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How To Build A Photography Website

How to build a photography website without knowing how or what you want the website to do is like going on a trip without a map. You can leave and be going somewhere. But, without the map, you may as well be going in circles!

Learning how to build a photography website is very doable and it shouldn’t cost any money. You need a photography website creation process. Below, you will find the process that I use to build photography (or any type of) websites. Following these steps will help you immensely. Each step requires work and a thought out process that fits your style.

How To Build A Photography Website Creation Process Steps

The "Photography Website Building Tips Reality Tutorial" Course Is Located Below

Planning
Design
Building
Testing
Promotion and Maintenance

Planning

All processes of how to build a photography website should start with a planning phase. You have to plan out the steps needed to complete the process. To help you consider your steps, use the following questions to decide before you begin:

Why am I building this photography website?
What are the website’s functions?
What are the photography website’s goals?
Do you expect people to come once or return to often?
Who is going to design, build, test and maintain the website?
What tools will be used to build the website?
Who do you want to visit your website?

Design

Design is more than just graphics. It also includes the way the pages are organized to form the website structure, navigation elements, etc. What is helpful is to visit other photography websites often to get insight into trends that look fresh and new and friendly. The key to building a photography website that works is taking unique content and matching it to an excellent design.

Building

Building your photography website is the actual work of creating pages, editing graphics, making links, managing multimedia, and adding other elements. No longer do websites need to be created by hand. Tools such as website builders and other technological advancements, make the building of websites more easier than ever in the brief and explosive history of the internet.

Testing

What is meant by testing is you need to ensure that everything on your website works. Some of what you should test includes navigation, graphics and content. Also, you need to form the habit of testing your photography website with each change that you make.

Promotion and Maintenance

In order for your photography website to be effective, you need to promote it to others. This is done by submitting your website to search engines, promote to people that you don’t know and keep your site fresh so that visitors will have a reason to return to it.

Now, it is time to take action! No matter how inexperienced you may be, you can build a functioning and effective photography website within the next hour! Go here now.

Learning how to build a photography website is no longer complex, expensive or ‘amateurish-looking.’ One of the best things about this free website building resource is that once you’re learned the basics, they offer you more advanced website building tools, including tools for ecommerce (so you can sell your photography to customers), multimedia, etc. and it won’t cost you any money! Try it now.

Weebly.com offers free websites with free hosting and very sophisticated website tools. Watch this video to see how simple Weebly.com is to use. You can have your photography website built within the next hour.

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Below this message there is a 'photography website building' course that will walk you through the planning, building and managing of your photography website. The "Photography Website Building Tips Reality Tutorial" Course is a unique and effective learning experience to assist photographers to "navigate" the website building learning-curve. There are no costs for the course or for the tools recommended to build a real photography website.

Currently, the best web hosting service available (that is free) that is powerful, easy-to-use, has no advertising, and doesn't look like a 'free' website is Weebly.com. They offer a paid upgrade. (And the costs are some of the lowest anywhere.) However, this course is designed for students to be able to successfully build photography websites without spending any money. Once you learn how "things work," and have developed some skills (and some confidence), you can decide if you want to upgrade to the paid versions of the tools recommended for this course. But, it won't be necessary to spend any money to follow the lessons in this course to build your own photography website.

Visit Weebly.com and sign up for a free website. Read the "Pre-Planning" Process chapter in the course BEFORE you name, build or publish your website. (In fact, it might be better if you read the "Pre-Planning" Process section of the course; take a look at the "Planning" video; and THEN get a free Weebly.com website.)

The "Photography Website Building Tips Reality Tutorial"

This is a unique, informative and fun How To Build A Photography Website course for anyone looking to build a successful web presence. This course will show you how to build a photography website that does what you want it to do. Whether you want to attract people, share your work, display your work, etc. you will appreciate our easy to understand and do steps.

Get your copy here.

Download the course ebook.
Watch the videos
Get your free Weebly.com account
Take a look at the recommended resources
Join ThePhotographySpace.com to find more in-depth information and more resources, ask questions, make suggestions, etc.

Course participants will be walked through the thought processes, the pre-planning steps, the building steps, the managing steps as well as the promoting steps for a successful photography websites that meet the participants' specific needs. This course is specifically designed as an "anti-INFORMATION OVERLOAD" resource. Participants can skim and learn as well as learn in-depth specifics, the choice is theirs.

Keep Your Wallet And Your Credit Card In Your Pocket

This valuable course isn't for sale! Don't let the price fool you! I have built successful photography websites as well as unsuccessful photography websites. Trust me, having a successful website is much better. It doesn't make a difference whether the purpose of establishing your web presence is to increase the public awareness of your work or to sell your services and your work, this course will assist you build the photography website that you want. As you learn how to build a photography website, your confidence and skills levels will dramatically increase.

The "Photography Website Building Tips Reality Tutorial" Course Purpose

The purpose of this course is to assist photography enthusiasts and photographers establish a successful web presence and to improve their confidence and photography website skills. How to build a photography website is not a mystery.

Course Recommended Tools

The tools recommended for use in this course are what we find to be the best, the most powerful and easiest to use tools available. Once again, keep your wallet in your pocket. The overwhelming majority of the recommended tools are free. Some have ‘upgrade’ versions. The free versions are more than you will need to take full advantage of this course. If you decide to use the paid upgrade versions, I might make a commission if you buy through certain links.

There are many no cost website building and hosting services available these days. Our research currently finds that Weebly offers the best options. Their dashboard is very simple to use. And, best of all, they host for free without any advertising and without your website looking like a “freebie.” Weebly offers a powerful package that is perfect for the purposes of this course.

Animoto offers video producing services that makes producing “viral photo portfolios” at the push of a button.

Search Engine Optimization For Photographers

Search engine optimization can seem too complex and difficult for most web user – not just photographers. But, it is as easy to learn as learning to use email – really! Of course, there is a learning curve. Take a look at the available tools and resources.

Here’s a guide: “SEO For Photographers” that you will find helpful.

Web analytics software measures your website promoting strategies. We do not go in-depth in web analytics in the course. However, using web analytics software to measure the results of your SEO and promotion methods is critical to your success. Google Analytics is considered my many to be the best and most powerful. And, of course, there is not cost. Here are SEO for Photographers videos.

Resources

Knowing how to build a photography website is 10% of a successful website. How to build a photography website is very important 10%, but you cannot afford to ignore the remaining 90%. Resources will be added to this library as they're found to help you manage.

If you would like to meet and network with other photography enthusiasts just like you from around the world, visit and join....

www.ThePhotographySpace.com

You will love it! You will learn how to build a photography website as well as other stuff about photography. Join us!

List your photography website in our directory.......

Passion For Photography Directory

FYI - Linking to relevant, high ranked websites improves your website's credibility. List your photography website in the directory linked above. Doing so will give your site a good "backlink" (which is a good thing for your site) and it may improve your website traffic.

Download the course guide. Look at the videos below. Join fellow photographers at ThePhotographySpace.com

The Photography Website Building Planning Process

Get your copy of the "Photography Website Building Tips Reality Tutorial" Course here. This is your ticket to learn how to build a photography website.

Photography Marketing Basics

Remember, photography marketing is needed because photos don't sell themselves.

Your Photography Website Purpose

Your photography website purpose should be focused on benefiting your website visitor.

The Basics Of Building Your Photography Website

Managing A Photography Website

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