Monday, 2 June 2014

The Essentials of Photography Web Design

The need and the expectations of photography website has transform totally in last few years. Modern day photography websites are not only a tool for showcasing your photographs but also stronger marketing instrument that can sell your skills online. Below mentioned are some of the tips and tricks to make a photography website design that actually works for you and your business. 

The Essentials of Photography Websites
The Essentials of Photography Websites


Concentrate On Functionality Over Good Looking Website: Any good looking website is good. But if it doesn’t functions well for the purpose it is essentially design for then it might be a well waste of resources only. This is mostly observed when you hire any amateur web design agency in Los Angeles with less professional experience and exposure of designing photography website. Rather than focusing on fashion and look of the website, web design company should concentrate more on features of the website.


Keep your website as simple as possible and the design of your website should not get the importance more than the images that you are presenting there. A simple and single color background in white of black is course of action for many photographers around the world. Also avoid flash on your website as in modern era of mobile and tablet computing it is a great way of ignoring half of your customers who surf from the small screen and with slow internet speed. Give some functionality of downloading the high resolution images through website like providing the download button at some sounding part of the screen with a clear call to action button.

Use Image With Right Size: Most of website designers and photographers believe that a larger size of photograph is always better on website and this is what the customers are looking to see. However, when asking to the people about the size of the images on photography website, most of them do agree that mid size images into the range of 650 to 850 pixels is good. The oversize image surely creates destructions on website

Use Galleries Rather Than Slideshow For Image Presentation: Most of visitors coming to see your website and your creative work are always less with patience and looking to go through some of the top images in very short times. They are actually looking to find their choice of images so it would be a great to add functionality of galleries with custom tags on it and search option. 

Make Photography Website Search Engine Friendly: SEO for photography web design Los Angeles is one of the most important fundamentals that people ask before making their website. However, there are some photographers that don’t pay much attention to it and at last end up making a website that nobody shares. Having your website SEO friendly and searchable for your targeted keywords will increase the potential traffic on your website. 

Some of the small and easy to observe web design tips for SEO like using keywords for on page optimization, using anchor text, search friendly URLs, page title and description with right set of keywords, sitemaps, on page content to optimize website for particular keywords and on page unique title for each page can make a big wonder for photography website.  

Maintain A Live Blog On Your Photography Website: Writing a blog articles and updating regular industrial updates seems to be a tedious job on a first hand. However, it really pays of well on a longer run. For your fans and followers, it gives a nice reason to come back to your website regularly and get latest industrial news and updates while it also motivates Google to crawl and rank your website higher for the targeted keywords used in your blog and website content. Also for your photography website and for your business as a photographer, live and well maintained blog on your website will help to established trust amongst the people. 

Social Media Integration: It is important to make your photography website sharable through social media. Not only it gives you better coverage and regular updates to your customers but also improve business changes as well. Some of the social sharable buttons of Facebook Share, Facebook Like, Twitter, YouTube can make your work sharable and spread out from the only platform of your website.

These are some of the core principles that can help you design your photography website that not only please your visitors but also gives a better coverage and higher ROI on money spend. We as a web design LA company make sure while planning for any photography website that the points mentioned above are in line and well researched based on the target audience.