The best website builder for artists: craft an online portfolio to be proud of

Best website builder for artists: Wix/Shopify/Squarespace

The best website builders for artists will help you show off your creative talents in all their glory, allowing you to make everything from a simple, aesthetically pleasing site to a more complex and sprawling catalog of creative projects.

We've put all our top picks below through their paces – many of which also feature on our list of the best website builders for small businesses – to see how well they'd perform for a wide variety of needs, considering features like online forms and e-commerce tools to SEO and marketing options, as well as the UI/UX of the builder itself. Of course, we also consider the end product and the value, too; all of this combined results in our top picks in the list below.

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Pricing

Range of pricing but no free plan

★★★★

Ease of use

Intuitive and user friendly

★★★★★

Templates

The most beautifully designed

★★★★★

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Pricing

Affordable plans starting at free

★★★★★

Ease of use

Simple, even for beginners

★★★★★

Templates

Good but a bit limited

★★★

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Rating

Pricing

Cheap, including a free plan

★★★★★

Ease of use

Very user-friendly

★★★★½

Templates

Good but can be a bit generic

★★★½

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Pricing

Pricey, though is well set up to pay for itself

★★★½

Ease of use

Fairly straightforward to use

★★★½

Templates

Decent selection of customisable options

★★★★

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Rating

Pricing

Not the cheapest but affordable

★★★★

Ease of use

Small learning curve

★★★

Templates

Nice templates focused on portfolios

★★★★

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Pricing

Not the cheapest but affordable

★★★★

Ease of use

Beginner-friendly

★★★★½

Templates

Highly customisable

★★★★

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Competitive pricing

★★★★

Ease of use

Simple drag-and-drop

★★★★½

Templates

High quality and good looking

★★★★

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Rating

Pricing

Very cheap on starter plans

★★★★

Ease of use

AI makes things super-simple

★★★★★

Templates

Can look a little generic

★★★★

Recent updates

December 2nd, 2024: I updated the Shopify entry to Shopify 2024, based on insights, data and findings from the Creative Bloq Shopify 2024 review.

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Tom May

Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects. 

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