10 Reasons Photographers Will Love Our Websites

1. Batch upload tool can upload hundreds of photos at once (I’ve done 425 in one shot).

2. Switch once for Free and $100 each time thereafter.

If you get tired of your design no worries just switch. How’s this for a sweet deal: after a year you want to freshen up your look, switch for free and only keep paying the $17/month hosting fee. We will have at least 4 more to choose from a year from now, if not more.

3. Image galleries stay put when you delete the image bank.

Ok, this is really a handy feature. I loaded 425 images into Antonin’s site for him, built all the galleries and sequenced the images, then we decided the contrast needed a little punch. So, I batch adjusted the contrast on my desktop, deleted all the images in the image bank and uploaded the newly adjusted pictures. If you don’t change the image names they load back into the galleries and sequence the way you had it. Genius.

4. FTP Access.

Everyone can use ftp to build client folders and store stuff on the server. It’s not for transferring all the high res from a shoot but certainly the selects and the low res edit.

5. Wordpress Blog included.

You don’t have to get one when you start either, we’ll add it whenever you ask. Having a blog on your url http://www.mysite.com/blog is an excellent way to get seen in google searches. Also, there’s so many themes and plug-ins available, you can really customize and make it your own.

6. Google Apps for Email.

Google apps simply allows you to send and receive email at your site address (yourname@yoursite.com). It’s very powerful and you can use IMAP, POP, Forwarding or login to their web interface to send and receive your email (that means you can send it to your phone or a desktop client like .mac or thunderbird). You can have up to 100 different email addresses on the same URL. There’s also a ton of other features like calendars and docs to take advantage of. Finally, google has the best spam filter in the business and they’re ultra reliable for delivering the mail 24/7.

7. iPhone and html mirror site automatically created.

Anyone can check out your site on a web enabled phone and the iPhone experience is especially cool. Google and other search engines can crawl and index your images because there’s a html version sitting next to the flash one.

8. Landing page slide shows.

Right after the intro (if you choose to have one) and before a portfolio or page is selected you can have a slideshow of your top images running. It’s so easy to create and you can set the speed too.

9. Fixed and fast or Big and Beautiful, you choose.

In Design 1 the image size is fixed at 878 x 585 and when you save for web in photoshop they load wicked fast. You can do the same in Design 2 but if you feel like it, go big and see how beautiful they look on a 30″ Apple Cinema Display. We recommend an image size of 1860 x 1140 and a save for web quality setting of 40%. That still allows for quick load time and they look amazing at full screen on a 30″ monitor.

10. Free upgrades.

Whenever we come out will a cool new feature your site is automatically upgraded. We have a centrally located admin control panel (it’s not deployed individually on all the sites) so when we add a new feature it automatically appears on everyone’s at once.
Here’s what’s coming down the pipe: Video, Audio, Password protected galleries, Hidden galleries, Sample image loading when you mouse over a gallery name and much, much more.

Bonus. Captions are imported from your image description in the file on your image (XMP, IPTC).

Your captions are automatically imported but they won’t show up until you review and approve them. Simply click on the image in the image bank and either edit or approve the caption that appears. Once you do that an image info link will appear next to the navigation on all images with captions.