Comments on: A Simple Effective Way To Create Great Slide Shows

By: larry

larry — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:39:42 +0000

@Susie, I just upgraded to a Pro account after I did the post to see what all the differences were. I have only spent 20 to 30 minutes on the site since I upgraded to Pro so I haven’ made up my mind yet. But, initially, unless you want to use your own domain name for your tours (which is a nice touch) or do 20min videos I’m not sure it’s worth the upgrade. I haven’t tried custom headers and footers yet… Currently my understanding is the custom headers and footers are on the site that lists your slide shows and not each slide show.

By: Susie

Susie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:03:35 +0000

I use Phanfare, too, and love it. I think the quality is nice for the price. I am thinking about upgrading to “Pro” and wonder if anyone has a pro account, or knows of someone who does???
I’d love to see it in action.
Thanks,
Susie

By: Michael Quick

Michael Quick — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:40:40 +0000

Hi Larry, thanks for the great tip about Phanfare. I was about to pay for the SmugMug pro version before reading your post and signing up for the 14 day trial.

I was looking for a solution to add a photo download gallery to our property website product and this certainly does the trick. What I like is that our clients can download images individually or the entire set (hi-res or low).

The gallery integrates beautifully due to the fact that you can use a custom background image for a specific album and create “subsites” for each client.

Take a look at our first site using this great service: http://www.TeesdaleAvenue.com

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:15:50 +0000

Hi Larry … your Phanfare slideshow looks great … I’m going to give it a try! Are you using the Phanfare LR Export Plugin? What settings? While I’m typing this comment, I’m using the LR Plugin to upload 15 photos to a sample album, and it’s taking forever. Figure I must have something set incorrectly. Thank you …

By: larry

larry — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:37:45 +0000

Brett- I have the $49.99 Premium account. I think with the Pro account you can do custom headers and footers where the branding would be.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:30:21 +0000

Larry, what plan are you using; premium or pro? I need exactly what your example shows – no branding, headers, footer, etc. MLS in Toronto has strict regulations on any of that. It has to be only photos. Thanks.

By: larry

larry — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:39:25 +0000

Stephen, Sure, for similar slide shows, flickr works great. You can send people links to slide shows. However at least one member of the PFRE flickr group that I know of was using flickr slide shows for real estate tours and was asked by flickr administration to stop.

I pointed out phanfare because it has a few more features that flickr doesn’t have.

By: Stephen Barling

Stephen Barling — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:59:21 +0000

Have you guys considered setting up sets on your Flickr page? Each set can be played as a slideshow, and you can even send someone a link directly to the slideshow. Cheap (free, or $25 for a pro account) and very effective. As Larry points out, it’s not for “commercial” work, but I won’t tell if you won’t.

By: James

James — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:53:56 +0000

Larry, if you try out dwuser.com click on their contact us button and ask them if you can test out their beta version 4. It is much better than v3 and is very user friendly.

By: larry

larry — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:37:45 +0000

@Judy- They probably can be embedded in WordPress. However, I’ve struggled trying to embed anything in this blog. I’ve not taken the time to research how to get embedding to work in WordPress. As you may have noticed, I bypass the problem by linking a JPG to the slide show… as in this post.