If You’re So Against Subscriptions - Why is Your Portfolio on Squarespace?

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Seems like folks are very anti-subscription when it comes to their photo editing software. But they seem to give subscriptions a pass when it comes to where they build their portfolios.
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@TerryKontopoulos 2 месяца назад

Straight to the point as usual! Your info for the hosts is very nice, as I'm looking for a new host/provider... Thanks Andy!

@Andyhutchinson 2 месяца назад

No worries - thanks Terry. :)

@63barty 2 месяца назад

Don't mess about Andy, tell us what you really think ! 😆 Great video mate

@Andyhutchinson 2 месяца назад

lol - no worries :)

@paulcooper9187 2 месяца назад

Cheers Andy , certainly thought provoking, and until I retired last spring, I worked on the dark side of SaaS , albeit on high end enterprise applications. There is one reason for the SaaS Subscription model over perpetual licenses and thats EBITDA & shareholder value

@Andyhutchinson 2 месяца назад

Cheers Paul. Had to Google that last acronym!

@verdedoodleduck 2 месяца назад

Good video. I've been mulling over this subject and came to the conclusion it should be wordpress. Not sure whether I want to selfhost or not at this point. One of the things that make me pause is I am still not sure how the webpage gets into search results effectively (assuming one is trying to some SEO). I hear many folks have blogs that support their website but then how does the blog get into the search results. I don't want to create a site just as a vanity project. :[

@Andyhutchinson 2 месяца назад

I've decided to do a Wordpress for photographers series and I will touch on this very point. But, simply, make sure you install a plugin such as Yoast (use the free one you don't need pro) and make sure you enter a keyword, snippet and alt-tags for all of your images. Optimise the images prior to uploading them - webp format is the most space efficient. And on the page you put the photos, make sure you include at least 250 words of proper text. :)

@TricksterRad 2 месяца назад

Personally I wouldn't use either Squarespace services or Adobe software, but the comparison here feels a bit disingenuous. After all, Squarespace does actually provide a *service*, where ongoing payments make sense (even if their pricing is bs), whereas Adobe provides a *product* that's bundled with some services purely to justify it being a subscription instead of a purchase to own. In other words, we're not against subscriptions in general. We're against subscriptions where they don't make sense.

@Andyhutchinson 2 месяца назад

Sure, but my point is this - it's not just about the subscription fee itself and the services that your subscription purchases - it's about the control you surrender when you lock yourself into that service.

@jasyamaha 2 месяца назад

Great work, once again, thank you.

@Andyhutchinson 2 месяца назад

Thank you too!

@Eigil_Skovgaard 2 месяца назад

So, Mr. Huchinson, where is your homepage, and if it shows images that you want to present in a professional way, don't you have a pro lightbox included - for how many A$ per month combined? Don't answer! It's a rhetorical question as my point simply is this: "free" has its limitations when it comes to presenting "true art" to the world (I imagine).

@Andyhutchinson 2 месяца назад

Firstly you probably don't even need a lightbox plugin - gallery functionality built into Wordpress core does the same job - after that it's just styling it. And if you really want to use a plugin, many are free or come with a more advanced version with 'pro' features. But even if you bought the best lightbox plugin on the market it would still be far cheaper than a Squarespace subscription and also, since the photos you upload are standard post types, you could move the images within it to another plugin or even into a free native gallery with zero issues - the same is definitely not true of Squarespace.