custom gallery websites for professional photographers
Featured Project
Michael Gordon Photography
"Thanks for all your expert work, guys. It looks superb, and you're both very easy to work with. You were very flexible and accommodating of my ideas and needs, and I appreciate all your talents and effort. Your admin control panel makes things very easy."
- Michael E. Gordon, Long Beach, California
Admin Demo
UserID: demo
Password: demo
This demo displays all the actual data used in Jack's website. Feel free to poke around in the admin and compare to Jack's live site to see how the data shows up on the front end... you won't be allowed to alter any of the data so don't worry about that. Though it may not be easy to see at a glance, it is very easy to add, organize, and manage all the content of your website with the robust admin control panel.
Built by Photographers for Photographers
WideRange Galleries are built by Jack Brauer and Jesse Speer; we're both professional web developers and photographers based in Colorado and Montana. Our top priorities when building online photo galleries for you are:
1) Creating custom graphic designs that support your photographs instead of distracting from them;
2) Providing a powerful yet easy-to-use control panel for you to administer all the content of your own site;
3) Working with you to create a site that looks and functions exactly how you want it to.
The main difference between our gallery sites and other gallery programs out there is that ours are not a simple template plugin sort of thing. Our robust gallery program requires extensive custom integration, so we are not just selling the gallery program on its own, but rather the program along with our personalized web design services involved with creating a custom site for you.
Custom Photo Gallery Websites
We build custom designed websites that interact with the photo database. In addition to our award winning graphic design, here are some features of the front end sites:
- Highly Search Engine Optimized: In the admin control panel you can give each photo its own keywords, as well as general site-wide keywords that are repeated on every page. You can also set keywords and descriptions for gallery pages and just about any other page on the site. We've designed the sites to place those keywords in all the right spots for each page, and Google eats it up.
- Built-in Shopping Cart that links out elegantly to the Paypal payment processor (note that customers can still check out with their credit cards without having a Paypal account). Sell your prints and any other products online.
- Custom Photo Search searches the database and presents photo thumbnail search results so that your web viewers can quickly find the photo they want from your archives.
Administration Control Panel
The backend administration control panel, or "admin" for short, is the powerful database engine under the hood of our gallery sites. Jack has been developing this admin software since 2004 specifically for managing his own online photo galleries. As such it is designed thoughtfully from the bottom up for photographers, which sets it apart from any other content management system. The password-protected admin allows you to add and update all the content of your own website, without requiring any specialized web design knowledge. Here are some features of the admin:
- Password Protected Admin
- Add/Modify/Delete galleries, photos, print sizes & prices, products & prices, discounts, news, links, search terms, and more
- Direct Photo Uploading with automatic thumbnail resizing - no need for an FTP program to upload photo files
- IPTC metadata: The admin reads embedded IPTC data from uploaded jpg files, and will automatically embed empty jpg files with the data you enter (title, description, keywords, author, copyright)
- Unlimited Galleries: each can have up to 6 levels of subgalleries, with several different layout formats to choose from for each gallery/subgallery
- Add photos to multiple galleries, and arrange the photo sequence for each gallery.
- Specify available print sizes for each photo
- Specify keywords for each photo
- Build a photo Search Index to offer an alternative method of presenting and accessing your photo archives. Add unlimited search tags to each photo.
- Set numerous Site Options such as main site keywords, site descriptions, vacation messages, and more
- Easily add extra pages via a Template Pages feature, which creates empty "shell" pages in which you only need to enter the content itself.
- Dynamic menu navigation allows you to add/modify/delete links in the main navigation menus.
- Advanced text editor in the text fields enables you to easily add links and text formatting to the text content, without having to know any html code.
- Set price and/or shipping Discounts for any or all photos, and any or all print sizes or products. Create a discount code to give to certain customers.
- Automated Downloadable Products: an optional feature allowing you to sell downloadable items. After paying through Paypal, an email is automatically sent to the customer with the download links.