Do you have a photography business? Then the best way to open a website is by buying a photography web site template. Don’t know which one to buy? Search for a highly visual template with plenty of crisp photos to capture the essence of your company. Make sure to choose a design with dramatic photos. Choosing a flash-animated website can be a good choice. Since photography is a visual industry, a branding effort emphasizing great imagery is best.

A common question people have is what type of image should they use, gif or jpeg? Because gifs are optimized for the web, images tend to be lossy. Choose jpegs to get crisp, clear and vibrant photos with sufficient compression for web use. If the images seem to be too large, you should use an image editor such as Adobe ImageReady or Macromedia Fireworks to optimize the images. Creating a photo gallery that showcases your portfolio is a great idea too. You can use Macromedia to automate this task for you. If you are familiar with web applications, you can use an open-source web application called Coppermine to automatically create photo galleries.