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Hello,
I am upgrading my website soon and want to add a proof gallery, I have read about your product on a forum I frequent (ProPS) and have a few questions,
I am currently using Imagequix and dislike having to pay for every upload and find the navigation and image display and upload to be very frustrating.

I am planning to be shooting a lot of soccer teams this season and hope to be able to place each team online for additional sales… I currently just choose the best image and print…

Can your product be integrated onto my website? What is the uploading process? Usually I have my “WEB GAL” make changes to my main pages. Would I be able to access the proof pages? My website is hosted by West host.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Mary

ProofBuddy can be integrated into almost any site. The original reason I wrote ProofBuddy was because I was unable to find a solution that I could easily modify to match my site and I assumed that others would be in the same boat. You can make your ProofBuddy match almost any site by editing a set of theme files. Take a look at the Screen Shots section to see a few examples of customized themes.

You have two options for using ProofBuddy.

You can have us host it for a monthly fee which is an option that works well if you do not have webspace or are unable to install ProofBuddy on your webspace. Most clients that go this route either have low priced hosting that does not support PHP and MySQL or are using a hosted blog platform as their site.

The other option, and the one that it seems that you would be interested in, is to download ProofBuddy and install it on your server. In that case you will have ProofBuddy running at the same domain as your main site. The downloaded file is the Lite version of ProofBuddy which you can run on your site for as long as you’d like for free. The Pro version is a paid upgrade, and it does sound like one you would need with the number of images that I would assume shooting soccer teams would be. What I would suggest is to download and install the Lite version and make sure it works for you.

And there are also two options for uploading. The first is to use a series of fields on the add images page where you can upload up to 10 files at a time. The other option is to FTP files to your webspace and then import that way, a method that’s much faster and more stable if you’re dealing with a lot of images.

I am interested in knowing if you have had experience with using Proof Buddy on a BluDomaind site? Is it possible or would I need to Host with Proof Buddy?

Jenny - I don’t know of anyone using ProofBuddy on Blu Domain hosting. Do they support PHP and MySQL databases? If they do, there’s a pretty decent chance it would work. I would say you download the Lite version and give it a try.