L5. 10. Setting up a photography website

When setting up a photography website for the world to see, the one thing that you have to remember it is professional. Below is a list of what to remember when setting up and looking for a provider when creating a photography website. 

• What you want it to do - Archive, Portfolio, Sales, blogging
• Do you need a selling function 
• Pre Design set up or create your own 
• does it load quickly
• Does your images look go on the computer screen
• Can you access your website on mobiles
• Does the provider have tools to get you noticed
• How secure are you images 
• Good reputation 
• Does it fit with your budget

Once choosing to set up a photography website you need to remember a few tips for producing it for the viewer to use. 

• clean and simple
• be responsive 
• don't be a poet
• search engine optimisation ready
• contact info everywhere
• faster is better 
• o you put full bleed images in or not?
• act like a road map
• portfolio tightly
• be social 
• be ready to sell

both sets of bullet points that are situated above are very valuable when creating a successful photography website, because when viewing the website you do not want the viewer to get board and to make sure that it is easy for them to use, as if its to difficult to access certain stuff they might not waste any more time with you and you would potentially lose a client. setting up a photography website is one of the most important aspects of a photographer career, it is a place for the viewer to analyse (or judge) your work, seeing if your work is the work they want. Photography is such a demanding job especially in today's society and having a nice website may just make or break your career. 

To create a website you would go through a professional website provider, these could be 123-reg, Fasthosts, Layerspace/Layerweb, Amazing Internet, Clickpic and may other. Below is some information about one provider known as 123-Reg.

123-Reg 

this is a link to 123-Reg website https://www.123-reg.co.uk/about.shtml

124-Reg is an online website that holds information and offered a wide range of services, known as web hosting products, UK reseller web hosting and managed hosting service. It holds over 3 million domain names and 1.7 million website, making them the largest domain provider in the UK. 

When looking into creating a website, i came to the occlusion that i would not need to produce a professional one due to the fact of me wanting to go into teaching for my career once finishing University.