website or web host?

[jason kissam]

im looking at getting a professional website online, i have looked into intuit websites and such places as go daddy. any thoughts on where to look in getting started with a basic page to post my pics and advertise my work? any input would be great. thank you

 

[Jim Parsons]

SmugMug has a deal with Go Daddy and if you have a Smug account you can get your own domain name and and build your own site....Very inexpensive and very easy to design your site.

 

[Kelton Halbert]

I recommend WordPress. Highly customizable through modules that people built, great templates both free and paid, powerful blogging, and good display of photos. My website is WordPress on a hosted server, but you don't have to do it that way. Just my $00.02!

http://wordpress.com
http://wordpress.org

 

[Ben Holcomb]

The best idea is to learn one of the many CMS programs out there. I suggest either learning wordpress or Drupal as those are the two best on the market (and free) at the current time. You'll want to then pick a web host - There are plenty out there. You mentioned one of them that's GoDaddy which will be cheap, but mostly slow (they overload their servers). A lot of people I know have had good luck with bluehost. David Drummond also runs drylinehosting on here, which is a webhost more catered to storm chasers.

With a CMS, you can customize themes and add content on the fly. It's as easy as changing a theme to change the look of your site. My personal site runs on Drupal 6.

 

[Pat Darrow]

I use Bluehost as my web hosting service and have had no issues so far. My site runs a mix of Joomla and Wordpress. As Ben said, learning a CMS is key. Good luck!

 

[Drew.Gardonia]

I use smugmug, getting ready to start customizing it to my liking in September, and also going to buy a domain name to direct it. Smugmug is pretty operational, and has lot's of features.

 

[jason kissam]

thanks every one that has helped me narrow down my options