Quite a few people have PM'd me to ask me about how my website is set up, so I thought i'd share publicly. It's no secret, anyone can do it, it just takes a bit of time and some playing around.
The site is built on Wordpress and is hosted on HostGator- an excellent web host. That's an affiliate link, but I use them myself for 100% of my hosting. Use the coupon code "potnaug2011" (without the quotes, and it will work for years) for a 25% discount off your first payment, be it for a month or 3 years.
The theme is from Photocrati, who specialise in Wordpress themes for photographers. They regularly update the theme, giving new looks and extra features. I've tweaked it a bit, just to change a few details, which is easy given they give you an area to enter custom css. You can modify the PHP, but since they change that regularly that's more problematic. It's a paid theme, but it's worth the $75 or so for a good professional theme, support is good. I previously used Viva Themes, who provided surly, almost non-existant support, so I can't recommend them.
Here are the plugins I used - all free.
- Akismet (spam prevention)
- Bad Behavior (spam prevention)
- Contact Form 7
- Google Analyticator (for google analytics)
- Google XML Sitemaps (helps google/SEO)
- Random Image Widgit
- W3 total cache (improves page load times heaps but takes 30-60 minutes to set up, and some trial and error with the minify as not all js and css files like to be lumped together)
- Widgit Logic (to control what pages the random image widgit shows images on)
- WordPress SEO
Questions are welcome.