How to Create a Photography Website
- 2. * Are you planning to create your own photography website but don’t know how.
- 3. * * “How do I create a professional looking photography website where I can feature my work, photos or even sell them?”
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- 6. * Solution-as-a-service photo hosting (SaaS) * Build website on a full-fledged web hosting service *
- 7. * Simpler website making method * Popular Examples * Zenfolio and Smugmug *
- 8. * save hours of education to become a web developer * impressive degree of freedom and customization * fast way to share photos online with your potential customers *
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- 10. * Create self-hosted website * Use own web hosting account * Use own registered domain * Cheaper * Use of content management system *
- 11. * Registered Domain Name * gives site its unique identity * register domain name at any accredited best domain registrar * Godaddy * Namecheap *
- 12. * Things You Need * Web Hosting Account with Cpanel and auto-installer support * Registered Domain *
- 13. * Website Hosting * Have cpanel and auto-installer support * best cheap web hosting provider * Reliable * meets your web hosting requirements *
- 14. * Content Management System * Use Wordpress * easily installed via auto-installer * popular content management system and blogging platform * Huge selections of themes and plugins * Minimal coding * User-friendly *
- 15. Used by successful shutterbugs, photojournalists and paparazzo’s
- 16. unique and highly interactive WordPress theme with 3 preset skins Wowway
- 17. Anan Anan premium photography theme with custom posttype, unlimited colors and image uploader for shutterbugs
- 18. Tripod
- 19. photography WP Theme with Geotagging AutoFocus
- 20. unique custom-written slider and great for both portrait and landscape photography Self Titled
- 21. responsive theme perfect for photographers Fashion9
- 22. great canvas for showcasing your work PhotoPro
- 23. magazine inspired WordPress theme for photojournalist Fluxus
- 24. great one page WP theme with tons of options and features 907
- 25. provides a very flexible, drag drop tool to manage your gallery Incidental
- 26. fully responsive theme with 5 different layouts Squaregrid
- 27. responsive photo portfolio with 6 creative gallery templates Crius
- 28. simple or minimalist but creative theme for shutterbugs Squared
- 29. one page photography theme Verticality
- 30. cool photography portfolio theme Photolux
- 32. * At Zenfolio, you have to pay 12% fee when you sell products from partner labs, pay 4% fee when you self-fulfill your own orders, and pay 8% fee when you sell digital products. If you host your own website, you pay nothing from your sale (as oppose to the first option above)
- 33. * Unlimited storage space * for photos * for everything else related to your business (including PDFs, presentations, videos, raw images, designs, digital products)
- 34. * host more domain names (even for your wife) * Multi domain hosting features
- 35. * Minimal Cost * Pay only for the web hosting cost which is only about $10/month
- 36. * Hostgator * fast customer support and unbelievable uptime * cPanel support * Auto-installer support like Fantastico * consult Live Chat * Try for almost free