Artist portfolio website template with a small shop
A ready made website for an artist, photographer or maker. Show your work, sell a few pieces, write a blog and change everything yourself, with no code.
This template comes with the Basic Website Template package, $150 a year.
Pick your website template colours
Six ready colour sets for this website template. Click a set and every picture below changes to those colours. Type the codes in your settings and the whole site changes. Each set was checked so the text is easy to read.
Colour codes: #111111 #F5F5F5 #E6E6E6 #B00020 (Main, Page, Soft, Accent)
Pictures of the artist portfolio template
Who this website template is for
This website template suits one person or a small studio: painters, illustrators, photographers, craft makers and designers. It is not made for a big shop with hundreds of orders every day, or for a shop that must take card payments on the site.
This artist portfolio website template has a portfolio of works, a small shop with a cart, a blog and a reviews page. It runs on your own hosting, so this website template has no monthly platform fee and no plugin shop. You get a finished site that is ready for search engines from day one.
What your visitors get
- A portfolio website home page with a hero picture or video, featured works, shop picks, reviews and new articles
- A portfolio of works with categories and a picture viewer
- A shop with product pages, sale prices, badges, a cart and an order form
- Prices in your shop currency and in US dollars, with two buttons to switch
- A blog with categories, a reviews page and a WhatsApp button
- A sale button with a small live countdown that hides itself when the sale ends
What you get as the owner
- One simple admin for your portfolio website with a card for each job: works, products, blog, reviews, pages, settings and files
- Change colours, logo and menu without code
- Set one sale end time for the whole shop. Sale prices stop on their own
- Pictures are made smaller and saved as WebP when you upload them
- Login with an email code. There is no password to forget
- Add tracking codes, such as Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Clarity, in two boxes
An SEO ready website template that loads fast
The basics of search are built into this website template, so you do not need extra plugins.
- A unique title and description for each page, and a canonical address
- Share cards for social media
- Structured data for products, articles and breadcrumbs, plus a box for a FAQ
- A sitemap that updates itself, plus robots.txt and llms.txt
- Fonts hosted on the site, pictures with a set size, and lazy loading for speed
How this website template compares
For a small business, this template is simpler and cheaper to run. For anything bigger, it is the wrong tool, and the table says where.
| Topic | This template | WordPress | Hand coded site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Running cost | Your hosting only | Free core, but plugins and premium themes often cost money | A developer for every change |
| Parts to update | One small code base, no plugins | Core, theme and many plugins | Whatever was written |
| Safety | No plugin system, so no plugin holes | Old plugins and themes are a common way sites get hacked | Depends on the coder |
| Speed | Light pages, fonts hosted on the site, pages kept in memory | Depends on the theme and plugins, and often needs a cache plugin | Can be fast |
| Search setup | Built in: titles, canonical links, structured data, sitemap and llms.txt | Usually needs an SEO plugin | Written by hand |
| Owner admin | Only what this site needs | Large, with many menus | None, so no self service edits |
| Learning time | Short, one page for each job | Medium to long | Not applicable |
Where it is weaker: There is no plugin or theme shop, so a new kind of feature needs a developer. Orders reach you by form, and there is no card payment on the site. It uses one language and one shop currency plus US dollars. Help comes from us, not from a large public community. Choose WordPress or Joomla instead if you need many authors, several languages, online card payments, memberships or bookings.
Not sure which is right for you? Read CMS or custom built website: which one should you choose?
Questions about this website template
Can I take card payments on the site?
Not in this version. Orders reach you by a form and you collect payment yourself. If you need card payments on the site, choose a full shop platform.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The admin has plain boxes for every job. Colours, words, pictures and products are all changed there.
Can I change the colours?
Yes. Type seven colour codes in the settings, or use one of the six ready colour sets shown on this page.
What if I want a new feature?
A new kind of feature needs a developer. You can hire one for a short time through the Customise your package option.
How do I get this template?
The template comes with the Basic Website Template package at $150 a year. It includes a .com domain name for the first year, a database, one email mailbox and SSL. You buy it at console.ansel.cloud.
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