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Please recommend a good Photo Web Site Engine
Could anybody recommend a more or less acceptable engine (application,
program, platform) to create a professionally looking photo web site? I'm pretty sure that there are many different applications generating pages, automatically inserting thousands of images of different resolutions, maybe even automatically rescaling images, using JS for transition effects, having and supporting different styles, allowing the owner to add the descriptions to the photos, gathering comments from the users, register users, etc., and at the same time absolutely simple to let the searching machines read and index the entire site, going through all the links and references page by page? Does anybody have any good examples of these sites with the references to the application created these sites? I'm not expecting that I should write the site from scratch myself, on the other hand it will take a very long time to write something good enough for publishing. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks, Just D. |
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Please recommend a good Photo Web Site Engine
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"Just D" wrote: Could anybody recommend a more or less acceptable engine (application, program, platform) to create a professionally looking photo web site? I'm pretty sure that there are many different applications generating pages, automatically inserting thousands of images of different resolutions, maybe even automatically rescaling images, using JS for transition effects, having and supporting different styles, allowing the owner to add the descriptions to the photos, gathering comments from the users, register users, etc., and at the same time absolutely simple to let the searching machines read and index the entire site, going through all the links and references page by page? Does anybody have any good examples of these sites with the references to the application created these sites? I'm not expecting that I should write the site from scratch myself, on the other hand it will take a very long time to write something good enough for publishing. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks, Just D. Apple's iPhoto and .Mac would work nicely for you if you use a Mac. |
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Please recommend a good Photo Web Site Engine
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...allowing the owner to add the descriptions to the photos, gathering comments from the users, register users, etc. Something like 'gallery' on sourceforge with php scripts & a mySQL database on your server to use your own domain name or could you use something on another domain with permissions for folders? |
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Please recommend a good Photo Web Site Engine
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"Just D" wrote: Could anybody recommend a more or less acceptable engine (application, program, platform) to create a professionally looking photo web site? I'm pretty sure that there are many different applications generating pages, automatically inserting thousands of images of different resolutions, maybe even automatically rescaling images, using JS for transition effects, having and supporting different styles, allowing the owner to add the descriptions to the photos, gathering comments from the users, register users, etc., and at the same time absolutely simple to let the searching machines read and index the entire site, going through all the links and references page by page? Does anybody have any good examples of these sites with the references to the application created these sites? I'm not expecting that I should write the site from scratch myself, on the other hand it will take a very long time to write something good enough for publishing. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks, Just D. These features require server-side code and a database. If you can set up MySQL and PHP, then some open source projects might do the trick. I'm not sure what is available in commercial software. Another thing you'll have to look for is the type server required. Some generate static content that you periodically upload to your server. Others run on the server to provide dynamic content. http://gallery.menalto.com http://coppermine-gallery.net/ -- I don't read Google's spam. Reply with another service. |
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Please recommend a good Photo Web Site Engine
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:28:20 -0700, Just D wrote:
Could anybody recommend a more or less acceptable engine (application, program, platform) to create a professionally looking photo web site? I'm pretty sure that there are many different applications generating pages, automatically inserting thousands of images of different resolutions, maybe even automatically rescaling images, using JS for transition effects, having and supporting different styles, allowing the owner to add the descriptions to the photos, gathering comments from the users, register users, etc., and at the same time absolutely simple to let the searching machines read and index the entire site, going through all the links and references page by page? Does anybody have any good examples of these sites with the references to the application created these sites? I'm not expecting that I should write the site from scratch myself, on the other hand it will take a very long time to write something good enough for publishing. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks, Just D. IMHO - if you want a "professionally looking photo web site" you had best hire a professional web site developer to make you one. If you try to produce one yourself, it will look like a home grown product. |
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Please recommend a good Photo Web Site Engine
Well, I'm actually a professional software developer and I'm writing web
applications as well. So I realize how complicated and hard is to write a good product. The question was to find something already written to avoid a zero stage of development of my own web site. I can spend months doing that instead of buying and improving some engine. Thanks anyway. Just D. "ray" wrote in message news On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:28:20 -0700, Just D wrote: IMHO - if you want a "professionally looking photo web site" you had best hire a professional web site developer to make you one. If you try to produce one yourself, it will look like a home grown product. |
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Please recommend a good Photo Web Site Engine
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:14:21 -0700, Just D wrote:
Well, I'm actually a professional software developer and I'm writing web applications as well. So I realize how complicated and hard is to write a good product. The question was to find something already written to avoid a zero stage of development of my own web site. I can spend months doing that instead of buying and improving some engine. So, you're a 'professional software developer' - so what do you know about web site DESIGN. Probably precious little - hence my recommendation. Thanks anyway. Just D. "ray" wrote in message news On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:28:20 -0700, Just D wrote: IMHO - if you want a "professionally looking photo web site" you had best hire a professional web site developer to make you one. If you try to produce one yourself, it will look like a home grown product. |
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Please recommend a good Photo Web Site Engine
Just D wrote:
Could anybody recommend a more or less acceptable engine (application, program, platform) to create a professionally looking photo web site? I'm pretty sure that there are many different applications generating pages, automatically inserting thousands of images of different resolutions, maybe even automatically rescaling images, using JS for transition effects, having and supporting different styles, allowing the owner to add the descriptions to the photos, gathering comments from the users, register users, etc., and at the same time absolutely simple to let the searching machines read and index the entire site, going through all the links and references page by page? Does anybody have any good examples of these sites with the references to the application created these sites? I'm not expecting that I should write the site from scratch myself, on the other hand it will take a very long time to write something good enough for publishing. Any help will be appreciated! Take a look at Drupal and Joomla, both are highly configurable: http://www.joomla.org/ http://drupal.org/ List of open source CMSs: http://opensourcecms.com/ -- artix http://www.abstractart.ws _Abstract Art Directory_ |
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