Is this really more than one page?
Yes. The demo was a single page so you could see the editing work, and that gave the wrong impression. You build as many pages as your site needs, each with its own address, menu label, page title, and description.
Will it hurt my SEO?
Your rankings live in your addresses and your words, not your design. Keep the same page addresses — yoursite.com/newborn stays yoursite.com/newborn — keep your titles, descriptions, headings, and copy, and use a 301 redirect anywhere an address has to change. Expect a quiet couple of weeks while Google recrawls, then it settles. Sites often come back a little better, because a lighter site loads faster.
Do I have to transfer my domain?
No. Your domain stays exactly where you bought it. Nothing moves, no transfer codes, no 60-day lock.
Who hosts it?
You do, and that's deliberate. You keep your own hosting and publish your site there. You're paying once for the builder rather than renting your website from me every month. If you don't have hosting today, Netlify and Cloudflare Pages both do it free, and publishing is dragging a folder onto a page.
I'm on Squarespace. Can I upload it there?
No — and it's worth knowing before you buy. Squarespace only serves sites built inside Squarespace, so there's no way to put your own files on their hosting. The same goes for Wix and Showit. What you do instead is keep your domain exactly where it is and point it at somewhere that hosts plain files, like Netlify or Cloudflare Pages. Both are free. Your web address stays the same for your clients, and you stop paying a monthly platform fee — usually keeping just the domain, around $20 a year. It's a twenty minute job, once, and I'll walk you through it.
What happens to my site if My Studio Site goes down — or if you stop?
Your website keeps running, and nobody has to do anything. What you export is real HTML sitting on your own hosting, with no connection back to me — no script checking in, no account being verified. If the builder broke tomorrow, the only thing you'd lose is the ability to make edits until it's back. Every export also downloads to your computer as a ZIP, so you always hold a complete copy of your own site. That's the opposite of a hosted platform, where if they go down you go down, and you can't take your site with you when you leave.
How much space do I get?
There's no storage plan to outgrow, because I'm not your host. Your finished site lives on your hosting, and the builder resizes every photo when you export, so most photographer sites come in well under 100MB. While you're building, founding members have no cap. It is for the images that go on your website though — not a place to store your full archive, and not a client gallery.
Can clients book and pay on my site?
Not in this version. You can build a page showing your sessions, packages, and pricing, and the button points to whatever scheduler you already use. Booking with date selection and payment is on the roadmap, and founding members decide what gets built first.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. If you can write an Instagram caption and pick a photo, you can do this. The whole reason it's built from sections instead of a blank canvas is so there's nothing to get lost in.