279: Alex Vita - Designing a Photography Website

<p>Building a photography website can be a complicated and time-consuming process and can end up costing you thousands upon thousands of dollars and countless hours of your precious time if you don't do it correctly.</p> <p>As such, it was great to host a conversation this week on the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast with photography website design expert, <a href='https://www.foregroundweb.com/'>Alex Vita</a>.</p> <p>Alex helps photographers grow their photography business by helping them establish a stellar web presence. He has built over 200 websites for photographers from 25 countries. His clients are pro or semi-pro photographers selling licenses or photo-based products online (prints, calendars, books, workshops, photo tours, etc.).</p> <p>On this week's episode, we discuss:</p> <ul><li>How Alex got into building websites for photographers,</li> <li>Why photographers should want their own website,</li> <li>What makes for a great photography website,</li> <li>The biggest changes that have impacted photography websites,</li> <li>File sizes and resolutions for photography websites,</li> <li>Tools for image compression,</li> <li>Common mistakes that photographers make on their websites,</li> <li>How to differentiate yourself as a photographer through your website,</li> <li>Tips on Search Engine Optimization (SEO),</li> <li>And a lot more!</li> </ul> <p>Other topics/links discussed on the podcast this week:</p> <ul><li>Give <a href='https://seranking.com/?ga=1723004&source=link'>SE Ranking</a> (the best SEO tool) a try.</li> <li>Join me over on <a href='https://www.naturephotographers.network/?ref=mattpayne3'>Nature Photographer's Network</a>.</li> <li>Support the podcast on <a href='https://www.patreon.com/fstopandlisten'>Patreon</a>.</li> </ul> <p>Looking for the Website Comparison PDF I created? <a href='https://winning-knitter-6223.ck.page/e2afb3f573'>Here it is</a>. </p> <p>Here is who Alex recommended on the podcast this week:</p> <ul><li><a href='https://www.vonwong.com/'>Ben Von Wong</a>.</li> <li