Comments on: How To Get A Professional Photography Website For $38

By: Jeff Walker

Jeff Walker — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:24:00 +0000

PATRICK, can you comment on how your site design went with CMD? What is the address?
Do you still recommend them?

By: Ecommerce Software

Ecommerce Software — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:33:00 +0000

Wow it is amazing.I think I should try it into my Ecommerce Websiteso that it can get a lot of visitors.. Thanks for this blog.I'll share it with my facebook friends.

By: zeke

zeke — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:26:12 +0000

Patrick,

Thanks Patrick… I signed up Creative Motion and have my site on line now. It was incredibly easy.

By: Patrick Hall Admin

Patrick Hall Admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:33:40 +0000

Hey Drew, thanks for the option. Any chance you guys will sell a site for a one time payment? I think $49 a month isn’t expensive but it does add up to about $600 a year. A lot of photographers just starting out definitely can’t afford that.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:14:53 +0000

I wanted to chime in on the discussion. At MorePhotos (http://www.morephotos.com) we offer website templates in both flash and html and the customer has the choice of which to enter from your search engine friendly splash page. This way you can appease customers and the SERPS. By the way David Ziser is one of our customers and we appreciate his business very much. MorePhotos has over 200 variations of website templates, a top notch shopping cart with archiving features, digital printing lab integration with photographer choice of some of the best labs in strategic locations throughout the country and dedicated in-house technical support staff and an in-house SEO specialist – all for $49 per month! The Photographer has full control of content and meta data and can change it at any time, and we train you on the entire process.
Need more info? Give Drew a call @ 231-932-0855 X 11.

By: F8 Studio

F8 Studio — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:56:28 +0000

The best argument for staying away from Adobe Flash websites – this from highly acclaimed wedding photographer David Ziser:

And while I’m commenting here, let me just say a word about Flash web sites. Don’t. Flash is a misunderstood technology that was never intended to be used on the Internet. For many years we tried to do that, but it was never destined to last because it’s simply the wrong tool for the job, for so many reasons. It’s not search engine friendly, it’s a train wreck over a slow connection, it still requires a browser plugin to view, and this is a biggie: it’s not being widely supported in the tablet market. When Apple stops supporting something, pay attention. Photographers who have Flash sites would be well advised to replace them in the near future. There are much better tools for the job and google will love you.

By: Peter Knight | CMD

Peter Knight | CMD — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:34:16 +0000

@Luke: We would be transferring the flash site, the HTML mirror site the mobile site and the CMS. It is more involved than transferring a few files. The charge is for the time it takes to prepare, transfer and install the site.

@Tom: We do not do domain names, this you would purchase through a company like http://www.godaddy.com. The rest we woudl provide, the hosting, the website design and the email addresses, so you would just need to purchase the domain name, approx cost $12 per year.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:13:01 +0000

This might be a reaaally stupid question,(but I new to this kind of stuff so bear with me). So does buying a domain and website mean that I get my own adress as well? Like http://www.blahblahmynamePhoto.com? Or is it just the hosting space and website i’m buying?

By: Carlo Parducho

Carlo Parducho — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:59:43 +0000

Thanks for this post. Really.

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:21:23 +0000

So just to check, can I buy a website from you and downloaded it, which I can then do as I wish with it (such as put it on my own server?)

I’d rather not pay for a website and then pay another $100 just for you to dump it onto my server.