Did you do your own website?

RSO · Dec 27, 2002

Melanie Kipp said:
RSO ... Yahoo/Geocities provides several ways to do it. I used
their Program titled "Page Builder".... very easy , and since I do
not know html or anything else about wed site building, I found it
wonderful. I noticed they now have Front Page 2002 available to
use.

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Please visit me at:
http://www.caughtintimephotography.com

Richard B. · Dec 28, 2002

RSO,

It's not my main line of work, but I did have some web design and some programming experience prior.

I have pasted some links below to some of the different page types. You can view the underlying HTML by clicking on the link and then in the browser selecting "Source" from the "View" menu. I enjoy editing the HTML by hand, but if this doesn't appeal, I would recommend looking at one of the automated tools referred too in this thread.

With the approach the pages are created on your PC using notepad (or other editing tool) and then FTP'd to you web hosting service. If you don't have an FTP program yet WS FTP Pro from Ipswitch software works pretty well.

A sample home page

Simply contains the references to the menu page (on the left) and the content page (on the right). The home page is usually named default.htm or index.htm and will be loaded automatically by the web server for anyone that hits your domain name (or any directory in your domain.) For example
http://www.ericksonbird.com/samples/
and
http://www.ericksonbird.com/samples/index.htm
do the same thing.

Sample menu - referred to by the home page and contains the links to load the content page. The name of this page and the othe pages is not important.
http://www.ericksonbird.com/samples/p_menux.htm

Sample content page
http://www.ericksonbird.com/samples/winter/p_winter1.htm

Sample thumbnails page
http://www.ericksonbird.com/samples/winter/p_winter_thumb.htm

Good luck with whatever approach you take!
Richard.

RSO said:
It helps alot! I like the approach with the temes on one menu side
and then the option to look at the thumbnails within the other
window.

How much experience did you have in deoing webpages before you set
out to do this?

Thanks for your feedback.

--
Richard B.
S404 gallery http://www.ericksonbird.com/samples

johngeek · Dec 28, 2002

I have a few galleries up, but for clients. Rather not post the url in an open forum. With galleries, usually just use photoshop. It's quick, does a decent job, and already have the software. (galleries are fery tedious by hand.)

John

RSO said:
Mr. Geek,

Do you have any gallery pages to show? It looks like you are
preparing for a starup or, thae pages you referred me to are WIP.
I'd like to see more.

Thanks,

RSO

Michael Meissner · Dec 28, 2002

RSO said:
I see that you you really designed your page more for your use.
That makes tremendous sense. And I may steal shamelessley from
that approach for my own, own-use pages.

Certainly, though designed may be too strong of a word for my web pages, they just kind of grew. Obviously, you want to keep your audience in mind -- for example, my wife looks at the gallery while at work, which influenced having the albums with the alternative recent photos first with no categories, so she could just view the new pictures.

RSO said:
I am really trying to figure out the best way fo presenting more of
an electronic art gallery approach to post works (altbeit, they can
hardly be considered art at this point, but, I'm gonna keep after
it).

Don't feel you have to be locked into only one way of doing stuff. For example, having separate entrances -- one for modem users on low speed connections, and another with flash animation.

Michael Meissner · Dec 28, 2002

RSO said:
Jón Ragnarsson said:

I got my own domain and web hosting from phpwebhosting.com. Mostly
for personal hacking and (of course) for my galleries. I got
Gallery ( http://gallery.sourceforge.net ) very simple, yet quite
flexible gallery software, and since it is my own domain, I can add
my own stuff, like the 'daily photo'.

http://jonr.beecee.org/

J.

Click to expand...

Wow, I like it! THe slideshow feature is very cool as well. You
have some great images on your site.

If you don't mind my asking...what did the design and hosting cost?

For what its worth, I use webmasters.com which charges $9.95/month for 750 megabytes of storage and 20 gigabytes of bandwidth per month. Phphosting.com is a similar charge, but less of a disk space quota (125 megabytes). Here is a list of hosting companies I looked at last June:

http://www.the-meissners.org/computer.html#Webhost

Rodger Carter · Dec 28, 2002

Used Netscape because I was told that FrontPage would not work with many viewers. Didn't have to learn HTML and have had no need for it since establishing the site about eight months ago (dchis.com).

Rodger

Christopher Crawford · Dec 28, 2002

RSO said:
I have my own domain and use a thrid-party to handle my email service.

I noticed many forum members have their own sites for their galleries.

Couple of questions:

1. Did you do it yourself? If so...how did you learn?
2. Did someone do it for you? Are they commercial?

Finally...What is the url to your page?

Thanks,

RSO

I did my own. I'm a professional artist who wanted total control over the presentation of my work. Some more experienced web designers may do a fancier site, but I still prefer to do my own. I learned the design part (layout, typography, etc.) in college...I have an art degree. The Web part i learned from books. I use microsoft Frontpage 2002, but even with a layot program, it's complicated dealing with all those pages and links and such. I needed books just to learn Frontpage, since it's instruction books is like 30 pages long!
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Chris Crawford

http://www.crawfordandkline.com

Karl H. Timmerman M.A.J.D. · Dec 28, 2002

RSO

RSO said:
Couple of questions:

1. Did you do it yourself? If so...how did you learn?
2. Did someone do it for you? Are they commercial?

Greets. I have two websites ... one for my law practice: http://www.ktimmerman.com and the second for my graphic arts stuff: http://www.karltimmerman,com

The law page was done commercially by my marketing company and the graphic arts page I did myself using "CoolPage": http://www.coolpage.com . The program is VERY easy to learn and use.
Regards
Karl
Karl H. Timmerman M.A.,J.D.
http://www.karltimmerman.com

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