I just recently got Adobe Dreamweaver cs3 and i need to make a website for my photography business including a photogallery (preferably flash) but i have no idea where to start, ive been looking for free templates and found some that are okay looking but non flash, and they do not include a photogallery. So is there a way to add a gallery and would i need another program like flash. And if i wanted to have the whole site flash, could i do it in dreamweaver as well? if so, where could i find a free flash template to work off of.
ive tried looking into some people building one but its been wayyy too expensive, but ill try the sites that was given! and im gonna go with you pete h, and stay away from the flash. i want to try finding a pre made template and modifying it, but i haven’t came across one that had a good look.
*all i want is a simple home page with an about us,contact,and a portfolio link and the portfolio to have like 3 seperate groups for albums(weddings,people,children.etc)
Nothing too complicated, just a really simple smooth look, that doesn’t look amateur.
^and i would also need to know how to upload and manage the pictures.. cuz i have no idea where to begin
any suggestions?! i have about a week or so..
and i dont wanna pay for something that i could maybe do myself.
Yikes…whole site as flash? That is an accessibility nightmare..
Granted, you probably don’t have to worry about blind people coming to a photography site, but you definately don’t want to exclude the people who disable flash (IE disables it by default).
As a professional designer, I spend a lot of my time talking about the cons of using flash in a webpage…
Anyway…
Templates are your friend. There are some scripts out there for photo galleries that will help, but to be honest, a photography site should also have a content management system involved, if you plan to update it more than weekly.
Depending on where your site is hosted, you might have some content management systems pre-loaded in your control panel.
If you have no experience designing a site though, you might very well be in over your head. If you have a lot of time to get it up and running, buy a dreamweaver book or two (lynda.com’s Hand’s On Training by Chow is a great starter book, and it will introduce you to CSS, a crucial aspect of contemporary web design).
If you want it up asap though…you should consider hiring a pro. Getting a CMS is one thing, customizing it is an entirely different ballpark. If you are doing this for professional purposes, finding a professional is what you want to do. Your Dreamweaver purchase will not be for nothing though…as you can at least be your own webmaster.
Try freelance finder sites like guru.com, elance.com and rentacoder.com to get bids on a job.
March 11th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Yikes…whole site as flash? That is an accessibility nightmare..
Granted, you probably don’t have to worry about blind people coming to a photography site, but you definately don’t want to exclude the people who disable flash (IE disables it by default).
As a professional designer, I spend a lot of my time talking about the cons of using flash in a webpage…
Anyway…
Templates are your friend. There are some scripts out there for photo galleries that will help, but to be honest, a photography site should also have a content management system involved, if you plan to update it more than weekly.
Depending on where your site is hosted, you might have some content management systems pre-loaded in your control panel.
If you have no experience designing a site though, you might very well be in over your head. If you have a lot of time to get it up and running, buy a dreamweaver book or two (lynda.com’s Hand’s On Training by Chow is a great starter book, and it will introduce you to CSS, a crucial aspect of contemporary web design).
If you want it up asap though…you should consider hiring a pro. Getting a CMS is one thing, customizing it is an entirely different ballpark. If you are doing this for professional purposes, finding a professional is what you want to do. Your Dreamweaver purchase will not be for nothing though…as you can at least be your own webmaster.
Try freelance finder sites like guru.com, elance.com and rentacoder.com to get bids on a job.
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March 11th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Dreamweaver has a gallery feature that provides clickable thumbnails.
I’m sure there are some good Flash galleries too, and if you find the right one, you most likely won’t need the Flash authoring software, as long as you didn’t want to modify the basic framework.
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March 11th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
First off if you dont have any prior experience with building websites its gonna be hard to do all that you want. It takes a lot of time to learn how to make a good website not to mention learn all the intricacies of dreamweaver. I myself dont have much experience so Im telling you what I have gone through. I would suggest that since this is not a hobby site but rather one for your business that you might want to look into getting your site built for you. It would be exactly what you want and the costs of having a professional site done for you have really gone down.
Wish you the best of luck!
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