The easiest way to build a simple photo website

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"Renato" <rcorteschile@sacaestoesosi.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Which is the best and faster way to build a photo website? Is there a
> software out there to do this easily? I tried FP, but I didn't like it. I
> need
> to upload several photo galleries, so I need a simple front page, with
> links
> to the galleries.
>
> TIA
> Renato
>
Microsoft Front Page is, in my opinion, one of the easiest ways to make
Websites. Have a look in its Templates for the Multi Page Web you want. It
will certainly be easier for the viewers if they can move from Gallery to
Gallery without having to go back to the Opening Page.

Dreamweaver is perhaps more popular with serious Web creators, but I found
it much more complicated.

Roy G

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Have a llok at Porta... http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/

Easy, simple, free...
And here is a sample Porta gallery of some of my pics...
http://www.guytittley.pwp.blueyond [...] index.html


Guy

Renato wrote:
> Which is the best and faster way to build a photo website? Is there a
> software out there to do this easily? I tried FP, but I didn't like
> it. I need
> to upload several photo galleries, so I need a simple front page,
> with links to the galleries.
>
> TIA
> Renato

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"Renato" <rcorteschile@sacaestoesosi.gmail.com> writes:

> Which is the best and faster way to build a photo website? Is there a
> software out there to do this easily? I tried FP, but I didn't like it. I

I think you've left out some information. You could use the Smugmug power
user or pro sites to do your own Web site for photo display -
http://www.smugmug.com/
but your photos will be hosted on the smugmug site, not your own. Pro users
can have their own URL, though, so that may not be a problem for you.

Or you could use several different pieces of software. iView Media pro -
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/
is one program which will build the galleries for you, but I am not sure it
will build the entire linked site.

For a Web site, I use Adobe GoLive, others use Dreamweaver. These are
rather expensive programs, though. I've used BBEdit for years to do Web
pages, but after awhile it becomes onerous trying to track all the page
changes, links, and such by hand.

Which is your preference? Having the photos hosted on a hosting site or
developing your own. A hosting site may make it much easier by handling the
linking and markup for you.
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:02:04 -0400, in rec.photo.digital ,
clutch@lycos.com in <115q2k6drjda5d1@news.supernews.com> wrote:

>Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>Are you the webmaster? Can you load Perl/PHP tools? If so, there is a
>>host of gallery SW available. You might check with the company hosting
>>your site (look on their support forums, for example), there may be
>>some preferred system people are using.
>
>Is there a particular set of scripts you would recommend?

Still looking, otherwise I would point you to my site. That said, it
depends on what Perl/PHP extensions are available on your host, how
comfortable you are with tinkering, what features you want. When I
started looking I found at least a dozen. Which is best depends on
your needs. These, like cameras, cars, computers, etc. are tools are
tools are judged by fitness to job.


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Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:02:04 -0400, in rec.photo.digital ,
>clutch@lycos.com in <115q2k6drjda5d1@news.supernews.com> wrote:
>
>>Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Are you the webmaster? Can you load Perl/PHP tools? If so, there is a
>>>host of gallery SW available. You might check with the company hosting
>>>your site (look on their support forums, for example), there may be
>>>some preferred system people are using.
>>
>>Is there a particular set of scripts you would recommend?
>
>Still looking, otherwise I would point you to my site. That said, it
>depends on what Perl/PHP extensions are available on your host, how
>comfortable you are with tinkering, what features you want. When I
>started looking I found at least a dozen. Which is best depends on
>your needs. These, like cameras, cars, computers, etc. are tools are
>tools are judged by fitness to job.

Oh, I don't mind tinkering. I have a shell account with web space on
a netbsd system that afaik allows running perl/PHP. For internal
testing, I can run apache under cygwin and point back to one of my
local boxes.

Post a usenet message when you find one that interestes you and I'll
check it out.


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clutch@lycos.com wrote:
> paul <paul@not.net> wrote:
>>
>>'Gallery' is very capable with a large user base, support. It takes some
>>fiddling to set up though.
>
>
> Do you have a url? googling didn't pan out due to multiple hits on
> common word.



heh... "gallery php"

http://gallery.menalto.com/

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Renato <rcorteschile@sacaestoesosi.gmail.com> wrote:

> Which is the best and faster way to build a photo website? Is there a
> software out there to do this easily? I tried FP, but I didn't like it. I
> need to upload several photo galleries, so I need a simple front page,
> with links to the galleries.

If your server has PHP, you should check out Simple Picture Gallery
Manager, which lives here: <http://spgm.sourceforge.net/> It's small and
unobtrusive and pretty easy to set up.

There's also Gallery, which is pretty much the standard:
<http://gallery.menalto.com/> A little trickier to set up, and your
system needs to have either gd or imagemagick, and maybe jhead and other
assorted utilities. But once you get it going, it's smooth sailing.

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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:17:18 -0400, "Renato"
<rcorteschile@sacaestoesosi.gmail.com> wrote:

>Which is the best and faster way to build a photo website? Is there a
>software out there to do this easily? I tried FP, but I didn't like it. I
>need
>to upload several photo galleries, so I need a simple front page, with links
>to the galleries.


If your web host is running Apache and supports
PHP, then consider downloading and installing
either Gallery or Coppermine -- both freeware,
very easy to install and administer.

http://gallery.menalto.com/
http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/

At each of the above sites you'll
find links to real galleries. Here's
one made with Gallery:

http://gallery.backcountry.net/


rafe b.
http://www.terrapinphoto.com

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Hi All,
>
>

>
> Oh, I don't mind tinkering. I have a shell account with web space on
> a netbsd system that afaik allows running perl/PHP. For internal
> testing, I can run apache under cygwin and point back to one of my
> local boxes.
>
Have a look on sourceforge. We got a php based wiki from there 'php wiki',
extremely handy, doesn't need much more than linux-apache-php, and I think
gnu-db. Wikis are so easy to use you'll forget anything else soon.

-- Hans