Freelance photographer needs help finding a website hosting company for photo viewing...?

Question

I am a freelance photographer and I need to build a website to display my photos on so my customers can view their photos. Any ideas on good hosting companies with a VERY EASY TO USE SITE BUILDER?? I would prefer to make mine from scratch, because I know exactly what I want, but I don't mind using a template, as long as I can change most of it. I just don't know (or understand) all of the technical "garbage" (that's what it is to me!!). Any suggestions for a good hosting company with an EASY site builder included would be appreciated. Thanks!!!

Answer 1

I have been quite happy with DreamHost http://dreamhost.com/

Besides reasonable prices and generous bandwidth and disk quotas, they offer two PHP/MySQL content management systems that may do what you want. Gallery 2 and zenphoto are one-click and easy installs respectively, you can install them from the control panel and manage them with your web browser.

Answer 2

I recommend http://www.hosttell.com/one They are one of the leading European web hosting companies, currently hosting over 500 000 websites. They have plans starting from $1.45/month. Every plan includes Photo Gallery, WebEditor (so you can build a website without knowledge of HTML), Google Adwords coupon (so you can advertise your website on google for free) and a lot more.

The price with 3GB of disk space and a domain name is $3.75/month ($45/year). Check them out.

P.S. They have a great Photo Gallery, check their demo.

If you need more than 3GB of space I recommend Dreamhost:

http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html

You can use the promo code PLUS (at sign-up) and get the

$50 discount +2 Free domain names.

Disk space: 500 GB

Bandwidth: 5000 GB

2 Free domain names

Unlimited domains and subdomains

Price: $5.78/month ($69.40/year)

Answer 3

As you may know a domain name is just a name, not a real website. If you are going to create your website: 1- Buy a domain name. 2- Buy a web hosting service to provide your online space and enable you to get your website online at your purchased domain name.

If you want to start your website I recommend purchase your domain and hosting together. In this way it is possible to get your domain for free. Some hosting services offer this gift today.

One of these services is reachable at: http://bluehost-service.atspace.com . Their service is really great and easy to use. This company offers "Free Site Builder" that helps you build your web pages without difficulty if you are not skilled in using any website creating program. (WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get).