Before you commit to a host and register your quite-literally-one-in-the-world domain name, search for any horror stories out there about people being locked into substandard hosting providers in order to preserve their domain names.  I can't give you any war stories; only the old adage about things that look too good to be true... You can find a lot of hosting providers in the $8-10 a month range, and you can register your Web identity with NSI for $20 a year if you do it for five years at the time.

Updating gallery images is very cumbersome, though, so I retooled Kollins' galleries to use EOS Template with the AllWebCo template providing the look of the home, informational and contact pages.  This lets me use BreezeBroswer Pro to process the images and automatically generate an EOS Template image gallery of Kollins' work.  It sounds complicated, but is pretty straightforward after you learn the workflow and script editing.

The good news is that they do most of the work of getting your images into your customers' hands and the revenue into your pocket. The service, as you'd expect, isn't free, but may be well worth the price if you want to sell your work without becoming a HTML-and-Javascript-editing-Web-geek.  Both Action Photos, which I've had the privilege to shoot for on a number of occasions, and my friend Andy of ProImagesOnline, whom I got to know at those events, use PhotoReflect.  Action Photos is bringing a new custom-written sports photography environment online, but don't try this at home.  

I recently had the privilege of meeting - and buying some photographs from - Joe and Stacey Champion of Champion Images.  Champion specializes in athletic event coverage but adds Stacey's artistic eye to produce some of the most striking sports images I've seen.  They use PhotoReflect for sales, nestled behind a custom front end.  Stop by their booth if you're at a major USA Gymnastics meet or any other event where you see their remarkable creations on display.  In the meantime, visit them here.

ProImagesOnline covers the southern Maryland sporting world and Action Photos focuses on major tournaments in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

And yes - he listens - and adds features regularly.  Bravo, Peter.

Caveat:  These guys are completely unresponsive to requests for new lenses - or anything else.  The only support is in discussions with users like you and me.

Download version 5 and try it out, but old PCs may choke; the app is a processor HOG. Multi-core machines, even early ones, process many times faster.  Version 4 was painfully tolerable on my five year old Athlon with 1GB, but v5 flies on a Core 2 Quad with 4GB.  Not a replacement for either Photoshop or Lightroom, but offers some distortion correction unavailable anywhere else that I've found, strong noise reduction and overall high quality RAW conversion.

Easy - you take two or more photos and combine them so that they look like one very wide, or very tall photo.  Software to do this is plentiful; search on panorama software reviews to read the latest reviews.  The Nodal Ninja site has 1,400+ links to panorama-related information.  Go to the bottom for forum, discussion group and blog links.

The two basic ways to present your expanded view of your subject are with either a wide or tall print or rectangular Web image, or through a Virtual Reality (VR) viewer that lets your Web audience look around the image - up to 360 degrees around, from straight up to straight down. Good VR is fascinating, challenging and very rewarding with even your earliest efforts.  Have a look at my first attempt after unpacking my Nodal Ninja 5 panorama head.

Be careful of your monitor calibration! Use a hardware colorimeter, and send for test prints before you do any customer work or order a large number of prints for yourself.  Calibrators from Pantone or Xrite are relatively inexpensive, and save a lot of work.

and how I got it to install under 64-bit Vista

It has a steep learning curve for its slicker features like layers and motion, but turns out a decent end product.  The shows took a long time to render on a 1-processor Athlon 2500 with 1GB (part of the final step in burning them to DVD), but are pretty quick on an Intel quad-core with 4GB.  I have no knowledge of any competitive product like Adobe Premier or the Apple's iDVD, but plan to have with this one for my occasional need.  Its output looks great projected by a big Christie projector onto a 14-ft screen at church, too.  Their latest release is touted to burn to Blu-ray disks.

Hint for higher picture quality: Chose the "Desaturate to 80% (or so - it's variable)" option for a DVD show for your TV or PC, but leave saturation at 100% for projection to give yourself much more vibrant on-screen images.