Tired of my wordpress site... Any good other options?

Tired of my photocrati/wordpress site, plus I'm definitely tired of the $99 wordpress fee yearly, then the $200 go-daddy hosting.

What other nice options are out there that still look professional? What do you guys recommend?

Thanks!

Smugmug, Zenfolio are 2 of the larger ones that allow for customization.

$99 for wordpress? Or is that for Photocrati? I thought wordpress.org was still free, but you had to figure out hosting.

In any case, I went through something similar around a year and a half ago and switched to squarespace after running wordpress.org for 7 or 8 years. I've been happy with that decision.

SCMedic wrote in post #18173918
Tired of my photocrati/wordpress site, plus I'm definitely tired of the $99 wordpress fee yearly, then the $200 go-daddy hosting.

What other nice options are out there that still look professional? What do you guys recommend?

Thanks!

Is there anything in particular that you dislike about Wordpress other than the amount that you are currently paying? I ask since there are tons of photo-oriented themes for Wordpress, and Wordpress offers nearly limitless customization for not much work.

If you are ok sticking with Wordpress, then you really just need any web hosting service. Many of them offer an express Wordpress install function via their control panel like CPanel, but installing Wordpress without an express install module is still fairly easy. You can find many web hosts that are cheaper than the $300/ year total that you are currently paying. There is no need to pay a specific fee for Wordpress itself. You can choose to buy a theme, but there are a plethora of quality themes available for free.

I use http://creativemotiond​esign.com/ with their HTML site design.

You can get a free trial as well to see if it fits your fancy. It also gives you an e-cart, password protected galleries and personalized client sites which I find is really cool.

They can even incorporate your wordpress site, if you want to keep the blog.

Alternatively, if you use Lightroom, check out http://theturninggate.​net/

It is basically Lightroom to Web publishing, but much more powerful.

Thanks all!

SCMedic wrote in post #18173918
Tired of my photocrati/wordpress site, plus I'm definitely tired of the $99 wordpress fee yearly, then the $200 go-daddy hosting.

What other nice options are out there that still look professional? What do you guys recommend?

Thanks!

$99 fee for what? I have wordpress and don't pay a fee. I pay my webhosting fee and a domain registration fee.


Try square space...