Pixpa's editor gives you the element, not a settings panel. Set type, spacing, grid, columns, hover states and section order yourself.
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Most builders hand you a theme and a list of options. You pick from what the theme allows, and the moment you want something it doesn't, you stop. Pixpa's Design section works the other way round. You set the element.
Fonts are set per element, so headings, paragraphs, buttons, navigation and footer text each carry their own family, size, weight and letter spacing. 200+ Google Fonts come with every plan; upload your own font files. Site width, content margin, and the left and right site margins are numeric fields rather than presets. Header width, footer width and header layout, top or two-column, are all yours to change. Grid spacing runs 0 to 250 pixels. Image corner radius is a number you type. Grid hover is a choice between no effect, color, color with the image title, or color with an icon, and you pick the icon.
Then Style History saves what you built as a named version. Switch templates a year later and reapply that version, fonts, colors, weights and gallery layouts together, in one click.
“An all-in-one solution for photographers, combining portfolio website hosting, e-commerce (for print and digital sales), and dedicated client proofing galleries.”
Every template is drawn by working designers for visual work, not a business theme with an image block dropped in. Pick one built for your discipline and you start from something that already looks finished.
Browse the portfolio website templates by discipline, or look at portfolio website examples from people already running their practice on Pixpa.
Each template is professionally designed, so your site looks credible and polished before you change a single thing on it.
Change your entire look with a click. Your images, galleries and pages stay exactly where they are, so a redesign never means rebuilding from scratch.
Customize fonts, colors, spacing and layout on any template, so your site reflects your brand and no two Pixpa sites have to look the same.
“The templates are professional yet unique, and it is easy to navigate.”
Templates show you the frame; examples show you what working creatives actually build inside it. Browse live websites from photographers, artists and designers to see how galleries, project pages, stores and client delivery come together on a real site, then borrow the ideas that fit your own work before you start.
Most people who build here never open the code. The ones who do are usually the reason they picked Pixpa over a closed builder.
Custom CSS lives in the Design section and is on every plan, not held back for a top tier. What you write there overrides the template defaults and stays active when you switch templates, so a year of styling does not evaporate in a redesign. For one page only, page code injection takes CSS or a script that runs on that page and nowhere else. You can edit a page's HTML directly, or drag an HTML, JS and CSS block into any page and paste in a widget, a scheduling embed, a Spotify player or a Vimeo reel.
None of it takes the visual editor away, and you don't have to choose one mode over the other. Open the code when you need it, close it, and carry on dragging blocks.
Visual drag-and-drop editor
Build pages from 300+ ready-made content blocks by dragging them into place, with no code to write and no developer to hire.
Set fonts, colors, spacing, grids and hover states yourself, so the design matches your brand instead of a generic off-the-shelf theme.
Code access when you want it
Add custom CSS, HTML or JavaScript whenever you need precise control, without breaking the visual editor or the rest of your site.
Draft page copy, product descriptions and SEO titles in a few clicks, then edit them into your own voice before you publish.
“Website creation was much easier than this non-techie person could have imagined.”
A single grid flattens a body of work that deserves range. Pixpa gives you gallery layouts designed for visual work, so a wedding set, a design portfolio and a film reel each get the presentation they actually need instead of the same uniform thumbnails.
Layouts for every body of work
Choose from full-bleed, grid, masonry, justified and slideshow layouts, and mix them across pages to control the pace of the story you tell.
Sharp on every screen
Your images display in high resolution and stay crisp from a phone to a 5K monitor, with no manual resizing or exporting on your part.
More than still images
Add video, audio, slideshows and embeds, so motion, sound and interactive work live alongside your photographs in the same gallery.
Hosting & performance
You should not have to find a host, configure SSL or tune image delivery just to launch a portfolio. Pixpa hosts your site on fast cloud infrastructure and handles performance and security for you, so the site loads quickly everywhere and stays safe by default from the day you publish.
AWS cloud and global CDN
Your site is served from a global content delivery network, so it loads fast for clients whether they open it in New York or Sydney.
Modern image formats, automatically
Pixpa serves your photos as AVIF and WebP automatically, so image-heavy galleries stay sharp without dragging the page speed down.
SSL and a free domain included
Every site ships with SSL security, plus a free custom domain for your first year, so there is no separate hosting bill to manage.
No second tool. No second login. No second bill.
The site builder is one surface of the platform. Four more run alongside it on the same account and the same subscription, so client delivery, sales, publishing and search all work on the site you just built. None of them is an add-on purchase, a plugin to maintain or a second bill. Turn on what you use and ignore the rest.
Proofing, favoriting, ratings, secure delivery, auto-expiry.
Sell prints, products and downloads at zero commission.
Publishing built into the site, no plugin needed.
Pop-ups, announcement bars, email lists, 100+ integrations.
Meta controls, sitemaps, page-level SEO settings.
Photographers, artists and designers move to Pixpa from Squarespace, Wix, SmugMug, Pixieset and Adobe Portfolio, to consolidate their website, client delivery and store into one platform.
“I was able to make an entire website in one day! This is by far the best website builder for novice web designers. I would recommend them to anyone!”
“Pixpa was my first choice when browsing for portfolio sites when I started my business in 2014. In only two years, business took off. I credit Pixpa's SEO capabilities with much of my success.”
“Pixpa is the only provider I found with all the features needed blended in one package. Website, blog, client galleries - If you want everything in one platform, then Pixpa is the only way to go! And the support team is legendary!”
“Much better than Squarespace! Everything is very customizable and so far it's been excellent. The customer service has been so quick and very helpful which makes a huge difference on who I go with.”
“Pixpa is a fantastic all-in-one, affordable platform for creatives and small business owners looking to create a polished online portfolio quickly.”
“Pixpa saved my life! I had been using Weebly for many years and grew frustrated and annoyed with their high costs until I found Pixpa. I love how affordable they are and the range of features that they offer and as a result, my website is doing much better than it was when it was at Weebly.”