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Shiina Cosplay

The Portfolio Site You Actually Deserve

A custom, beautifully designed portfolio that showcases your work. Whether you specialize in cosplay, weddings, architecture, or any other niche—I'll build a site that looks professional and loads fast. No coding required from you.

Why a custom portfolio like this?

Design & Workflow

  • Zero manual setup per gallery. These pages are automatically generated — I just drop pictures into folders.
  • Effortless uploads. Drop your photos and go — no need to compress, optimize, or resize. The site handles it automatically.
  • Completely customizable. Your colors, your fonts, your brand — not a template someone else chose.
  • Built for galleries, not social scrolling. Instagram and Facebook weren't designed to showcase your work the way it deserves.
  • Whatever you can dream of, we can build. Anything is possible with code — no platform limits, no feature ceiling.

Ownership & Growth

  • More than a single page. Carrd is great for a quick landing page, but it can't handle multiple galleries, an about page, and a contact form all at once.
  • Own your portfolio, own your audience. No distractions or competing content — just your work and a direct line to you. No algorithm changes, no censorship, no platform pulling the rug.
  • SEO-ready. Clients can actually find you through Google — not just your existing followers.

Cost & Performance

  • No monthly fees. Squarespace charges $12–$36/month forever. Your site can cost nothing to host.
  • No file size limits. Upload as many high-resolution images as you want — no storage caps or surprise fees.
  • Lightning-fast. Loads in under 1 second with automatic image optimization.

Why Not Just Use These Platforms?

  • Adobe Portfolio: Locked behind Creative Cloud ($55+/mo). Cancel and your site disappears. Templates only — no custom layouts or functionality, and almost no SEO control (no sitemap, no structured data).
  • Squarespace / Carrd: Squarespace charges $12–$36/month forever with generic templates. Carrd is a single landing page — no multi-gallery support, no contact forms, no real growth path.
  • Instagram / Facebook: Built for social scrolling, not showcasing work. The algorithm controls your reach, the platform owns your audience. One policy change and your portfolio could be restricted or gone.
  • Dribbble / Behance: Community platforms where you're competing for attention, not owning a professional presence. No custom domain, no brand identity, no direct line to clients.
  • WordPress: Powerful but built for content sites, not portfolios. You're responsible for hosting, plugin updates, security patches, and performance tuning. A misconfigured plugin or expired certificate takes your whole site down — and costs you time you could spend on actual work.
  • Webflow / Framer: Gorgeous tools — if you have days to learn them. Both charge $20–$40+/month, lock your content inside their CMS, and add complexity that isn't justified when all you need is a beautiful gallery and a contact form.
  • Showit: Marketed to photographers and creatives, but you're still renting a template for $19–$29/month. Any blog requires a bundled WordPress install. Your drag-and-drop design is tied to their platform — export it and you lose everything.
  • Canva Sites / Figma Sites: Design tools that grew a "publish as website" button. No real CMS, no gallery management, no SEO structure. Every update means reopening the design file. They're great for a one-pager — not for a portfolio you'll actually maintain.
  • Wix: One of the most-advertised builders — but it generates bloated JavaScript that tanks load times, locks you into their drag-and-drop editor forever, and charges $17–$35/month for a site Google has trouble ranking.
  • Format / Cargo: Both market directly to photographers and artists, both charge monthly for a template library you can never truly own. Format's galleries are fine for client proofing; Cargo has a cult following among designers — neither gives you the flexibility a real portfolio demands.
  • Notion: A brilliant notes app that some people publish as a portfolio. No custom fonts, no gallery layouts, no SEO metadata, no contact forms. It signals 'I threw this together' to any client who recognizes it.
  • Pixieset: Client-delivery software for photographers, not a public portfolio. Great for sending proofs to paying clients — not for attracting new ones. No SEO, no brand presence, no way to showcase your range.

How It Works

  1. 1 Fill out this form with your project details
  2. 2 We hop on a quick chat — I'll gather your photos and content via Google Drive
  3. 3 You review a live staging site before anything goes public
  4. 4 Launch with your custom domain — ready to share

02Where can I reach you best? *

Select a platform and enter your contact details.

03How many projects/shoots do you want to showcase? *
04Estimated timeline *
05What's Your Niche or Job Title? *
06What features would you like to have?
09Do you have a domain name? *

e.g. (yourname).com

10Do you have a logo or brand colors? *