Here it is, the grand unveiling of the professional photo website that I've set up, thanks to the generosity of my family who had a whip round for my birthday (I love them all SO much!).
I am proud to present Jen Rigg Photography, hosted via Photobiz dot com. It is still a work in progress, and after the most amazingly easy set-up I'm having a few little technical problems with uploading pictures at present. I'm sure it will get sorted when customer services re-open.
I cannot praise Photobiz highly enough. Over the years I had noticed many photography websites that were hosted by them, and I kept on coming back to see whether it was the direction I wanted to take. Well, after much research, seeing what RUBBISH there is out there and what OUTRAGEOUS prices web designers charge, I was thrilled to see that Photobiz were doing a special offer, so I signed up and within MINUTES I was designing my very own photo website.
Now for the technical bit: I have gone with a plain html website, because anything with Flash does not work on the iPhone or iPad. I also find that Flash websites take ages to load on my PC and if that happens when I'm looking at sites, I tend not to even wait and see what they've got to offer because it frustrates the heck out of me. I also hate music blaring out unexpectedly when I log onto a photo website, so there'll be none of that either, thank you very much. These things are just my humble opinion, but I hope to appeal to like-minded people!
The templates are named after cities, and I did think of going with Paris, London or Toulouse, but in the end Manchester won out (yay Gemma and Katy lol). I was also toying with the idea of Liverpool, and I may well use it in future. Because another fantastic thing about Photobiz is that you can swap to any of the 90 (I think) templates they have on offer, whenever you like, with just a click of your mouse. As my business grows, I can also upgrade to get a client viewing and proofing area, and a shopping cart so clients can order prints etc directly via the website. I'm so jazzed!
Well, there you have it. Watch this space.
Little disclaimer - if you are a Virgin Media Broadband customer running Virgin Media Security, you will sadly not be able to access my website because it is blocked as being "fraudulent". This seems to be a common problem with new websites, and I've contacted Virgin to get them to put it on the "safe websites" list.
Woo hoo! CONGRATULATIONS! Your photography site looks AMAZING! I love it! And I totally agree with you, it is best to keep the music off websites!! :)
Posted by: Maria | 02/26/2011 at 05:58 PM
love it:) now if only we were nearer...
Posted by: kathryn booth | 02/26/2011 at 06:08 PM
Thank you so much girls!! And Kathryn... if you're in London, I can travel!
Posted by: Jen | 02/26/2011 at 10:05 PM
Congratulations on the site, and the business Jen! It's looking fantastic!
Hope it goes from strength to strength :)
Posted by: Paula | 02/28/2011 at 01:13 PM