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setting up a website
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hi folks.
im just curious how one would go about setting up there own website. i have a facebook and flickr thing goin, but it would be nice to have your own as it would look more professional. any help would be great thanks in advance.
Hi edwin,
there are a number of hosting companies that provide full website hosting, design and mangement services aimed particularly at photographers.
If you can build our own site and are reasonable competant in HTML etc, you can get buy your own domain and hosting package quite cheaply, just google ‘cheap hosting’ and you can spend days loooing around.
There are hosting companies that specialise in providing professional websites for photographers, probably the biggest name in the UK is ‘amazing internet’ and they advertise quite heavily in the pro photo mags.
I’m currently hosting my own website as I’ve had my own domain for a few years back and I can code the thing myself if I have to, but as the workload is increasing on my post production sales and printing etc, its actually working out more benificial for me to switch to a service provider for this. Also I’m not currently set up to sell work from the site, so going with someone else for this makes more sense for me at this stage.
I’m currently rebuilding my webiste with Showit, as I’mally impressed with what they can do, especially with their integratin with facebook and twitter, which is where I’m getting most attention these days. They also have very effective Search Engnie Optimazation with Google. And on the plus sde, as long as you limit your site to 5 pages, you can host your site with them for free. (with some limitations) One word of caution though, the Showit software is very US based, and I had to work a bit of magic myself to get it to display the euro symbol (€). I’m also going to be using a wordpress blog off my own domain integrated with my showit site, and I’ll probably use photoshelter for the e-commerce stuff for now.
– T
There are a few options. clikpic is used by a good few photographers. CMD – sponsors here on the site also do good
packages.
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