When you’re a busy pro, do you want to spend your time managing and customizing your website, portfolio and your blog? When you’re using a different service for each piece of your business, it can be quite the chore to not only remember to update each corner, but to make sure they match.

At Photography Blogsites, you already know you’ll get a clean, beautiful website in as little as 30 seconds, completely bundled with portfolio galleries, blog and social media features. But if you’re looking to give it a major boost, our newest partnership with SmugMug adds in unlimited uploads, safe archival galleries and (best of all) fully integrated commerce features so you can sell your work.

Excited yet? Take a look at our video here.

Super Syncing

We make it so easy to sync your blogsite with your account at SmugMug and pull in your galleries. Instant content! It’s is an awesome way to keep your individual client proof galleries separate (and manageable) from your portfolio site, ensuring your clients don’t get lost or confused. With your authorization we’ll instantly slurp your photos and galleries over for a seamless connection.

Consistency is key, and you can be sure your unique customization bridges the gap, too. With a few clicks you can apply any of our gorgeous, modern themes right to your SmugMug galleries so your clients get the same experience while viewing their proofs.

Best of all, our new SmugMug Galleries feature lets you include SmugMug “Buy” links: Customers viewing your Blogsite can click on the prompt and we’ll present SmugMug’s easy shopping cart. All they have left to do is pick a print size and check out. SmugMug’s pro labs will take care of the rest, and your orders are backed by their 100% unconditional guarantee.

And with our new social media sharing tool ‘Blaze’, you can quickly share and re-share any gallery via Facebook and Twitter. Visitors following the link view the gallery on a re-sharable page, with options to easily send it to their friends, who can send it to their friends, and so on, and so on. Allowing anyone in these extended social media circles to purchase your images.

Website + Blog + SmugMug. All-in-One.

All At A Special Price for SmugMug Pro Users

We are offering Photography Blogsites at a special discount for SmugMug Pro users, $29/month or $299/ year (regularly $39/month or $399/year).*

Check out our special deal by visiting our website here: http://photographyblogsites/smugmug

*To celebrate this special partnership we are bringing back our Lifetime Deal! $499 for all of our themes, 4 GB of hosting, our support, maintenance, upgrades and much, much more. With no re-curing charges EVER! ACT NOW this deal will expire on September 15, 2011.

A Special SmugMug Pro Price for Photography BlogSites Users

See all the features you’ll get with SmugMug like amazing backup and security options, unlimited photo and video uploads and integrated commerce features to help you sell. When you go Pro, you get all of the above and tons more at $20/month or $150/year. As a special deal for Photography BlogSites customers, SmugMug is offering 20% off your first year’s subscription. Just use the code PHOTOGRAPHYBLOGSITES20.

Photo Credit: Jordan Duvall Photography

Phew! We’ve been tinkering away day and night in the Photo BlogSites workshop. The results are four SUPER EXCITING new products, developments and announcements. First, our own new website. Have a look around. We’ve included so much more information about features and our photographer connections and many more showcases and examples.

Our second is our brand new SEO Image Galleries. It will change the way you showcase and share your photography. Choose from four different gallery styles, and many thumbnail sizes. Add as many as you want onto any page.

Our Galleries Are All HTML – They Work Everywhere.

Pretty much why we developed SEO Image Galleries in the first place. There is not one stitch of Flash and our galleries don’t use an alternate mobile “friendly” version. They just work and look EXACTLY the same on everything. No smoke, no mirrors.
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Display Options

Galleries can be added to any page or blog post at any time. They can be embedded right on the page, displayed in an overlay window ontop the page or in a beautiful full screen gallery that fills any size monitor.

Old School Thumbnails

WordPress has a built-in gallery system too that allows you to add a series of images to any post. They display as small thumbnails that link to the full size image. We have added the ShadowboxJS plugin that makes any image link pop up in a beautiful overlay window.

Fullscreen Galleries

Our fullscreen galleries fill any size monitor, resizes magically as you change the window size and looks amazing on mobile devices. On the iPad, it even rotates and refills the screen as you move the iPad.

Overlay Galleries

Our newly improved overlay galleries appear on top of your portfolio page so you never worry about your audience getting lost in the navigation of your photos. Arrows now advance the images in a beautiful display for your work. We know you have been asking, and we’ve been promising.

Embedded in the Page

Much like our overlay galleries, but does not pop up. Great for blog posts or any page where you would like the gallery to remain inside the page.
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Creating Your SEO Image Galleries is So Much Fun

Between the new multiple image upload, the drag ‘n drop reordering, renaming your images and entering important ALT information on the fly, creating new galleries is so much fun. And so easy!

You can share images or whole slideshow galleries, right from SEO Image Galleries to Facebook, Twitter or Google+.

Blaze

Once you’ve shared a gallery on Facebook or Twitter or Google+ it can be re-shared over and over with our new Blaze bar. Ignite your social media marketing with Blaze.

We’ll be talking more about ‘Blaze’ in weeks to come. Go ahead and play! Who knew SEO could be so fun?

Photo credit: Michelle Lindsay Photography, Jordan Duvall Photography