Photography Based Site Building Sites

[ShaggyRS6]

I am looking to create my own website for my photography, I use Flickr and 500px right now but want to start my own site.

Can any recommend a site building site? I did do a Google search and found a list of top 10 site builders but wanted to seek advice here before I pulled the trigger.

I think Squarespace seems to be aimed at photographers?

 

[ShaggyRS6]

Avoid site builders like the plague.

Proper web designer only costs a couple of hundred, or you can try using wordpress/joomla on a shared hosting platform.

Give me a bit more detail on why?