How to start my own photography website?

Question

i want the website to be my own where i design it myself, not use their g*y website building templates..

on godaddy.com they have the url available that i want.. but i dont know how to go about it..

should i use them?

i have no idea what to do?

*im good at web design just not buying stuff like that.

Answer 1

start on deviantart.com :)

Answer 2

Okay the first thing you need to do is get a domain name for example yourwebsite.com. You can buy one like you said from godaddy in my experience they are excellent.

The next thing you need to do is build a website, in html, flash, php, css any or all of them.

Photography website, what do you want do you want people to be able to upload pictures?

If yes then you need to program a php script or you can buy an off the shelf product to do it for you ;)

Answer 3

First let me say I am a professional web designer and you do NOT want to host on Godaddy. it is in my opinion second worst hosting company that I know of.

Go to http://www.samwilson3d.com , there is a list of hosts they all have cpanel and something called "fantastico" the least expensive of these plans is around $50 per YEAR

Godaddy has given me problems of every kind including MySQL and FTP problems and they are just a pain in the butt

Now depending on what kind of photography site you want, I recommend Coppermine Photo Gallery which is a 1 click install using Fantastico, you can make this look however you want bu only using Photoshop and CSS. I would start with a premade template designed for Coppermine and then make adjustments from there to make the site the way you want it.(the template can just be a starting point or you can not use one at all)

Joomla can also be installed with one click using Fantastico and that may also be the way to go.

-there are about 20 different 1-click install solutions that you can install and customize with Fantastico