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Jonathon Bird, Photographer
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Port Clinton | OH | United States | Posted: 4:40 PM on 02.21.08 |
->> I'm looking to build a website and was wondering if anybody knows of a good host. I don't know coding and was looking for something simple to use with little web building experience. If anybody knows of any please let me know.
Thanks,
Jon |
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Harrison Shull, Photographer
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Fayetteville, WV | Asheville, NC | | Posted: 4:58 PM on 02.21.08 |
->> Livebooks seems to be very popular here at SS. I just went with NeonSky which seems to be fairly similar.
Harrison |
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Jared Wickerham, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Pittsburgh | PA | U.S.A. | Posted: 5:03 PM on 02.21.08 |
| ->> I'm actually about to buy an edu version of livebooks. I've only heard good things about it. |
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Sam Adams, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Albuquerque | NM | USA | Posted: 5:32 PM on 02.21.08 |
->> For myself as well as a number of other sportsshooter members the choice was sitewelder.
I've been very happy with them.
-Sam |
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Jared Wickerham, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Pittsburgh | PA | U.S.A. | Posted: 5:44 PM on 02.21.08 |
->> Sam,
Is sitewelder hosting only or do they have an easy to use pagebuilder template like livebooks? |
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Christopher Record, Photographer
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Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 5:49 PM on 02.21.08 |
->> I've had great experiences with NeonSky and I highly recommend them.
Templates are well designed and easy to use and customize. Customer service is top notch. |
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Max Gersh, Student/Intern, Photo Editor
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St. Louis | MO | USA | Posted: 6:21 PM on 02.21.08 |
->> I use 1&1. They are a really reliable host and cheap (but I'm sure the other ones are too). They give you a basic page builder program but you can upgrade to the complex one. I use dreamweaver so I don't know about their building programs. 24/7 phone support which has already been helpful.
-Max- |
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N. Scott Trimble, Photographer
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Lake Oswego | OR | USA | Posted: 7:10 PM on 02.21.08 |
| ->> I liked sitewelder. Initially, a better value, although the costs equalize in about four years with livebooks |
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Sandy Huffaker, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 8:27 PM on 02.21.08 |
->> I have Neonsky and am very happy with it.
I think Bludomain is also pretty good and very affordable.
here is the link http://www.bludomain.com
Good Luck! |
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Tom Sperduto, Photographer
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Edison | NJ | USA | Posted: 8:37 PM on 02.21.08 |
->> I am a happy livebooks customer.
My recently upgraded site can be seen here: www.tomsperduto.com |
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Sam Adams, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Albuquerque | NM | USA | Posted: 1:54 AM on 02.23.08 |
->> Jared,
Sitewelder is much like livebooks. They provide you with hosting, a wide variety of templates and options, and great customer support.
My website:
www.samadamsphotography.com
Sitewelders site:
http://www.sitewelder.com/
-Sam |
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Harrison Shull, Photographer
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Fayetteville, WV | Asheville, NC | | Posted: 8:54 AM on 02.23.08 |
->> I have a question for Sitewelder and Livebooks users...
When you upload jpegs with captions embedded into the metadata, will the photo gallery templates automatically extract the caption and make it available to viewers?
I just signed on with NeonSky and found out to my dismay, that this is not a feature with their system. After uploading jpegs, you have to go in an manually enter each caption. This is a tedious operation at best. |
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Denny Medley, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Kansas City | MO | USA | Posted: 9:45 AM on 02.23.08 |
->> Jonathon,
have you checked out www.photoshelter.com? I signed up with them, and the variety of services, uptime, customer service, FTP capabilities, geographically redundant storage, and many other options make them a very good all around choice. |
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Robert Seale, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 9:58 AM on 02.23.08 |
->> Harrison-
I can speak for Sitewelder, and no, you have to go in and create new captions. Livebooks is likely the same way.
Most people want very concise captions on their websites. I would certainly not want all the information in my IPTC caption field showing up on my website. |
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Mike Brice, Photographer
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 10:59 AM on 02.23.08 |
->> With Livebooks you also have to caption the image once you upload it.
I have Livebooks and I think it is great.
I would shy away from BluDomain as it appears to be hit or miss with them.
I also have a secondary site with Clickbooqs - with them they do extract the IPTC info from the images you upload. But since you do a save for web to get the optimized file, it really doesn't mean much since that info is stripped out anyway and you have to add it again once you upload the file. |
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Mark Scheuern, Photographer
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Joshua Brown, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 10:32 AM on 03.04.08 |
->> I am in the process of getting a LiveBooks site set up and everything has gone perfectly so far. I mocked up a design in photoshop along with the fonts i preferred. I am having a personal conversation with the designer later this week.
Automatic SEO, photoshelter integration, and the ability to upload to a back end were big things for me. |
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Ryan Timm, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Bradley | IL | USA | Posted: 12:04 PM on 03.04.08 |
| ->> I have a livebooks edu site and If I am not mistaken, I believe livebooks extracted the file information from my images. I will have to double check that but I am pretty sure it did. |
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David Bailey, Photographer
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Flower Mound | TX | USA | Posted: 9:56 PM on 03.04.08 |
| ->> Check out www.clikpic.com. Great designs and very affordable compared to many others. Check out my site at www.davidbailey.com to see how I've used them. |
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Jeffery Patch, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Huntington Beach | CA | USA | Posted: 9:03 PM on 03.09.08 |
->> Just thought I'd throw Evrium Fluid Galleries 2 into the mix. I went with them because the price was right and you have a lot of customization options. Not quite as many as I'd like but it was definitely worth it for the price.
Every month they run a special where you can get 2 sites for the price of 1. Good way to go if you have a friend.
Also, contact them if you're student. The student price was less than 1/2 off. That's what sold me.
www.jeffpatchphoto.com is my site. |
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John Taggart, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | USA | Posted: 9:25 AM on 03.10.08 |
| ->> I highly suggest dreamhost www.dreamhost.com |
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Andrew Foulk, Photographer
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Menifee | CA | United States | Posted: 1:09 PM on 03.10.08 |
->> Jason,
I designed my site a few years ago and have been using Yahoo.com to host it and had a great experience, But I am now in the process of trying to get a more professional look from my site. So I have been researching this subject for awhile now and have decided to go with Neon Sky. There support is great and the ability to change and update the site is very easy. I would say if your on a budget go with yahoo.com and use there site designer that is free with your site, but if you have a little more to spend go with Neon Sky.
Hope this helps!
-Andrew- |
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Patrick Murphy-Racey, Photographer
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Powell | TN | USA | Posted: 1:03 PM on 03.25.08 |
| ->> I just wanted to update anyone that will listen about my ongoing problems with Bludomain.com. They have not responded to any of my e-mails in the last few weeks. I threw in the towel and finally asked them to credit my card for what they charged me. I started to work through filing a claim against them through paypal as that is how they process payments. The phone number that paypal has for them is no longer in service (720-535-5648). Says it's disconnected. So now I'll take it up with my credit card company since I can get no response to my asking them to refund my $550. Stay away from these people. Don't be tempted by their sexy sites; you do not want to be in bed with these people. |
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Nick Wright, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Independence | KS | USA | Posted: 1:37 PM on 03.25.08 |
->> I've been using GoDaddy for a while now. Don't seem to have any problems with them.
Just made a new web site for myself.
http://www.nickwrightphoto.com/
Is the address. I use a program called ShutterBug to build it.
http://xtralean.com/SBOverview.html
The program is a little different than what I've used before, but I really like the way it does what it does. |
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Diana Porter, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 10:25 PM on 03.28.08 |
->> I am hosted on Yahoo but bought my template from allwebcodesign.com and love it. Super Easy to customize and add as many pages as you want (which I need). Supports Java, Flash, ColdFusion. They also offer lots of free coding goodies.
Here is my site:
http://www.designonlinehouston.com |
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Brian Jorg, Photographer
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Cincinnati | OH | USA | Posted: 6:15 PM on 03.29.08 |
->> I just created my first website with Sitewelder. This site is primarily for my outdoor/nature images, with emphesis on my public speaking. Putting the site together was easy for a non tech like me, and customer service was quick and easy to understand. The main selling point for me, was that I was able to build a site for 30 days, if I liked it, I could pay up and go live. I figured if I got in over my head, it wouldn't cost me a thing, and I would have someone else build it for me.
Here is a link
http://www.brianjorg.com |
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Patrick Murphy-Racey, Photographer
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Powell | TN | USA | Posted: 9:05 PM on 07.15.08 |
->> I continue to have problems with bludomain.
1. I have a site up but no video element which I paid for back in march of this year.
2. I tried to buy another site (owen) which blu was happy to nail my visa for in April. I got an automated e-mail when I purchased it, then nothing. So, a month ago, I sent yet another nasty note to them (to Rachel) and she assured me that she would help me out... that was on June 13th. I've heard nothing...
Be very forewarned about getting into bed with these people... I should have gone another direction with my website... If they would just follow through and even respond ti my e-mails, I'm sure we could get me going, but for now, it pretty much sucks. |
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 3:27 PM on 07.16.08 |
->> http://neonsky.com I've been with them for over two years and the backend works to perfection, they respond, and I've never been down that I have seen. (All website go down at some point, for various reasons, the goal is to keep it to a minimum.)
$250 setup and $45 a month, virtually unlimited everything. |
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Steve Mitchell, Photographer
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West Palm Beach | FL | United States | Posted: 3:43 PM on 07.16.08 |
->> I use my .mac account to create my web pages and use www.name.com for a domain name. One year $ 2.99 and two years $ 876.
Steve |
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Steve Mitchell, Photographer
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West Palm Beach | FL | United States | Posted: 3:47 PM on 07.16.08 |
| ->> And no monthly fees. Under ten bucks for two years. |
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Thad Allender, Photographer
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Lawrence | KS | USA | Posted: 8:45 PM on 07.17.08 |
->> I suggest that you get your own host (http://mediatemple.net) and install Wordpress (http://wordpress.org). Media Temple offers free, one-click installations of Wordpress. Wordpress is a free website content management tool with literally thousands of templates and limitless possibilities. With the right template design, you can manage your photo portfolio, multimedia, blogs, password protected client galleries, etc., all from within Wordpress. If you can send email, you can use Wordpress. I've been using it for years at http://thadallender.com
I'm currently using this template, which is very easily customizable:
http://graphpaperpress.com/demo/f8/ |
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Patrick Murphy-Racey, Photographer
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Powell | TN | USA | Posted: 10:15 AM on 07.26.08 |
->> In the interest of helping others having trouble with Bludomain, I finally found their LLC in Colorado which they do a great job at keeping hidden from all it seems. If anyone else has difficulty with them, this is how you can find them. Please see my letter that I sent today below. There may be an excellent class-action law suit here if there are others like myself that have been taken by them... patrick
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Bludomain, LLC
17919 East Dorado Drive
Aurora, CO 80015
Phone
(720) 535-5648
Website
http://www.bludomain.com
Year Founded: 2003
Annual Revenues: 360000
Employees: 3
__________________________
Owner: Bludomain.com
17919 East Dorado Drive
Aurora, CO 80015
7.26.08
Attn. Owner or Principle Partners in the LLC of Bludomain:
I’m not sure where to begin. I have had nothing but trouble since first I pay-pal’d my good heard earned money to your company. I have never had such difficulty with a technology company.
I have attached some of the many e-mails that I have sent to your staff as well as some of their empty promise responses, the latest being on June 16, some forty one days ago. I have been trying to get your people to do what you promise on your website. I can’t even get anyone to respond anymore at all.
I have paid for two sites. The first took forever to get up and I still have no video element to it even though I paid the extra $100 for that feature.
The second site I have received NOTHING. Your customer service sucks. Your admin. Interface and designs are brilliant, sexy, and cool but none of that matters if you piss off the people that pay money for your services.
I have given up on contacting Aundrea and Rachel as they clearly don’t want to deal with me. I would like someone to call me and help me get going on the video part of the “george site” I purchased in March of 2007, and I would like you guys to put up my “owen” site that was paid for back on April 13th (4 months ago).
If you cannot handle these simple tasks, I want all my money back and any trace of Bludomain off my servers as soon as possible. If you do not comply with one of these two requests by August 7th, I will start legal means in small claims and sue your LLC, not just for the money that I’ve been ripped off, but also for the punitive damages you’ve caused my business by not having my websites up to retain and gain new business.
Please respond by phone, e-mail, letter, carrier pigeon, whatever.
Sincerely yours,
Patrick Murphy-Racey |
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Patrick Murphy-Racey, Photographer
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 8:50 PM on 01.11.09 |
->> I built mine through Lightroom. It works for a nice, simple layout.
http://photographnic.com/ |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 8:55 PM on 01.11.09 |
->> Patrick,
You can't sue for punitive damages in small claims court. You can only recover provable, actual damages.
--Mark |
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Joshua Brown, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 10:26 PM on 01.11.09 |
->> I am very happy with my Livebooks site. I mocked it up in Photoshop, they gave me a backend.
http://www.joshuabrownphotography.com |
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Philip Johnson, Photographer
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Garland | TX | USA | Posted: 10:32 PM on 01.11.09 |
->> Okay, I haven't used this web company yet, but here is a site from a photograpgher that is using it. It looks simple and is reasonable priced. http://www.thephotographers.cc/
The web compant is www.photobiz.com |
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Jonathan Nimerfroh, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | USA | Posted: 11:05 PM on 01.11.09 |
->> Neonsky
www.jdnphotography.net |
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Robert Benson, Photographer
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Lane Hickenbottom, Photographer
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Joe Morahan, Photographer
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Denver | Co | USA | Posted: 1:21 PM on 01.12.09 |
| ->> GO WITH LIVEBOOKS!!!! |
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Courtney Adams, Photographer
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Burlington | Vermont | United States | Posted: 4:02 PM on 01.12.09 |
| ->> I use Adobe Dreamweaver for my website and others that i have made. It is a great program. It has everything that you could ever need. |
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David Bailey, Photographer
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Flower Mound | TX | USA | Posted: 12:11 AM on 01.17.09 |
| ->> Just to update, I have switched to www.squarespace.com. I'm really happy with the service. I've put together a very simple design, but you can get as fancy as you want. It allows cutom CSS, etc. Handles blog, images, great admin behind the scenes information. |
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Patrick Murphy-Racey, Photographer
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Powell | TN | USA | Posted: 2:15 PM on 01.17.09 |
->> Hey Mark, as for punitive damages, this thing has escalated for me with Blu Domain. I'm looking more at a class action suit at this point in finding that there are many other people out there who have been treated as I have been by them. This is why I've set up this blog in hopes of finding others like myself who have been taken for a ride: http://bludomainrippedme.blogspot.com/
I can assure you that punitive damages can be paid out in a class action law suit. |
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David Eulitt, Photographer
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Kansas City | MO | USA | Posted: 2:42 PM on 01.17.09 |
->> I just launched with NeonSky and really enjoy the service and the design options.
http://www.davideulitt.com |
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James Broome, Photographer
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Tampa | FL | US | Posted: 11:28 AM on 05.19.09 |
->> Shooters - please be wary of FolioLink as their policy is to refuse refund requests for any reason.
I ended up with PhotoBiz instead. Great templates to work with and extremely reasonable pricing.
http://www.photobiz.com (their site)
http://www.jamesbroome.com (my site) |
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Derek Montgomery, Photographer
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Duluth | MN | USA | Posted: 12:15 PM on 05.19.09 |
| ->> Livebooks all the way, hands down. Easy updating interface. Fast and responsive customer service. Valuable webinars. Tons of options and professional people. It's a no-brainer if you ask me. |
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PJ Heller, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 12:27 PM on 05.19.09 |
| ->> Anybody have experience with http://aphotofolio.com/ ??I’m thinking of moving my site there. |
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Lucas Mobley, Photographer
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 12:37 PM on 05.19.09 |
->> If you want a UNIQUE site with all of Livebooks features and more, plus bigger images, check out Into The Dark Room.
http://www.intothedarkroom.com/
If you're on more of a budget, Neonsky is pretty clean.
http://www.lucasmobley.com |
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