'Showkase' for photography websites?

Tom Kershaw

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• Jul 2, 2013

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Hello,

Has anyone here tried Showkase (www.showkase.net) for their photo-centric website? I'm not sure it has everything one might require but the gallery and page creation options look good.

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Yes, excess automation was one of my concerns. However as far as I can tell the package works with 'retina' displays automatically so a degree of resizing may be inevitable...

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I think resized in this context doesn't mean cropped but rather the file size is optimized (resolution and compression). But I'd have to take a look at how they present images to see what if any cropping they might do.

 

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Scott,

At one point I had considered building a rather substantial website from which I could "plug-in" various content. However I'm coming around to a simpler solution for displaying images, with other sections as needed, rather than trying to integrate everything.

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I've been using VisualServer for my static website hosting (which I'm just ok with - it's not bad, but not great) and WordPress for my blog, which I really like.