Your own website?
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Im guessing you all have your own personal sites with your best shots on - if so, whats the URL?
Just so that we can give each other tips etc on improving shots, or just to admire each others work (and maybe get some inspiration!)
Cheers
Dave
PS mines www.davidhambly.co.uk
Just so that we can give each other tips etc on improving shots, or just to admire each others work (and maybe get some inspiration!)
Cheers
Dave
PS mines www.davidhambly.co.uk
I really want to get my own site up and runnign to display my pics (low res so no one can steal them!)
I get umpteen MB of webspace with my ISP but what can I use as good software for displaying the pics?
As you can tell, Im new to this side of things!
At the moment I have used only "Yahoo photos" and "Fotango" to share pics with people but I want my own site and some kind of smart viewer (applet?).
I dont mean to steal the thread Dave, I think its a great idea if we can share our favorite shots. Just want to know the best way to do it.
I get umpteen MB of webspace with my ISP but what can I use as good software for displaying the pics?
As you can tell, Im new to this side of things!
At the moment I have used only "Yahoo photos" and "Fotango" to share pics with people but I want my own site and some kind of smart viewer (applet?).
I dont mean to steal the thread Dave, I think its a great idea if we can share our favorite shots. Just want to know the best way to do it.
A few of my pics are on a site I run with a few mates www.more-power.co.uk
Watch this space though, because I have another site in development which will interest pistonheads!
Watch this space though, because I have another site in development which will interest pistonheads!
Well i used Fireworks and Dreamweaver to design the website. Its really not all the necessary though - its the shots that are on display after all.
re Stealing shots - save them as 72dpi, then theyre useless to anyone else. Also, i used this trick
http://bermangraphics.com/tips/table.htm
If you right click and save any of my images, youll just get a blank image!
re Stealing shots - save them as 72dpi, then theyre useless to anyone else. Also, i used this trick
http://bermangraphics.com/tips/table.htm
If you right click and save any of my images, youll just get a blank image!
If you've got your own webspace, then all you need to do is create a webpage (or webpages) which contain the thumbnail images, then link each small image to a large version of it if required.
Check out www.haslersystems.co.uk/Mel for a very basic example - this took only a few minutes to knock up!
Obviously, something like Dave's looks a lot better, but will take a bit more time to create.
You can create sites in Word I believe, but you'd be better off by using a proper web page creator. I use Dreamweaver, but something like Frontpage should do the job too.
Check out www.haslersystems.co.uk/Mel for a very basic example - this took only a few minutes to knock up!
Obviously, something like Dave's looks a lot better, but will take a bit more time to create.
You can create sites in Word I believe, but you'd be better off by using a proper web page creator. I use Dreamweaver, but something like Frontpage should do the job too.
Mad Dave said:
re Stealing shots - save them as 72dpi, then theyre useless to anyone else. Also, i used this trick
http://bermangraphics.com/tips/table.htm
If you right click and save any of my images, youll just get a blank image!
I reckon that if anyone wants to steal a pic they know how to get round that one!
I suppose it might stop a few people though.
it's easy enough. 
Dusty - you'd be surprised how many people it fools! My mates father in law tried to print off some pics from the wedding library and was slightly perplexed when he ended up with blank sheets of paper every time he hit print! He gave up in the end.
A very very good thumbnailer package can be downloaded from Download.com - its called Thumbnailer and its made by Smaller Animals - you basically point it at a directory containing all your full sized images and it creates;
a)thumbnails
b)all HTML pages
c)links them all up
It really is great! You just upload the lot and away you go!
A very very good thumbnailer package can be downloaded from Download.com - its called Thumbnailer and its made by Smaller Animals - you basically point it at a directory containing all your full sized images and it creates;
a)thumbnails
b)all HTML pages
c)links them all up
It really is great! You just upload the lot and away you go!
Thanks Dave!
Now where can I find some extra time to do any of this???
Im supposed to be decorating the Kitchen starting to day and have managed to move the fridge, freezer and microwave and then spent the rest of the day feeding my addiciton (the healthy-ish one!).
Seriously thanks though. I 'll ask for more help when I get round to doing it. I still have a list with "review daves pics" on it somewhere! Sorry for the delay mate. Seems like Im doing everything at once at the moment and then just have a day where I do SFA like today!
Oh well...
>> Edited by DustyC on Friday 28th November 17:22
Now where can I find some extra time to do any of this???
Im supposed to be decorating the Kitchen starting to day and have managed to move the fridge, freezer and microwave and then spent the rest of the day feeding my addiciton (the healthy-ish one!).
Seriously thanks though. I 'll ask for more help when I get round to doing it. I still have a list with "review daves pics" on it somewhere! Sorry for the delay mate. Seems like Im doing everything at once at the moment and then just have a day where I do SFA like today!
Oh well...
>> Edited by DustyC on Friday 28th November 17:22
Have a look at www.ephotozine.com its a large site that allows you to host photos in your own album... very good site...
Haha Dave no, it's a whole lot easier than that - here, give it a try: www.text-image.com/convert/
i have a few knocking about here www.ballisticbanana.co.uk
I have a Nikon coolpix 4300 which i am still learning all about very slowely.
Also have a Canon EOS 1000f which i dont what half the settings are for
but can get some great quality pics from.
Simon
I have a Nikon coolpix 4300 which i am still learning all about very slowely.
Also have a Canon EOS 1000f which i dont what half the settings are for
but can get some great quality pics from. Simon
JAlbum is very good for image page generation. Does all the same stuff as that thumbnailer programme, but with a lot less fuss. All the image pages on my site are done using it.
The only criticism is that it doesn't have support for central style sheets and graphics, so you have to dig into the code if you want all your pages to refenence one set of layout information.
The only criticism is that it doesn't have support for central style sheets and graphics, so you have to dig into the code if you want all your pages to refenence one set of layout information.
Oooooh, didn't notice this forum appear until just now.
My hatstand.org gallery has some pictures which I'm quite pleased with, interspersed with stuff that's there 'cos friends wanted to see the pictures, rather than them being any good.
Surf, be nosey. Older pictures were taken with my old Kodak DC240, later ones with a Canon Powershot G2. I haven't taken many pictures with the EOS 300D yet, but will slam some up if I manage to take any worth sharing. If. I'm only now, with the 300D, getting to play with settings etc and find out what works, what doesn't in a given setting. I could be some time...
My hatstand.org gallery has some pictures which I'm quite pleased with, interspersed with stuff that's there 'cos friends wanted to see the pictures, rather than them being any good.
Surf, be nosey. Older pictures were taken with my old Kodak DC240, later ones with a Canon Powershot G2. I haven't taken many pictures with the EOS 300D yet, but will slam some up if I manage to take any worth sharing. If. I'm only now, with the 300D, getting to play with settings etc and find out what works, what doesn't in a given setting. I could be some time...
I use a Microsoft Digital Image Pro (Very simple package) for resampling my digital images before uploading to the web. As said before they are no good for printing as the resolution and size is specific for the web.
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