My current website host is bludomain (don't get me started) and I am done with them. Way too many issues to go into. I really like the Web gallery feature of Lightroom and I was wondering how many people actually use the feature. I was thinking of just getting a simple hosting site, transferring my domain to them and then using the Web gallery feature to upload all of my galleries? Does that make any sense?
I guess I just really want to utilize the LR web galleries since I do like many of the layouts and I paid for the program so why not utilize all the features ya know?
I used them for the main galleries for my web site for a couple of years, and still use them for private client portfolios. What you gain in convenience you lose in flexibility. It takes considerable effort to create an entire web site using only LR galleries, but it can be done. I attached them to a very simple flat HTML site structure to provide the home, contact, etc. pages.
As mfharper says, I don't upload directly from LR, but use an FTP client instead.
I use Lightroom's webgallery feature all the time to create galleries for clients to see.
I spent last Wednesday with Eric Chan , Tom Hogarty, Julianne Kost and a couple other members of the Lightroom development team in a pre-Beta release training session for Lightroom 3. There are a lot of changes, including some significant ones to the webgallery feature. What I was most impressed with were the changes to the import process controls and dialogs; significant improvements to the capture sharpening tools and the noise reduction tools in the develop module; the print module; the slideshow module as well as the web gallery changes.
There are even more changes coming later but I can't talk about them.
I definitely recommend you download the Lr3 beta and try it. Currently the beta period runs through April 10.
Thanks for all the responses. Right now I am experimenting with Jalbum using FotoPlayer and at the same time I am messing around with FotoPlayer in LR and some of the other free templates available online. I like the FotoPlayer templates but for some reason it takes forever for the template to load and preview the 25 images I have in one of my collections.
I have three simple and easily created LR web galleries up on my main wedding website right now. They are to show the B&G and the guests the wedding pics. http://williamkazak.com
All of the galleries on my site (http://www.simongerzina.com) are just SlideShow Pro templates managed and output by Lightroom and wrapped in basic HTML navigation. The only place I use the stock Lightroom templates is for client proof galleries, which no one else ever sees. I like having really a way to quickly and easily make galleries of hundreds of images at a time, but I don't think those galleries are really appropriate for personal marketing use.
I use it since LR 1 http://marc-photography.110mb.com/
This is my site. All created with LR HTML standard template and an index from ''the turning gate''. All when it was for free in the beginning.
Hope you like it. It is in plain HTML code. So you don't need Mysql and other extra's from the hosters.
Marc C wrote:
I use it since LR 1 http://marc-photography.110mb.com/
This is my site. All created with LR HTML standard template and an index from ''the turning gate''. All when it was for free in the beginning.
Hope you like it. It is in plain HTML code. So you don't need Mysql and other extra's from the hosters.
Very nice but simple layout. Thanks to all who have provided suggestions.
I like some of the lightroom web galleries to use for one-offs, but they are not up to snuff for any sort of integrated, multi-gallery sites IMO. For that I'm currently playing with Zenphoto and Slideshow Pro (full version).
