Cheap n cheerful website creation?
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I am looking to create a website to showcase my articles so I can send the link to editors rather than tons of .pdfs as I have to at the moment.
My friend has used mrsite.com to create a photography site that looks pretty impressive considering he has no coding skills and seems reasonably priced but are there any alternatives that folks could recommend?
Ideally I want to be able to click thumbnails of scanned articles in order to expand the piece into a readable size but I realise that this may not be possible so I am prepared to just have some decent pics of the pages and then rewrite the article underneath in a scrollable boxout... possible?
My friend has used mrsite.com to create a photography site that looks pretty impressive considering he has no coding skills and seems reasonably priced but are there any alternatives that folks could recommend?
Ideally I want to be able to click thumbnails of scanned articles in order to expand the piece into a readable size but I realise that this may not be possible so I am prepared to just have some decent pics of the pages and then rewrite the article underneath in a scrollable boxout... possible?
Cheers for the reply.
Excuse my ignorance but if I scanned a normal magazine page would it not use up loads of space on the site if it was high enough quality to be readable onscreen? I guess it would probably be best to write them out again as the scrolling might be a bit a PITA?
I'm pretty good with computers but never really looked at websites so I'm a complete newbie in this area.
Excuse my ignorance but if I scanned a normal magazine page would it not use up loads of space on the site if it was high enough quality to be readable onscreen? I guess it would probably be best to write them out again as the scrolling might be a bit a PITA?
I'm pretty good with computers but never really looked at websites so I'm a complete newbie in this area.
It's not totally clear what you want to achieve.
If the primary objective is to show your articles as they appeared in print, then do what you planned.
However, if the primary objective is to demonstrate your writing stlye, why not repurpose your original submission:
- Take that submission, which you presumably wrote in something like MSWord
- Now in MSWord, add the photo's, tidy up the formatting, then Save As HTML - bang, one html page ready to upload.
- Alternatively, using a free/cheap HTML editor, cut & paste the copy in from Word, add pictures, Preview & refrmat to suit, Save As Web page. Sorted.
You can/should:
- Subtitle the page with "as published in Autocar, 2/11/06"
- Add a clickable thumnail of the scanned article, so they can see how it finally appeared.
This way, your actual report is presented in a simple, legible way for commissioning editors to read, but they can also view the original article as it was published.
In terms of getting it up on the internet, it's probably worth setting up a simple web page of your own:
- You probably have some space available from your ISP. Check their site.
- Start with a Welcome page. This will have an introduction, a biography, contact details, then a list of articles as clickable links (title, publication & date, and perhaps a brief comment/summary)
- Every time you upload a new document, you just need to add the link on your Homepage
The process of upoading pages is usually very simple, check your ISP site for advice, then try it. It is basically:
- Write the page, and prepare the separate graphics files ready for upload
- Upload (using your html editor) to an address provided by your ISP
- Use your browser to open the new page to check that it has loaded correctly (Tip: try a couple of different browsers, and ask a Mac friend to check it as well)
If the primary objective is to show your articles as they appeared in print, then do what you planned.
However, if the primary objective is to demonstrate your writing stlye, why not repurpose your original submission:
- Take that submission, which you presumably wrote in something like MSWord
- Now in MSWord, add the photo's, tidy up the formatting, then Save As HTML - bang, one html page ready to upload.
- Alternatively, using a free/cheap HTML editor, cut & paste the copy in from Word, add pictures, Preview & refrmat to suit, Save As Web page. Sorted.
You can/should:
- Subtitle the page with "as published in Autocar, 2/11/06"
- Add a clickable thumnail of the scanned article, so they can see how it finally appeared.
This way, your actual report is presented in a simple, legible way for commissioning editors to read, but they can also view the original article as it was published.
In terms of getting it up on the internet, it's probably worth setting up a simple web page of your own:
- You probably have some space available from your ISP. Check their site.
- Start with a Welcome page. This will have an introduction, a biography, contact details, then a list of articles as clickable links (title, publication & date, and perhaps a brief comment/summary)
- Every time you upload a new document, you just need to add the link on your Homepage
The process of upoading pages is usually very simple, check your ISP site for advice, then try it. It is basically:
- Write the page, and prepare the separate graphics files ready for upload
- Upload (using your html editor) to an address provided by your ISP
- Use your browser to open the new page to check that it has loaded correctly (Tip: try a couple of different browsers, and ask a Mac friend to check it as well)
AARONM3 said:
Cheers for the reply.
Excuse my ignorance but if I scanned a normal magazine page would it not use up loads of space on the site if it was high enough quality to be readable onscreen? I guess it would probably be best to write them out again as the scrolling might be a bit a PITA?
I'm pretty good with computers but never really looked at websites so I'm a complete newbie in this area.
Excuse my ignorance but if I scanned a normal magazine page would it not use up loads of space on the site if it was high enough quality to be readable onscreen? I guess it would probably be best to write them out again as the scrolling might be a bit a PITA?
I'm pretty good with computers but never really looked at websites so I'm a complete newbie in this area.
Nah, wouldnt take up much space at all, maybe 100kb to be readable, 200kb at a push.. given you can get a few GB on hosting accounts these days, that would be enough to hold a 20+ thousand pages.
J
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