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Title: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: makenzie71 on February 07, 2008, 10:24:41 PM
Well I just suck at HTML but can't really afford to have someone put us anything together.  Would anyone like to help us get a website setup to show off Kalee's photography?  It's nothing complex...just a main page with links to some contact info and a couple galleries.  Any takers?  I'll buy you a beer...
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: scottpA_GS on February 08, 2008, 07:08:43 PM
I can help  :thumb: Do you have a domain registered? how about a host?
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: makenzie71 on February 08, 2008, 10:43:42 PM
Oh yeah it's the same thing we have our photoartclub.net site setup on, but with a different domain (kaleesphotography.com).  She put together a basic home page but we don't know how to do much beyond that.
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: annguyen1981 on February 08, 2008, 10:47:36 PM
If you have Microsoft Word, you can make decent pages.
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: CndnMax on February 08, 2008, 11:23:05 PM
Quote from: annguyen1981 on February 08, 2008, 10:47:36 PM
If you have Microsoft Word, you can make decent pages.
yeah but word adds a bunch of crap that u don't need, just look up some tutorials on the Internet. I've created a few pages from scratch using notepad. For some complicated stuff dreamweaver works great( to bad I don't have it on my comp)
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: spc on February 08, 2008, 11:26:16 PM
You can find pretty good tutorials for almost anything these days.  I found one for hacking admin status on Vbulletin from a quick search on youtube.
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: zephler on February 09, 2008, 12:16:09 AM
Quote from: CndnMax on February 08, 2008, 11:23:05 PM

yeah but word adds a bunch of crap that u don't need, just look up some tutorials on the Internet. I've created a few pages from scratch using notepad. For some complicated stuff dreamweaver works great( to bad I don't have it on my comp)

:thumb: notepad is the way to go once you know the basics

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Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: makenzie71 on February 09, 2008, 09:47:24 AM
I used to use dreamweaver for a lot but I no longer have access to it (and it's crazy expensive).  I've piddled a bit with HTML but I just can't really seem to figure out how to get it to work with me most of the time.  Anyone know of any freeware wev programs that are dreamweaver-esque?
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: annguyen1981 on February 11, 2008, 09:15:50 AM
Quote from: makenzie71 on February 09, 2008, 09:47:24 AM
I used to use dreamweaver for a lot but I no longer have access to it (and it's crazy expensive).  I've piddled a bit with HTML but I just can't really seem to figure out how to get it to work with me most of the time.  Anyone know of any freeware wev programs that are dreamweaver-esque?

PM sent.. :)
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: frankieG on February 11, 2008, 11:10:46 AM
this may sound odd...but i am not good at setting up web sites but i am great on making them look good and user friendly.  if you want i can offer that to you
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: makenzie71 on February 11, 2008, 07:15:08 PM
Thanks an!

I'll keep the offer in mind, frankie...we'll be looking for lots of feedback and suggestions after we get a working site up.
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: zukiGS500 on February 11, 2008, 08:19:23 PM
If you want to lay out the pages in photoshop or something I could code something up for you. Work sent me to a bunch of html, css and flash classes but haven't given me anything to work on yet and i've been itching to finally do something.
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: scottpA_GS on February 13, 2008, 05:30:24 PM

??? I offered to help, even PMed ya  :cookoo: Seems its not that important to you.
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: makenzie71 on February 13, 2008, 05:58:40 PM
awwwwww it's ok scott.  I saw ya.  I don't get to surf much at the moment.  I might have snagged me a copy of dreamweaver...if I can get that then I'm in good hands.  A flash site would be extra pimp, though...
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: scottpA_GS on February 13, 2008, 08:32:26 PM
 :icon_mrgreen: :thumb:
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: ohgood on February 14, 2008, 06:05:47 AM
Quote from: makenzie71 on February 13, 2008, 05:58:40 PM
awwwwww it's ok scott.  I saw ya.  I don't get to surf much at the moment.  I might have snagged me a copy of dreamweaver...if I can get that then I'm in good hands.  A flash site would be extra pimp, though...

Please, if you're set on flash, follow some UI tutorials for making usable sites. THere are so many that, well, suck to use.
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: TheGoodGuy on February 14, 2008, 07:54:36 PM
I use something called "Simple Viewer".. it allows you to prevent right click save .. it will take as many pictures as you can put at it, however they say limit it to 50 per gallery due to load times.

Otherwise there is coppermine and stuff (GStwins uses coppermine)..That reminds me i need to log into the gallery. Its been eons.

I use www.hostpc.com but there are other webhosts that are good.
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: CndnMax on February 15, 2008, 07:00:28 PM
it's pretty hard to prevent saving pictures when they load em in the temp int files   ;)
Title: Re: Would anyone like to volunteer to help us set up a website?
Post by: ohgood on February 17, 2008, 05:52:00 PM
fuggetaboutit.

you cannot prevent piracy, copyright infringement, or copying of anything viewed in a browser, played on a player, etc.

you can provide tiny pictures, or very low quality, or even watermarked pictures, but that kinda sucks, and doesn't make people want to pay.

just like cndnmax said, anything can be cached. :)

er, ok, you could encrypt the images and provide only very small thumbnails (48x48) or so the potential customer gets an idea, but then you're getting into support...... ugh.

good luck :)