Ok, seriously, this is for PC and Mac crowd . . .
I use Macromedia Studio. Dreamweaver is the web editor, and it uses fireworks to automate the process. After using FrontPage, and various other freeware webeditors, I decided that Dreamweaver is the best.
My .02,
IL Bill On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 03:59 AM, Frantisek Vlcek wrote:
Hi, I am trying to find a nice software that would help me with updating my website more often with my photographs. So something to automate the process of creating a page full of thumbnails linking to larger versions, and all highly customisable so I could make it look like the rest of my site, without too much afterediting. Preferably it would work with editable templates which I would first edit to match my site's style, and then not having to touch them. Also, it should be able to automatically resize the files to same size (for web, like 600*450), when I throw files of different sizes to it (6MP or 3MP scans, etc). Some of these programs just link to the original (BIG) file, which I surely don't want on the web for everybody!
I have tried few such programs, but found them lacking for reasons written below. If you would know about something else, please let me know! Thank you.
Few mini-reviews of what I have tried so far:
Photoshop's websheet - no customisation, too much work afterwards.
FotoStation PRO - highly customisable, but the software is bloated
& slow & not much user-friendly in interface. And sometimes it just mixes
the files. But it resizes the files better than others. I can just
throw at it a bunch of files of different size and it resizes them
all by a given criteria.
ThumbsPlus - similar to above, better but still the GUI is too much complex for what it does.
ACDSee v5 - no customisation at all, fast creation of web page, but without sub-pages (thumbnails just link you to image.jpg, not to a subpage with the image embedded). Also, doesn't resize the files for web!
PHP code solutions running on a remote server:
Coppermine Picture Gallery, NetGallery (?) - these two are all I could find.
They work reasonably well for what they were coded for - public albums from high number of people (e.g. something like our PUG). But making them into a one-person portfolio with my requirements requires actually rewriting or commenting out blocks of code from the source code files! And I am not a PHP programmer.
Well, I can except, after my requirements, just one answer - "write it yourself" ;-) But I hope the collective wisdom of PDML has found few others that I have missed that might work better.
Thanks!
Frantisek
Good light, Frantisek Vlcek
