• Hey Guest!
    British Car Forum has been supporting enthusiasts for over 25 years by providing a great place to share our love for British cars. You can support our efforts by upgrading your membership for less than the dues of most car clubs. There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Upgraded members don't see this banner, nor will you see the Google ads that appear on the site.)
Tips
Tips

online galleries

Share this page

rosalind

rosalind

Senior Member
Country flag
Offline
does anyone know of a good photo sharing site that lets you use your photos as galleries? I have lots of mini photos from shows and some of my mini's. I am using flickr on my website at the moment but I don't like it much.

I would like the photos as thumbnails on a page instead of a slide show.
 
Hi Rosalind,
It may be the way you've set up your website. Flickr does generate thumbnails of your photos. It would be more work, but you could use their thumbnails as buttons to link to the full size photo. I found this one in your gallery on the flickr site.
5019025382_fddafea20e_t.jpg
 
I've had them all and was a charter pro-member of Zenfolio. For versatility, quality, and customer support you simply cannot beat smugmug (https://www.smugmug.com). You can make as many galleries in as many categories as you like - so organizing your images the way <span style="font-style: italic">you</span> want can be pretty simple. Uploading is drag-and-drop through most of the popular browsers. Unlike my experiences with the other companies, smugmug has <span style="font-style: italic">constantly</span> worked to update their service to suit their customers. They have their own forum (like BCF) and communicate constantly with their members there.

There are three levels of service at $40, $60, and $150. You can do a lot of customization at the $60 & $150 levels.

If you're savvy with css and html you can do a ton of things to your site at those two upper levels to copy the feel of your main site to your photo site. For example, for our local car club I designed our main site at https://www.volusiabritishcars.com/ which links to https://pix.aerog.com/AllBritishCarClubofVolusia

My regular smugmug site is https://pix.aerog.com/ - it's pretty plain, but I have done a lot of little css and java tweaks to make it a little different than the normal sites. I've got over 37gb of images there with nearly 20,000 image views this month. The system is down on the odd occasion, but it's relatively rare.

Some other examples with lots of customization that can be done at the $60 level are https://denise.smugmug.com/ https://www.travischancephotography.com/ https://www.alpfigen.com/ and https://www.davidweissphotos.com/

Good luck!

PS: like many of the other sites, you can show smugmug images on forums and blogs too.
 
thank you for the tips and all the research!! Smugmug looks good although I was hoping for a free gallery.

I hadn't thought of using flickr thumbnails either.
 
Back
Top