Gallery Tools for Photographers
March 21st, 2008 | Published in Photography | 2 Comments
There are a ton of very cool gallery tools that photographers can use to create portfolios, galleries, exhibits, or “just-for-fun” shows for clients and friends. If I have missed a favorite of yours, send me an email and I will add it.
Here we look at some of the ones we like a lot, and you can maybe find one or two that will work for you. In all cases they are free or nearly free. I am not posting any solutions over $50. They are in no particular order, so don’t look for any.
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March 23rd, 2008 at 7:32 am (#)
One of the things that has become important to me in a gallery is the search engine ‘friendliness’ — I have recently gone full circle back to jalbum becasue it doesn’t rely heavily on javascript and uses the image names for the html pages. All of a sudden, I’m #4 on google for “Baked Bruschetta”, #1 for “Beautiful Tiana” and other probably not so useful to me searches — but the point is valid.
For a while, I relied on the more advanced galleries for ease of use such as drag and drop gallery changes, but noticed my search results plummeting. Went back to jalbum and they’ve started climbing again…
Add a blog and a calendar, get some inbound links…. and you’ll be beating the clients off with a stick….
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 am (#)
Absolutely. I totally agree. Interestingly though, I get photographers who tell me they do not want their images to be found on Google. They are adament. They are absolutely terrified by the thought that someone will ‘rip them off’.
Do I disagree. Totally. I simply don’t build their sites. I want to build sites for photographers who want to increase their business and find new channels for their work. Those who want to commit online seclusionism have plenty of other sources for which to do it.
The above list is just that. It is not an endorsement of any of them and all can be used with great success if used smartly and with syncronicity with other marketing tools.