Frequently Asked Questions

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To get started, sign up for our services.

After the sign up form is submitted, you’ll receive an automated email in just a few minutes with information about where you can log in and start building your new Good Gallery website.

Easy Peasy

Are you a techie or a luddite? Creating a new website using Good Gallery is easy or difficult depending on your comfort working with technology. Most photographers think it’s super easy to create incredible websites using Good Gallery. But for your own website build, it’s going to depend on how easily you pick up new software.

You Like Computers

If you’re familiar with similar content management systems like WordPress or other website builders, you’ll probably find Good Gallery easier to use than anything you’ve tried in the past.

You’re Computer Challenged

If you consider yourself computer challenged, you might have some difficulty with the initial configuration of your website. But if setting up a new website sounds intimidating or time-consuming, we can take that pain away and build your website for you. Just select our Basic Configuration Service and we’ll build your new website for you.

PayPal Support

PayPal is an online payment system that supports credit card transactions. Good Gallery supports many PayPal features including payment buttons.

Payment Buttons

PayPal payment buttons offer an easy online payment solution. Visitors can use credit cards, debit cards, and PayPal payments using their desktop or mobile device. You can use these buttons to accept payment for products or services.

Embedding Code

Once you’ve used PayPal tools to generate the button code, you can use our text editor and embed their code anywhere on your website. This means you can attach payment options to service pages, product pages, or even individual photographs.

Powerful Forms

Good Gallery offers powerful built-in form tools that can create custom-designed forms that gather information from website visitors.

Our form capabilities are also some of most advanced available anywhere and all those capabilities are included for free with every Good Gallery installation.

We’ve designed our form tools with one goal in mind—improving your completion rates. When used as intended, our forms can help you have a better conversation with your visitors.

Having a conversation means that it isn’t about the having the fanciest or the cutest form. Instead, it’s about helping them complete the form quickly and without frustration or hesitation.

Here are some specific form capabilities that explain why Good Gallery forms offer a superior user experience for visitors.

Available Anywhere

Forms are typically included on contact pages, but our forms can also be inserted in any text area anywhere on your website.

With this tool you can create an unlimited number of forms and each form can contain any number of unique fields. Additionally, you can receive and store an unlimited number of responses.

Responsive

Perhaps most importantly, the forms all offer advanced responsive characteristics that make them incredibly well-suited for completion on any mobile device.

Based on extensive research and testing, our forms capabilities are carefully crafted to take advantage of the absolute best practices in user experience.

These advanced features are certain to promote greater understanding by your visitors and improve your overall form completion rates when compared to other systems.

Labels

Labels are top aligned to form fields. This method allows visitors to read both labels and input values with a single eye movement. Studies have shown that this results in the fastest completion times and results fewer cases of visitor abandonment.

As an additional benefit, this label position is also preferred on mobile devices where horizontal space is at a premium.

Validation

Form validation is the process by which a web-based form checks the information provided by a visitor and ensures it is complete and correct.

Good Gallery forms employ inline validation instead validating information after the form has been submitted. This means that validation signals and messages are displayed immediately after a visitor types information into a form field and that reduces friction in forms.

For example, if a visitor successfully enters the correct information in a field, the border around that field is instantly set to green indicating success.

Alternatively, if the information is incorrect, then the border around the field is immediately set to red and a warning message is provided informing the visitor that they have entered incorrect information.

Required Field Legend

When required fields are present in a form, a legend is displayed above the form showing that a red asterisk indicates a required field. All required fields are presented with a red asterisk. This highly visible indicator of required fields aids users in form completion and reduces form friction.

Polite Communication

Any form errors are communicated using positive language. In other words, error messages aren’t presented using a negative tone. Instead, all messages offer helpful advice on what the user needs to do to fix the error.

Helpful Suggestions

Many of our form fields offer visitors helpful suggestions. For example, if visitor enters an email address with what appears to be a misspelled domain, then the form will automatically suggest the recommended correction.

Better Captchas

Instead of presenting visitors with images of slightly illegible letters and digits that must be manually decoded, Good Gallery forms employ the much easier-to-use reCAPTCHA.

Google reCAPTCHA is a service that uses adaptive intelligence to detect and prevent automated software from submitting information through forms. Trivia: CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.”

Easy to Read

When a visitor submits a form, the content of that submission is sent to you in an easy-to-read HTML email message. Those emails are formatted to display both the questions on your form and the visitor supplied answers. Questions are displayed in a bold font while answers are displayed in a standard font.

The form name is displayed as a heading of the submission. As the form heading can be changed, that heading can also be changed to allow for easy identification of form data if multiple forms are employed on your website.

Text Only Version

If you prefer text-only emails, our forms offer the ability to change submission from the default HTML email version to a text-only version.

Dozens of Fields

Choose from text fields, checkboxes, dates fields, user-defined dropdowns, numeric dropdowns, radio buttons, memo fields, names (first, last, or full), phone numbers, time or timeframe, and yes/no options.

You can also add blank spaces, horizontal rules, section labels, or descriptive text between form elements. And every field label is customizable.

Defined Destinations

Upon form completion, you can define the destination for visitors. After the visitor completes the form, either keep the visitor on the same page or send them to any other page on your website—whether it’s a thank you page or pricing page or a photo gallery—the choice is yours.

Multiple Delivery

You can assign multiple email addresses to forms. This feature allows you to send responses to your primary address and to an unlimited number of backup addresses or studio employees.

Archived Submissions

When a visitor submits form information on your website, an email containing that information is sent automatically. The contents of that message are also permanently stored in your administrative tools allowing you to access that information at any time—even if your emails are lost.

Return Receipts

Send automated emails to visitors who complete your form. When activated, simply type and you’re your message and your comments will be sent to visitors who contact you via the form tool.

Other Forms

Alternatively, you can embed forms from most customer management systems including Wufoo Form Builder, ShootQ, Tave, Pixiset, and others.

Presentation Options

There are several options for hosting videos on your Good Gallery website. You can choose the one that works best for you.

Full Screen

You can present your movies in a full-screen format. Simply create a new page, provide the link to your YouTube or Vimeo video, and that page will appear in your menu system.

When a visitor views a video page, they’ll see your video as a full screen presentation surrounded by your website menu.

When you create one of these video pages, you can control autoplay, branding, looping, controls, and related videos for each page added.

Embedded

All pages on your website can feature embedded video. You’ll use the text editor found on every page and insert the link to your YouTube or Vimeo video. That video will then appear inline on your page.

When you’re embedding video, you can include multiple videos on a single page.

Pre-Launch Sandbox

When you sign up for a Good Gallery website, you’ll choose a custom name that you’ll use as your temporary “getting started” address while you build your new website (e.g. example.goodgallery.com).

This temporary address allows you to keep your old website live while you get your new site ready. Once you’re ready to go live with your new Good Gallery website, you’ll use the instructions we provide to point your domain (e.g. example.com) to your new website.

Your temporary address allows you to keep your old website running while you get started on your new Good Gallery website. That temporary address is also hidden from search engines. And, unless you share your temporary address with someone else, that address is publicly unavailable.

After Launch

After you go live, you can access your website using your own domain (e.g. example.com) or you can continue to access your site using your temporary address (e.g. example.goodgallery.com).

For Portfolio Websites

Good Gallery isn’t a proofing platform. If you have thousands and thousands (and thousands) of photos that you need to sell or share with clients, then you should use Good Gallery for your branded portfolio website and use a separate photo hosting service for bulk storage, online sales, and client downloads.

Recommendations

We typically recommend ShootProof as one of the best solutions for online proofing. Their tools are some of the most advanced and versatile available anywhere. If you’re a new ShootProof customer, you can save 25% off your first year by entering GOODGALLERY as your promo code. For more information, visit the ShootProof website. Other options include Pixiset, SmugMug, and Zenfolio.

Money-Back Guarantee

We don’t offer free trial periods. Instead, we offer a 100% 30-day money-back guarantee. If you sign up and you’re not completely satisfied, we’ll refund your fees—no questions asked. In other words, there’s no risk when you sign up for Good Gallery. Give us a try today!

Popularity

Our examples showcase real photographer websites. And most of our customers don’t choose options that are very far away from our recommended defaults. Those options are simply most popular with most photographers.

Your Options

However, we don’t limit your creativity. You can change those default settings to meet any configuration. Instead of presenting you with templates or themes, you have access to thousands of settings that independently control every aspect of your website’s behavior and design.

For example, by changing a single drop-down option, you can change the position of your logo and menu to appear at the top, right, bottom, or left side of the page (left is the default option). You can also use those drop-down options to change your brand colors, use any combination of popular fonts, or even change the way your photos are displayed in hundreds of different ways.

Default Layout

When you sign up for Good Gallery, you’ll start with our popular default layout. Your logo and menu appear in the top left corner. Starting there, you can customize your website to an almost infinite degree.

You can configure your website to look like any one of our Sample Websites or you can choose a completely different direction and design a site to meet your unique brand requirements and limited only by your imagination.

Templates & Settings

With Good Gallery, we don’t limit your creativity with templates or themes. Instead, we offer thousands of settings that independently control every aspect of your website’s behavior and design.

Options Galore

By changing a single drop-down option, you can change the position of your logo and menu, change your brand colors, use any combination of popular fonts, or even change the way your photos are displayed in hundreds of different ways.

If you can think of it, we’ve probably got a setting for it.

Default Layout

When you sign up for Good Gallery, you’ll start with our popular default layout. Your logo and menu appear in the top left corner. Starting there, you can customize your website to an almost infinite degree.

You can configure your website to look like any one of our example websites or you can choose a completely different direction and design a site to meet your unique brand requirements and limited only by your imagination.

Responsive + Adaptive

Good Gallery websites use both responsive and adaptive technologies to deliver incredible performance across all platforms.

In both responsive and adaptive design, mobile users are presented with the same content across all devices. However, the technical approach for determining the type of device is managed differently under a responsive architecture versus an adaptive architecture.

Comparison

With responsive design, visitors download bits of code that detect the kind of device being used and the viewport available. The browser then uses that data to determine how to display that information on that device.

With adaptive technologies, instead of downloading and processing code on the visitor’s computer or device, the server determines the device being used prior to downloading any information and then provides only the information needed by that device.

By detecting the type of device prior to the download, Good Gallery realizes much better website performance than what can be achieved by responsive sites because a responsive design downloads and processes code that is not relevant to mobile devices.

Performance Benefit

One reason why adaptive mobile sites are arguably superior to responsive sites relates to visitor experience. With a responsive design, programmers and designers are often forced to make compromises in website design so that their websites can work equally well across all devices.

Although making compromises within a responsive architecture can admittedly still yield a website that looks good on all devices, responsive developers can’t achieve the same level of precise control afforded by a company working with an adaptive architecture.

SEO

In terms of SEO, there is no difference between adaptive and responsive design. Search engines strive to ensure that their search results endorse only those websites that share the same information across all devices. And they also want to make sure that that visitors will have a good overall experience while using that device.

With that in mind, search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo all recognize both adaptive and responsive architectures and do not give ranking priority to one architectural approach over the other.

Conclusion

For many companies, a responsive website is certainly good enough to meet the needs of their customers. However, for our team, good enough is never good enough.

Although an adaptive architecture is more complicated to architect and takes longer for us to develop than similar responsive designs, our team believes that the performance benefits and functional superiority of an adaptive website architecture outweigh those associated our additional development costs.

Font Support

Good Gallery supports over 175 different fonts. These fonts can be applied separately to menus, headings, and body text.

Currently Available

Here’s a list of fonts currently available:

Abel, Abril Fatface, Actor, Alef, Alegreya, Alegreya Sans, Alice, Allura, Amaranth, Amatic SC, Anonymous Pro, Archivo Black, Archivo Narrow, Arial, Arimo, Arvo, Average, Average Sans, AW Conqueror Didot-Light, AW Conqueror Sans-Light, Baskerville Old Face, Bentham, Bevan, Bitter, Bodoni MT, BonvenoCF Light, Book Antiqua, Butler Black, Butler Black Stencil, Butler Bold, Butler Bold Stencil, Butler Extra Bold, Butler Extra Bold Stencil, Butler Light, Butler Light Stencil, Butler Medium, Butler Medium Stencil, Butler Regular, Butler Regular Stencil, Butler Ultra Light, Butler Ultra Light Stencil, Cabin, Calibri, Calisto MT, Calluna Sans, Cambria, Cantarell, Cardo, Castle T Light Regular, Century Gothic, Chivo, Clicker Script, Consolas, Copperplate Gothic Light, Courier New, Crete Round, Crimson Text, Cutive, Cutive Mono, Dancing Script, Domine, Dosis, Droid Sans, EB Garamond, Esteban, Existence Light, Exo, Exo 2, Fjalla One, Fjord One, Forum, Franklin Gothic Medium, Futura (Light), Futura Extended, Futura Extra Bold, Futura Extra Bold Italic, Futura Koyu, Futura Koyu Italic, Futura Oblique, Garamond, Gentium Basic, Geo Sans Light, Georgia, Gill Sans MT, Goudy Old Style, Grand Hotel, Gravitas One, Homemade Apple, IM Fell DW Pica, Impact, Inconsolata, Istok Web, Italiana, Josefin Sans, Josefin Slab, Julius Sans One, Jura, Karla, Kreon, Lato, Ledger, Libre Baskerville, Lobster, Lobster Two, Lora, Lucida Bright, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Typewriter, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lustria, Maven Pro, Medula One, Merriweather, Merriweather Sans, Monsieur La Doulaise, Montez, Montserrat, Montserrat Alternates, Muli, Nobile, Nunito, Old Standard TT, Open Sans, Open Sans Condensed, Open Sans Light, Oswald, Oswald Bold, Oswald Light, Oxygen, Palatino Linotype, Permanent Marker, Perpetua, Philosopher, Playfair Display, Playfair Display SC, Poly, Pontano Sans, PT Mono, PT Sans, PT Serif, Questrial, Raleway, Raleway Thin, Roboto, Roboto Slab, Rockwell Extra Bold, Rockwell, Rufina, Satisfy, Segoe UI, Shadows Into Light, Shadows Into Light Two, Signika, Sintony, Six Caps, Skia, Sorts Mill Goudy, Source Sans Pro, Stalemate, Stephanie Marie JF Regular, Stint Ultra Expanded, Syncopate, Tahoma, TeX Gyre Adventor, Theano Didot, Times New Roman, Titillium Web, Trajan Pro, Trebuchet MS, Ubuntu, Varela Round, Verdana, Vollkorn, Y2K Neophyte, Yanone Kafeesatz, yeahfree by Alterdeco, Zona Pro Bold, and Zona Pro Thin.

Video Soundtracks Are Supported

When you embed YouTube or Vimeo videos on your Good Gallery website, audio from those videos is fully supported. However, we don’t support other forms of music on Good Gallery websites.

Sitewide Music Options

We don’t don’t offer sitewide music because:

1. Offering music in the background can interrupt audio already being played on visitor computers. In other words, many visitors will already be playing other music or watching videos when they visit a website. If music starts playing automatically on a website, then the website’s audio stream will clash with the visitor’s music. In some cases, website music will interrupt the visitor’s preferred audio source. And that kind of behavior won’t engender goodwill among visitors.
2. Although some website owners feel that their music choices are ideal, some visitors won’t share those same musical tastes. And since those impressions may negatively affect conversions, it’s much safer to offer silence in lieu of music.
3. Many people will visit websites using work computers that might be within earshot of co-workers. If working professionals visit websites and music is playing, that visitor may scramble to find a way to mute the audio. Or in extreme situations, the visitor may leave the website or close their browser to prevent the music from continuing. None of those actions will offer a positive experience or outcome for an online business.
4. Some visitors may simultaneously open many sites in multiple browser tabs. When that happens, and unwanted music starts playing, the visitor will either close the offending tab or will be unable to locate the tab and will close their browser window.
5. Even compressed audio files require bandwidth. And that means that websites with music load slower than websites without music.
6. Offering background music on a website was once ground-breaking and unique. However, as technology moved forward, most visitors view website music as dated.
7. Converting visitors to customers is the goal of most websites. Website owners must ask themselves if music is going to positively influence purchase decisions for EVERY customer. If that answer is no, then offering music on a website may work against site owners focused on improving customer conversions.

Apples to Apples

We’d love to answer your question directly, but we avoid critiques or comparisons to competitors. Instead, we’d invite you to view our Features page and our Examples page. We hope that information will help you identify our differences.

Simple Is Good

Good Gallery websites follow a minimalist design aesthetic. There are several reasons to embrace this creative philosophy. Some benefits include faster websites, better search engine performance, improved cognitive fluency, more conversions, greater focus, and mobile friendliness.

Simple Websites Load Faster

With fewer design elements, minimal JavaScript programming, and less downloadable data, our websites can load faster than websites that are heavily designed.

Think about the last time you visited a website that wasn’t very fast. What did you do?

Search Engine Friendly

When websites incorporate too many creative elements, the technical presentation of that information can interfere with search engines and their ability to recognize and index important textual content and photos.

Cognitive Fluency

Cognitive fluency refers to perceptions relative to difficulties visitors may encounter on websites. When websites include clutter, they increase cognitive load for visitors. However, a reduced cognitive load means that visitors can quickly complete their desired task.

When you consider your own experiences online, do you prefer a simple website that provides you with quick and easy access to the information you seek or a website that hides their goodies behind an over-designed interface?

Improved Conversions

We contend that for most photographers, first-time visitors want to perform three critical tasks. Those potential customers want to:

1. See your photographs.
2. Know how much you charge.
3. Contact you to determine availability.

What do you think is the best way to design a website to help visitors meet those goals? You might also want to learn more about our overall design philosophy.

Focus on Important Content

When a website features a menu that’s nearly invisible when not in use and simple design elements, visitors pay closer attention to your most important content—whether that’s your photographs or textual information.

Those potential customers aren’t distracted by visual elements that don’t further their path to conversion. In other words, simple websites are easier to read and scan.

Mobile Friendly

Simple websites tend to be friendlier on mobile devices. With the reduced screen real estate available to visitors, it’s even more important that websites present the most important information quickly and simply.

Timeless

We have all seen photography trends come and go. And as they go, we sometimes say to ourselves, “What were we thinking!” The same concept applies to website designs.

Popular past design trends include parallax scrolling and single-page websites. That means that once you launch most new websites, your design only has a few years of shelf life (at best) before it starts to look dated.

However, with Good Gallery’s simple design aesthetic, you can be assured that your website will appear more timeless—just like your best photographs.

Less Salesy

Have you ever met a salesperson who is cheesy, aggressive and superficial? Did that turn you off?

When you offer an over designed website, visitors can sometimes feel that they’re overburdened with your presentation. Simple designs like ours are different in that they don’t make the visitor feel like your website is just a sales tool.

Beautiful

Based on separate research studies by noted psychologists Helmut Leder, Daniel Berlyne, and Alexandre N. Tuch, it was determined that more complex websites are perceived as being less beautiful than less complex websites.

This theory was also explored more recently in a study by Google/YouTube User Experience Research in Zurich, Switzerland.

Multiple Websites

We welcome photographers who have more than one website. Simply sign up for as many websites as you require.

Text Theft

It’s impossible to prevent determined visitors from copying your website text. However, we include features to discourage that practice by making it much more difficult.

You can allow people to copy your website text or you can apply one of several restrictions to any page or all pages on your website. Those restrictions are Copy Allowed with Citation, Copy Allowed with Warning, Copy Prevented with Warning, and Copy Disabled.

Copy Allowed with Citation

With Copy Allowed with Citation enabled, visitors can select and copy text, but when a visitor pastes the text from their clipboard, the copied text is surrounded by quotation mark symbols and citation information identifying your studio as the source of that content.

Copy Allowed with Warning

With Copy Allowed with Warning enabled, visitors can copy text, but they’re presented with a pop-up warning.

The warning text states, “The information you have attempted to copy is protected by International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized use of this copyrighted material is strictly prohibited.”

You can edit the warning text if desired.

Copy Prevented with Warning

With Copy Prevented with Warning enabled, visitors can select text and select the copy option, but a pop-up warning is displayed.

The default text for the pop-up warning is “The information you have attempted to copy is protected by International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized use of this copyrighted material is strictly prohibited.” The text that was selected by the visitor is not copied and is not available in memory.

You can edit the warning text if desired.

Copy Disabled

The Copy Disabled option indicates that visitors are prevented from selecting or copying text.

Sad Story

We’re sad to say that we don’t work out. Most of us are chubby and pale. But that’s because we spend all our free time in front of computers working on Good Gallery.

Even though we don’t have six-pack abs, we’re a crazy-dedicated team working to create the best website builder anywhere.

This is great news for you, but it’s not so great for our waistlines.

Eating Our Own Dog Food

In 1988, a Microsoft employee sent an email titled “Eating our own Dogfood” that challenged other employees to increase the internal usage of Microsoft’s own products. That phrase has gone on to be a popular way to refer to companies that use their own products. It’s also known as “dogfooding.”

It’s what we do at Good Gallery too. Our employees are also photographers and all have Good Gallery websites.

Rob Greer Photography

Our founder is Rob Greer. In addition to managing Good Gallery, he’s also a Houston photographer who runs a busy 6-figure photography studio. Rob Greer Photography ranks on the first page of Google for some of the most challenging and competitive keywords for photographers including houston photographer, Houston event photographer, Houston portrait photographer, and a host of others.

His annual salary is directly tied to the performance of his website as most of his business comes from people who found him online. And with that in mind, Rob takes a no-compromise attitude toward making sure that Good Gallery is the best platform available anywhere.

Made in the USA

Good Gallery is a Texas company. All our source code is written by programmers located in the United States. We never use offshore programmers. Additionally, our entire support team is located in USA.

We’re doing our part to help the economy by creating local jobs. We also contribute to society by paying lots of taxes. Yay, taxes.

Compatibility

We work hard to make sure that our websites look great on modern browsers and old browsers too. We know that your visitors don’t always have access to the latest browsers.

Progressive Enhancement

We use progressive enhancement techniques to serve content differently based on the browser used. When visitors use older browsers, they might not see all the bells and whistles and advanced animations that we can present to visitors using modern browsers. But even if visitors are using an old browser, they’ll still be able to see all your photos and content—because that’s what’s most important.

Modern Browsers

Our website features are fully supported on the most popular modern browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.

Older Browsers

We also support older browsers like Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera although some advanced display functionality may not be available due to limitations inherent to those platforms.

Registrars

Your domain registrar is the company that manages your domain name settings. Some website builders offer domain registrar services and host your website. We’re not that kind of company.

We believe that domains should be managed by a company other than your website host. For that reason, Good Gallery recommends that you register your domain with companies like GoDaddy, Network Solutions, and Bluehost and keep your domain name registration separate from your website host.

Domain Isolation

One reason to keep your domain separate is that if you ever have issues with your website host, and if your domain is managed by that same company, then moving your domain can be time consuming and add technical difficulties to your move.

As an example, we’re aware of one website builder that has registered their client domains under their own name. In other words, the client domains actually belong to the website builder. Although that company’s evil practice is an edge case, it’s an example of how bad things can happen to good people.

Regardless of the potential risk with keeping those eggs in the same basket, maintaining domains and websites separately means that your overall website security is improved in case either of your accounts are compromised.

Feature Requests

We love customer requests for new features or functionality. We encourage you to share your ideas via email.

In may cases, we’ll add your feature request to our product roadmap immediately. We’ll even try to provide you with a general timeframe as when you might expect to see your feature appear in Good Gallery.

Customizations

If you need that new feature sooner rather than later, you can always request a customization. Through customization, we can add the features you want right away—often within just a few days. If you can dream it, we can build it.

Free Upgrades & Updates

We don’t have versioned software. That means that you’ll never need to pay for system upgrades. And we don’t charge you for new or updated templates.

That means you’ll never be forced or tempted to pay more for new features. That’s because with Good Gallery, all your updates and upgrades are included.

Never Be Forced To Change Again

You might have heard tales about website builders who force photographers to ditch their websites and start over when that company changes their architecture or when they stop supporting old designs.

Good Gallery clients have never been inconvenienced in this way. And they never will be. Our system is architected so that even when we add new functionality (or change things entirely), your images and text are completely portable.

No Worries

You’ll never be forced to change or scrap your website when we update our software.

Whether we add new features, new templates, or new technology, you can rest easy knowing that your life won’t be thrown into a marketing or redesign whirlwind because of our software changes.

More Experience

We started building websites in 1995. And in case you’re familiar with the history of the Internet, that was first year websites were commercially available.

With more than 20 years of experience under our belts, there’s nothing we haven’t seen And that fact helps us create the best websites for photographers.

Programming Expertise

We have programmers on our team who started working for our founder in 2001. This means that our platform is being enhanced daily by a cohesive team who works well together  and wastes no time with petty politics or bias. We have a singular focus—creating a better website builder for photographers.

Professional Photographers

Our founder is a professional photographer. Our CIO is a professional photographer. Every member of our original programming team was a photographer or videographer.

We Understand

We understand the needs of working photographers. We’ve made millions of dollars as professional photographers and we know the marketing pain you feel week after week.

Our goal is to make things easier for you and help you become more profitable by providing you with an incredible website builder specifically designed for photographers like you.

Affordable, But Not Cheap

We’re not the least expensive, but we’re one of the most affordable website builders when you examine all the features our platform offers. If you’re looking for ways to gain maximum value for your budget, we think you’ll discover that Good Gallery is the perfect choice.

As John Ruskin once said, “It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that’s all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.”

Exceptional Designs

The word “premium” refers to something of exceptional quality or greater value than similar items. Synonyms include choice, prime, select, and exceptional. Rest assured that all our settings templates are “premium designs.”

But we don’t charge more money for them. Other website builders charge an introductory fee and then an additional fee when you want to use their best designs. With Good Gallery, our hosting fee provides you with access to the best of everything we offer.

Everybody Needs Help

Everybody who has ever designed a website could have probably used advice from someone. However, you won’t need to hire a special designer to help you with your Good Galley website.

Save Thousands

You might know another photographer who has spent thousands of dollars paying for someone to design their website. And it may look great. But with Good Gallery, you can do it yourself. Save that money and invest it in other marketing areas, because it’s going to be easy to get you up and running on our platform.

Website Design

However, if you just need a bit of help getting started, you do offer a Basic Configuration Service. Although we don’t offer design advice as part of that service, you can provide us with direction by mentioned Good Gallery websites you really like. Then, when we create your new site, we can incorporate those design elements in your website.

GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) presents guidelines for the use of personal information for people in the European Union (EU).

Cookie Warnings

We provide JavaScript code that notifies website visitors that their information may be collected. This is likely a requirement for photographers who collect information about people in the European Union.

Our Design Philosophy

We believe that clients who hire photographers want to view photographs first. They probably don’t want to read about how you got your start or how much you love photography or how you’ll provide them with an amazing experience.

Visitors come to your website because they want to know if you can create photographs that will meet their needs. Most Good Gallery customers present their photography at the forefront because that’s what most first-time visitors will want to see first.

On our list of example websites, you’ll see that most sites feature a single photo, a grid of photographs, or several thumbnail photos linking to separate galleries. That’s because those 3 options meet the needs of most first-time visitors.

Alternative Approach

Some photographers are adopting a different approach to selling their services. This new tactic is based on the idea of providing an unparalleled experience to clients.

In this approach, how the photography makes clients feel is given the highest priority. This experiential approach is often coupled with in-person sales (IPS).

Under this sales philosophy, photographers are selling an experience and emotional connection—and the photographs themselves take a back seat to those considerations.

Good Gallery photographers who choose this sales approach may adopt website designs that feature fewer photos and more text, videos, calls to action, and tools like chat to move visitors toward active, in-person engagement more quickly.

You can take this approach in Good Gallery by adding content above or below galleries using our easy-to-use text editor. You can also create informational pages based on our standard text pages or by using tools available on Visual Navigation pages. And of course, you can add third-party embedded tools designed to connect you directly to your visitors.

Using these various options, you can create a balanced mix of text and images focused on experiential sales with highly targeted calls to action. In other words, if you want your website to work this way, you can have it that way.

You Decide

In the end, we want you to decide on what works best for you and your business. But we challenge you to think about what you would want to see on a website if you were a potential client and you were hiring a photographer.

Although your personal preferences may not always match your visitor’s preferences, you’re certainly qualified to think about how your opinions and your visitor’s opinions might be connected.

No Coding Required

You don’t need to know a single line of code to build and customize an amazing Good Gallery website. With our easy-to-use settings, you can change the look and behavior of your new website by clicking a few checkboxes or selecting options from simple dropdown fields.

This means that even if you’ve never created a website on your own, you can still create an amazing website with Good Gallery.

Custom Code Supported

Although custom coding isn’t required, if you’re a website geek and you like to tinker, you can add your own CSS or JavaScript using our easily accessed custom settings.

Organized Settings

All our settings are organized under intuitively named categories. For example, all settings related to logos are found under the Logo heading. Likewise, all settings related to fonts, font colors, text spacing, and line spacing are found under the Typography heading.

Search Settings

With thousands of settings available, even though our settings well-organized, you may not always be able to immediately find what you need. With that in mind, we include a powerful search engine that’s dedicated to searching settings.

Simply enter your keyword or keywords and a list of all related settings is displayed. You can make your changes right there on the results screen, save your choices, and your website is updated immediately.

Loading Animations

Loaders, preloaders, and loading animations all refer to simple and entertaining animations displayed while photos are downloading from our servers.

Even when loading animations are enabled, they’re rarely visible on our websites since our photos download very quickly.

However, for any visitors with limited bandwidth, you can choose from more than thirty loading animations. Once a loader is selected, you can change the size, color, speed, transparency, and background of the animation using our easy-to-use settings.

Amazing Arrows

You can create a unique gallery navigation experience by changing how your arrows look and operate in photography portfolios. This means that visitors can interact with your photos in unique ways.

Shapes + Shapes

You can choose from more than 200 different arrow shapes for your galleries. You can also change arrow size and arrow colors to coordinate more closely with your brand. From standard to curly to blocky arrows, pick the style that works best for you.

Innovative Auto Hide Features

By default, gallery arrows disappear as visitors navigate through the gallery. In other words, when a cursor is motionless, and the visitor is clicking to advance in the gallery, the arrows disappear to present an uncluttered view of your photos.

When visitors move their cursors, the arrows appear again. But you can customize this behavior for each arrow to meet your own user experience preferences.

Alternative Navigation

You can also use your keyboard arrows, page up, page down, home, end, and escape keys to navigate images and image info.

Color Customization

There are more than 100 color settings you can customize. Or you can choose a few defaults and let Good Gallery do the rest.

Picker Tool

Good Gallery provides color choices from a named list of over 140 web-safe colors.

Alternatively, you can choose a custom color. After selecting the custom color option, you can enter any hexadecimal color value or use the integrated color picker tool to select from any point in the color spectrum.

Most color-related settings also include transparency options where you can control the opacity of select items.

Custom Backgrounds

You can upload any image or graphic and assign it as your website background. From that point, you can choose to fill the background or tile the background with your image.

Pattern Library

If you don’t have an image you’d prefer, but you still want a graphical background, Good Gallery offers more than 100 vector background patterns that have a minimal file footprint and that download almost instantly for most visitors.

Landing Pages

Landing pages market to visitors who have been targeted by online advertising. These pages are designed to convert visitors by having them perform a specific action.

Fewer Links

One of the tenants of landing pages is that visitors should only be presented with the conversion offer and that all other links and distractions should be removed. With that in mind, our landing pages are completely blank allowing for focused calls to action.

On landing pages, all logos, menus, and text area footers are hidden but the general formatting rules consistent with your brand are applied to any content you might add.

Content Templates

You can instantly create a copy of any text page with a single click of your mouse.

This helpful duplicate page feature allows you to create content templates that you can reuse again and again. Or you can also use it to create alternative page designs and then choose the one you like best.

Typography

With our easy-to-use settings, it’s a breeze to change your website text.

You can manage your headings, body text, and menus centrally using Good Gallery settings, or you can change those characteristics on a page-by-page basis using the WYSIWYG text editor tools.

And we have an incredible list of available typefaces.

Facebook Ads

A Facebook pixel is the code Facebook uses to help you optimize ads, track conversions, build audiences, and remarket to previous visitors.

Adding Facebook Pixels

After creating your pixel using Facebook’s tools, you’ll just add the information they provide using Good Gallery’s HEAD Info setting. Then you can include the event code on individual pages and you’ll be ready to go!

Facebook Previews

With Good Gallery, you can control the preview image that appears when visitors share pages on Facebook.

Either let Facebook choose an image from each page automatically or define the image you want to appear when your URL is shared. Just choose your preferred photo or illustration from any image folder.

Branding

You can use our tools to help infuse your Good Gallery website with own personality in both design and content. Our sites also help you maintain consistency across pages and galleries, from desktop to mobile.

Logos

Our designs are optimized to help keep your logo in the visible forefront for visitors. And to make sure this critical component of your visual brand is perfect, we offer vector logo support for non-fuzzy scaling on all devices at all sizes.

Favicons

You can also upload a custom favicon image to personalize browser branding. Simply upload your symbol or illustration and choose that image for your favicon.

Support

We provide technical information about Good Gallery via our personable support agents. And if our CEO isn’t busy, he’ll answer support emails too. He likes to keep his finger on the pulse of our company.

When you contact us, you’ll work with a real person based in the USA who is highly knowledgeable about our software. These aren’t second tier support personnel. You’ll be corresponding with an engineer or someone who is intimately familiar with every feature in our software.

Ethical Design

At Good Gallery, we’re committed to ethical design decisions.

We fervently believe that it’s our responsibility to think carefully about how design choices and technical approaches will impact photographers who use Good Gallery.

The decisions we make may sometimes seem insignificant. But we know that every choice can potentially impact your bottom line to a huge degree. And money matters.

With have more experience developing photographer websites than any other website builder. And we harness that knowledge to make your websites work better and consequently help you make more money.

Popular Trends

We don’t design websites based on popular trends. Nor do we blindly follow the latest design movements based on advice offered in speculative self-help books or marketing blogs. Some of those approaches can lead you down the wrong road. And because marketing is a long-term investment, by the time you discover your mistake, you’ve lost money and—more importantly—time.

Instead, we base our designs and features on real-world testing, visitor observation, and practical common sense. In other words, safe and verified methods are held above trendy and unproven marketing that’s based on theoretical psychology.

However, we don’t want to stifle our own creativity with authoritarian moralism. With that in mind, when we develop a new idea that could potentially impact traffic, user experience, or SEO, we first test those features on a small group of high-performing photographer websites. We then monitor user behavior and search engines to determine if our proposed improvements provide a positive, negative, or neutral impact.

Once we’re sure that the result is neutral or positive, and when we’re sure that it’s a definite best practice, then we roll those features out to you. This approach helps keep your brand safe as you navigate the complicated field of online marketing.