"P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pål Jensen wrote: > >> I plan to set up my own web page dedicated to my photography. >> I am a novice in web page design and everything associated with it. I >> need to know it all! >> Any tips you may have from design, software, web page provider, >> selling images over the net... whatever......will be welcomed. >> >Keep it simple, keep it simple, keep it simple. The more complex a web >site is the more annoying they can become.
I second that. I'd suggest hand coding basic main pages and generating gallery pages of photos using some simple automated software. All recent versions of Photoshop have been able to make photo gallery pages. If you don't have any of them, try something free like Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com/) or Web Album Generator (http://www.ornj.net/software/webalbum/index.html). HTML is really simple and easy to learn. For the basic pages and writing your own code you can pick up any one of a number of HTML books or look at the W3C page (http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp) or any of many other HTML how-to guides on line. Use a free text editor like EditPad (http://www.robertstech.com/files/editpad.zip) and you can do things like multi-page find-and-replace actions easily. Validate your code with the W3C on-line validator at http://www.w3schools.com/site/site_validate.asp Basic tips: Like P.J. says, keep it simple. Don't use frames. Don't use a lot of fonts, specify font size in percentage rather than point size to improve accessibility. Keep graphics to a minimum except for the photos you want to show. If you must use JavaScript keep it to a to a bare minimum and make sure the site functions without it. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
