesiwander.com/
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Feb 21, 2013 01:34
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http://gronke.tumblr.com
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Feb 21, 2013 02:29
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8th-samurai posted:Yeah, 4ormat is great. They keep adding new features that I have yet to check out. My site is built with just on of their basic themes and took me almost no time at all. I really need to update it but keep putting off anything except the occasional upload. http://www.sometimesiwander.com/ Love that shot on the title page. I've been tossing up whether to go with squarespace or not, I think 4ormat might be a winner.
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Feb 21, 2013 06:45
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http://pinopsida.com/ indexhibit's pretty cool I guess
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Feb 21, 2013 07:19
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atomicthumbs posted:http://pinopsida.com/ That link brings me to a search results page.
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Feb 21, 2013 13:41
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^^ for me it doesn't even load.Paragon8 posted:I quite like 4ormat - they've come along a lot since they started out. You could probably duplicate your current site fairly easily just with a more manageable backend Yea I've been liking it as well. I'll switch one of these days and my life will be better.
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Feb 21, 2013 18:01
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it works for me?
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Feb 23, 2013 18:27
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Yeah, it works for me now.
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Feb 23, 2013 20:11
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it sounds like the DNS for my site decided to play a joke while I wasn't looking, I guess.
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Feb 23, 2013 23:15
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I finally got my squarespace site going: http://www.tdjames.com/
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Feb 25, 2013 11:31
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Spedman posted:I finally got my squarespace site going: This is really nice but the only reason I figured out that the site scrolled was because I knew you had more than four shots in the Permanent Transience series. A scrollbar or arrows would go a long way, I don't know if a stranger to your work would realize this or have the patience to click around.
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Feb 25, 2013 12:45
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Yea I agree. I would not have clicked on the right most photo if I didn't read aliencowboy's comment.
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Feb 25, 2013 15:15
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After the hard drive in my server died I decided to try using a CMS instead of hand coding my site like last time. I'd heard good things about indexhibit so despite it now costing money I gave it a try. I've used a bunch of other CMSes but indexhibit is incredibly difficult to use by comparison and they treat you like you're stupid by assuming that you'd never use gallery software for images larger than 400px or 200KB. I had to edit code to get around these artificial limitations. There's no documentation and no support other than the indexhibit forums. I posted on the forums about my dissatisfaction and asked if there was any way I could get a refund, because there's no way I'm going to keep using this thing. Hours later my thread was deleted and my account was gone and I can't reregister. Now I'm out $32 (!) and I can't even download the software again. Basically, never use indexhibit. I'm going back to a hand coded site and if I don't see a Paypal refund by tomorrow morning, I'll be filing a Paypal dispute. Hoo boy...
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Feb 25, 2013 20:04
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aliencowboy posted:This is really nice but the only reason I figured out that the site scrolled was because I knew you had more than four shots in the Permanent Transience series. A scrollbar or arrows would go a long way, I don't know if a stranger to your work would realize this or have the patience to click around. Santa is strapped posted:Yea I agree. I would not have clicked on the right most photo if I didn't read aliencowboy's comment. Thanks for having a look guys. I had a feeling people might have a problem with that aspect of the site, I like everything about thet template except that. I'll see if I can add an arrow or a scroll bar to it, should be pretty straight forward I think.
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Feb 25, 2013 21:17
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MrBlandAverage posted:After the hard drive in my server died I decided to try using a CMS instead of hand coding my site like last time. I'd heard good things about indexhibit so despite it now costing money I gave it a try. I've used a bunch of other CMSes but indexhibit is incredibly difficult to use by comparison and they treat you like you're stupid by assuming that you'd never use gallery software for images larger than 400px or 200KB. I had to edit code to get around these artificial limitations. If you'd rather have help, I got my Indexhibit site working rather nicely 
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Feb 25, 2013 21:34
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atomicthumbs posted:If you'd rather have help, I got my Indexhibit site working rather nicely Good for you, but I'd nuked my indexhibit install in frustration and now I'm blocked from downloading it again! I'd rather have my money back.
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Feb 25, 2013 21:53
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Don't really have one Portfolio site, but I do have Flickr, Tumblr and Model Mayhem. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7597174@N04/ http://spvphoto.tumblr.com/ http://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/1720650/viewall All Pages contain some  images.
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Feb 26, 2013 02:01
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I was able to play around with the opacity of the non selected images, is it more obvious now that there are many pictures in the portfolio? http://www.tdjames.com
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Feb 26, 2013 03:50
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Yea it's better. It would help even more if you can make the low-opacity photos gain a bit of that opacity back when a person hovers above them.
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Feb 26, 2013 05:18
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http://koken.me/ has a *lot* of promise. I've only tested it for a few hours, but already I like it more than anything else I've tried. edit//now with more actual working site goodness http://advancedpants.com/ pearofducks fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Mar 23, 2013 |
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Feb 26, 2013 11:55
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Santa is strapped posted:Yea it's better. It would help even more if you can make the low-opacity photos gain a bit of that opacity back when a person hovers above them. I'm gonna have to learn some CSS, or hunt around on google to work that one out, but I've got some arrows on either side of the viewing image now so its totally obvious what to do.
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Feb 26, 2013 11:59
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I hand-coded one a few weeks ago: http://oool.org/ I've been just uploading my pictures to Flickr for the past 4 or 5 years and I think it's time to try to organize.
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Feb 26, 2013 17:48
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Updated my site http://mczany.com/ Using a much more efficient wordpress theme this time round, now I just need to decide if GoDaddy is the right host for me. The rates are cheap enough but barely any of my prospective clients will be outside of Australia / New Zealand, so it makes more sense to host it locally for speedier loading of images.
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Mar 19, 2013 01:11
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Cyberbob posted:Updated my site If you don't mind, what theme is that? It's quite sleek.
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Mar 19, 2013 17:23
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It's "Hypershot" from Themeforest. One of their relatively new premium themes. http://themeforest.net/item/hypershot-photography-portfolio-wordpress-theme/3391790 I didn't like the idea of having to spend money on a wordpress theme, but I was suckered in. My wife loved it (My photography partner), and I couldn't fault it. Mobile view is darn nice too, which was a huge problem with my previous theme. Sometimes, you get what you pay for 
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Mar 19, 2013 21:02
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http://www.davidchildersphotography.com/ Using Prophoto 4 on Wordpress.
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Mar 22, 2013 20:24
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I wanted something simple to just show a few images so I just threw together galleria + bootstrap for something basic. Links aren't functional yet but I like the look and I'm using a password protected version of the same thing to let friends and family see their stuff online before they decide what prints they want. e: actual site http://lightthemountain.com
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Mar 22, 2013 22:29
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Like dogs? Really like dogs? Well have I got the site for you! http://tatertv.smugmug.com Mostly for folks at the dog park since I didn't really want to keep printing out photos from them. It's due for a redesign as well -- at the very least I want to get rid of the "Find your dog" section as it's nigh impossible to maintain. You wouldn't believe how many dogs out there are named Sammy or Bailey.
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Mar 23, 2013 03:58
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http://www.francography.com iz mynez. But lately i've just been using 500px. http://500px.com/francography
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My wife put most of this together and I just got around today to organizing it and uploading photos. Tried to keep it as clean as possible and easy to find things when prospective clients visit. The only thing left is to get better pictures; maybe in 10-20 years I'll have them but for the time being I hope to at least make some change from it. http://www.pchphotography.net e: Also, I hate watermarks. Am I cool with not watermarking? If someone really wanted to take an image I assume they can get it one way or another, and watermarks just seems so lame. rio fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Mar 27, 2013 |
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