Website advice for portraits please.

Raptor Mike

Raptor Mike

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I've recently done my first paid photography work, wohoo!! So I need to get a website up and running and could do with some advice please.

What I want from it:
Shopping basket
Private log in for customers to look at/order their photos either using passwords or QR codes
Be able to display full images for thumbnails, not just a square box with part of the image
Easy to use

My day job is as a self employed mobile vehicle valet and my website for that is on Wordpress. I'm very pleased with it but had a lot of help from a friend to set it up initially. There are things about it that I find very frustrating eg line spacing and the preview in the editor not showing the same as the actual site so you have to keep updating and refreshing to check your changes. Also it's very code orientated, which I'm not. You can't even change the font.

I have seen Clikpic advertised in Outdoor Photography Magazine which looks good and even done a small trial, although this was a couple of years ago. It does look good but I don't know if it does everything in my list above??

So can anyone, particularly portrait/wedding shooters, recommend a good website building facility that fulfills my list please?

Many thanks, Mike
 
Take a look at the very easily configured Photium.com

Does all the above and more, but some others are even more customisable.

All depends on what you want to pay.
 
Thanks shreds, I've taken a look at that and it looks good, although the big package is a bit much at the moment it's certainly something to think about in the future.

68 views and one reply, any other suggestions please?
 
I can't fault Zenfolio. Free trial, get a 10% discount with my referral code E8E-T4N-JSZ. My site photodivauk.zenfolio.com. You can use your own domain (but I already have that in use). Been with them a couple of years now. It does everything you ask for above and probably more. Lots of layouts and themes and you can customize them.
 
I use wordpress with a NextGen Pro Gallery, it can have multiple price lists and you just attach a pricelist to a gallery. It can be set up to work with paypal, stripe etc, but I prefer payment via bank transfer tbh.

It's not integrated with any suppliers, so you have to order the bits yourself, but, that does give you freedom of suppliers.
 
The reason your pages are looking different in the editing mode is because your site uses a theme and subsequently has it's only styles associated with it; mostly for consistency. That's nothing to do with Wordpress, it's just how websites work.

You're asking for quite a lot there in my opinion. You've only had one client and you're looking to have quite an advanced website. I would say that unless you're expecting a sudden influx of clients making it practically impossible to manage orders yourself that it would be better to focus your attention on getting an overall site with a good look and feel to it. Then you can build onto it as your business grows.
 
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