Online password protected gallery?

[Avotius]

I need some sort of online gallery that I can password protect for setting up preview pages for clients but I cant have other people looking at them just yet for various reasons which I wont go into.

Having a lot of space is not a problem as I will delete whatever it on there after each project or whatever. So somewhere that I can stick photos, password protect, and free would be a huge plus.

Any suggestions?

 

[nksyoon]

Photoshelter has free accounts up to 150MB and has options for upgrades including customized website templates.

 

[Avotius]

gave photoshelter a try, not particularly user friendly, its a choice, any one else got any other ideas?

 

[Tuolumne]

-Smugmug-

/T

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

My photo site is with the Authors' Guild, which I'm a member of:
http://www.jrobertlennon.com/photography

But most of my ftp type stuff I use hostexcellence. I went in on a big space with a bunch of friends, and they gave us I think five domains and plenty of subdomains. And they have been very reliable for the past year.

 

[JeffGreene]

Zenfolio isn't free, but it's also not all that expensive and is very user friendly and intuitive.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

I sort of feel that it's more professional to have your own domain, and to code your own page (or hire somebody to do it). Not that I'm a professional, but still.

 

[Avotius]

that is true, but that is also not what I need here. Just a simple place where I can stick photos for quick review online by other people, looking slick or professional is not a problem, or even having my own domain (something I should do anyway eventually)

 

[easyrider]

that is true, but that is also not what I need here. Just a simple place where I can stick photos for quick review online by other people, looking slick or professional is not a problem, or even having my own domain (something I should do anyway eventually)

Smugmug. You can have your own domain if you want. Inexpensive, no ads and lots of password options.

 

[Tuolumne]

A vote for Smugmug, again. Very easy to use. Highly flexible: customize if you want ot use their defaults which are very nice. Password protection and custom domain names supported easily. Great customer service.

/T

 

[wgerrard]

Picasa offers a variety of privacy settings: http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39501

Password protection for a site or a directory/folder within a site is usually a function of the server. I've done it on Apache. Microsoft servers offer the same capability, I believe. I know you don't want to go the run-my-own-domain route, but it's worth checking to see if the guys running whatever server you put the photos on can do that for you.

 

[Ezzie]

I´ve used Picasa for that sort of thing.