I’ve written about Smugmug before, and I’m a huge fan.
As I spoke with the great folks at SiteWelder I quickly learned why pros trust SiteWelder for their online portfolio needs.
SiteWelder – One of my top favorite 20 photographers first told me about SiteWelder and the great customer service they offer.They avoid using Flash which means there code will run on just about anything that can render HTML, and even on my iPhone I was able to get a live slideshow – something no other site reviewed here could offer. FolioSnap – The best way I can describe FolioSnap is as the anti-liveBooks, but I mean that in a good way.liveBooks offers a Flash based web-site that focuses on building anything you want – for a fee. Odds are, you’ll notice somewhere on one or more of their sites a powered by liveBooks logo. liveBooks – Name your top 5 most respected photographers, now go visit their web site.In this 6 part series, I’ll examine the following portfolio hosting sites: This article will address both and simply present some choices I researched in my own quest to build a professional online portfolio. To some of us we’d rather commit time to save money, and others would rather commit money so we can dedicate our time to photography. The purpose of this blog is to offer some choices on how you can get that pro look based on your commitment level. Well, I suppose if you are good enough that might be fine, but I would suspect that your odds are better at being treated as a professional if you look professional which means building a proper professional web site.
Now some of you may be thinking, but I already have a Flickr Pro account. However, to do that we need to look and act professional, and a good place to start is a proper presentation of our photos in a professional looking online portfolio. While any real pro will tell you not to quit your day job and that there’s no money in Photography anymore, that doesn’t keep people like you and me from wanting to hang our shingle out to the world and announce that we are real photographers. There comes a time in a photographer’s life where you get enough positive feedback that you have the thought that you might actually make some money with this hobby that has done nothing more than go through your money faster than a. Click here to read my Zenfolio review and learn why I feel it’s the best service available now. I now use Zenfolio exclusively for my personal portfolio and now only points to my Zenfolio site. THIS ARTICLE HAS BECOME TOO OLD AND OUTDATED.
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