{"id":657,"date":"2014-01-22T01:55:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2014-02-20T16:15:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:15:07","slug":"photoshelter-zenfolio-squarespace-et-al-lack-photo-and-download-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/657\/photoshelter-zenfolio-squarespace-et-al-lack-photo-and-download-security\/","title":{"rendered":"PhotoShelter, Zenfolio, Squarespace et al. lack photo and download security"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’re a photographer, artist, or designer. \u00a0You want to create a website showcasing your work. \u00a0Perhaps you want to sell digital photo downloads and add some income to your business. \u00a0What you don’t want is your images being copied\/pasted elsewhere without your permission, or your downloadable content accessed by someone other than the customer who made the purchase. \u00a0It may sound pretty simple, and obvious as the way it should be, but the fact is that there are portfolio website builders that are not helping you do this, or not taking the correct steps to assure your website’s photos and downloads security – and this includes currently popular photography\/artist\/design website builders. \u00a0But there is a new solution on the market, and that is Ultimate Web Builder.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with PhotoShelter. \u00a0While PhotoShelter does offer photo watermarking on a sitewide\u00a0basis,\u00a0or gallery basis, it is noted on their website that it\u00a0can take up to\u00a024 hours for changes to take into effect. \u00a0Not good. \u00a0Furthermore, if you are offering digital downloads for customers after purchase, PhotoShelter uses download links for the material,\u00a0instead of\u00a0creating secure access to it. \u00a0That means anyone can go to that link and download it. \u00a0That is not secure. \u00a0The shelter does not have a secure lock on it.<\/p>\n

Another popular portfolio website builder – Zenfolio. \u00a0Zenfolio does not even offer a watermarking tool. \u00a0This means that if you want to protect your images on your website, you will need to use photoshop or another graphics editing software to apply watermarks one-by-one to each image. \u00a0And furthermore like PhotoShelter, Zenfolio also\u00a0uses download links for the material,\u00a0instead of\u00a0creating secure access to it.<\/p>\n

Then there are website builders that are not just portfolio builders, for photographers, artists, or designers, etc, though they do advertise and market themselves as providing a “great” solution to those fields. \u00a0 Take for example SquareSpace. \u00a0But like Zenfolio, there is no batch watermarking tool and there is a lack of attention to photo and download security. \u00a0Similar to PhotoShelter, SquareSpace creates\u00a01 day expiring download\u00a0links to provide access to your paying customers,\u00a0instead of using secure\u00a0access procedures. \u00a0Now that is not great at all.<\/p>\n

Now for the solution to all this: Ultimate Web Builder. \u00a0You get a watermarking tool – you can choose to individually watermark, or batch watermark photos. \u00a0You can choose your watermark image and save it for later use. \u00a0You can choose the level of transparency of your watermark and the location too. \u00a0And you can even choose to save a copy of your original image safely and securely in your website admin panel, for later access and option to revert back to it. \u00a0Regarding providing digital download access for your photos – Ultimate Web Builder does this securely too. \u00a0There is no specific download link that is accessible to everyone on the internet. \u00a0The customer logs into your website, and goes to their Downloads section where they can download what they purchased. \u00a0You can choose if this download access is processed automatically after the purchase is confirmed by your website backend system, and how long to give access to this download from your admin panel.<\/p>\n

There are also many other benefits to going with Ultimate Web Builder for your website, such as your choice of web hosting. \u00a0Your website is yours and does not close when you want to change web hosts. \u00a0Check out the\u00a0Portfolio (Photogaphy, Artist, Designer) Website Builder Comparison Chart<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Related:\u00a0Photographers: How to build a portfolio website easily for your photography business for free \u2013 or almost free<\/a><\/p>\n

The benefits of an all-in-one website builder like Ultimate Web Builder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’re a photographer, artist, or designer. \u00a0You want to create a website showcasing your work. \u00a0Perhaps you want to sell digital photo downloads and add some income to your business. \u00a0What you don’t want is your images being copied\/pasted elsewhere … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,336],"tags":[541,532,550,543,542,546,545,549,5,143,536,531,548,547,535,206,534,544],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-builder-software-comparison","category-website-security-2","tag-artist-website","tag-artist-website-builder","tag-batch-watermarking","tag-design-website-builder","tag-designer-website","tag-download-access","tag-photo-security","tag-photo-watermarking","tag-photography-website","tag-photography-website-builder","tag-photoshelter","tag-portfolio-website-builder","tag-secure-digital-downloads","tag-secure-downloads","tag-squarespace","tag-website-security","tag-zenfolio","tag-zenfolio-vs-photoshelter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}