how to create a photography website
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* How to Create aPhotography Website
* Are you planning to create your own photography website but don’t know how.
* “How do I create a professional looking photography website where I can feature my work, photos or even sell them?”
*Common Questions by Photographers
* Shutterbugs, freelancers and photojournalists! Do
you know the best options for photo hosting right
now?
*How to Create a Photography
Website
*Two Major Options
*Solution-as-a-service photo hosting (SaaS)
*Build website on a full-fledged web hosting service
*I. Solution-as-a-service Photo
Hosting (SaaS)
*Simpler website making method
*Popular Examples
*Zenfolio and Smugmug
*I. Solution-as-a-service Photo
Hosting (SaaS)
*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
*Samples of Zenfolio Sites
*II. Build Site on Full-Fledged Web Hosting
Service
*Create self-hosted website
*Use own web hosting account
*Use own registered domain
*Cheaper
*Use of content management system
*Registered Domain Name*gives site its unique identity
* register domain name at any accredited best domain registrar
* Godaddy
* Namecheap
*II. Build Site on Full-Fledged Web Hosting
Service
*II. Build Site on Full-Fledged Web Hosting
Service
*Things You Need*Web Hosting Account with Cpanel and auto-
installer support
*Registered Domain
*Website Hosting
*Have cpanel and auto-installer support
*best cheap web hosting provider
*Reliable
*meets your web hosting requirements
*II. Build Site on Full-Fledged Web Hosting
Service
*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
*II. Build Site on Full-Fledged Web Hosting
Service
Professional Photography Wordpress
Theme
Used by successful shutterbugs, photojournalists and paparazzo’s
Wowway
unique and highly interactive WordPress theme with 3 preset skins
premium photography theme with custom posttype, unlimited colors and image uploader for shutterbugs
Anan
Anan
Tripod
easily create professional looking site and enable the “Like” feature
AutoFocus
photography WP Theme with Geotagging
Self Titled
unique custom-written slider and great for both portrait and landscape photography
Fashion9
responsive theme perfect for photographers
PhotoPro
great canvas for showcasing your work
Fluxus
magazine inspired WordPress theme for photojournalist
907
great one page WP theme with tons of options and features
Incidental
provides a very flexible, drag drop tool to manage your gallery
Squaregrid
fully responsive theme with 5 different layouts
Crius
responsive photo portfolio with 6 creative gallery templates
Squared
simple or minimalist but creative theme for shutterbugs
Verticality
one page photography theme
Photolux
cool photography portfolio theme
4 Benefits of Having Your Own
Web Hosting Account
*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)
*Unlimited storage space
* for photos
* for everything else related to your business (including PDFs, presentations, videos, raw images, designs, digital products)
*host more domain names (even for your wife)
*Multi domain hosting features
*Minimal Cost*Pay only for the web hosting cost which is only
about $10/month
Recommended Web Host
*Hostgator* fast customer support and unbelievable
uptime
*cPanel support
*Auto-installer support like Fantastico
*consult Live Chat
*Try for almost free
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