Creating a Website

I have decided to use “wix” as a platform to make my website. The reason for this is because I have used this in the past. I find this to be really straight forward to use as well as having some great already made layouts for you to use. This is a really useful tool as I’m not too sure how I want my website to look. I also financially would be able to afford to pay a professional to design a website for me at this time. So for now this is the best, and most cost effective way to produce one.

Layout options: 

My initial ideas for the layout of my website is something really simple. I want my work to be able to stand off the page, rather than get lost on it. I know its typical and what most photographers go for but I really want a white, clean website. 

This is the layout that I have used in the past. It looks really good, however it’s hard to get images on the site and they often get distorted. This is why I would choose not to use it for this project. 

This layout would be perfect and something I would most defiantly go for if I was doing landscape/street photography. However I specialise in portrait photography and I feel that it would be hard to position images on this layout. They would tend to have to be landscape. This really reminds me of the Nick Waplington website I looked at during my research. 

This is my favorite layout, I like how you have one strong image on the main page. There is then different pages that I could filter my photography into categories. 

Although I really didn't want to use a coloured layout, this one is really interesting, and really caught my eye. It seems simple to use for the viewer, all the categories are laid out really well, with examples of what will be on each page. This would be really good for my colour work, however my black and white may not look as effective.