Website for film/video?
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keylight
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I'd suggest looking at wordpress templates. Wordpress is easy to setup, maintain, and customize (relatively speaking). A lot of people wordpress as being blogging software, but it's a lot more than that.
Do a search for "wordpress video theme" or "wordpress magazine theme". You'll find a whole bunch. Some are free, others go for under $40. A lot of non video specific sites will also work. Lots of hosting options. Avoid the big registrars (like godaddy). Many hosts for shared hosting (good for a site that doesn't get a lot of simultaneous traffic) will start at about $5/month purchased annually.
If you need any help or other info, feel free to PM.
Do a search for "wordpress video theme" or "wordpress magazine theme". You'll find a whole bunch. Some are free, others go for under $40. A lot of non video specific sites will also work. Lots of hosting options. Avoid the big registrars (like godaddy). Many hosts for shared hosting (good for a site that doesn't get a lot of simultaneous traffic) will start at about $5/month purchased annually.
If you need any help or other info, feel free to PM.
keylight
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timelapse.org an example of a wordpress video based site.
craigbowman
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$5/month isn't that great a deal. I just registered a domain at godaddy for under ten bucks for the year. I don't use godaddy for hosting, just for registration. You can then point the domain at any IP address you want.
Of course the big issue nowadays is getting your brain wrapped around the concept of "mobile first". I could see if this was still two or three years ago you could just peel off a CMS and direct someone to the raft of free templates all geared directly at desktop/laptop screen sizes. However, as of sometime last month the worldwide number of mobile devices eclipsed the traditional market and started this year off with and 8:1 advantage ratio in sales. So if your someone who is comfortable using a popular entry level CMS like Wordpress then start looking at the responsive templates and their supporting grid structures. Looking at a Non responsive site on your smartphone or any number of other devices and the myriad of screen sizes and aspect ratios they can throw at you has forever changed the landscape of everyone's web presence.
To get an idea of what a responsive site does check out http://linecamsystems.com I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but noticed they have a responsive site. You can tell because even in a desktop environment if you start changing the size and shape of the browser window, the layout of the site changes in response. You can also just go to it directly on your smartphone or tablet and switch back and forth between portrait and landscape.
If you are using current technology to assist your production endeavours then you might want to checkout Per Holmes latest product Shot Designer. I have it running on my iPhone, iPad and laptop. Its a great followup to his Master Blocking and Staging series.
keylight
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For registration, you're right. But I was talking about $5/month for HOSTING.
I suppose I could have been clearer that I was talking about avoiding the big registrars like GoDaddy specifically for hosting. A lot of people end up buying hosting packages that registrars sell either because they don't know any better, or they think it will be easier or will work better (the opposite is true). Most big name registrars are pretty awful at hosting.
EDIT: I agree that "responsive" themes are a good idea. But Wordpress is actually a pretty mature and powerful CMS. I'm not talking about wordpress.com - I'm talking wordpress.org. Especially for portfolio or business front end types of sites, which sounds a bit like what the OP may be after. bbcamerica.com
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Wordpress + Bluehost. I've used Bluehost for years and they are a good value and very helpful. Installing wordpress is one click of a button, autoinstall.
http://www.bluehost.com/?gclid=CNGJ_JTY_LQCFQ45nAod6EsA3g
you can be up and running in literally minutes with no help needed from expensive web development companies. If you do need help, there's plenty of people that do wordpress professionally, and once you're all set up you can maintain it yourself.
If you want to do commerce, i.e. sell stuff, woocommerce is the way to go. Easy, free plugin for wordpress and it does downloadable content if you're selling that.
http://www.bluehost.com/?gclid=CNGJ_JTY_LQCFQ45nAod6EsA3g
you can be up and running in literally minutes with no help needed from expensive web development companies. If you do need help, there's plenty of people that do wordpress professionally, and once you're all set up you can maintain it yourself.
If you want to do commerce, i.e. sell stuff, woocommerce is the way to go. Easy, free plugin for wordpress and it does downloadable content if you're selling that.