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[Colin]

Jinky, You already have a domain and you can get a shared webhosting package for considerably less than luxipics charge. You could build a website or get someone to build one for you fairly easily and cheaply. Something like a Wordpress blog with a Gallery would give you all you need to get you started. You can probably get a local teenager to do it for you or may be quid quo pro it with some photography for someone local.

If luxipics think that you don't need a sitemap I wonder why they have one for their own site?

[picsfor]

Jinky,

my web space costs me £100 pa. It's mine, it's backed up and it comes with full e-mail facilities to go with my domain as well as the usual stuff like PHP, Perl, MySQL, and best of all, WordPress.

The thing with Wordpress is you can get some really great photography templates out their for a few dollars that will more than do the job, and are fairly easy to learn and manage.
When i say templates, you acquire a licence for a 1 off fee of, well lets say $40 (seems to be the high end for most).

And that's it - really is that simple. If funds allow, you can even, as suggested get an aspiring geek to custom code you a site, especially WordPress one.
I mean, $40, that's not even a meal out nowadays.
£100 pa - £2 a week, so the Sunday paper might have to go...

Oh yeah, now i've sung their praises - i use http://www.bpweb.net - and their support is absolutely spot on. Wouldn't use any one else...

And forgot to say, space is plentiful so no limit on how many pics you can have in your album - and if you exhaust the given bandwidth, then the trade generated should be able to cover the extra 

[Cathus]

if it's any use, I have my own server running cPanel, lots of space & lots of bandwidth, I rent out virtual servers to friends & acquaintances for £25 a year, much like what lots of you probably have with companies like bpweb (I used them for a couple of years but ran out of resources so went over to renting my own server), webfusion, 123-reg,   1&1 etc.


You can use it any way you wish & run any software, such as wordpress, joomla or self made web sites.