Sell photos online
The Cristina Velina Photography website was mainly setup for her to sell photos online but also has some other key elements so that she can showcase her favorite photos and offer information about her photography services in both English and Romanian.
First let me start by saying Cristina is one of the best Photographers I have seen in quite some time so it is a real pleasure working with her Photography website. She has an eye for it and really captures my soul with her lens!
Below are the key features we used in her website.
- Homepage - Consistes of a super high quality XML flash slideshow for cris to show off her favorite photos. It is also expandable to show the full size resolutions. We also developed a stand alone Flash MP3 player to go with the Flash Slideshow.
- On the main site, for the 2 languages used, we just made separate versions of each page and did not use a language file.
- A standard contact form for each language and thank you and response pages for each language.
- Reports - For tracking keywords and traffic, we incorporated Google Analytics.
- Photo Gallery - We used Coppermine which is a great photo management system. Cris wanted to sell photos online, so we used the Stramm Mod for Coppermine which adds a photo shop to the system. We also created a few of our own mods for her based on her needs.
- Skinning - We skinned the Coppermine template to fit and scale to the site colors based on Cris's specifications and color codes that she provided.
- Selling Photos online - We integrated the photo shopping cart mod and Paypal to handle the transactions. IPN is currently not in place and Approval of each transaction is required. With a click of a button, she can approve the transaction and autmatically create a directory where the photo is automatically copied to the user/clients directory for download without the protected watermark. NOTE: The shopping cart mod allows the administrator to set prices based on the size of the photo and also allows prices to be set per album and/or CD.
Thanks again to Cristina Velina Ion for choosing Web Hosting Elite. Please take the time to visit the Cristina Velina Photography website.