Posted on 05 May 2007.
Recently I added a photo gallery to zenfolio.com. This is a fabulous online photography hosting system by the way and I highly recommend it. In fact you can get a $5.00 discount by using the referral code 3KR-415-FNU .
One of the best features of Zenfolio is the ability to use your own domain or subdomain as a CNAME to your gallery. I used the subdomain photography.jimtawood.net to point to my Zenfolio gallery. It all works very well and you can keep the links to yourself.
I currently administer several of my own Linux Servers and I use Cpanel/WHM for all of them. I thought I would share my settings in case others have trouble setting up their subdomains and Cname entry for Zenfolio.
First, you do not need to create a subdomain in Cpanel. I did not create one for my site so I would recommend just setting up the DNS cname entry only.
Second, you would add the following DNS entry to your DNS record for the domain you wish to have the subdomain for. Here it is with my domain.
photography 14400 IN CNAME zenfolio.com. ( Don’t forget the period after zenfolio.com)
Then in your zenfolio.com control panel under preferences you activate the Custom Domain and enter photography.jimatwood.net as your domain. ( User your subdomain of course for you website. )
Then you will have to wait up to 48 hours for everythign to activate. In my case it only took about one hour.
Hope this helps. Enjoy!
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Posted on 05 May 2007. Tags: People
Betterphoto.com Review – While I am ranting about Betterphoto.com courses, I thought I would add a few things that people may not be aware of.
First, it is a common site to see “FULL” under the enrollment column. In most cases that I have found, this does not mean full. Rather it means the instructor is on vacation. Case in point…I took a class called “Digital Art Photography” in March and was the only student in the class. Well there was another student but they dropped out after the first lesson and presumably got their money back. Thus I was the only student in the class. Now in May and June, all classes by the instructor Mathew Bamberg are listed as “FULL”. I hardly believe that is the case with my experience in previous classes. Furthermore, the instructor has three classes.
Potentially new students are likely to interpret the word “FULL” as meaning the class is full of students and therefore popular. Betterphoto hopes probably that students will come running to join the class if it is popular. However, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. In this case Betterphoto should aptly write the word “VACATION” or “NO CLASS AVAILABLE” this month.
I also have found their website to be terribly slow and inconsistent at times with respect to uploading, editing, and viewing photos. I even wrote an email to support about the problems with the performance of their server. They were nice to admit the problems and that was fine, but I see the slowness is still there. Thus I have switched to a much better system called Zenfolio which I’ll write about shortly.
Another interesting note about Betterphoto is that I wrote that I was disappointed with my previous class in my “End of class” survery. Neither Betterphoto nor the instructor of “Achieving Visual Depth” bothered to contact me about the matter. Obviously they got my money and that was that. Or they perhaps thought I was expendable in the business system and I was just ignored.
In any event… buy beware.
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