[CanadianRocky]

It is not a photography website, but this is how I did my business one.

I know very little about code, so I use an Web WYSIWYG application. (What you see is what you get). They are very limiting but it would work for the simple website I wanted.

Then I found a website I liked, and used it as inspiration for the design.

But the key thing is that no matter how nice it is, it has to be seen to get its point across.

The most important thing I did, was to hire someone who knows Internet marketing to proof the website and help with the wording so it could be found with searching. This is the talent part. He was able to take me from obscurity into the top 5 hits on the first page with the type of searching someone would be using to find my type of business.

Then you sign on with a stats counter and start to watch how people find you. Once you see how people search for you, you can start to change your message.

Total cost for my website including software and editing was under $500.

I had a few quotes on getting it done professionally. The least expensive one was four times that, and they all wanted to make me this wiz bang website which would have been great, except that none of them understood my target market.

My website is in my profile.