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Look professional and attract more clients, using the best website builders for videographers.
The best website builders for videographers allow you to launch your own website and share your portfolio with clients, collaborators and employers. And that looks much more professional than just bunging clips on Vimeo or YouTube. It means you can properly curate your work, divide it into categories, make it searchable, and tell your story, all with a simple URL you can include on your business card.
So what does the best website builder for videographers need to offer specifically? For a start, it will need to provide lots of storage and bandwidth. Video takes up a lot of both, particularly at a time when 4K and above is becoming the normal. Secondly, videographers aren’t usually coders, so most will want an easy to use interface that allows them to build a website without knowing anything about web design.
With this in mind, below you’ll find our pick of the very best website builders for videographers, including our top three highlighted below.
Meanwhile, if you’re seeking more general information about creating a website, then see our guide to the best website builders in general. Or if photography is more your thing, check out our roundup of the best website builders for photographers.
Wix: The best website builder for just $3.54 / £3 per month
Wix makes it quick and easy to build your own website for showcasing your videos. Choose from 500+ templates, add your own content, and you'll have your own site online, at a bargain monthly price.
02. Squarespace: Great for creative professionals – from $12 / £10 per month
Squarespace offers the most beautiful templates that really make your videography projects shine. This platform is also easy to use, offers great SEO tools and you can even add an online store if you like.
03. Weebly: Easy to use website builder, from $5 / £4 per month
Weebly is a cheap website builder solution that videographers will love. It provides a wide range of templates to use. We recommend trying the free option first and then upgrading if you like what you see.
These include dozens of portfolio designs you can use to showcase your videography work. There are also some great online store templates if you want to sell products. Once you’ve chosen a template, just use drag and drop to add your content and hey presto, you have your own website.
Wix’s interface is one of the easiest and most flexible to use on the market. Plus, once you’ve completed your design, Wix’s App Market contains numerous add-ons to customise it further. A quick search for “video” delivers 36 different apps, many of which are designed specifically to help you showcase your videos.
Wix’s cheapest plans are cheap indeed, and there’s even a free plan. However, the storage you get with them is very limited (the free plan has just 500MB), so you will likely have to pay a premium price if you want to host your videos. That said, if you want to save money, you could always upload your videos to YouTube instead, and then embed them on your website. See our Wix review for more details.
Squarespace’s interface is a little fiddly to use: Wix, for example, is simpler. On the plus side, Squarespace offers virtually everything you’ll ever need to showcase your videos, without having to install third-party apps or programs. (There are a few third-party extensions available, but these are mainly focused on ecommerce.) Plus every Squarespace plan comes with unlimited storage and bandwidth, which is great for videographers who have large files and lots of content to showcase.
Squarespace doesn’t have a free tier, although it does offer a 14-day free trial. For more details, see our Squarespace review and our Squarespace vs Wix comparison.
The interface is quite easy to use, partly because it’s less feature-rich than some. Take advantage of this “idiot-proof” editing, but note that you will only be able to place elements in pre-coded positions.
There are some excellent ecommerce tools, and Weebly’s templates, too, are good qualtiy. Although its selection is much smaller than that of some rivals (with just seven portfolio templates), each design is attractive and professionally built.
Finally, the Weebly App Center contains a great selection of plugins to help you manage your videos. A search for “video” reveals 61 different options, many of which are free. For more details, see our full Weebly review.
Gator’s drag-and-drop editing interface offers excellent design flexibility, allowing you to place elements in pixel-perfect positions. It lets you add and remove different design elements as required, and customise global settings to ensure your site looks exactly the way you envisioned.
That said, if you don’t have much design experience the editor can be a little confusing to use. You do have the option, though, of using the AI intelligent site builder to get started. This asks you a few questions about the type of site you want, then provides you with a personalised design that you can customise as needed.
All three website builder plans are advertised with unmetered bandwidth and storage. Note, though, that this is governed by the company’s terms of use – there will be a point where you will be asked to upgrade to a more advanced plan if you use too many resources. For full details, see our Gator review.
Its theme library features more than 200 templates. These are fairly basic, but again, that makes it easy to get online fast. Just choose the template you like, add your own content, and hit publish. On the downside, Site123 doesn’t offer any dedicated video tools. There aren’t any immediately useful apps available either.
Site123’s free forever plan comes with just 250MB of storage and bandwidth. All premium plans come with a free domain for the first year, a free SSL certificate for additional storage, and a minimum of 10GB of storage. 
There are 73 portfolio templates to choose from. Seven of these are designed specifically for videographers, with various design and styling elements that make it extremely easy to share your work. You can also add a basic ecommerce interface to your portfolio, allowing you to potentially sell your work to interested clients.
Be warned though, that storage is limited. The cheapest premium subscription only lets you upload 15 minutes of hosted video, which increases to 120 minutes with the priciest option. Again, though, there’s nothing stopping you from uploading your videos elsewhere and embedding them on your site.
The real power of WordPress lies in the design flexibility it offers. The native editor is a little simplistic, but there are numerous third-party builders that you can use. You will also have full code access, enabling you to fine-tune your site’s design.
The excellent theme and plugin libraries are also a major selling point. For one, there are tens of thousands of templates available in the official theme library and across the web. There are also countless WordPress plugins, and many of these can be used to enhance your video portfolio.
There are many reasons to have a website as a videographer. The first is simply as a point of contact for people thinking of hiring you. Business cards can get lost, social media can get messy, but a website is entirely under your control and you can present all the contact details you need in the format that makes sense for you.
A website is also a great place to showcase your work. It allows you to curate a proper portfolio, categorise each clip clearly, and make everything searchable. More subtly, the way you design your website allows you to project your personality and aesthetic values as a creative professional.
We believe that, in general, Wix is the best website builder for videographers. That’s partly because its interface makes it easy to build a site, with no experience required, using any of 500+ templates. It’s also because it’s potentially very affordable, as long as you’re happy to embed videos from YouTube or Video.
If, however, you’d prefer to host your videos directly on your site, then we’d recommend either Weebly or Squarespace, which are more competitively priced on unlimited storage. Weebly is the best bet if ease-of-use is a priority, while Squarespace has the edge on the aesthetic appeal of its templates.
A number of website builders offer free plans. However, they are limited in terms of storage and bandwidth. So they’re not a great choice for videographers who want to upload video content, which takes up a large amount of both. The only way you can really build a portfolio site with a free website builder, then, is to upload your video clips to YouTube or Vimeo, and link out to them from your website. If you’re happy to do that, then we’d recommend Wix’s free plan.
Note that you only get 500MB storage space and 1GB bandwidth, your site will also feature Wix ads, and its URL will be Wix-branded. That said, it’s a good option for getting started with a videography website, and you can move to a paid plan further down the line if you want to do more.
There are three important things that every videographer website should include. One is a ‘Work’ section, which includes video clips of your best work, to show what you’re capable of. Ideally, your website would host these videos itself, but if you can’t afford that much storage, you can always upload the clips to YouTube or Vimeo and link out to them from your site.
A videographer’s website should also include an ‘About me’ page, that tells people what they need to know about you and the services you offer. And finally, you need a ‘Contact’ page with a telephone number, email address and/or contact form for people interesting in booking you.
Other content you may wish to include are social media buttons, a FAQ (frequently asked questions) section, and a blog. That said, only include the latter if you have time to update it regularly; otherwise it will just make you look lazy and disorganised!
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Daniel is a freelance copywriter with over six years experience writing for publications such as TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, and Hosting Review. He specialises in tech and finance, with a particular focus on website building, web hosting and related fields.
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