1. Professional Photo Layouts
PhotoMerchant’s Portfolio and Gallery layouts look great, are optimized for broad visual appeal and come with a myriad of customization options to ensure you can tailor the layouts to match the scale of your photo library. With new layouts being added all the time, your portfolio layouts remain fresh and unique.
2. Easy to Use
Changing the look and feel of your website portfolio is as easy as choosing from the color and font options and selecting the Portfolio and Gallery template that’s right for you. Matching your brand and promoting your visual style.
3. Visible everywhere – Blackberry, iPhone and iPad
Your PhotoMerchant website is rendered using web compliant technologies meaning your portfolio will appear consistently across all web browsers and most modern mobile devices like the Blackberry, iPhone and the new iPad. Your PhotoMerchant website is your photography business in your pocket.
4. Search Engine Friendly
Your PhotoMerchant website has been specifically engineered to ensure your Portfolio attracts search traffic to your website. We achieve this by automatically creating “search friendly” URL’s and provide you with the tools to easily optimize your photo’s titles, descriptions, tags, categories and more.
5. Super fast web hosting and image downloads
Your PhotoMerchant websites are hosted using some of the largest and fastest servers in the world* guaranteeing that your website will load quickly and your photos load at lightning speeds. Your customers will love the convenience of browsing your portfolio with such zippy speeds.
* Hosted on the Amazon S3 network
6. Advanced image filters using Tags
Ever wanted to quickly view all the photos that contain the “wedding cake” but had to click through tonnes of pages to do so? With “Tags” your customers can quickly find the images they’re looking for as well as immediately browse related images. Tag’s are easy to apply individually or en-masse and will provide your customers with an intuitive and rewarding browsing experience.
7. Comprehensive Gallery and image Security
PhotoMerchant provides photographers with a variety of ways to share Galleries whilst protecting the contents from prying eyes. Options include assigning passwords to Galleries or requiring that your customers log in to the website to view private Galleries. It’s also possible to hide Galleries and the “disable right mouse click” option ensures your images aren’t easily ripped off. With so many ways to mix and match your security, your customers will feel safe entrusting their privacy with you.
8. Built in community tools
Invite your visitors to engage in your photography using the “Enable Comments” gallery options. They can then share the “unique photo link” on social media sites like Twitter, Delicious, Digg and Facebook. It’s almost like creating your own private Flickr site.
9. More than just a professional portfolio
You also get a built in e-commerce store that accepts Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, plus it comes with custom designed website page templates to promote yourself and your business. It’s everything you need to manage your photography business online.
10. Unlimited Everything
And by “Everything” we mean that you can upload an unlimited amount of high resolution photos, you have access to unlimited bandwidth and you can create unlimited galleries and portfolios, which equates to unlimited hosting and unlimited image downloads. And because your photos are automatically backed up, you will never have to worry about losing your website or your photos.
So there you have it – 10 great reasons why creating your portfolio with PhotoMerchant is perfect for building your online photography business.
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