Interested in selling photos

We recently decided to explore our options for selling photos on our own in addition to selling through stock agencies. Wondering if anyone knows of simple ways to create a site for selling our photos. We were hoping to do it through Aperture and our .mac account, but reading the manual and an Aperture book, it doesn't seem to be so cut and dry. Anyone have ideas on how to create our own archive through which we can sell our photos? Thanks!
Nicole

I thought I'd suggest the easiest way to accomplish "e commerce" by utilizing any of the sites that are set up to do that already. To do the same on your own website, you'll need some serious development advise, then more advise on how to market the site. It's similar to what I've been trying to do for ever...sell my music on the web. Anyone can make a website, but how do people find it that want to purchase. I eventually went with a commercial site, http://cdbaby.com/ But, even then, you are still one of thousands of offerings in your field. It comes back the 'ole, "how do I make it?" How do I become successful? ...whoa, I think I've wandered off topic.
Something I really like is Rapidweaver, and I think the info available from their support people and their user forum probably have instruction on how to add e commerce to your site. It's basically an iWeb app on steroids (to use that "overused" phrase). I think it offers so much more in terms of customization potential than iWeb.

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pneb wrote:
photos cant load my iphoto library. It says there are errrors and that iphoto library cannot be repaired--yet it loads fine in iphoto and iphoto library manager. Any help would be appreciated
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So I bought a Synology DS411Slim and copied all our photo's from all our computers to this NAS, and bought an AppleTV.
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Bart, did you get any further with this issues? I have the same situation here :
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I reference my iTunes to this NAS and have done a consolidated files on the NAS.
I homeShare on itunes the shared folders on the NAS with 8K pics.
Want to see and hear all that on my Apple TV.
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XBOX 360 access the pictures on NAS via DLNP and works flawlessly. GOOD
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Apple TV Pictures Library over iTunes : dont get out of loading libraries! NOT GOOD
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Since everything works with the NAS (Music with iTunes, Pictures with Xbox and iPhone), what is going wrong with the Pictures Library of Apple TV through iTunes?
The NAS vs The External Drive
I often see answer saying NAS is not the best place to share photo, but reality is that it will be more and more ofenly use since it is a good solution for a family with grewing pictures library and Apple TV should manage it...
1- I dont use external drive on a Portable MacBook Pro
2- wife and kids just dont want to touch an external Hard drive!
3-... And Xbox read it from NAS flawlessly... ThereFore, it should work on the Apple Tv.
Thanks,
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It is a lot of extra work to export the photos from Aperture to a separate file.
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The trouble is, after moving images to folders/hard drives I subsequently delete them from iphoto to keep my macbook airs HDD with some space.
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