Comments on: The Best Photography Website Templates: Introducing a New Series

By: Bill isley

Bill isley — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:07:11 +0000

interesting article. Have a wonderful month!

By: Duke

Duke — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:44:05 +0000

I love this story and will be following it! Might I also suggest Showitfast.com? It’s created by David Jay (a wedding photographer) so I thought it’d be a nice see a website design by a fellow photographer

By: AlierrySary

AlierrySary — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:04:42 +0000

Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing …

By: Patty

Patty — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:19:14 +0000

I liked reading your blog…keep up the good work.

By: Kaitabasura

Kaitabasura — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:38:01 +0000

good read

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:05:59 +0000

I've also done a good review on Satellite TV for MY PC. My team has tested this software thoroughly and the review is worth a good read

By: Alyson

Alyson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:26:22 +0000

Are there any more reviews coming? The first were very helpful!

By: Sandy Saini

Sandy Saini — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:38:01 +0000

Thanks for the interesting post.

By: Life with Kaishon

Life with Kaishon — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:57:56 +0000

I just went over to look at your photography page. It looks wonderful! I love your pictures.

By: George

George — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:36:23 +0000

Very interesting… thanks.

By: Party Band

Party Band — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:00:54 +0000

Great Blog, like the pictures very much.

By: Sandrino

Sandrino — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:52:10 +0000

Erick,

I as mentioned before I created my own site…I also incorporated the use of Zenfolio for the store on my clients.

pics.cuevajaen.com sends you to my zenfolio site I tried to make it easy to navigate back to my http://www.cuevajaen site but I am still working on finishing my site both HTML and Flash as well and then make Zenfolio customizations to that site. It’s just a matter of time. Keep up the great review.
-Sandrino

By: 9 Steps to Start (or Jumpstart) Your Photography Business — DSLRBLOG - Photography Business Blog - Starting and Running a Business as a Professional Photographer

Fri, 01 May 2009 20:56:20 +0000

[...] the next week, either develop your site yourself, or find someone to develop it for you. Read my best photography website template series for reviews of photography website templates you can use to create great sites [...]

By: Erick Danzer

Erick Danzer — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:30:38 +0000

You’re right, John. I’ll add it to the list. I was also recently contacted by Photoshelter, and I’ll add them to the list as well.

By: John De Bord

John De Bord — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:18:15 +0000

You forgot one of SmugMug’s biggest competitors that many professionals use, Zenfolio!

By: Review of Printroom.com Web Templates and Online Storefronts — DSLRBLOG - Photography Business Blog - Starting and Running a Business as a Professional Photographer

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:15:35 +0000

[...] The Best Photography Website Templates: Introducing a New Series Review of Photobiz Website Templates [...]

By: Erick Danzer

Erick Danzer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:59:14 +0000

Hi Tony. I’ll have a look at Creative Motion Design. For now, it’s just Photobiz, though I’ll be posting a review of Printroom.com this week. Next in line after that is Smugmug the following week. Thanks for the thoughts. Erick

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:30:56 +0000

There’s also Creative Motion Design but you are constrained to the chosen template. Are there any reviews other than PhotoBiz?

By: Erick Danzer

Erick Danzer — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:14:02 +0000

Hey Sandrino,

Thanks for the note. I think you have hit an important point. The best solution varies on the buyer. Many of the all-in-one preset solutions (like the Photobiz site I set up) are easy, fast, and require no technical knowledge. That said, they really do lack flexibility. There are a lot of things I’d like to add to the Photobiz site, but I just can’t.

Buying a basic template, as you did, provides for optimum flexibility but requires greater technical knowledge. I’ve tried Template Monster on a few occasions and been “just OK” with the results. And I run another site (SLR Geek, a gear blog) on Joomla. That’s been great, but again it requires good technical knowledge and a willingness to invest time in adjusting html and css code to get the right results.

So, different solutions may be ideal for different folks – I’ll keep that in mind when I write the reviews. Thanks for the comment.

By: sandrino

sandrino — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:02:45 +0000

Eric,

I will be interested to follow this story. It sounds really great. I just went through the same quick anaylasis. Do I build my own, use a existing shop or just buy a template and run with it.

Well I needed to put up a site very, very, quickly and used Template Monster and hosted with GoDaddy and was up within hours….well 3.5 hours for a static html site. Then again I am a geek and very good with code. I am now going to incorporate that site with a full FLASH, Blog and store site. So Flexibility is key to me since I can coded it from scratch but I prefer to focus on more import things like taking pictures.

BTW, the limitations and/or inflexibility of canned producing sites is what forced me to go this route. I am trying out Joombla and if that works for me from the backend then I will incorporate all the front end and provide templates.

-Sandrino