The blog of Nathan Hunstad » Metablogging http://www.nathanhunstad.com/blog The blog of Nathan Hunstad, covering topics like photography, computers, politics, Minneapolis, and more Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:28:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Moving from Smugmug to Zenphoto http://www.nathanhunstad.com/blog/2010/07/moving-from-smugmug-to-zenphoto/ http://www.nathanhunstad.com/blog/2010/07/moving-from-smugmug-to-zenphoto/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:08:16 +0000 doctorgonzo http://www.nathanhunstad.com/blog/?p=330 I’ve had my photo gallery at SmugMug for a couple of years now. SmugMug is a great site, but a couple of things have made me look for an alternative. First, the price: the pro level is a bit spendy, at $150 a year. For people who make a living at photography, this is a great deal, providing a lot of shopping cart options. For me, though, it’s a bit of overkill. The other issue is that I’ve never really been happy with the search visibility of the site, given its reliance on Flash. Images I put on my blog get indexed by Google Image Search, but images on my SmugMug site have never really been picked up.

Since I already have a website, I figured why not host the photos myself? So that’s exactly what I’ve done. My photos are now here, powered by ZenPhoto. It’s not quite as feature-filled as SmugMug, but it works well enough for what I need. Since I’m hosting it, I can customize everything. It’s also very easy to sync my Lightroom catalog with the albums on the site using the Publishing function of Lightroom 3.

SmugMug is a good site for pros, but I’m hoping that ZenPhoto will work for me for a while.

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Yes. Yes I can. So I did. Those are the blogs I’m subscribed to. They are good. Check them out.

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