Monday, March 11, 2013

What is a good website to share photography?

Q. Not like facebook or myspace but a place where I can post my photography and have people critique it and I can look at other pictures.

A. There are a few different places you can use or try in fact I would use a few at once especially if you want to sell any of them.

try free sites like
http://www.flickr.com
http://www.picasa.web.google.com
http://www.ephotozine.com
http://www.imagefly.info
http://www.eyefetch.com
http://www.imgload.com
http://www.pbase.com

there is also
http://www.redbubble.com

You could always start your own blog with someone like www.blogger.com and download a photoblog template from somewhere like www.bloggertemplates.com (they have some great photography templates)

You could have the free account with blogger and the free blogger ID or you could buy your own domain name though blogger for $10 so instead of having a web address like www.mybestpics.blogspot.com it would look like www.enjoymyphotos.com and it is still hosted free with blogger. To promote it you could then add your web site address as a signature to your emails, your facebook page etc

The blog is a good idea if you want to be a photographer and it's easier than having a full website especially when you are starting out. And it looks more professioal than sending someone to the likes of picasa or flickr.

Picture of a boy and girl making a heart out of multiple pictures?
Q. Its been on facebook and tumblr and ifunny pages but i can't seem to find it anymore. Link please.

A. There are computer programs that will let you take several pictures and then use an image as a template to make them into a heart shape. This is one of them and it is free.

http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/download/

And check here for others.

http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/photography/articles/34691.aspx

My family paid a web designer to make a small business page and the facebook and twitter links both go back to?
Q. The F for facebook and T for Twitter on the web page we paid $1400 for both go to the web designers own pages, all the photos that was taken, submitted and added to the page at our request are in what we think may be spanish when you hover over or click on them, and the web designer has put his own link to contact him at the bottom of our page as well. Is any of this legal? What can we do?

A. Jeez! $1400 for a web page - he's taken you for a ride there!

I charge at most £200 for a web site and that includes full set up and hosting and one domain name.

$1400 you should be getting proper decent service for that.

The facebook and twitter links should be set up right to go to your facebook and twitter pages, not his own.

As for your pictures in Spanish are you sure it's not Latin - "Lorem ipsum" is just a filler for when the person is producing a demo site, he should have changed it to the text you requested.

You could try going to the following

<sitename>/administrator

e.g.

www.mysite.co.uk/administrator

or

www.mysite.co.uk/admin

and then see if you can login with any username or password he's give you.

From there you should be able to edit it yourself and replace the text on the pictures. He's most probably used a CMS like Joomla to create the site which if you want to change it as long as you know the username and password for the back end then you should have no problem.

As for the link to contact him, that is normal for webdesigners, normally it's positioned right at the bottom with the text such as "Site design by <company name>".

One of your biggest problems you may face is if he is a cowboy web designer (which charging $1400 just to install Joomla and put a few images up there and just use default text certainly does sound like that's the case, he may be a bit reluctant to give you your domain name back. I always make sure my clients have full control over their domain names and are free to take them to anyone other hosting, but some web design companies are known to be very ruthless and try and control the domain name.

One more thing if you get to the administration section of the site if he has been really lazy and not bothered setting it up right you might find that the username is admin and the password is also admin.

And one final thing - if he's sold you a website built with Joomla (or any of the other GPL CMS's like Drupal, Wordpress, Mambo, etc) for $1400 he may be in breach of GPL licencing. He can charge a reasonable amount for work put into the site such as time spent setting it up, designing the template (if it's his own template - again many templates on Joomla are also under GPL licencing), but if it's Joomla he is not allowed to charge you for that software as that's not his to sell, and Joomla is licensed under GPL licencing.




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