To Build my Photorgaphers website with Zenphoto or Drupal or neither?

I am absolutely astonished and awed at the simplicity and power of Zenphoto. Thank you Thank you Thank you. It is an amazing creation. And I am only beginning to see what it can do. I had mipelled a tag on 1000 iages. No problem I can correct it. I had included an unwanted tag- no problem I can delete it.

Here is a simple client site.

www.dennis.ronandownes.com

Here is aquick background about me. I am a wedding photographer who could and should be covering 40/50 weddings a yar but currently have a flashsite SEO optimsed for my local area.

I want a site that will have many pages and for each ne a different target set of SEO terms. So for example as am happy to tracvel anywhere for a wedding I would target each county in Ireland for hits.

I know drupal has many tools for this but my question here is for the sake of speed and the learning curve might Ic onsider building my site in Zenphoto.

Also for my flash ite

www.ronanphoto.com

my metadata descriptin is

`{deleted}`

and my

SEO Meta KEywords

are

`{deleted}`

Are there themes that have equivalent entries per page or is all text given equal relevance by google?

Ronan

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Thanks for hte nice words. It is weird to ask on a Zenphoto forum if you should use Zenphoto or Drupal (surly a good CMS in its own right of course), don't you think?

    Why do you list all your keywords here? Please note that this in combination with your site's urls is putting your post in danger of being considered as spam even if you probably did not intend this. So please remove them immediatly. Thanks.

    I guess I do not understand the question. If you don't add these metatags or keywords to your theme's files or site's content they will of course not be there... How could they? Anyway, there is a html_meta_tags plugin that will generate meta tags individually based on image/album descriptions, tags etc. More info on our documentation and please don't forget the theming tutorial.
  • Hi and thanks

    can you edit/delete my post above then. Apologies. Yes looks like I need to start doing some homework.

    All I know to date is for my flash site they give you a text box entitled meta data description and another keywords.

    I think I am learning from your reply that for html based sites SEO orientated text is added anywhere and the ranking process is in some way organic.

    Ronan
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Ronan, no problem, I didn't mean to sound to harsh, but we had recenlty some folks who missused the forum for gaining better seo ranking with that method.

    Well, each system is differently how to enter the meta data (which is only in the source code). For Zenphoto we have that html_meta_tags plugin that adds these meta tags on each site automatically, based on the data like titles, descriptions, tags etc. you have entered. Since Zenphoto is dynamic you can enter them manually directly as on pure static html pages.
    Some info: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

    Note that these meta tags are not that important nowadays for search engines anymore, the real content that is actually seen on your site is far more important.
  • altert Member
    I've recently developed two photographers site in a row, one - using drupal, second using zenphoto. In my experience zenphoto is by far easier to develop for this task
  • Hi Altert,

    are you interested in doing a third?

    I have read the scrpting tutorial and while I could probably take it on I think I need to farm this one out.

    Can I ask for the web addresses of the two sites and ask how I can contact you. alternatively drop me an email. Not sure if I can post it here but don't see why not it is crippled by spam and I will be taking it out of service soon.

    So if you are interested in doing some work

    mail me on

    Ronan@ronanphoto.com

    Ronan
  • Acrylian,

    I forgot to thank you for your last post and needless to say you are the best canditate for the job of developing my site. Please email me. Hope I can afford your rates!
    Ronan
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