bigflannel Portfolio is an online version of the classic photographer’s black leather portfolio. A template with as few options as are needed to present images and video professionally across all web devices. It’s a software download you install on a web host and connect to SlideShowPro Director.

It costs $99/yr which includes an initial download and ongoing access to bigflannel Support: an installation guide, software updates, upgrades, a forum, feature requests and email support. Cancel your subscription and ongoing bigflannel Support at any time, and use your existing download in perpetuity ‘as is’.

Concentrate on your work, not the portfolio.

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Before Purchasing bigflannel Portfolio

If you already have web hosting and a self-installed or hosted version of SlideShowPro Director, you’re ready to go: purchase bigflannel Portfolio and download and install it in 10 minutes. Or if you’re not comfortable editing an HTML document and using FTP, bigflannel can install it for you for a fee of $199. Add installation to your order as you purchase.

Otherwise, you need to separately purchase web hosting and either the self-install or hosted version of SlideShowPro Director. If you CAN’T install software on a web host, purchase the hosted version of SlideShowPro Director at $49/yr, web hosting (which typically costs $120/yr), and bigflannel Portfolio with installation. If you CAN install software on a web host, purchase the self-install version of SlideShowPro Director at $59, install it on a web host (hosting is typically $120/yr), and purchase and install bigflannel Portfolio.

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Total Cost

If you already have web hosting or a self-installed or hosted version of SlideShowPro Director, you’re total cost will be less than above.

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Leland Bobbé Says

I started working with Mike Hartley of bigflannel in 2003 when I launched my first website. The site immediately won a PDN Digital Imaging award in the website category.  A few years ago we did a major redesign which I’ve been using until now.  Recently I decided that I wanted a site that I could administer myself and was aware that Mike was developing his template. I looked around at other template sites but was still particularly attracted to Mike’s design sensibilities. I find the software SlideShowPro simple and intuitive to use and especially like the big and bold way the imagery is presented. From the time I started my uploads I was up and going in no time.  The reviews have been fantastic and I couldn’t be happier with the way the site looks and functions. I have
also seen an increase in hits, pages viewed and time spent on the site.”

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Features in Full

• choose a white or black background and the color of the portfolio loading bar or customize a wider range of options (see full options list)
• name your portfolio, add your logo, or use a splash image or graphic
• choose how long your logo or splash image remains on screen if you use one
• open the portfolio with a slideshow, specifying the style (full window bleed or bordered), which album, the timing and whether the image order is random, or open to the first album in the first gallery, a gallery or an album.
• set the fade rate of images in the slideshow and all other image fades in the site
• link to any image, video, album or gallery in your portfolio as well as your about page
• edit your about page description, photo and links using SSP Director
• set the text of your portfolio ‘About’ button
• add upto external 3 links, and text, from your portfolio of your choosing
• additionally add a link from your portfolio to your blog
• additionally add a link from your portfolio to your Twitter account
• additionally add a link from your portfolio to your Facebook
• additionally add a link from your portfolio to your Google Plus account
• choose to make external links open in a new window
• add or remove the portfolio fullscreen button
• choose to pair vertical images
• choose to display thumbnails, only show them on rollover, or not show thumbnails in your albums
• set the opacity of thumbnail images used throughout your portfolio
• set the size of album thumbnail images
• give access to your work across all devices, bigflannel Portfolio is a Flash template with a mobile fallback player for iPhone, iPod, iPad and Android (built into SSP Director)
• use it on unlimited websites using a single SSP Director
• bigflannel Portfolio uses the font Ratio Display by Mark Canesio which is also available as a web font for use in your blog through Typekit. You can also choose to use the Flash default fonts (_sans or _serif) or name a font of your choice (must be present on user’s machine)
• use the browser back and forward buttons to navigate your portfolio

GALLERIES

• title your galleries
• order your galleries by their title, or date created
• display all or some of your SSP Director galleries
• display as many galleries as will fit on the portfolio navigation bar
• place a single album in a gallery and it opens to that album, not a gallery menu

ALBUMS

• have unlimited albums
• have unlimited images in albums
• title and caption your albums
• choose to display album slideshow navigation, whether to autostart, and the timing of the slideshow

IMAGES AND VIDEO

• title, caption and add links to your images or video, set captions to be on or off and set the length of time they are on screen
• display images and video at their actual size or smaller, or set them to expand with the browser

If it’s not listed, it’s currently not an option (see full options list). Features will be added and requests can be made in the bigflannel Support desk. However the aim is for this template to be simple and template development will be done in this context.

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Support

$99/yr gives you access to a bigflannel Portfolio software download and the bigflannel Support desk which includes:

• an installation guide
• more on getting started
• downloads and updates
• examples and tips
• a user forum
• a feature requests forum
• news and status announcements
• email support

Cancel your subscription and bigflannel Support at any time and use your existing bigflannel Portfolio software download in perpetuity ‘as is’. Support is offered during New York City office hours.

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Have Questions?

Please email support@bigflannel.com. Or mention @Mike_Hartley on Twitter (he’s in NYC).

Installation Requirements

Download and install the software in 10 minutes. You will require:

• a working version of SlideShowPro Director (1.5.1 or better) hosted at slideshowpro.com and your own web hosting, or a working version of SlideShowPro Director (1.5.1 or better) installed on your own web host, purchased separately
• a text editor such as TextEdit on a mac or Notepad on a PC to edit a file
• an FTP application such as Filezilla to get your portfolio files on to your web host.

Or pay a one off fee of $199 for bigflannel to install it on your web hosting with your SlideShowPro Director which you purchase separately. Add in this option when you make a purchase or purchase it separately later.

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Small Print

You may cancel your subscription at any time without refund and continue to use the software as is in perpetuity, but your access to the support desk will be terminated when the cancellation is received.

The following SlideShowPro Director functionality is not provided in bigflannel Portfolio:

• album audio, date taken, place taken, tags, publish (although you can use this additionally and separately)
• content / image / video tags
• gallery publish (although you can use this additionally and separately)

By purchasing and downloading bigflannel Portfolio, you, the purchaser, are granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use bigflannel Portfolio on an unlimited number of your own websites and presentations. Designers and developers must purchase and download bigflannel Portfolio for each 3rd party they use it with or have the third party purchase it. bigflannel Portfolio may not be resold or redistributed as part of a template, application or service to additional parties.

bigflannel Portfolio is provided ‘as is’.