2 Build a photography website in Drupal

PART 5 OF 6

Photo website building 101

Last issue, we showed how to build a photography website from scratch in WordPress, a popular content management system (CMS). It’s a straightforward alternative to enlisting the services of a dedicated website-builder platform like SmugMug, Squarespace or Wix.

Websites built on a CMS are more sophisticated than those consisting of ‘static’ pages of text, and are essential for the display of photos. Images are stored in a database and ‘served’ to site users as required; the website’s host CMS accepts requests from a remote computer and instructs the server to send the data. Site development using WordPress favours tech-familiar folk who don’t mind the idea of getting under the hood of websites, although being able to write computer code