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MCAsan

macrumors 601
Jul 9, 2012
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Atlanta
What are your requirements for the alternative? If you just want a hosting company that gives you Wordpress and a box of other tools, try Bluehost.

Again, what are your requirements?
 

tizeye

macrumors 68040
Jul 17, 2013
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Orlando, FL
What are you wanting it to do? Simple website or back office payment system for photo delivery? Storage only or expanded to a customer photo delivery system with their sign-in? Budget?

I personally use Zenfolio but have a personal website hosted with Bluehost. That way using Zenfolio's website builder, rather than having "Zenfolio" in the webname, using the CNAME can get it to reflect only larrygrayphotography.com. Also, another website, ImagesForRealEstate.com, was developed independent of zenfolio's website builder (I used Adobe Muse, but about to switch to Sparkle as the WYSIWYG website builder), then have a "client access" page that is a link to zenfolio's client access.
 
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Jenni Samual

macrumors newbie
Nov 20, 2018
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Wordpress is the best option to create your website. It has so many features. You can easily create your post add media and do many more things.
 
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USAntigoon

macrumors regular
Feb 13, 2008
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Rochester Hills, MI
I created a website with WP and installed a program (MAMP PRO) on my iMac to convert it into a web server. This allows you to evaluate your creations in the spot prior making it alive on a website server like GoDaddy.
There are a lot of good tutorials on YouTube..
 

eggio

macrumors newbie
Aug 3, 2018
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When I started a photography portfolio website years ago, I used the hPage.com website builder since I don't know how to code and it allowed me to create a website easily despite. What I like about it are the business features and it has a slideshow gallery feature which you can put up on your webpages for photo sets. I also heard it has SEO optimization so the websites can be found easily on search sites. I was happy with my website then.

You can give it a try first and see if it interests you. No strings attached.
Here: Create a free website - hPage.com
 
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