Is my website all right, or is there another free alternative?

[musicmaster]

I have had my own website for about 3 months now. I haven't done much with it, because I sell photos through my other portion (photoreflect)


Basically, is there another website like wordpress that would allow for a similar layout, but maybe with flash images or something more elegant... for free or near free? Or can Wordpress actually do this?

Current website

www.bgimaging.net


sales website

http://bgimaging.photoreflect.com

[tim]

Thoughts:
- Your title tag should have your location.
- Your email address should be @ bgimaging. Using @gmail seems unprofessional.
- You're a photographer, with no photos on the home page. You need to grab people and have them want to come into your website.
- "Artsy" isn't really a professional term
- "Just another wordpress.com blog" isn't professional. Plus it doesn't look like a blog. Having an actual blog is good for SEO.
- Your photography needs work to bring it up to a professional standard.

I doubt you'll find anything better for free than wordpress.

[mai_lin]

As great as wordpress is its buggy as hell. I don't use it. I've got a blogsite created through Joomla (also free).

My second though was on your pricing page - you're almost cheaper than Sears for portraits :rolleyes:



Jen D.

[tim]

Wordpress works perfectly, stop spreading rubbish Jen.

[musicmaster]

I have 100MB of my own webspace, would installing wordpress on my own website be better then using their own hosting?

[Karl Johnston]

http://bgimaging.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/img_2626.jpg?w=340&h=318

LOL

sorry I'm immature...but
That made my hour, though.

[tim]

I have wordpress on my own server, it helps with SEO since I update the blog reasonably regularly.

[mai_lin]

Wordpress works perfectly, stop spreading rubbish Jen.

I think you need to do some investigation of your own before you call me out on it, TIM.

My husband is a website developer for over 10 years now and when I asked his input on started a blogsite he said "Whatever you do, don't use Wordpress".

He goes on to tell me they have major security flaws and in the 9 mnoths he's been at the company he is at now he's had to fix 3 seperate websites run on wordpress that have been hacked. He said its a big problem and doesn't recommend building a website/blog based on their software.

http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/wo...tions-in-2009/ (http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/wordpress-security-predictions-in-2009/)

Of course anything on the net can be hacked, especially if its as popular as wordpress is - the issue is that wordpress is more easily hacked then most. The code behind it is very poorly written and left many common security holes in it that the vast majority of reputable websites/application have long since plugged.

"More SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities in the core code and/or new third party code that gets added to the WordPress package."

I'm sorry, but any website/app that STILL has SQL Injection is living in 1999, and the fact that it is targeting a vulnerability in the CORE CODE is ridiculous - that's what the application is built on. If the foundation crumbles what do you have left? SQL injection is passing a statement to the database that is 'wrong' but still returns a result, when it shouldn't. The same type of vulnerability was found in Windows ME in 1998.

It doesn't even matter that its a photographers website either - its attacking the program its built on and could theoretically get to your computer. My husband just finished a 30 hour project fixing a site for a non-profit raising money to save endangered animals in Malaysia. If a site like that could be hacked photographers aren't out of reach.

I know alot of you have invested money in templates etc. so you are probably less receptive to news like this - I'm simply putting it out there for others to read and hope it will give others a moment to second guess that decision.

Use at your own risk.

The advice I gave here is ANYTHING but rubbish, Tim.

[musicmaster]

I think you need to do some investigation of your own before you call me out on it, TIM.

My husband is a website developer for over 10 years now and when I asked his input on started a blogsite he said "Whatever you do, don't use Wordpress".

He goes on to tell me they have major security flaws and in the 9 mnoths he's been at the company he is at now he's had to fix 3 seperate websites run on wordpress that have been hacked. He said its a big problem and doesn't recommend building a website/blog based on their software.

http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/wo...tions-in-2009/ (http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/wordpress-security-predictions-in-2009/)

Of course anything on the net can be hacked, especially if its as popular as wordpress is - the issue is that wordpress is more easily hacked then most. The code behind it is very poorly written and left many common security holes in it that the vast majority of reputable websites/application have long since plugged.

"More SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities in the core code and/or new third party code that gets added to the WordPress package."

I'm sorry, but any website/app that STILL has SQL Injection is living in 1999, and the fact that it is targeting a vulnerability in the CORE CODE is ridiculous - that's what the application is built on. If the foundation crumbles what do you have left? SQL injection is passing a statement to the database that is 'wrong' but still returns a result, when it shouldn't. The same type of vulnerability was found in Windows ME in 1998.

It doesn't even matter that its a photographers website either - its attacking the program its built on and could theoretically get to your computer. My husband just finished a 30 hour project fixing a site for a non-profit raising money to save endangered animals in Malaysia. If a site like that could be hacked photographers aren't out of reach.

I know alot of you have invested money in templates etc. so you are probably less receptive to news like this - I'm simply putting it out there for others to read and hope it will give others a moment to second guess that decision.

Use at your own risk.

The advice I gave here is ANYTHING but rubbish, Tim.
Interesting... but for what I'm going to use it for, why would anyone really want to hack a personal photo website? :confused:

[tim]

Rubbish and having security issues are different things. It works great for me, and if there were really vulnerabilities i'd have a lot of spam on my blog, or my database hacked. Since I have neither I find it hard to believe. Open Source is good like that. And if someone gets into my blog database... so what. I have a backup.

Wordpress has worked perfectly for me for years.

[mai_lin]

Wordpress has worked perfectly for me for years.

You're lucky ;) Doesn't mean you'll be so lucky in the future.

Personally I won't take chances with it as its my main web presence - I don't want to devote time to fixing problems Wordpress should have done from the beginning. Which is why I've built mine on Joomla, integrated a flash header, password protected client info area AND proofing/ordering area. All free.

You asked for another free alternative and that's one of them.


Jen D.

[photoguy6405]

- "Just another wordpress.com blog" isn't professional. Plus it doesn't look like a blog. Having an actual blog is good for SEO.

What's "SEO"?

[g-money]

What's "SEO"?

Search Engine Optimazation LOL spelling

[Alleh]

http://bgimaging.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/img_2626.jpg?w=340&h=318

LOL

sorry I'm immature...but
That made my hour, though.

Yes that is funny! Not really the best angle I can't imagine the parents of those kids would want to buy a print of that photo.

Plenty of people use wordpress professionally. Why don't you do something with smugmug or something seems like a decent place to sell prints.

[alduin]

The same type of vulnerability was found in Windows ME in 1998.

Could you cite your source on this one?