i want a website, where to start?

I use Sandvox to create the web site. Juicebox Pro makes excellent HTML5 galleries that resize for compatibility with tablets and smartphones. There is a Juicebox plug in for LR too.

Juicebox runs on Windows or OS X. Sandvox is OS X only, but surely there is a great WYSIWYG, drag and drop web site building App for Windows as well.

I use to use Rapidweaver (another OS X only product), but I don't like their business model and Sandvox is better for me in many other ways as well.
 
Wow... thats a mouthfull, hard to remember...

Wow... thats a mouthfull, hard to remember...

msbarnes said:
something like that looks perfect. I checked your website and it is good-enough for me. I just want a few galleries and contact information.

Sorry if this is very basic but...

do you have to register "snowcountryphotography.com" somewhere? And then I'd imagine that you just follow the squarespace template.
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Have you considered "snowcountryphoto.com

Also, I just checked and snowcountryphotography.com is taken so you would have to use one of the many other extensions on the end, ie.

biz
org
etceteral
 
kuzano said:
Have you considered "snowcountryphoto.com

Also, I just checked and snowcountryphotography.com is taken so you would have to use one of the many other extensions on the end, ie.

biz
org
etceteral
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Snow Country Photography is my domain name. Read the first few post in this thread. And look down beneath my signature. The OP was using my domain as an example.

Jim B.
 
I've got a domain name. The next steps should be interesting. Thanks to patrickjames for saying "it might take a week if you have no experience". That helps knowing it may take awhile.
 
Just adding some advice on top of everyone elses, I'd also go with patrickjames' suggestion of Wordpress if you want something that's relatively easy to set up and maintain yourself.

There are plenty of themes, both free and commercial that will help you set up a website and with a couple of free plugins you can have it be as socially connected as you'd like.
 
indexhibit.

Consider hiring someone to help you set it up the way you want, then it's very easy to maintain and keep current.
 
Great Thread ..Thanks for giving me the Chance to view so many Great blogs
Have been Enjoying it immensley

Now for me to get off my Tush
Andpossibly follow suit
 
i second tumblr, and after using that site i deactivated my flickr.

I believe that tumblr gives you more rights to your own work than other sites. I also deleted whole albums from my facebook because of that issue.
 
msbarnes said:
I want something simple and clean.

I mainly want to have a website that allows others to connect with me in all my social networks: flickr, tumblr, cargo collective, instagram, facebook, and etc. I would probably add an "about me" section, gear section, and things like that...idk.

I don't really want to pay anyone to design a website for me, so is there a simple way of doing so? in like one night? lol. I'm not a professional photographer, this is my hobby, so it doesn't have to be super fancy/sophisticated. I wouldn't mind paying to use a website builder I guess or however it normally works.

Also, I think I have to register a domain name and then find a website builder? Is that how it goes?
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SquareSpace is the way to go as a 'non-weblanguage-reader'.

I've done the total opposite to you. Instead of socialising the heck out of my photos I've decided enough is enough. I have a website, a static one. Each time I want to upload, I have to open up the HTML files and add the tags, then upload changes via FTP. Why do I have a static straight HTML/CSS3 site? I like the minimalism of it, the slight smell of 90's web, yet with a new type look.

I have stopped using Flickr, 500px and all other such sites. Why you might ask? For one, I feel the 'game' is played like this: 'I started a Flickr account, now I a 500px account, oh also a SmugMug, also that new site which looks promising. And I need to link up all the networks to all the different sites, that all have different agreements concerning the rights and usage of your photos.'.

I just wont play this game no more. I've had enough of social this and that. The last drop was while checking out a new type reading app called 'dotdotdot' for iOS, and it seemed that even such a simple pleasure like reading can't just be enjoyed as is. No, no.. It needs socialising..

Enough rant, just had to get it out of my system.

http://onan.in/ – Everything on my terms, not some corporation :)
 
Well you don't really have to open up so many accounts, for years I've used only Flickr to socialize around pictures and resisted Tumblr, Facejunk and the rest. I have my own website aside from that and that's it
 
Linkert said:
SquareSpace is the way to go as a 'non-weblanguage-reader'.

I've done the total opposite to you. Instead of socialising the heck out of my photos I've decided enough is enough. I have a website, a static one. Each time I want to upload, I have to open up the HTML files and add the tags, then upload changes via FTP. Why do I have a static straight HTML/CSS3 site? I like the minimalism of it, the slight smell of 90's web, yet with a new type look.

I have stopped using Flickr, 500px and all other such sites. Why you might ask? For one, I feel the 'game' is played like this: 'I started a Flickr account, now I a 500px account, oh also a SmugMug, also that new site which looks promising. And I need to link up all the networks to all the different sites, that all have different agreements concerning the rights and usage of your photos.'.

I just wont play this game no more. I've had enough of social this and that. The last drop was while checking out a new type reading app called 'dotdotdot' for iOS, and it seemed that even such a simple pleasure like reading can't just be enjoyed as is. No, no.. It needs socialising..

Enough rant, just had to get it out of my system.

http://onan.in/ – Everything on my terms, not some corporation :)
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My thoughts have actually changed. I initially used just flickr, but then I started opening up multiple accounts and pretty much rehashed my images for the sake of social networking. Now I'm down to just flickr and tumblr and that works for me.
 
This is probably not the place to ask this, but how do you guys make flickr and tumblr links etc in your signature that say just that? As opposed to having a long URL like I currently have ?
 
sonofdanang said:
I haven't read all the posts so this is probably redundant. Have you considered blogspot? Google product and free. Very tweakable. At the very least it makes content management very straight forward and it gives you an idea where you might want to go if you went further.

Check out my blog for an example. Just click on the link at the bottom of my post and click on "Recent Work".

Cheers
S
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Thanks! But I figured it out, I decided to go with tumblr. This thread is old but I'm leaving it because other people might find it useful.
 
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