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8 Outstanding Solutions for Creating Your Online Portfolio

June 24, 2018 · Bill Jones

sNot all of us can build out an awesome online portfolio from scratch. Luckily there are some great solutions out there for us. Whether your building your online portfolio for the first time or redesigning an old one, below you will find a service to fit your needs.

Squarespace

Squarespace is the best solution for creating an online portfolio for most photographers. Those who understand web hosting and want more control will probably want to use a custom WordPress theme like the ones from Flothemes. However, for the majority of photographers, Squarespace will provide robust options and beautiful designs.

Zenfolio

sCreating Your Online Portfolio
For those looking to stay away from coding and still have a well designed site that stands out from the crowd, Zenfolio offers the best option for the money. $100 a year gets you a complete solution including: full control over the look and feel of your site, unlimited storage, a list of highly customizable designs, and a powerful shopping cart that you can fully customize with the ability to set prices, sell and license digital products, fulfill your orders yourself or have one of the integrated vendors print your orders.

They also offer an impressively large list of smaller but very useful features such as slideshows with music, smart coupons, sales reports, SEO and Webmaster tools, persistent site menus etc. All the major features are easily accessible and you can get a site up and running within an hour, but if you’re willing to take the time and dig a little deeper you can create a truly unique and elegant site that encompasses nearly every aspect of your online photography presence.

Zenfolio offers a no obligation 2-week free trial that provides access to all of their features, so it’s definitely worth checking out when looking for a place to host your images.

Photoshelter

Creating Your Online Portfolio
PhotoShelter is the leader in portfolio websites, photo sales and archiving tools for photographers.

Over 48,000 photographers worldwide use PhotoShelter to power their success online, with customizable website templates, searchable galleries, e-commerce capabilities, and bulletproof image storage. Photographers can create a professional PhotoShelter website in under five minutes, or customize PhotoShelter to power their existing website. A true solution designed to make the business of photography easier to manage – PhotoShelter offers security, global accessibility, and advanced marketing tools so photographers can make their images work harder for them.

Smugmug

Creating Your Online Portfolio
With a ton of features, smugmug is one of the best for displaying and selling your photos online. They have 3 price plans Standard: $39.95/year, Power: $59.95/year and Pro: $149.95/year

DeviantArt

Creating Your Online Portfolio
Deviant Art now has a feature where you can configure your very own Portfolio in minutes, design and submit your work there and give it a chance for a potential person to review it easily. They are offering two choices, Free Portfolio or a Premium one.

Carbonmade

Creating Your Online Portfolio
With Carbonmade, you can manage your online portfolio with a variety of tools that allow you to change how you display your work. The core idea behind the design of Carbonmade is to keep your images or videos at the forefront.

They offer a free version as well as a premium version for $12/month

Krop

Creating Your Online Portfolio
With a simple interface and amazingly clean templates, Krop is a great choice for your online portfolio. Designed for creatives with impossibly high standards, and built to the specification of creative recruiters at companies that already use Krop to find talent.<br

Wix

Creating Your Online Portfolio
Wix is the ideal solution for photographers and web developers looking for a faster, better way to create photography websites.
Choose from dozens of samples. Or start from scratch. Easily add professional galleries and slideshows and upload your own photos.

Behance

Creating Your Online Portfolio
A very powerful and professional way to showcase creative work. And unlike a personal website or a traditional static portfolio site, significant traffic ensures that your great work gets seen.

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