eninja said:
So now I am using zenfolio to advertise my work online. Zenfolio is basically a ready made customizable website for photographers.
Before I commit, does anyone can suggest a better alternative I can take a look before committing on Zenfolio?
Thank you.
Didn't read to see if it's been recommended, but many web hosts have automated installation of the Wordpress CMS (ie: GoDaddy). There's a ton of photography portfolio and general use portfolio themes available, some free - some not. I own two premium themes. One I used to build the start of a site for one of my other hobbies, woodcarving, woodturning, and woodworking. The other is more photography oriented and I intend to install it soon to have my own little place to post my photos without somebody else laying claim to my copyright by use of their service.
If you want something even easier, Wordpress does their own hosting at a premium price.
There's other CMS options out there, some proprietary and hosted, some available to run on your own server (or your web host's server). Again, GoDaddy offers some of these with automated installation. I dislike GoDaddy in many ways and have had better hosts in the past, but admittedly for many people the automated installation of software is a nice feature. You can also install most of the software manually, the old fashioned way, (what I did) for maximum control.
I'm not a fan of Wix personally.
If you're willing to learn Dreamweaver and some basic code skills, there's a TON of pre-made themes that you just need to edit for content. If you're willing to learn some PHP too, you can modify an existing Wordpress theme or build your own.
I realize you're asking for ready-made options. I'm recommending more hands on approaches because I don't know that much about the ready made cookie cutter site services. You may very well find something ready made that offers you what you want. FWIW, I was actually intrigued by Zenfolio when I got a coupon for a free month or something a while back. Not sure what I did with that coupon. It's around.