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gords:

--- Quote from: "What happened was......." ---Don't know the first thing about HTML other than its confusing me  :?  I've heard of Dreamweaver, is that about the best software available? I'm used to working with Photoshop...
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HTML really isn't that difficult to learn the basics - gets a beginners book and work through it.

DreamWeaver is Professional quality, but also suitable for beginners/occasional users.

ImageReady comes with PhotoShop (CS2 ?) and can be used to create web pages directly from a PhotoShop image.

As was said elsewhere recently - do not use Word!!! :wink:

It would be worth your while to learn at least a little bit about HTML if you want to create your own web site. It pays to know what's actually going on and what it possible :)

Horness:

--- Quote from: "What happened was......." ---Thanks for your help. If I create my own website I think I would need to find some software to help me. Don't know the first thing about HTML other than its confusing me  :?  I've heard of Dreamweaver, is that about the best software available? I'm used to working with Photoshop, Maya and other graphic packages so its only the code side of things I would find difficult.

Copyright and permision wouldn't be an issue as its my own work. I suppose adult material is debatable with art but wouldn't consider any of my work as adult

Cheers
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Dreamweaver now comes with the option to have more of a beginners "Home Site" mode, or the more hardened "Developer" mode, depending on experience.  Seeing as it writes most of the code for you in the background, you only need to know the basics.

I have the Macromedia Studio MX For Dummies guide in PDF format.  If you want to download it (9.7Mb), I'll put it on my server, otherwise, PM me your address and I can put it on a CD for you, along with some other tools/guides that may be of use.

Horness

gords:

--- Quote from: "suzota" ---i pay to have it hosted on www.easyspace.com and you get a free domain name with them.
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You pay and and still get an EasySpace banner appear on your site?  :?

It's a good idea to look carefully at the T&C's of the various hosting companies. I recently had a customer who had to pay their ISP £45 + VAT to allow their domain/hosting to be transferred to us :shock:

Leigh:
Thanks everyone, some great advice and directions for me to look into. I have Image Ready but never really looked into it so I'll take a look this evening.

Is Dreamweaver an expensive program? I know some can be, any links to cheapo ones would be gratefull received

Cheers Horness, I have a high speed broadband so thats quite a small file size to what I'm used to

Thanks again

Tigger:

--- Quote from: "What happened was......." ---Thanks, mainly looking for a website to use as an online gallery for photgraphic work, paintings and sculptures. I'm guessing the features would be a gallery with the facilities to purchase pieces of art. I don't know anything about hosting so not sure about that.
Just at the idea stage for the moment, not sure if it would be worth doing

Cheers
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Right...

You are looking for something that will allow you to have a shopping cart facility on the site.   So, that takes it beyond the realms of standard html and some of the off-the-shelf creation packages.  (Although you can still use these to create other pages of the site and some of the look & feel)

There are any number of bits of shopping cart software about which may or may not do what you need.  I'll be totally honest and say that I can't recommend one since I don't use any :-)   A quick google will probably reveal something.  There is plenty of choice, so take some time and see what fits your needs and budgets.   Keep an eye out for English software as opposed to 'American'...  the tax calculations and terminology can be messy otherwise.

If you have artistic content, then I would say don't go mad with the design of the site itself, you don't want the content and presentation to be fighting with each other !


If you don't want the online purchasing aspects yet, then you can just crack on with something like Dreamweaver and build up some nice pages.   If you want something to produce online galleries of the work, then you can either do this manually, or once again, there are open-source packages which will do this sort of thing automatically.

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