Nine Mile Photography: a wedding and portrait photography website, built from one brief.
Five pages for a wedding and portrait photographer in Portland: a portfolio grouped by the kind of shoot, prices from $200 headshots to $3,900 full-day weddings, how many weeks the photographs take to come back, and a form for asking about a date. The design, the writing and the images all came from the brief below.
What the builder was given.
You type a sentence and the chat asks a few questions. Your answers become a brief like this one, and the site below came out of it.
- Purpose
- Portrait and wedding photographer in Portland, Oregon — booking inquiries for sessions and weddings
- Audience
- Couples planning a wedding in Oregon, families wanting portraits that don't look like a mall studio, and people who need one good headshot
- Tone
- Warm, direct, unfussy. Short paragraphs. Confident without selling.
- Key facts
- Portrait sessions from $350; half-day weddings from $2,400; full-day weddings from $3,900; headshots $200
- Portland, Oregon — travels anywhere in Oregon and southwest Washington, no travel fee within 90 minutes of Portland
- One photographer shoots every job; no second shooter unless the wedding needs one
- Galleries delivered in three weeks; weddings in six
- Booked with a signed agreement and a retainer, arranged by email after the inquiry
- Business type
- Wedding and portrait photography
- Location
- Portland, Oregon, US
- Pages
- Home, Portfolio, Pricing, About, Contact
- Built
- August 31, 2026
What was asked for, and what came back.
Home
Open this pageAsked for
The work first: a large hero photograph, then a tight selection of images across weddings, portraits and headshots. One short paragraph on who shoots and how they work. Starting prices stated plainly. End with a clear route to the inquiry form.
Portfolio
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The galleries, grouped: weddings, portraits and families, headshots. Images carry the page — minimal words, a short line of context per group at most. This page should feel like looking through a photographer's book, not reading a brochure.
Pricing
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What things cost, stated without hedging: portrait sessions from $350, half-day weddings from $2,400, full-day from $3,900, headshots $200. What each includes — shooting time, number of edited images, delivery timeline. A plain line about travel. No packages with cute names, no tiers labeled Silver and Gold.
About
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Who the photographer is and how a shoot actually goes, written in first person. Specific and human — how they direct people who hate being photographed, what they carry, why they shoot the way they do. One portrait of the photographer.
Contact
Open this pageAsked for
The inquiry form: name, email, date, type of shoot, and a free-text field. State plainly that inquiries are answered within two business days and that dates are held only once an agreement is signed. Email address and service area as text.
What comes out of a build: pages planned for the business, a design of its own, the words written and the forms wired.
Edit by chatThere is no canvas to drag. Describe the change in the studio chat and it is made, with the design intact.
Free website builderOne complete site, published free at a designhouse.site address. No card and no trial clock; a paid plan when you want a domain of your own.
Building without codeNothing to install, no file to open, and the jobs you were told need a developer are done during the build.
How long it takesHalf of first builds finish in under nine minutes, and the site is answering at its address by the time the build stops.
If you are not a designerYou are not asked to pick a theme, a font or a layout. Those are settled in the build and they hold while you change the words.
Updated September 2026