WideRange Galleries

We don't charge licensing fees for the gallery program, but rather a one-time build fee. Please see the Pricing page for information about packages and pricing.

We are professional web developers, and we are offering our services along with the robust gallery program that Jack has developed. Our gallery program is not a generic template or simple plugin; it requires extensive custom integration, and we will handle the entire project for you from start to finish, so that you end up with exactly what you want.

Many of the leading gallery programs that are available for free require confusing installation and limited customization. These programs usually come with lots of features that you probably don't want or need, and lack other features that you do. Oftentimes the unsuspecting photographer who has a fair amount of web experience will try to build his or her own site using these types of template, and often find themselves in a never ending rabbit hole of web development, never quite able to achieve exactly what they envisioned. They spend hours of frustration at the computer when they should be out shooting more photos.

Since Jack developed our gallery program specifically for the needs of professional photographers, it has the features you want and none of the bloated code, confusing interfaces, and unnecessary features. We designed the interface to be as streamlined and self-explanatory as possible, which means it's easy for you to administer you're own site.

So you can focus on your photography instead of wasting time at the computer. Manually creating new pages every time you add a photo is a pain and can quickly spiral out of control. You'll realize what a total waste of time it was once you experience the ease of an admin-controlled database-driven gallery site.

Additionally, many of the Dreamweaver/FrontPage creations we've seen consist of horribly bloated code, which leads to slower loading, search-engine-unfriendly websites which are prone to malfunctions in various browsers.

If you only have a small collection of photos to display, you can probably get away with manually creating your own pages; however, if you have lots of photos and like to add more often, our gallery program will quickly pay for itself and give you back your time previously spent slaving at the computer.

It's very easy! We will give you instructions on how to use the admin, and once you start using it you will quickly get the hang of it. The more you use it, the more you will realize just how powerful and flexible the program is. We are always glad to offer guidance and support should you have any questions.

Extremely well! Jack built the program from the ground up with search-engine-compatibility as a top priority. When you add a photo, you enter keywords for that photo which get strategically placed throughout the page, including the page title, meta tags, and alt tags. A photo's gallery name gets automatically added to the keywords, along with related galleries. You can also set general site-wide keywords which get repeated on every page of the site.

We've built the infrastructure for highly strategic keyword placement; but it is up to you to pick out your own keywords. If you put some thought into it you can really do well in the search engines. Of course no matter how search-engine-friendly your site is, it still takes time and quality content to rank high in the search engines. Having lots of similar content, lots of words for the search engines to read, and lots of similar external links to your site are all good ways to improve your site ranking.

Our sites utilize PHP code to interact with a MySQL database. These are both very fast server-side languages. The code we write is also very streamlined; there is no superfluous code to bog things down.

Unlike JavaScript or Flash, no special software is needed on the viewers' browsers; all the code processing is done on your server and pages are served up just like normal static html pages.

We test all the sites we build in numerous browsers on Mac and PC operating systems, to ensure consistent performance for all viewers.

Most importantly, Flash sites are completely invisible to search engines; our sites are incredibly search engine friendly. Jack loves programming in Flash, and his own site used to be entirely Flash; however he finally decided that all the unique interfaces and fancy fades were just not worth the search engine sacrifice. Since he switched over to the more traditional PHP/HTML pages, his search engine traffic has soared.

Flash sites can be a beautiful thing if done properly; however, it is recommended to have a PHP/HTML version of your site to begin with, and add a Flash version as an option - for the best of both worlds.

After talking with you on the phone about all the details of the project, we will send you a simple contract. We require the signed contract and 1/2 of the total project fee to start. The remaining 1/2 is due upon completion of the project.

If we are creating new designs for your site, we will create several "mockups", or initial design ideas, in photoshop. These are pictures of how the website would look. The first round of mockups could be considered rough drafts, and based on your feedback we will change and refine those designs, or start over. The more feedback you provide, the more info we have to create a design that you will be happy with. This process repeats until we've nailed down the design. At this point, we will start programming and cannot go back and make major design changes.

At the same time that we're working on the designs, we will install your admin program so that you can start creating your gallery structure and uploading your photos. Once we're done programming the site and testing it on numerous browsers and computers, we will launch it live whenever you're ready.

The whole process usually takes about a month, but a lot depends on how fast you can provide feedback at the different stages of development.

We would be happy to build them into the admin program. We can pretty much do whatever you want for a reasonable price. We will give you a quote for how much each extra feature will cost, if there is an extra cost.

Yes we do provide support. We are always happy to answer questions and offer advice free of charge. If you want some additional web work after the site is completed, we will charge our hourly rate, unless it's a major site addition, in which case we'll give you a flat rate bid for the project.

Sure. This would be the equivalent of package #3 as explained on the Pricing page. Creating your own designs reduces our workload and therefore the total price too. There are certain limitations to the designs that will work, and we will let you know if something won't fly. If this is the route you want to take, you'd create your own photoshop files and we would take those and program the site with your graphics.

Yes Jack does make ugrades to the admin program from time to time. Sometimes it's a seamless upgrade that he can just add to your site quickly for free; other times it's a major upgrade that requires modifications to the front-end website. Because of the latter reason, we cannot guarantee free upgrades into the future. In the event that in the future we make a major upgrade that you really would like to have, we can give you a quote for how much it would cost to upgrade.

Yes, you can. If you're proficient with CSS, you can alter many of the colors, fonts, borders, etc without touching the html code. If you're really a computer geek you can dive into the PHP code and do whatever you want with it. However, please be aware that we disavow any responsibility if things break because of your alterations, and we will charge our hourly rate to fix things.

It's probably must easier, safer, and quicker to have us make the changes for you.

Absolutely not!!! Jack has spent countless hours developing and refining his gallery program; it is not open source. Sharing this code with others is copyright infringement, no matter how much you modify the code.

We highly recommend using one of our suggested hosting companies. We do offer hosting through a reputable high-performance server company that we host numerous sites with; or we can recommend alternative inexpensive high quality hosting companies. Please contact us for more details.

If we MUST use your current server, there is a chance that our program will not function properly. In this case, you will have to switch over to one of our recommended hosting servers; switching servers is simple, and we can help.