If You’re So Against Subscriptions - Why is Your Portfolio on Squarespace?
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Seems like folks are very anti-subscription when it comes to their photo editing software. But they seem to give subscriptions a pass when it comes to where they build their portfolios.
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Straight to the point as usual! Your info for the hosts is very nice, as I'm looking for a new host/provider... Thanks Andy!
No worries - thanks Terry. :)
Cheers Andy , certainly thought provoking, and until I retired last spring, I worked on the dark side of SaaS , albeit on high end enterprise applications. There is one reason for the SaaS Subscription model over perpetual licenses and thats EBITDA & shareholder value
Cheers Paul. Had to Google that last acronym!
Great work, once again, thank you.
Thank you too!
Good video. I've been mulling over this subject and came to the conclusion it should be wordpress. Not sure whether I want to selfhost or not at this point. One of the things that make me pause is I am still not sure how the webpage gets into search results effectively (assuming one is trying to some SEO). I hear many folks have blogs that support their website but then how does the blog get into the search results. I don't want to create a site just as a vanity project. :[
I've decided to do a Wordpress for photographers series and I will touch on this very point. But, simply, make sure you install a plugin such as Yoast (use the free one you don't need pro) and make sure you enter a keyword, snippet and alt-tags for all of your images. Optimise the images prior to uploading them - webp format is the most space efficient. And on the page you put the photos, make sure you include at least 250 words of proper text. :)
Personally I wouldn't use either Squarespace services or Adobe software, but the comparison here feels a bit disingenuous.
After all, Squarespace does actually provide a *service*, where ongoing payments make sense (even if their pricing is bs), whereas Adobe provides a *product* that's bundled with some services purely to justify it being a subscription instead of a purchase to own.
In other words, we're not against subscriptions in general. We're against subscriptions where they don't make sense.
Sure, but my point is this - it's not just about the subscription fee itself and the services that your subscription purchases - it's about the control you surrender when you lock yourself into that service.
Why don't you have a link to your website on this channel?
Rebuilding it.
So, Mr. Huchinson, where is your homepage, and if it shows images that you want to present in a professional way, don't you have a pro lightbox included - for how many A$ per month combined? Don't answer! It's a rhetorical question as my point simply is this: "free" has its limitations when it comes to presenting "true art" to the world (I imagine).
Firstly you probably don't even need a lightbox plugin - gallery functionality built into Wordpress core does the same job - after that it's just styling it. And if you really want to use a plugin, many are free or come with a more advanced version with 'pro' features. But even if you bought the best lightbox plugin on the market it would still be far cheaper than a Squarespace subscription and also, since the photos you upload are standard post types, you could move the images within it to another plugin or even into a free native gallery with zero issues - the same is definitely not true of Squarespace.