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www.photographywebsitebuilder.org

* How to Create aPhotography Website

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* Are you planning to create your own photography website but don’t know how.

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* “How do I create a professional looking photography website where I can feature my work, photos or even sell them?”

*Common Questions by Photographers

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* Shutterbugs, freelancers and photojournalists! Do

you know the best options for photo hosting right

now?

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*How to Create a Photography

Website

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*Two Major Options

*Solution-as-a-service photo hosting (SaaS)

*Build website on a full-fledged web hosting service

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*I. Solution-as-a-service Photo

Hosting (SaaS)

*Simpler website making method

*Popular Examples

*Zenfolio and Smugmug

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*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

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*Samples of Zenfolio Sites

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*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

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*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

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*II. Build Site on Full-Fledged Web Hosting

Service

*Things You Need*Web Hosting Account with Cpanel and auto-

installer support

*Registered Domain

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*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

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*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

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Professional Photography Wordpress

Theme

Used by successful shutterbugs, photojournalists and paparazzo’s

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4 Benefits of Having Your Own

Web Hosting Account

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*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)

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*Unlimited storage space

* for photos

* for everything else related to your business (including PDFs, presentations, videos, raw images, designs, digital products)

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*host more domain names (even for your wife)

*Multi domain hosting features

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*Minimal Cost*Pay only for the web hosting cost which is only

about $10/month