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Oh don't go there with PayPal, I've had the WORST experience with them ever... I will be blogging about it.

Warm and fuzzy, lol! Keep doing what you're doing guys, all the best Mike. I'm also chuffed you guys have moved to GS, it's an improvement on your forum for sure.

Hi Chris,

You're right about limitations but I think Shopify does alot of the basic additional functionality pretty well - for example, if the Shopify blog will fulfill my client's needs, I'll favour that. Otherwise I'm happy to turn to Wordpress to meet the increased needs of my client.

That said, I completely agree with your point on client-dazzling through too many third party interfaces/sites to remember and log into...which is why I use SWiM (a product my friend has developed but that is in alpha stage I think). Might be worth you keeping an eye on. It has a superb API so you can build interfaces for many third-party apps and have your clients managed all their 'bits' from one place. http://www.simpleweb-online.com

Anyway! Back on track - I opted for a flash polaroid gallery (the client's visual suited it well: http://www.no3dfx.com/polaroid/

Normally I would favour a non-flash gallery but there's a shortage of really decent ones for Flickr (imho).

I'll let you know how I get on.

What's this 'discqus' thing you mentioned? Is it a typo? I couldn't find it via google.

Best wishes!

I will be implementing one soon for a shop I am working on. I considered using a specific collection and template for this, but hadn't thought of your idea, Matt - nice one.

In the end, however, I've decided to use Flickr and a third-party plug-in. Why? I guess I just thought, why am I trying to make Shopify be more than a shop, when there are galleries/gallery apps already in existence? Plus, the photos will get double exposure on both the Shopify site and Flickr.