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Can anybody tell me what the best photo blogging site is please or a website i can set up cheap to create my own portfolio.
 
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Have you looked at using Photocrati for Wordpress? They are good for that sort of thing
 
whatever you do, not wix... terrible sites.

Lots of wordpress themes that people like to use :)
 
kelack said:
Have you looked at using Photocrati for Wordpress? They are good for that sort of thing
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I just claimed a refund on Photocrati. I found it rather basic and not very attractive - albeit it quite easy to manage. The themes are all basically the same, and I felt it was expensive for what it actually did.

I use Wordpress for my own personal site (not the blogspot one below!), but I use the templates from Elegant Themes. They're the same price as Photocrati, and while they aren't perhaps quite as easy to use, they are certainly far more attractive - and you get a huge variety.
 
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I just claimed a refund on Photocrati. I found it rather basic and not very attractive - albeit it quite easy to manage. The themes are all basically the same, and I felt it was expensive for what it actually did.

I use Wordpress for my own personal site (not the blogspot one below!), but I use the templates from Elegant Themes. They're the same price as Photocrati, and while they aren't perhaps quite as easy to use, they are certainly far more attractive - and you get a huge variety.
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I did the same. I decided that whilst it was quite intuative and easy to use, I wasn't in the right place to be paying out £50 for a new theme.

Wordpress is definitely the way to go for this sort of thing. You could get a free .com wordpress site just for blogging, but for a portfolio your best off with a self hosted site. Self hosting allows A LOT of possibilities, and as the wordpress software is free, you can get away with just your hosting fees :thumbs:
 
Smugmug is a good site for creating a gallery and it allows you to use your own domain name and customise the site with CSS
 
bono1985 said:
Can anybody tell me what the best photo blogging site is please or a website i can set up cheap to create my own portfolio.
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wordpress is very popular with photographers. I use it for my whole site. You can get tons of free plugins etc. but you might have to delce into the code a bit if you want to make changes that make it look unique. There are free themes you can get for it though.

If you decide you need total control but want a simple interface, something like prophoto installed into wordpress works really well. It's actually pretty cheap considering what you can do easily and how much it would cost to get a site designed from scratch.
 
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