WideRange Galleries

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WideRange Galleries are built by Jack Brauer and Jesse Speer; we're both professional web developers and photographers based in Colorado. 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 web design services involved with creating a custom site for you.

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. 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 Paypal or different payment processor

The backend administration control panel, or "admin" for short, is the powerful database engine under the hood of our gallery sites. Jack has spent several years developing this admin software specifically for managing his online photo galleries. 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, links, and news
• Direct Photo Uploading with automatic thumbnail resizing - no need for an FTP program to upload content
• 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 5 different layout formats to choose from for each gallery/subgallery
• Add photos to multiple galleries
• Specify available print sizes for each photo
• Specify keywords for each photo
• Manage a simple Maillist to collect emails, and send out simple mass emails with photo attachments through the admin. Useful for small mailing lists under about 400 members. For larger lists we recommend using a professional email marketing service.
• Set numerous Site Options such as main site keywords, site descriptions, vacation messages, and more

View a DEMO of the admin here.
User: 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 and organize all the data.