i need a website!

[adamau5]

work is really picking up, even though i dont have a website. However, i have got to the point where i think i need something a little more pro than flickr.

I have no web experience at all, cant code, nada....

A wordpress hoster looks like an option, and then i can buy a theme. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience? Are they relatively easy to manage?

Cheers

Adam.

 

[adamau5]

hmmm. i can get well reviewed hosting with a domain for $6.50 a month which seems cheap. Then wordpress... then maybe buy a pro theme such as this

http://www.gallyapp.com/tf_themes/kin_wp/ for $30

trouble is, until i buy the theme, i have no idea how complex it is to manage....

 

[adamau5]

nick?

 

[adamau5]

Mine is www.benhodsonphotography.com and is all Wordpress and galleey2 for the commerce bit. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have....

did you use a theme or edit yourself?

 

[adamau5]

more reading suggests a worpress site is the way to go for me... photocrati looks nice but is $80 compared to the usual $30 for themes, I'll post a few choices up and let you lot critique

 

[adamau5]

well.. domain purchased, hosting sorted, wordpress installed, theme purchased... and it all seems very very easy.

You can make me eat my words when it all goes wrong loading content

 

[adamau5]

i went with vidahost

 

[adamau5]

Its a slow process, but i am slowly getting on with it.

I need to do a hell of lot of optimisation for slow connection (I fully appreciate the images need resizing and compressing)

I aslo need to work out how to better manage lightbox galleries... anyone know how to link to a lightbox gallery through a single image, rather than have all gallery images on the page?

be nice...

aw-photography.com

 

[adamau5]

cheers, thats probably 3 hours work so far. Adding images and galleries is pretty clunky but fool proof.

Theme is village. Kin looks nicer, but it only displays portrait

 

[adamau5]

cheers for the compliments!