If you are considering turning Photography into a business, or you simply want to show your works to the public, you may need a portfolio website to gain publicity. Potential clients are more likely to collaborate with photographers with a serious website rather than those who only have a Facebook fan page. Therefore, if you are taking photography seriously, you should really start a portfolio site if you haven’t yet.

Choosing the Right Platform/Software

Undoubtedly, knowledge in coding and SEO does give your site a boost. But, thanks to the advanced technology, expertise in HTML, CSS, and all those messy codes is no longer a prerequisite for people to create a decent-looking website. You can get started even if you are a complete newbie to web design. In the following paragraphs, I will go through different platforms and software and you will see which one suits you the most.

Are you a newbie of web design and development?

If you know nothing about web design, you may consider those online website makers. You will get your site ready right away if you have prepared all the contents to be put on your site beforehand. These online website makers do not require any web development experience of the user. The user-friendly drag-and-drop user interface allows the user to create a decent website with ease. Don’t worry even if you are not a graduate of School of Design, there are tons of attractive templates to choose from. You may customize the template you have chosen or leave the layout untouched in case you are not familiar with design stuff.

Wix is one of the online website makers that enables you to create a web page within minutes. There are various readily usable templates available. You don’t need to bother with all the design work if you are not into it. Undoubtedly, there is no such a thing as a free lunch. Although you don’t need to pay a penny to start a website with Wix, their free subscription plan does include ads and you have to purchase their one of their premium plans in order to remove the unwanted ads.

The importance of font weight. (Courtesy: colorlib.com)

Thanks for reading. Good luck with your website!

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