coskibum Loc: Bella Vista AR

Want to start and I need to find a provider for a website? What would you guys recommend and what sites are you using now.

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Consider GoDaddy

Radioactive Loc: Bellingham

SmugMug

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

It is not exactly a "website". Adobe calls it a "portfolio". It is included with the photography plan. Beyond the benefit of no additional cost, it can be managed with some semi automatic links into Lightroom Classic.

For an example, you can look at mine here: https://billsprague.myportfolio.com/

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

First, what are your requirements? Will you be blogging? Does it have to be free? Will you be selling photos? If so, do you need to have a third party tied in to fulfill prints and/or framing?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

For hosting, Bluehost.com

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

I’ll need to figure it out. Recent convert to CC so need to learn the possibilities.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

"I’ll need to figure it out."

Adobe pays Terry White to be an "evangelist", whatever that is! He has a couple YouTubes that get straight to it in about 30 minutes.

Ob1 Loc: Utah

Squarespace you can configure it to do whatever you want.

coskibum Loc: Bella Vista AR

I would like to start by having a web site for Customers to see there photo and My Work.

twodogs Loc: Billings Montana

I went through Green Geeks and use Wordpress for the template. There are several free templates to choose from and they look really nice. If you want to pay for a premium template you certainly can, but I would suggest starting with a free one. Green Geeks gets your name registered and then you go from there. You can look at mine at fly2fishphotography.com and see the template I use.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Displaying your work on a website or "portfolio" is one thing. Setting up for customers to buy photos is a different issue entirely.

indemand77 Loc: Fridley, MN

Just sent a pm.

hammond

As a professional website designer/developer - I really hate using Bluehost, and would never recommend it to a client (I've had to use it when clients come to me with a site they already built on Bluehost).

There are many service providers like Bluehost with better support and better Control Panel settings
CrocWeb and even GoDaddy hosting are much easier to work with if you decide to host your own website.

If you want to build a website where YOU OWN THE CODE, then use an open source CMS (Content Management System) such as WordPress or Joomla. These provide an intuitive Administration login area where you can easily manage your content, and there are plugins for these CMS platforms that allow you to drag-and-drop your photos into albums quite easily.

The main difference between these open-source platforms and hosted services like Wix, SquareSpace, 500px, Adobe websites, etc. - is that with open-source platforms, you can download all the files and database that makes up your website at any time, and retain physical possession of your entire site. With hosted services, you pay a monthly fee to use their software, and if you stop paying, you lose your site (and data, photographs, etc.).

I would be happy to put together a basic package for building a photography websites for the Hogger community, but need to review the Rules of this thread before doing so (I don't see anyone else promoting professional service here, and have probably already overstepped that line with this sentence, my apologies).

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Well, I write my own code from scratch. I don't, and never will, use "canned" site builders.
I've never had any problems with using Bluehost at all.
At one time I had maybe 6+ client's sites at Bluehost.
(I only do my own site now.)

I'm curious, what were your problems?