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Fifty-two pages for a Queens photography studio, and the software a studio actually runs on: sessions booked straight from each photographer's own calendar, a wedding date held for seven days while the couple reads the agreement, the studio itself hired by the hour, and a private proofing gallery where a client hearts the photographs they want — every price printed in full, and nothing paid on the website.
$1,780$890one time · live in ~10 business days
Includes your domain for a year, a year of hosting at MaiaHost, SSL, and every page rewritten around your business.
Demonstration site. Woodside Photography Studio, LLC is a fictional business invented for this demo — every phone number on it is literally 000-000-0000. The website itself is entirely real and built exactly as yours would be.
Why this design works for a photography studio
A photographer's website has one job most studios never let it do: take the booking. On this one a family session, a headshot or a newborn session is booked straight from the photographer's own calendar — the times offered are the times that photographer is genuinely free, and for a session in the studio, the times the room is free as well. A wedding is different, because it takes the photographer's whole day, so it is booked as a date: the couple checks it, the studio holds it for seven days while they read the agreement, and it becomes theirs when the agreement is signed. The two kinds of booking share one calendar, so a photographer holding a wedding date cannot be booked for a headshot that morning, and a photographer with a headshot booked cannot be held for a wedding that day — the other photographer still can.
After the session comes the part clients remember: the proofs. The studio uploads the session to a private gallery reached by a signed link; the client sees watermarked, reduced copies, hearts the ones they want, watches a counter against the number included in their fee — with the price of each one more printed beside it — and submits the selection once. The gallery expires, and the proofs are then deleted from it, originals and all. The full-size files never pass through the gallery at all.
And every photograph on this demonstration is generated — which is the honesty problem a photographer's site has and no other trade does, because the pictures ARE the claim. Every portfolio frame carries a line saying so, no caption names a person, a place or a date, no picture shows a face or a child, and every image of a person carries the label New York now requires on a computer-generated person in an advertisement. The build refuses to ship a picture nobody has looked at full size.
A wedding takes a photographer's whole day, so it is booked as a date; a headshot takes an hour, so it is booked as a slot. Most studio software keeps those in two systems and a person reconciles them. Here they share one calendar per photographer, checked in both directions: a photographer holding a wedding date has no slots that day, and a photographer with a session that day cannot be held for a wedding — while the other photographer still can. That rule is tested in both directions, and the test goes red the moment either check is taken out.
When the studio uploads a session, the server checks every file by what it actually is rather than by its name, and draws a reduced, watermarked copy on the spot. That copy is the only thing a client's gallery ever serves. The client hearts what they want against a counter, sees the cost of any extras before submitting, and submits once; when the link expires the proofs are deleted from the gallery, originals included.
The most common line on a wedding photographer's website is 'Wedding coverage from $X'. In New York City, a price that says 'from', 'starting at' or 'and up' has to print the top of the range beside it, in figures as large. This design prints both ends everywhere a range exists, prints every package with its own price, and prints no discount at all — because a discount needs a former price, and a new studio has none.
Every picture on this demonstration was generated, and a photographer's site is the one place where that matters most — a generated frame captioned with a couple's names and a park is a fabricated portfolio. So every portfolio photograph carries a line saying it is a demonstration, no caption names a person, a place or a date, and every picture of a person carries the label New York has required since June on a computer-generated person in an advertisement. The build refuses to publish a picture that was not looked at full size.
A client pays for a license, not the copyright — the law gives the copyright to whoever took the photograph, or to the studio that employs them, and it moves only on a signed writing. The site says exactly what the personal license lets a client do (print anywhere, share, give copies to family) and what it does not (sell, advertise), and it quotes a written assignment for a business that needs to own the copyright outright.
Screenshots from the live site
These are screenshots of the real website, taken from the live demo. Nothing here is a mockup — open it yourself and every one of these pages loads.
Mobile first, not mobile afterthought
Local service searches are overwhelmingly done on phones, so the phone layout is the one we design first and test hardest. Text stays readable without zooming, the phone number stays reachable with a thumb, and nothing needs a horizontal scroll.
Every page, listed
52 indexable pages, each with its own title, description, structured data and a place in the sitemap. That is 52 chances to appear in a search instead of one.
Included — not an add-on
Two photographers and one studio, each a resource with its own calendar. Sessions, wedding dates and studio hire all book against the same resources, so the calendar a visitor sees is the one the staff see, and two bookings can never claim the same photographer at the same time.
The software runs on your own hosting and belongs to you. There is no monthly licence, no per-booking commission and no third party holding your customer list — which over a few years is usually worth more than the price of the website.
What $890 covers
You get the same structure and design system with your business in it — your name, logo, colours, photographs, services, prices and locations, and every page rewritten for you. Two businesses starting from this design do not end up looking like each other.
Pages you do not need come out. Pages you need that are not there can be added at $90 each. The local SEO — titles, descriptions, structured data and the copy itself — is retargeted from Woodside to wherever you actually work.
Your domain name
First year included, registered in your name
One year of MaiaHost hosting
Fast EU LiteSpeed hosting, daily backups, 24/7 monitoring
SSL certificate
HTTPS from the first minute, auto-renewing
Your branding
Your business name, logo, colours and typography
Your content
Every page rewritten around your business, services and prices
Your photographs
Your images placed and optimized — or we keep the demo imagery
Local SEO retargeted
Titles, descriptions, schema and copy aimed at your city
Working contact form
Spam-protected, delivering to your inbox
Google Search Console
Verified and your sitemap submitted
One revision round
Tell us what to change after the first build — included
30 days of free fixes
Post-launch corrections and small tweaks on us
You own everything
Files, design, content and domain — move host any time
Who this suits
Not quite your trade? Designs adapt more easily than people expect — the structure matters far more than the industry it was written for. Tell us what you do and we will say honestly whether this one fits.
Questions
Not in this demonstration, deliberately. A session is booked and a wedding date is held without payment; the fee and the retainer are settled with the studio directly. Taking payments brings in a payment provider, a refund policy and a dispute process — a real conversation, and one we are happy to have.
No. The proofing gallery here is built in so the demonstration is complete, but the booking calendar and the rest of the site work on their own, and a link to your existing gallery service is a one-line change.
Yes. A photographer and a studio are each a resource with its own calendar, and which sessions need which resource is one table that the website and the booking system both read. Adding a photographer or a second room is a change to that table, not a rewrite.
Because in New York City a 'from' price has to print the top of its range beside it, as large. Outside the city the rule may differ — but printing both ends is the honest version anywhere, and it is the one clients trust.
No. Every photograph on this demonstration was generated by a computer: none shows a real person, a real couple or a real place, none shows a face, and each one says so. Your own portfolio replaces them — shown, like any real studio's, only with your clients' written permission.
More general questions are answered on the sample websites page.
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See details$890 one time, live in ~10 business days, with your domain and a year of hosting included. Send us a short brief and you get a fixed written quote within one business day — free, no obligation.
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