Defoenet.com » photography website http://defoenet.com Pictures, rants and randomness! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:18:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I Love Smugmug http://defoenet.com/2011/01/i-love-smugmug/ http://defoenet.com/2011/01/i-love-smugmug/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:20:19 +0000 David http://defoenet.com/2011/01/i-love-smugmug/ smugmug_logoIt’s been a while since I have used Smugmug.  I always thought they were really cool because the first time I signed up they sent me free stuff (well I guess I paid for it).  I had a cool Smugmug camera strap and a few bumper stickers.  My online orders are few and far between (come on guys being a starving artist isn’t any fun).  Over the past 2 years I’ve tried other online photograph order websites and have finally come back to Smugmug.  Although most of the usability is the same there have been a lot of updates with the programming.

Now if I can just get more people to purchase my images I’d even be happier!

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I looked at some online resources and have not been very happy with what I was finding or the pricing.  It seems that a lot of photographers website look a lot alike and that is probably why customers are expecting me to have a similar type of layout.  I want to be able to update the portfolio easily and frequently.  Using Lightroom for my workflow I tested a bunch of the website templates and found some issues with each one.  After doing some searches for Lightroom website templates I found a few that I liked the look of.  Unfortunately they didn’t plug into my website as easily as I would have liked.  After some playing around the redesign has started.  Check out one of the new pages on my site at http://defoe-photography.com/portrait-photography/

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