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dessa:
The site I am wanting to use the "store" with is:
http://www.arthursphoto.com/index.html
The sign in page has links in the collage but this is really make shift.  We will have to change internet provider to do what is needing to be done.
It is a family site!

J-Mac:
dessa,

Not sure if this is close to what you want, but take a look at Smugmug. Their Pro account allows ecommerce, you can setup categories and subcategories for your galleries and setup different passwords for each.

Jim

dessa:
Jim,
Thanks!  So far Smugmug looks very promising.  dessa

J-Mac:
Good. I hope it works for you. I have had an account there for two years now - Power, not Professional account. I am not a photographer; I just wanted my photos online at a place that was more secure than Flickr. On Flickr someone had made a number of pics of my granddaughters "Favorites". When I went to look at their pages it was a collection of small children in various stages of undress - babies being bathed, little girls bending over, etc. Flickr didn't care very much. Smugmug is family-run, has true privacy features, and doesn't tolerate stuff like that. A very nice community there.  And it IS loaded with professional photographers selling prints as well as family point-and-shooters like me.   :)

Jim

iphigenie:
I have been looking around and testing lately and I tried both Smugmug and their main competitor (in the slick and pretty category) Zenfolio and pbase (in the pro/sell category)

I did a trial in both of them and I think Zenfolio gallerieslooks better but smugmug has a small edge in certain features (more integration) and a more vibrant community, and pbase has the best commenting culture and best search and optimisation.

Neither zenfolio nor smugmug seems to offer even a basic upload in opera  >:(

There's a few others and here's my totally subjective assessment - and I am curious about what others who have tried some think of them.

Maybe this will be useful for the next person wondering how to put their different sets of images

Best for pro/semi pro client facing galleries
Smugmug http://www.smugmug.com
Zenfolio http://www.zenfolio.com
pbase http://www.pbase.com


and to go on tangents:

best for commenting/discussing
photo.net http://www.photo.net - one of the oldest communities still active in near enough its original form. The photos there are of a very high level I wouldnt dare post mine but I have been hanging out there forever  :-[
flickr - although theres a lot of noise in there, theres also a high chance to get seen
my.opera.com - galleries actually look quite nice and clean, and the community will look and comment :)
webaperture http://www.webaperture.com - active commenting of the encouraging kind but the design has aged. a lot.
pbase

for sharing with friends and family
72 photos http://www.72photos.com/
23 http://www.23hq.com/
flickr

for linking to and integrating in blogs/sites
smugmug
flickr

photoblog (1 a day)
blipfoto http://www.blipfoto.com
aminus3 http://www.aminus3.com

to upload something for use on forums, etc
photobucket.com
imageshack.us
webshots.com

for mixed media
deviantart.com
showthatportfolio.com


I looked at a few more I cant even remember, and I would be interested in any really good ones I havent tried, in any of those categories :)

At the moment I have a few images in flickr, and most of my images in my.opera and 72folders - I just couldnt justify paying for the yearly fee a the prices the big guys, no matter how pretty and feature rich they are.  Maybe in a fewmonths this might change, but for now i'll see how 72folders matures.

72folders is still beta at the moment, but the upload tool works in opera 9.25 and 9.27 and to about 90% of features in the beta. The design could use some polish and the slideshow and feed/site widgets need developing, and there is not much of a commenting or discussing culture, but the basics are sound and the workflow to add/tag/assign images is quite slick (it even has some online editing which i havent tried so i cant say if that works in opera). I am at http://iphigenie.72photos.com/view/profile

I actually like the community at my.opera and the design is clean, but uploading image by image is a pain and will limit my use of it. I'm at, predictably... http://my.opera.com/iphigenie/albums/ - mostly the same pics as now on 72 folders, but less of them and sometimes an earlier version. I will probably evolve this into something different from what is on 72folders

I also got lured into blipfoto.com, the image-a-day concept. Started 5 days ago so we'll see, but I must say the design is minimalistic and beautiful. Maybe someone else at DC wants to play :)  I'm @ http://www.blipfoto.com/iphigenie

I also have a whole bunch of family/travel pics of no artistic value but which i want to share with the people on the pics, and for that I am not sure yet, but I might use a differnt 72folders account. Or flickr. Or webshots since I have a credit of 100000 images there, habing registered in 2000 and forgotten about it.

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