Will I have FTP access to my site to set up client folders?

Yes, everyone has FTP access so you can upload a folder of images and give a client (www.mysite.com/client) so they can check out images from a shoot. It’s not for transferring all the high res images from a shoot (a few is fine) because we have bandwidth limits for our servers.

Is video supported?

Not yet but it will be. It took longer than expected to get these portfolios exactly how I wanted so we didn’t have time to fully implement the video by our launch date. I expect to have it fully functioning on these two designs within several months and everyone who already has a site will get it added on.

Why can’t I host the site on my own reliable servers?

The biggest reason is our admin control panel. It’s centrally located so that when we make an update to the admin (which we will do often to make it even better) it updates for everyone. Another reason is that it’s more effort and time to set everything up on your server so we can’t offer the great prices we have now. And finally if your site is not preforming properly on your server it will make us look bad so I’ll have to get someone to go in and fix the problem?

Yeah, but I still want to host myself?

Ok, I’m talking to the developers about how we can do that so send me an email and we can discuss. rob@aphotofolio.com

An obvious queestion comes to mind. If APhotoFolio goes bankrupt, what happens to my web site?

Big Folio would take over the server and keep the lights on or people would be given the option to self host. I can’t imagine it ever happening but if it did the sites wouldn’t suddenly go down. I’ve been in this business too long to throw my reputation out the window like that.

Where is the client viewing section?

We will add password protected galleries in the next two months to all the designs and to all the people who have already bought sites. You can use FTP to upload pictures to a folder for clients which seems to be a very popular way to do this. That way you have a backdoor link and the client doesn’t have to use a password http://www.yoursite.com/client1

Is it possible to deliver final hi res images via the site yet?

what is big folio? what if THEY go bankrupt?

@ Jay: you can setup ftp for a client or a lightbox with high res easily.

@ a photographer: http://www.bigfolio.com
like I said above, all the sites can be self hosted so you would be given the option to take it anywhere you wanted. I doubt you will find another template website company that has the ability to do that.