website or Flickr for sports? +++UPDATE+++

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Hi guys as you know I have my own personal website with Photium where I post portfolios of Junior Sports for parents to purchase using the integrated Paypal function.

Now I have started shooting for Farsley AFC and thought i'd start a few galleries showcasing the best of each game.

My problem is I currently pay for 1000 images (Cost approx £13 pm) and I am already up to 950 images, and I'm only into two games of the season.

I've been thinking about getting a Flickr Pro account (approx $24 per year) and uploading all my Farsley stuff to that. As these images are more about improving my skill and not sales I think this would be a good option.

Also I could shift a lot of existing work over to Flickr and reduce the number of images on my site, if I get the number to under 500 my monthly Photium cost drops by half. This way I could hand pick my best images for the site and try to put a decent sports portfolio together.

What do you think?

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Right well i've set up my page for Farsley on my Photium website. Obviously this work around isn't as ideal as having all the images in my photium gallery, but it does have two benefits.

- I can have unlimited storage to host the Farsley pics which mean more photos for the club and also I can shoot more without worrying about space.

- It keeps my Junior galleries separate, which I like because this is where I aim to sell to parents with stock images often the best sellers. Whereas the Farsley stuff is all about me honing and improving my skills and capturing more action shots.

Heres the page so far, what do you think?
http://www.philcarverphotography.com/farsley
I'm going to add more copy, and also a link to the club website to try and generate traffic to their site.
 
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Hi. Being a Mac users, I have a .mac account (or .me). Works for me for quick uploading of images through iPhoto.
 
redmonkee said:
My problem is I currently pay for 1000 images (Cost approx £13 pm) and I am already up to 950 images, and I'm only into two games of the season.
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I have over 100 thousand pics on fotopic.net and it costs me 45 quid a yr.. i can have the full shopping cart as well for no extra...
 
I ahve my own domain and made one page... i then used the template of that one page on fotopic (they ahve template editing in premium ) and now fotopic and my front page all blend nicely together :)
 
KIPAX said:
I ahve my own domain and made one page... i then used the template of that one page on fotopic (they ahve template editing in premium ) and now fotopic and my front page all blend nicely together :)
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Not quite sure I follow.

At the moment I have my own Domain name which I use with my Photium site. Is there a way I can transfer this over to a fotopic site. What level of editing can you do as a pro user.
Could I make something like this? www.philcarverphotography.com
 
if you ahve control over your domain you can point it to wherever you want... you cant make a front page like that on fotopic I dont think...
 
KIPAX said:
I have over 100 thousand pics on fotopic.net and it costs me 45 quid a yr.. i can have the full shopping cart as well for no extra...
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I'm with Kipax on this the football club put all the shots I take on their Fotopic site and I use Fotopic for my Transport work,its dirt cheap
 
Gary Coyle said:
Yesiree, sure can.
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Just contacted Photium and I am not allowed to have portfolios linking to external galleries such as fotopic. I am however able to create a menu link direct to an external gallery and reduce costs by downgrading my account to one of the cheaper packages.

Nor sure how practical or professional looking this would be though:thinking:

How did you make your homepage?
 
I have two websites with three domain names. Also all galleries are hosted on one site with unlimited space.To make this work I have one domain forwarded to another and a link called "Client Galleries" which is linked to a folder on another site. Unless anyone bothers to look at the address bar they'll never know the images are on another website.
 
redmonkee said:
Just contacted Photium and I am not allowed to have portfolios linking to external galleries such as fotopic. I am however able to create a menu link direct to an external gallery and reduce costs by downgrading my account to one of the cheaper packages.

Nor sure how practical or professional looking this would be though:thinking:

How did you make your homepage?
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made it myself with frontpage, easy peasy.
 
snapzz said:
I have two websites with three domain names. Also all galleries are hosted on one site with unlimited space.To make this work I have one domain forwarded to another and a link called "Client Galleries" which is linked to a folder on another site. Unless anyone bothers to look at the address bar they'll never know the images are on another website.
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You can also probably set up your domain to "shadow" so your domain is always in the address bar regardless where you link to
 
Gary Coyle said:
made it myself with frontpage, easy peasy.
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Is Front page a windows program as I'm on a mac. I've been trying to get a fotopic gallery to look similar to my website but with no joy. Do you think it would work if I create a separate menu for the Farsley AFC pictures and in that menu just link it to a flickr account?
 
I just pay for a domain name and hosting, which is £24 a year for 3GB

I wrote the website myself apart from the gallery for which I use Jalbum (free) with a customised style that has PayPal payment included.

At the moment I'm using 955 MB of my allowed 3072MB to host 12,325 photos.



I'm on a Mac and use KompoZer (free) to edit my HTML
 
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redmonkee said:
Just contacted Photium and I am not allowed to have portfolios linking to external galleries such as fotopic. I am however able to create a menu link direct to an external gallery and reduce costs by downgrading my account to one of the cheaper packages.

Nor sure how practical or professional looking this would be though:thinking:

How did you make your homepage?
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Not very, is my opinion, not unless you can custom build the Fotopic site to look like your main site. You will also need to be able to link back to your main site from Fotopic, otherwise people will be stuck there when they click through to the gallery.
 
Dman said:
unless you can custom build the Fotopic site to look like your main site. You will also need to be able to link back to your main site from Fotopic, otherwise people will be stuck there when they click through to the gallery.
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like my website you mean :)
 
KIPAX said:
like my website you mean :)
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Yeah, yours is fine because you're always one click away from the homepage or any other part of the site, that's how it should be.
 
Right well i've set up my page for Farsley on my Photium website. Obviously this work around isn't as ideal as having all the images in my photium gallery, but it does have two benefits.

- I can have unlimited storage to host the Farsley pics which mean more photos for the club and also I can shoot more without worrying about space.

- It keeps my Junior galleries separate, which I like because this is where I aim to sell to parents with stock images often the best sellers. Whereas the Farsley stuff is all about me honing and improving my skills and capturing more action shots.

Heres the page so far, what do you think?
http://www.philcarverphotography.com/farsley
I'm going to add more copy, and also a link to the club website to try and generate traffic to their site.
 
Just re read your original post...remind me why you started this thread? :)
 
KIPAX said:
Just re read your original post...remind me why you started this thread? :)
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Lol I think i've forgot now Tony:lol:

....wait thats it. I was asking if I should use a flickr account or my photium website to showcase my sport photography. I liked Flickr because of the huge amount of storage. However I prefer the look of my Photium website.

Having seen how you created a homepage and linked this to fotopic galleries I looked into this, but couldn't get the fotopic galleries to fit the style of my homepage.

So afterall that I've decided to combine my current site with my new flickr site and have the best of both world.

Phew think that covers it :cuckoo:
 
KIPAX said:
Its just that you seem to have completly ignored everyones advice and done what you said you where thinking of doing in the OP :)
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I tried to get Photium to link my gallery to fotopic so my site would be similar to your set up, so i did take on board advice on here. As Photium could not do this i opted for the Flickr route instead. :thumbs:

I also looked into a mobile me account as suggested by photdiva, but found this was not going to work for what i wanted.
 
Until I get round to doing something better, I've linked my site to hosting on Flickr too.

It helps that BT give you a free pro account, and I've based it on free BT ISP webspace.
Like whiteflyer, I built the pages using KompoZer (though on a PC)

Total hosting and development cost so far is £0.00 (and cue folks telling me that it shows.....)
 
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