What is LayerSpace?
A fully integrated, easy to use, economical system to create and maintain your own high quality image-based portfolio website with incredibly useful optional features.
Who is it for?
Our websites are perfect for photographers and artists but are also used by make-up artists, stylists, designers and anyone who wants a stunning platform on which to present their work.
Beautiful
LayerSpace websites are designed specifically to show images to their best potential. This means removing distractions and making the design clean, graphic, elegant, easy to use and fast loading.
Customisable Your LayerSpace website is customisable to an incredible degree - template, fonts, colours, borders, and logos can all be edited with just a few mouse clicks, any time you like.
Intuitive
The Content Management System (CMS) has been built from scratch to create what we believe is the most intuitive of its kind. Example - re-order a gallery by drag and drop
Optimised LayerSpace websites are optimised using dynamic scripting so that search engines read text (which they love) while humans see a great website (which they love!). More information »
Online proofing & e-commerce
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The LightBox allows your clients to select images and send the selection to you. Or you can sell direct from your website using your PayPal account. Full details »
A website for every client Make your clients feel special! Upload every image from a shoot to a new, self-contained website, designed and branded to exactly match your portfolio website.
Password protection Ideal for sensitive subjects, new product launches or just to keep a gallery private.
Use your own domain name It's easy to use your own domain name with either web forwarding or full domain mapping. Full details »
Free 14 day trial No credit card required - just validate your email address and get started in minutes. Full details »
My name is Andy Eaves, a professional photographer and member of the Association of Photographers. I began designing and building websites more than 10 years ago, building my own site which I wanted to be:
Elegant and uncluttered
Fast loading
Accessible and simple to use
Discovering that other photographers had the same requirements Layer Web Design was born.
After launching Layer I developed the underlying technology, adding bespoke content management, and soon realised there was a gap in the market for a premium quality, professional, easy to use website creation system for professional photographers and artists.
Other ideas - the LightBox, password protection, multiple websites, e-commerce and customisation quickly followed, and Voila! LayerSpace was a reality!
LayerSpace websites are designed specifically to show images to their best potential. This means removing distractions and making the design clean, graphic, elegant, easy to use and fast loading.
Intuitive