How do I create a website for my photos?
How do I create a website for my photos?
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DustyC

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12,820 posts

278 months

Wednesday 19th May 2004
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I've never played with HTML stuff before.
I have ??GB of webspace through V21 that i dont use and ??GB with others.

1. How can I use this webspace to create a site to share my pics with others?

2. Is there a free platform/protocol/tool which I can download and use for the site to make it easy? Where is it?!

Thanks.

Munter

31,330 posts

265 months

Wednesday 19th May 2004
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All you need to create a simple web page is notepad.

Put the following text in:

<HTML>
<TITLE>My Test Page</TITLE>
<BODY>
<H1>Heading</H1>
This is my test text.
<P>
Here's some more.
</BODY>
</HTML>

And save it as .html

To put a pic up on the page add:

<IMG SRC="graphics/image.jpg">

Where currently has: Here's some more.

That extra line would put an image called image.jpg on the page. That image was stored in a directory called graphics, which was in the same directory as the .html page.

That might be a bit confusing, but look up simple HTML on the web and you'll start to get it.

FourWheelDrift

91,954 posts

308 months

Wednesday 19th May 2004
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DustyC said:
I've never played with HTML stuff before.
I have ??GB of webspace through V21 that i dont use and ??GB with others.

1. How can I use this webspace to create a site to share my pics with others?

2. Is there a free platform/protocol/tool which I can download and use for the site to make it easy? Where is it?!

Thanks.


Have a look at Web Album Generator, it's free.
www.ornj.net/software/webalbum/

simpo two

91,611 posts

289 months

Wednesday 19th May 2004
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Everyone will have their own answer to this. Personally I'd avoid html like the plague. It's easy for people who can 'read' it (this is the Computing forum after all!); otherwise it might as well be Chinese IMHO.

My way: Get some proper webspace. I use 123; it works for me; others will have their own favourites. If you can use MS Word, try fiddling about with FrontPage. Hardened html-ites will snigger but it did a good job for a rookie like me. I've made several sites now, some for money Oh yes, and the missing link is FTP software to upload it from your PC to the space. I use CuteFTP but there are many others.

pmanson

13,388 posts

277 months

Wednesday 19th May 2004
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I use Jalbum. Which creates pages like this

The software is avaliable here

You can choose whatever skin you want and it will show you a preview of your chosen skin.


>> Edited by pmanson on Wednesday 19th May 14:16

Munter

31,330 posts

265 months

Wednesday 19th May 2004
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simpo two said:
I use CuteFTP but there are many others.


CuteFTP is very good. But also try a little free/shareware program called FTPExplorer (www.ftpx.com/) it's a dead simple little program.