Features

Upgraded accounts can access advanced features, such as our certified Seller Tools with listing management features for eBay, additional image space, web page counters, the ability to insert images instantly into eBay listings, and many other features. Click here for more details and pricing of our upgraded plans. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express and PayPal.

Our Page Designer HTML Tool, available to all users, lets you easily create your auction ad or any other web page you wish, with an easy to use system. Just select the elements you want, specify the text format, alignment and position and we'll provide a preview and the HTML when you're done! This feature has been used to create thousands of auction ads.

• A Company You can Trust
  We have been in the internet business since 1996. We're currently hosting millions of images, for hundreds of thousands of active users all over the world! Village Photos is a member of the Heartland Better Business Bureau, and have excellent relationships with our customers. We want our customers to be happy with our service, and will work hard to earn your loyalty.
• Reliable Service
  We have a top of line, load-balanced web "farm" with multiple redundant systems to provide the best service availability and performance. Our systems include hardware from Dell, Intel, Coyote Point, and other industry leaders. Our centrally-located datacenter is hosted in a secure, temperature and humidity-controlled environment, which further increases reliability and performance.
• Personal Customer Service
  We strive for personal customer service - we do our best to help every single customer enjoy their service. Our customer service has been awarded by the Better Business Bureau and placed on the "Customer Service Honor Roll" for outstanding customer service.
• Full-Featured Auction Management
  Upgrade and get access to our Certified eBay™ Seller Tools, with listing management, template creation (which reduces data entry!), web counters, and more.
• Easy Image Upload
  We have a great in-browser upload utility that runs on most systems, and makes uploads as easy as drag-and-drop! Files upload automatically in the background while you select more images to upload. We also offer a browser-based HTTP upload which requires no software, and works on almost every platform including WebTV!
• FTP Access
  New! Any user can access their images and upload new ones with standard FTP client software.
• Organize Images in Custom Albums
  Create an unlimited number of photo albums to organize your images. We'll show you your original image filename, image widht and height, how often it's been viewed each day, and other details. You can move pictures between albums, create HTML "galleries" for other web sites, where you can clock a thumbnail to view a full-sized image.
• Use Your Images Anywhere
  After you've uploaded an image, you can post it on bulletin boards, use it on auctions, or anywhere else you'd like. We provide all the URL's and HTML you need to insert images into other web sites.
• Optimize JPEG Image Filesize
  You can automatically optimize your JPEG format images when uploading, or individually they're uploaded. Optimizing file sizes reduces your usages, drastically improves download speed, and is a neccessity for professional sellers.
• Rotate JPEG Images
  New! Easily rotate your photos to correct orientation.
• Titles and Captions
  Further organize your photo collection by assigning titles and captions to them!
• Online Greeting Cards
  After you've uploaded an image, select a template, enter a message and send it as an online greeting card to your friends and family! This feature is available to all users.
• Web Counters
  Upgraded accounts now have access to up to five customizable web counters!
• HTML Layout Tool
  Our 'Page Designer' HTML tool lets you create colorful HTML templates or pages for auctions, signatures, web pages and more, with no knowledge of HTML! This feature is available to all users.
• Image Tools
  Once you've uploaded an image, you can resize it, or add compression to JPG format images to help them load faster!
• Order Prints
  You can easily order prints of your stored images directly from ShutterFly. Add a whole collection of images to your prints "cart", and submit them all to Shutterfly at once, with titles and captions included!

• Click to Zoom / Scrolling Slideshow Galleries
  FREE to all users! Instanly create pure Javascript 'click to zoom' scrolling or static thumbnail galleries!

  Use the 'click to zoom' galleries on your own websites, auctions, anywhere you like!

• Unlimited eBay and Yahoo Auctions Image Usage**
  To improve our service to auction sellers, and in prepration of our upcoming Seller Tools, we're now offering unlimited service for images used on eBay, and Yahoo Auctions and Stores!
• User Photo Gallery
  After you've uploaded pictures, you can submit your best to our User Photo Gallery for everyone to see! Our participating users have created an amazing photo gallery of landscapes, kids and babies, urban settings, wildlife and more.
• Personal Customer Service
  All of our customer service is one-on-one, personal, and understanding. We try hard to let our customers know that they are important to us!
• Private and Anonymous
  We value our user's privacy. We have never shared customer information with third parties, nor do we collect or distribute any name or address information.

**Unlimited image use on eBay or Yahoo Auctions or Stores requires images be under 250K and at least a Plan B membership. Limits on the number of images you may store are defined by your account type. See our upgrade page for account plans and upgrades.