Web design resources & articles for photographers.
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Most of your website visitors are there for the first time. They're probably a bit confused and they need your guidance. Optimize your website to turn them into repeat visitors (and eventually into clients).
Read articleOne of the most under-utilized ways of improving your photography website, call-to-action buttons can encourage visitors to perform the actions you want them to take on your site (whether that's contacting you, booking a photo shoot, viewing your portfolio, etc.)
Read articleFollow these user-experience guidelines to differentiate your photography website, attract more clients, and show that you truly care about your work.
Read articleThe relaunch of foregroundweb.com comes with many design improvements and, most importantly, with many more web-design articles and resources.
Read articleA comparison of the most common ways to display photo thumbnails (along with examples and recommended plugins).
Read articleThis Q&A covers structuring and building a new site, recommended image sizes, newsletter automation and optin plugins.
Read articleThe photographer's guide to finding website problems and taking action today! Subscribe to the blog now & get it for free.
Read articleSpend some time with this reading material to stay in touch with the web-design industry and SEO best-practices.
Read articleYour options for integrating a blog into your existing site and combining different platforms into a hybrid photo website.
Read articleGuidelines for building a better (online & offline) photography portfolio and a curated selection of resources to learn more.
Read articleA round-up of answers given by photographers (looking to build a website) when asked what they're worried about.
Read articleUnderstanding the compromises you have to make when promoting multiple photography specialties on the same website. Sometimes, the benefits outweigh the problems.
Read articleWhenever you build or redesign a photography website, you need to think about how you'll be organizing the content.
Read articleThought process and screenshots from redesigning the PhotoBizX Podcast website. Small details can really help you improve your photography WordPress site.
Read articleIf your photography website is gathering cobwebs, it's about time you do a quick audit and change things up.
Read articleDetails about my web-design process, WordPress plugins for content protection and errors in Google Search Console.
Read articleActionable advice for optimizing your images to increase the speed of your photography website. Start your engines!
Read articleDesign & usability concerns for grids of images, thoughts on hosting server location, and recommendations for custom fonts.
Read articleCollection of recommended WordPress plugins (that I'm often using when building photography websites).
Read articleIt's time to grow your business by making some important (but often neglected) changes to your photo website.
Read articleThe struggles of starting out and getting traffic, thoughts on pop-ups, homepage layouts, flash websites and more...
Read articleSo if you've decided to work with a web-designer on your photography website, here are some great questions you can ask him/her to really kickstart a great work relationship.
Read articleHaving gotten a lot of great questions from photographers over the years, I'm sharing my answers to some of the best ones.
Read articleA special 20% discount to all PhotoShelter plans. You get beautiful ready-made templates (which are mobile-friendly too!) that you can customize to make them your own. You also get impressive image management & selling capabilities.
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