We build custom designed websites that interact with the photo database. Listed below are some features of the front end sites:
Dynamic Photo- and Gallerypages: Professional and appealing presentation of your galleries and photos. Automatic generation of links to related elements plus a "Share-Button" to publish your photos directly on Facebook and Twitter from your own site. A photos assigned products can be added to the cart from each photo page. Additionally you can add a certificate or another complementing image for each photo
Highly Search Engine Optimized: We've designed the sites to place a photos keywords, titles, locations and descriptions in all the right spots for each page, so search engines like Google find them. All related galleries and photos are linked among each other automatically
Built-in Shopping Cart and Checkout: Links out elegantly to the Paypal payment processor. Note that customers can still check out with their credit cards or bank transfer without having a Paypal account. Sell your prints and any other products online
Custom Photo Search: Searches the database and presents directly photo thumbnail search results so that possible clients can quickly find the photos they want from any of your galleries
Protected Download Section: A special password protected section on your site where you can offer various files for registered users only
Contact Form: Interested parties and possible clients can contact you directly via this fast, easy and uncomplicated way
Content Pages: Dynamic content pages with open contens for e.g. service offers, an about me page, articles, tests and much more
Content-Management-System
The backend Content-Management-System, or CMS for short, is the powerful database engine under the hood of our gallery sites. Dave has spent several years developing this admin software specifically for managing his online photo galleries. The password-protected panel allows you to add and update all the content of your own website, without requiring any specialized web design or programming knowledge. Here are some features of the CMS:
Unlimited Galleries with unlimited Sub-Galleries: Create Galleries for photos, tours, calendars, workshops, books and more. There are several different layout formats to choose from. You decide how much images per gallery page are shown
Direct Photo Uploading with automatic thumbnail resizing: No need for an FTP program to upload, change or delete content. Photos can be added in multiple galleries so there is no need to upload a photo twice. Arrange the photos position in a gallery at any time
Specify keywords, titles, locations and descriptions for each photo, gallery and content page
Specify available print sizes for each photo: Create products and categories with prices and assign them to individual photos
Lists of your most popular photos for a particular or all galleries
Specify a special discount e.g. for: Print of the Month, weekly tour offers, unique Calendar offer and the like
Schedule photo and article releases for a subsequent date
Easily add / modify / delete unlimited content pages for e.g. articles, test or any other content
Inbuilt text editor in the description fields and content pages to easily add or edit links and texts to the text content, without having to know special html code
Use the Photo Search page to offer an alternative method of presenting and accessing your photos via search suggestions
Dynamic menu navigation allows you to add / modify / delete links in different levels of the navigation menus (depending on your sites design)
List and detailed view of all received orders
Manage a simple Maillist to send out simple mass emails through the admin. Useful for small mailing lists with a few hundred members. For larger lists we recommend using a professional email marketing service.
Specify a Welcome Coupon for each new registered user
Specify Standard- or Administration Permissions for each user
Built-in Guestbook
Customizable rss-feed with a mix of new photos and news
Lists of your Most Popular Photos for a particular or all galleries
Set numerous Site Options such as main site keywords, site descriptions, vacation messages, personal notes, to-do list, and more
Feel free to have a look at the Live Demo of the Content-Management-System.