Author Topic: Using Tumblr as a Photo Gallery/ Portfolio site (Read 13566 times)

LT · « **on:** May 28, 2012, 11:35:03 AM »

Given that everything is more expensive these days ... in the UK at least, I need to make some savings. My £50 per year web hosting is in the first of several culls.

As an alternative, I've used a free tumblr portfolio theme which, with a few minor html tweaks, does the job nicely! And it's all free. Even better. It took 40 mins to set up. My old site used to take me literally weeks to design and upload.

http://leontaylorphotography.tumblr.com

As soon as my hosting firm allows me, I'll be redirecting my own url so it is slightly less clumsy.

Are there any other free photog portfolio site options?

charles binns · « **Reply #1 on:** May 28, 2012, 01:34:14 PM »

Your site looks lovely. Unfortunately, when I click on the images to see the lightbox, nothing happens.

For a free service it is very impressive.

Thom Stone · « **Reply #2 on:** May 28, 2012, 01:43:38 PM »

very impressive leon, I may be following you to tumblr for my portfolio (I already have my blog there but didn't realise there were themes as good as that for portfolios). I have recently been building a website for the family business with wordpress on a free 000webhost server. the install of wordpress on the server takes atleast half an hour (which doesn't sound much but its very frustrating) and then you can spend hours if not days looking for good themes and stripping them down to what you want. but it is next to free (we are just paying for our domain name on fasthost about £6 a year) check it out if you like... as I said I'm having some issues which my web developing friend is trying to find the time to sort out for me. on the first page click the wordpress link (thats problem 1, and the slider on the first page of the actual site doesn't work)

www.stonewoodworks.co.uk

incidentally the 1 picture under the kitchens section was my first ever photography assignment on film :-) and its crap :-P

LT · « **Reply #3 on:** May 28, 2012, 01:44:27 PM »

charles - what browser & version/ os?

I've tested it on safari, chrome and firefox on mac osx and safari on iOS 3 and all works fine

Thom Stone · « **Reply #4 on:** May 28, 2012, 01:45:32 PM »

oh and some of the garden room shots are on film aswel. btw leon, your site works fine for me over here on firefox on windows 7

LT · « **Reply #5 on:** May 28, 2012, 01:49:59 PM »

thanks Thom ... I've tried your link buy just get this message:

charles binns · « **Reply #6 on:** May 28, 2012, 02:05:51 PM »

Leon I am on my PC at work which uses Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.

Will check out your site again when I get home, on a proper computer!

LT · « **Reply #7 on:** May 28, 2012, 02:31:22 PM »

Quote from: charles binns on May 28, 2012, 02:05:51 PM

Leon I am on my PC at work which uses Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.

Will check out your site again when I get home, on a proper computer!

Francois · « **Reply #8 on:** May 28, 2012, 03:19:25 PM »

Actually, I discovered that the working address is
http://stonewoodworks.co.uk/wordpress/

One way to fix this is to put a file called index.html in the root of the directory.
The file should contain the following

Quote

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://stonewoodworks.co.uk/wordpress/"></HEAD>
<BODY>
Redirecting to website.
</BODY>
</HTML>

That's pretty sure to make the whole thing work

This-is-damion · « **Reply #9 on:** May 28, 2012, 03:44:13 PM »

leon,

I get the same on my work computer (XP and IE) - Think i have an old version of IE as webistes such as Flickr and myspace tell me to update!

Suppose i should just get on with work instead....cough

hookstrapped · « **Reply #10 on:** May 28, 2012, 04:17:12 PM »

So that's what's behind workplaces sticking with IE...

Matt Davis · « **Reply #11 on:** May 28, 2012, 04:54:38 PM »

Leon works fine on iPad.

Also I've been looking at www.weebly.com and www.wix.com to use as a portfolio site, but decided to stick with Tumblr.

But I like what you've done, got me thinking about doing something for the business, so thanks.

LT · « **Reply #12 on:** May 28, 2012, 05:27:11 PM »

I had a look at wix, but I think you have to pay a hosting fee? I couldn't quite get to the bottom of it. Didn't know about weebly.

Thanks Matt

sapata · « **Reply #13 on:** May 28, 2012, 06:38:53 PM »

Lovely website Leon, the page works perfectly and it opens really fast on my Mac.

I quite like Tumblr and I've been using for sometime already but it's for both film and digital.

When you say you'll be able to redirect your own url do you mean getting rid of the "tumblr.com" after your name? This is something I would consider doing next year when my hosting subscription will finish. Don't know yet how expensive servers in Brazil are...

Thom Stone · « **Reply #14 on:** May 28, 2012, 06:42:55 PM »

Quote from: Leon on May 28, 2012, 01:49:59 PM

thanks Thom ... I've tried your link buy just get this message:

yeah this is something I'm trying to sort out, if you click the link taht says wordpress then it takes you to the site. I installed wordpress to the wrong directory

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #15 on:** May 28, 2012, 07:12:54 PM »

Leon

I'm using Opera and every thing seems to work OK.

Very nice, site and images.

Mike

charles binns · « **Reply #16 on:** May 28, 2012, 08:10:36 PM »

Now that I'm on a proper computer....lovely images and layout.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #17 on:** May 28, 2012, 09:04:09 PM »

Leon, saw your site earlier today and worked perfectly! Very nice!

jojonas~ · « **Reply #18 on:** May 28, 2012, 09:14:13 PM »

sitting on the latest (non beta) firefox and XP(? no.. vista? idk idc lol. oh yeah, vista it is actually)

def works plenty good enough for what it is supposed to be doing

Francois · « **Reply #19 on:** May 28, 2012, 09:20:12 PM »

Same here with a very tweaked version of XP and a very tweaked version of Firefox...
If you want, I can also check it under Ubuntu.

LT · « **Reply #20 on:** May 29, 2012, 10:44:24 AM »

thanks everyone. Glad it works on some early OSs also. Francois, yes please re the Ubuntu.

Mauricio. You can buy any available domain, then direct it to a site of your choice. The url of the blog will remain the same, but people can access it using the purchased domain address.

Francois · « **Reply #21 on:** May 29, 2012, 02:27:55 PM »

Just checked it out with my netbook running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Firefox 12.
Apart from the smallish screen of the computer which forces me to scroll around more than I like, the site works flawlessly. Colors are good and the code is fine.

So, it gets a passing grade from me