Photography Portfolio

[Tommo224]

Okay it's about time I get off my butt and put together my website. It has had a splash page for ages now, and I don't send traffic that way because of that. Basically people will only find it if they type the domain from my watermark or use my business card.

So anyway, I want to set up a blogging system and integrate it with a gallery system!

However, most of what I find just look tacky.


I love the way Smugmug, Zenfolio and Parade work. However, I would like to be able to host it on my own server.


More notably, a system that looks and works exactly like this would be AMAZING:
http://hayleyhaines.paradepro.com/


Can anybody help guide me to finding one? Paying for the system isn't a problem. But I just don't want a month-by-month payment plan and have it hosted on their servers. Not when I have my own already!


I found one called jAlbum
http://jalbum.net


But yeah, if anyone knows of a way I can get this:
http://hayleyhaines.paradepro.com/

Without having it hosted by them, that would be awesome. And again, don't mind paying for the system.

[ricktas]

Interesting website. Setup in 2009 and it still doesnt work properly. The home page looks good, but there is some odd overlay when you go to slideshow mode. Not something I would want to copy at all. I can only assume it was an attempt to stop copyright theft, but in practicality it is distracting, annoying and off-putting. Certainly would not get me wanting to buy from/use the photographer.

If you want to build your own, with galleries etc, check out : www.serif.com/webplus

[Ian Brewster]

Why not email Hayley Haines? The address is on the site. (it seemed to work OK for me; the "screen" over the images only occurs if you cursor over it as far as I can tell)

[Tommo224]

Ricktas I liked the way I could have heaps of photos on one page and have heaps of galleries. I didn't encounter any issues on that template.
In any case whatever system they were using wouldn't end up being the final product I would be using because it's integrated in to their admin back ends and stuff.

After I made this post I kept searching and found a couple of other solutions based around WordPress (which had been a system I've had set up on my other mini domains for a while). Which means I can customize so much myself and hopefully achieve what it is that I have been wanting and waiting to do

Shall give it a go when I have some time! Schwing!