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A big thank you from me for http://www.w3schools.com/
I think you have missed thge most powerfull free software out there, gallery. (www.gallery.menalto.com/). This has:
- automatic watermarking
- sell images online
- batch upload
- admin panel control
The features cannot be matched by any paid for software, and gallery is free!
Any members here who custom-build websites for clients, with examples and costs? Or links to recommended others who won't break the bank?
You'd probably be better off starting a new thread about it.
Nobody has mentioned Joomla! (the exclamation mark is theirs, not mine)
It's open source, fabulous, full of features, great for photo plugins and supported by tens of thousands of clever people for free as well.
I've used it for about 50 sites, though my only photography one is www.andreaduncan.co.uk
There are loads of free templates to give your site a professional look, but once you start playing you'll realise how easy it can be to make your own.
There is a bit of a learning curve it's true, but with a default installation and maybe a couple of days of dabbling, you'll have a respectable site.
For photo display, there's a plugin called 'simple image gallery'. It's exactly that. Upload the plugin, place your images into a suitably named folder and then just put {gallery}foldername{/gallery} into your page text to display it.
I can help anyone who wants a go with Joomla. I have the time.
Nobody has mentioned Joomla! (the exclamation mark is theirs, not mine)
It's open source, fabulous, full of features, great for photo plugins and supported by tens of thousands of clever people for free as well.
I've used it for about 50 sites, though my only photography one is www.andreaduncan.co.uk
There are loads of free templates to give your site a professional look, but once you start playing you'll realise how easy it can be to make your own.
There is a bit of a learning curve it's true, but with a default installation and maybe a couple of days of dabbling, you'll have a respectable site.
For photo display, there's a plugin called 'simple image gallery'. It's exactly that. Upload the plugin, place your images into a suitably named folder and then just put {gallery}foldername{/gallery} into your page text to display it.
I can help anyone who wants a go with Joomla. I have the time.
It hasn't really been left out, it's a blogging system (or it was intended to be one).
You can find it on the http://opensourcecms.com/ website.
Jaws and dragonfly seem to be a better choice for a website that isn't just a blog, as they come in packages that feature pretty much everything what someone setting up a personal/SOHO website would usually need. The last time I checked, you needed a Wordpress plug-in for many a thing those two offer in a default complete installation.
The same could go for Drupal (which also happens to have an administration system that many newbies find too complicated, especially if they're not very used to working with computers).
Thanks for the suggestion, though.
If you are working with Wordpress then a few good sites to look at for templates are http://themeforest.net/ and http://woothemes.com and http://www.obox-design.com/
Nobody has mentioned Joomla! (the exclamation mark is theirs, not mine)
It's open source, fabulous, full of features, great for photo plugins and supported by tens of thousands of clever people for free as well.
I've used it for about 50 sites, though my only photography one is www.andreaduncan.co.uk
There are loads of free templates to give your site a professional look, but once you start playing you'll realise how easy it can be to make your own.
There is a bit of a learning curve it's true, but with a default installation and maybe a couple of days of dabbling, you'll have a respectable site.
For photo display, there's a plugin called 'simple image gallery'. It's exactly that. Upload the plugin, place your images into a suitably named folder and then just put {gallery}foldername{/gallery} into your page text to display it.
I can help anyone who wants a go with Joomla. I have the time.
theurbanclown said:I built mine using Wordpress and a theme from themeforest.net
It cost £20 and involved a bit of tinkering, but was well worth it. If you don't have time/knowledge to do that, I'd suggest indexhibit or Cargocollective - both free and have some nice, clean themes.
What them did you use?
Zito Theme
It obviously looks quite different to what mine is now, but the end result was only achieved using a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS, the themes in-built options, then some plugins. The important thing is, it had all of the base features I wanted (responsive, filterable portfolio, nice looking slider), the basic cosmetic stuff is easy to change.
That's the beauty of Wordpress.
Thanks Slappo, this thread is amazing!
A photographer pal has suggested http://website.1and1.co.uk/1and1-website-builder-features to me. I know very little about it, but thought It might be worth bringing up. Anyone here use/tried it?
Over the last few days I've just been redesigning my website using Pixelpost and found it almost a joy to use. One of my problems was cross-browser compatibility, what looked good in Firefox, wasn't too good in IE.
My son came up with a couple of very useful free addons that solved all my problems and have the ability to do so much more.
A Firefox addon .... Firebug (go to tools/addons and add it)
And for IE ............. IE Developer Toolbar (go to tools/manage add-ons/find more add-ons)
If looking at modifying templates, they help with identifying what does what and where to adjust for desires results .... INVALUABLE
HTH