RustyBug Offline Upload & Sell: On
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eeneryma wrote:
showcase my photos
as simple and easy as possible
You might take a look at WIX for drag & drop build your own or with their canned templates.
I've been looking through a variety of sites, and will not be using the Smugmug, Flickr "legalized theft" sites when I go live. I think the variety of approach to website development is as opinionated as it is for an image or pp, so it becomes a matter of personal preference @ objectives ... i.e. for gallery, personal, storage, sales, promotion, etc. as to which type of platform/build is optimal.
The "legal theft" sites are very convenient and the risk/reward associated with them is likely making a mountain out of a mole hill if you are actually making $$$ selling through them. Philosophically (get over it Kent ), I don't care to pay money to others so they have carte blance license to my work.
In the meantime, my opinion of WIX is that I seem to keep going back to it for brainstorming what I want to build. I went back to it last night to start a new project that I think will actually have lasting power for me ideologically (more about what I want to do than about WIX).
You can put together a gallery pretty easily with the templates. Some reviews bash WIX @ their architecture is not optimal for SEO. Imo, that is a matter of important / not important @ people Googling to find you vs. you directing them to your site. For my needs, it will not (initially) be that important for SEO to meet my objectives. Should that need for optimal SEO change later, I can always change platforms. But, won't that required a duplicate effort and more work ... yeah, if I ever get that far ... I'll cross that bridge after I get famous. In the meantime, I'm still developing the content and have it available to share in what seems to me as a nice combination of ease and/or creativity for your site.
I've not taken my WIX projects live yet, but my temperament keeps taking me back to them ... the weak link in this being me making up my mind, rather than WIX. FYI, I set a goal every year @ something and 2014 is rounding the final turn ... I'll be going with WIX, lest I continue my analysis/paralysis in quest of optimal into 2015 and beyond.
You can build "offline" and they will keep it stored while you edit / build until you decide to publish (as do others), however long that may take. I looked at GoDaddy several years ago, but I find WIX to be a bit more intuitive @ drag/drop editing. FWIW, there are different (and likely better ) routes than WIX, but for what I'm sensing you are trying to achieve ... eh, it's worth a look see @ what you think about it.
HTH
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