Zenfolio Team Blog

April 2008 - Posts

• Mastering Access Control: Hidden Galleries and Photos

  by: Alex Peyzner [Zenfolio]

  If you ever wanted to have a gallery that is not visible on your Home page but can be accessed by anyone with a URL, this is fairly easy to do with a handy Access Control trick. Some people refer to it as a "hidden" gallery. Zenfolio offers powerful access settings, just need to be creative using them. Create a new Group on your Home page and make it Private under Access Control. This group will not be visible to your visitors, only to you. Inside this group, place a gallery with photos, and make this gallery explicitly Public under Access Control. The result is that no one can navigate to this gallery through your Home page, but if you send someone a direct link to the gallery, they can view it without a password. This is not real security, but it works well for many situations when you want to keep photos semi-private. Similarly, if you have a gallery with photos and you want to link to them from forums and other sites, but do not want regular visitors to find their way into this gallery, you can do the same: make the gallery Private, and make the photos inside the gallery Public for linking. Apr 21 2008, 11:17 PM | 8 comment(s) Filed under: hidden photos, access control, forum, private, public, linking from forums, hidden gallery

• Turn your passion into a business

  by: Vitas [Zenfolio]

  Are you taking great photos and wondering how to best turn your hobby into a business? Becoming a professional photographer is a challenging path and the Zenfolio Premium account takes away a big burden of presenting your work to clients and fulfilling orders. In addition to online presentation, Zenfolio can help you turn your passion into a business with the flexible and easy to use e-commerce platform, which allows you to: ·         Automate the selling process by using Zenfolio fulfillment partners ·         Sell your own custom products and fulfill them directly ·         Create multiple price lists and assign them selectively to galleries or individual photos ·         Review and approve orders before they are sent for fulfillment, including replacing photos with higher resolution edited files and adjusting cropping ·         Use coupons to promote your business ·         View detailed reports of your selling activities All this functionality is available now in the Premium subscription plan. And we are not stopping there. Our platform will be continuously enhanced based on the feedback from our users. In response to many questions we saw on the forums and in messages addressed to Support, we have put together a document that talks about the capabilities of our selling solution. If you are considering selling your work online, this document is for you.  Download PDF File (Selling your work on Zenfolio)   Apr 04 2008, 11:29 PM | 8 comment(s) Filed under: how to sell, coupons, Zenfolio Premium, self-fulfillment, selling