Creating websites / webspace HELP!

[Sean_Mc]

Mrs Mc is looking to start her own photography website, she gets plenty of wedding/portrait work through word of mouth, facebook etc, but has been pondering about the idea of setting up a website.
Neither of us have ever looked at doing such a thing and the info through Google seems a bit overwhelming.
Its just a way of showing off her previous work, but I'd imagine she'd need quite a good bit of online webspace to host her pics in there best quality.
I've dabbled with some web providers templates, but would possibly like to design from scratch the website, so need help with there too.

Any help would be great


Cheers Sean :

 

[Aleman]

Sean,

How much 'development' do you want to do?

If it is specifically photo type web hosting you are interested in, then something like Photium would be ideal as it is a webspace for photographers . . . or there is the facility to have your own portfolio on http://www.ephotozine.com . . but I can't find it at the moment. Foliopic is another photographers portfolio webspace.

If you really want to do your own thing, then I would recomend that you look at something like Joomla! (A Content management SYStem) and Gallery2 plugin to host the gallery. . . . If I get 10 minutes I can knock a basic website up using those two and let you see how it works. . . . It's what was used for the UK Homebrew website . . . Joomla hosts the website and Gallery 2 does the piccies. . . . very very flexible, and you seperate the web design from the content so that you don't need to be a web nerd to add/remove things

For webspace you can't really beat Dreamhost at $7.95 (or less) a month, unless you want something commercial . . . then you have to look at serious cash

 

[gsidford]

For hosting a Joomla! or Wordpress site I would suggest looking at e-noise.com. £29.99 per year for their package with 30 Gb of disk space.

I have used them for a number of websites and fine their availability and performance excellent.

As Aleman says you can be up and running with a basic site very quickly and using Joomla! there is a lot of free templates and extensions such as photogalleries which would make this quite easy to get going.

 

[jamesb]

If you like, I've got space on my server you can use until you outgrow it.

 

[Sean_Mc]

Thanks for the info guys and the very kind offer James.

Think I need to sit down tonight and go through the advice and links. Also need to get Mrs Mc to sketch out what she needs

Cheers Sean :