Website creation

[MagnusAgrenPhotography]

Anyone know a good tutorial to make a decent website?

i wanna make one for my photography....

and would like it to look professional..

[ricktas]

I would recommend getting a copy of Dreamweaver and some good books on it.

[Fez]

Hi Magnus

Rick mentioned Dreamweaver, which is an excellent package but has a fair learning curve, which I am in the middle of. My only thought is what capacity do you want your site to be? Although Dreamweaver will handle it you may end up spending much more on the storage space through a commercial web site.

Can I suggest you have a look at Phanfare (see my link below). It has unlimited storage and the site can be configured to be quite proffessional. You can even set it up so that clients can purchase through the site.

I first found it through a couple of photogs that were promoted on fredmiranda.com and have been very happy with it to date.

Only a suggestion - have a look and make up your own mind.

[mpot]

It really depends what sort of a website you're intending to build.

If it's just a blog, then blogger is probably the quickest and easiest way to do it.

Alternatively, if you want a photo gallery, then a website hosting Gallery2 is a great way to go.

If you're intending to sell photos, then RedBubble are intending to provide functionality to allow you to have a customisable site on a subdomain (ie, martybugs.redbubble.com or similar).

If you can provide more info about your requirements (and your current experience with web development / programming), we'll be in a better position to provide some recommendations.

(I'm a software engineer, so I wrote website and photo gallery from scratch in Perl, but that's not an option for everyone....)

Cheers,
Martin.

[MagnusAgrenPhotography]

yer sorry..

i want a site to sell photo's..

i want it professional and not running from somewhere else...

so yer..

marty, my skills arent great, but i am willing to give stuff a go, but know bit of html, css, java, c++...

mmm

but each is limited..

something similar to www.kenduncan.com

is my thoughts...

[Charmed]

Also might be worth looking @ 4images & JAlbum

[mpot]

yer sorry..

i want a site to sell photo's..

If you want an integrated shopping basket / checkout facility, then it can get complex...as you need to integrate it into the rest of the site.

I'd recommend you have a look at the various free CMS solutions available, such as Drupal.
The CMS solutions typically have many plugins available for extending the functionality, including adding photo galleries, comments, shopping basket, etc.

Cheers,
Martin.