I was redirected to these forums by digital photographers who wanted hosting services.I believe by viewing these forums I will finally be able to select a good hosting site and I thank the people of these forum for that. My brain was hurting pretty severely after I did research on my own for 2 days. I was wondering if there was a site the posters here might know of to help a person understand how to build their own.I have taken courses in Frontpage and have built a couple of personel sites but know want to build a photo business site where customers can buy photos on line. I don't understand how to make it easy to upload and remove photos, i would be doing this one a weekly basis and I do not understand shopping carts and online payment. I am not really sure just how hard this site would be to build. I mean is it out of my league. Any help on finding some help would be appreciated. Thanks. Maybe I need a consultant does anyone know of someone who consults at a reasonable price.

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I work for a digital sports photographer when he needs me, and this is what we do:

My boss purchased a domain name for his business, I hosted it on my server and redirected to his site at PhotoReflect (you've probably heard of the express digital software they make).

They provide a small program that transfers all his pictures that he takes at events to his website under a specific event name. Then, his clients can go to the website, see a low quality, watermarked sample of the image they want to purchase, and buy it.

Check out the site here: http://www.photoreflect.com/

Hah, photoreflect.

http://www.photoreflect.com/scripts/prsm.dll?eventorder?photo=020X0014010001&start=0&album=0&adjust=-1

That catcher looks like a stud. ;)

The pictures are way to hard to take. I don't like munging through the source to find the picture so I can take it, but I guess you've gotta do what ya gotta do to get pictures of yourself.

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Oh yeah, don't they have to have some sort of release before they can put your pictures online? When I was stealing the pictures of me last year, I noticed they never got anyone's permissions to put pictures of them on the internet. That's kinda "ify" if you ask me.