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Has anyone one had any experience with running the ProPhotoBlog (based on wordpress) websites?

We are thinking of using this as our only web presence as opposed to a flash or similar template driven site.

With regards to ease of use and the customization of the site how does it fair? at $199 its not to much of a punt but I'd rather know of any pitfalls/problems before hand!
 
I'll be following this with interest. I was about to purchase pro photo but then started looking at zenfolio and i'm now thoroughly confused!!
 
I use it and love it. I don't use it to its full potential at all, as I like a simple layout, but the customisation is incredible. Every time I think it would good to make a change to some obscure part of the site, you'll find a customisation option for it, frankly it's just great!
 
haven't upgraded to the latest yet, but I do love mine.
I used to have a flash template site, thought it was great but the SEO was non-existant, so I started a blog, everyone recommended the pro-photo theme so I went for it, now I use it for the static content too.
  • Easy to customise, either yourself, or you can buy additional themes.
  • Simple interface allows loads of customisations even of a single theme.
  • Easy management of uploads
  • Creates iphone friendly content even if I want a flash slideshow running on the web (the new one auto creates proper iphone pages).
  • Auto generates brilliant SEO from my content created with only a little care

You only have to look at how different Mark's site is to mine to see how customisable it is.
 
Ok, myself and Stevie have went for Prophoto and the Organic blog.

The colour scheme on it isn't quite what we wanted but we thought as these templates are meant to be customisable that it'll just be a simple option to change the colour.

Am I right in saying that this isn't the case?! I appears that the background and header (and the images in the header) and all just made up of jpegs! This means if we wish to change the colour or any of the images in the header we must save these jpegs out, edit in photoshop, resave and upload?

For someone that has come from photium these seems s***!

Please tell me I'm being a numpty and there is an easy way to do this!!
 
Mine is with a prophoto template, they update freely and nicely and I've had no problems.
 
Matt989 said:
Ok, myself and Stevie have went for Prophoto and the Organic blog.

The colour scheme on it isn't quite what we wanted but we thought as these templates are meant to be customisable that it'll just be a simple option to change the colour.

Am I right in saying that this isn't the case?! I appears that the background and header (and the images in the header) and all just made up of jpegs! This means if we wish to change the colour or any of the images in the header we must save these jpegs out, edit in photoshop, resave and upload?

For someone that has come from photium these seems s***!

Please tell me I'm being a numpty and there is an easy way to do this!!
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You're right as the newer type theme you've chosen uses jpegs, there is an option pack which is free to download, and that has all the PSD files in that, and you can probably alter the colours too, and just re-upload them.
 
treeman said:
You're right as the newer type theme you've chosen uses jpegs, there is an option pack which is free to download, and that has all the PSD files in that, and you can probably alter the colours too, and just re-upload them.
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That would be much much better but still a little annoying, any idea where to get them and will it cover the organic template?
 
Matt989 said:
That would be much much better but still a little annoying, any idea where to get them and will it cover the organic template?
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Yep, go to the Manage Designs section, and download the Resource kit, everything you need should be there.

If you get stuck, I'm around later this eve, so just shout :)
 
Sorry Scrub that, I've just realised you using a third party custom design, looks like you may have to get them to do the colour changes (at cost). Ping them an email and see what they say.
 
Not sure which elements of the design you mean, but theres a placeholder for the masthead which is a jpeg and the actual background is also a jpeg. Which makes them infinitely customisable. The colours of all the elements can then be customised to co-ordinate with your branding.
 
If you were to purchase one of the custom blogs like organic it would be clearer.

It is essentially all jpegs, some of which are easy to edit, others which are not. Some files are supplied in psd format, which helps editing, but within these there is vectors which are alien to me.

Ive basically deleted the organic template, used one of prophotos and edited everything. Slowly getting somewhere!
 
treeman said:
You're right as the newer type theme you've chosen uses jpegs, there is an option pack which is free to download, and that has all the PSD files in that, and you can probably alter the colours too, and just re-upload them.
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what he said. There are PSD files available for all the elements of your theme, and often notes about fonts used, where to find them etc............It should be almost limitlessly customisable


treeman said:
Sorry Scrub that, I've just realised you using a third party custom design, looks like you may have to get them to do the colour changes (at cost). Ping them an email and see what they say.
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Even with a custom theme I'd of thought they'd supply this
 
Hugh, it looks, from what I can see, that they don't come with all the PSD files like Prophoto's own templates. Could be wrong though, wouldn't be the first time :)
 
treeman said:
Hugh, it looks, from what I can see, that they don't come with all the PSD files like Prophoto's own templates. Could be wrong though, wouldn't be the first time :)
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maybe, but mines a custom theme and I got all the psds, jpegs and general gubbins (plus very detailed instructions on how to change)
 
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