Website Building - Madison Galloway
Throughout my research of website building, domain
names and hosting business I have finally come to a conclusion and found
exactly what I am looking for. First off I bought my domain name and host
through blue host. The domain name is a once off fee and the hosting is a set
price per month. Next I needed a website builder that allowed me to have full
control over my website an enable me to design it exactly how I want. For this
I used Wordpress, which is usually just for blogs however I got a specially
designed theme for photography called pro photo which, I bought. Although it is
a bit on the expensive side I came to a decision that it was worth the money
from looking at many reviews and its reputation. Some of Australia's most
professional and well known photographs use this template for their website
including Jonas Peterson. The good thing about Wordpress is you can get many
different plugins that assist in personally customizing everything in your
website. You can get plugins to assist with SEO along with galleries that can
be pass worded for clients to view their images. Most are free but some of the
higher end plugins are paid. Within pro photo can you purchase more specific
themes and layouts for your website to save time rather then building it from
scratch for yourself but if you truly want your website unique you'll start
front nothing as I did. Pro Photo's customization options are endless with you
being able to decide the pixel size, colour and drop shadows of your
backgrounds to what email your contact form goes to and what details that you
would like to receive from enquiries. Being especially made for professional
photographers it has many available options for presenting your work/portfolio
as a slideshow, slider, light box or just images in a post. Once you get your
head around where to find everything, you will notice the back end of your
website is categorised easily for you to find what aspects you would like to
alter.
Below is a screen grab of
the back end of a Wordpress website and the pro photo customisation section.
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