Quote from: Faustvasea on January 09, 2025, 04:56

Congrats, seems you done something good. What you running the shop on? Or if you can share a link.

Thanks!
I use Woocommerce, because it's free. But the underlying platform doesn't matter. Important is to offer quality works, take care of your SEO and make it easy for customers to order - then the sales will come.

Quote from: Faustvasea on January 09, 2025, 05:57

I now focus on quality as well. Any feedback on my website?

https://iskymedia.io

I don't like Wordpress as it's slow, requires expensive server to run fast and sometimes has security issues. But still have 1 website on WP

On the first glance:
- I think you show too many variations of the same subject. Upload only 1-3 best ones, otherwise you require the customer to make a choice from too many variations, which might be annoying and drive them away
- If you are selling prints, add that to your pages meta data or add it as a headline or so or use other SEO techniques - so Google can actually show your pages to people looking to buy prints. For example instead of "Aerials from Liverpool" use something like "Aerials from Liverpool on canvas and fine art paper" (depends on what products you offer).

Yes, WP is slow. But you can use server side caching for all static pages. Also I don't know why you need an expensive server for WP, I guess you mean paying for some kind of integrated solution. But you can also use the cheapest hoster and install WP there yourself - that's what I do. And if you use caching, server performance won't be the limiting factor for page loads.

Quote from: Faustvasea on January 09, 2025, 06:55

Thanks Mike.  I will review this tonight and make some adjustments.

I�m thinking to offer not only canvas as a prints, but other sizes too. Some fort of POD but on my own site. Would you recommend for me to change anything else on the website ?


I had a photography website running on WP and probably some plugins issues, my website broke down completely and decided not to use it. But built my blog on WP.

That�s basically what I do as well, running my website on cheap and reliable hosting. 10 years on same hoating.

You could try using an separate page for each photo - basically like the PODs do it. And offer different materials and sizes on each photo's page. This is what I do and it works for me.

Try to use as few WP plugins as possible. They are slowing down WP and they introduce additional security and maintenance problems. Most customizations can be done through a few lines of PHP code, of course if you are comfortable with a little coding. You could also try chatGPT or an AI of your choice for code suggestions.