Setting up a Photography Website

superflyninja

Im kinda looking at setting up a website for myself and was hoping to ganre soem expertise from you lot.
Anybody know of a good cheap/almost free hosting service?
Site building software? (ive used dreamweaver but Id rather something quicker.)
Thanks

sheesh

Cheap hosting shouldn't be a problem just go with one of the american hosters just make sure that they are fast enough. for fast and cheap you could go with a content managment system like joomla or drupal they have lots of free themes to change the look of the site so as long as you don't mind your site looking like someone elses you will be up and ready in a few minutes. now all you have to do is fill it with text! and images.

superflyninja

sheesh wrote: »

Cheap hosting shouldn't be a problem just go with one of the american hosters just make sure that they are fast enough. for fast and cheap you could go with a content managment system like joomla or drupal they have lots of free themes to change the look of the site so as long as you don't mind your site looking like someone elses you will be up and ready in a few minutes. now all you have to do is fill it with text! and images.

cool.thanks.know of any good flash authoring packages?
ah your from tralee....just like me!!!

PaulieC

flash is so last year. Silverlight is where it's at these days. check out the memorabilia section on www.hardrockcafe.com

kjt

I was with these guys a few years back and they where really good. I'm currently hosted in Ireland as this will help with SERP's.

You could find some nice plugins for wordpress and that's nice & easy to setup.

Regarding Flash, if you don't know how to do it yourself or aren't willing to pay for a very good programmer/designer to do you up a site in it, stay away. Flash is something that only looks good if done properly. Also it's not very accessible and I find it a pain in the ass tbh. Almost 90% of the time I will leave a flash site withing 5 seconds unless I'm impressed.

grainne.obrien

Re: using something like Silvelight, which is something that requires the viewer to install software, similar to flash. Alot of people who are unfamilaiar with installing software will choose not to view the site. So it isn't always the best way to go

Deliverance XXV

If you want hassle free work definitely go with Wordpress. It extremely easy to edit the PHP files and there are hundreds of themes and plugins out there.

If you know your Dreamweaver, why not just build your own one? Apart from Dreamweaver's speed (which ain't that bad), wouldn't you rather have something you built yourself?

ShaneM

superflyninja wrote: »

Im kinda looking at setting up a website for myself and was hoping to ganre soem expertise from you lot.
Anybody know of a good cheap/almost free hosting service?
Site building software? (ive used dreamweaver but Id rather something quicker.)
Thanks

If you're looking for someting simple & quick, I used iWeb on my Mac & had it done in one night. PM me if you'd like to have a look at my efforts.

stcstc

my site is built in iweb, not finished and not anything serious, but works


issue with iweb is that it converts everything into images, including the text

Isar

Hi. www.clikpic.com is very cheap, and easy to use. And you basically build the website on the internet. Thats were i build mine. Have a look at it if you want guys and tell me what you think. www.isarphotography.com

stcstc

there is also photium too, they are like clickpic, but i think they are based in uk

Isar

and i think clikpic is based in uk as well...

Phototoxin

I did mine on iweb

superflyninja

cheers for the tips guys ill check into it.(as for iweb im not on a mac). any of ye sell from yer sites?

kjt

superflyninja wrote: »

cheers for the tips guys ill check into it.(as for iweb im not on a mac). any of ye sell from yer sites?

Here's a thread for ya

440Hz

superflyninja wrote: »

ah your from tralee....just like me!!!

and me

grainne.obrien wrote: »

Re: using something like Silvelight, which is something that requires the viewer to install software, similar to flash. Alot of people who are unfamilaiar with installing software will choose not to view the site. So it isn't always the best way to go

Precisely. Well said.

stcstc wrote: »

issue with iweb is that it converts everything into images, including the text

Again, spot on. The file structure of the folder that iWeb produces is an absolute nightmare. Also as stcstc pointed out it converts everything into images which means that your site will certainly not be search engine friendly.

I love all things Mac, but iWeb... steer clear if you want to create a serious site.

Cabaal

iweb creates nice enough looking stuff but as already noted its html layout and the way it treates images and text is just ****e, shame really

440Hz

It is a shame!! As you said, the look of the resulting websites in iWeb is not bad at all, and its user friendly, quick and easy. But not web-friendly in the slightest and most definitely not developer friendly. Biggest code nightmare you could imagine, stuff all over the gaf!

superflyninja

hmmmmmmmm thanks all.....i may just write an artistically minimalist(barebones->low effort) site......so for a hosting/url provider.....(no site creation needed) any CHEAP reliable suggestions?

Neo1xp

If your going to host your site i would go with webhostingpad.com they are cheap and their hosting accounts have loads of space unlike godaddy, their support is also good. I got good deal that i can host all my sites and it cost like 200 dollars for 2 years. you can see the features they have here
http://www.webhostingpad.com/hosting-features.html

As far as building a site use joomla , its a great CMS and easy to use, you can get lots of templates for it and many plugins and its free

Hope this helps

sheesh

superflyninja wrote: »

cool.thanks.know of any good flash authoring packages?
ah your from tralee....just like me!!!

yep Hi!

no don't know of any free ware that are good for flash

I know that opensource packages exist that produce .swf files but have never got round to trying them out.

charybdis

cambo_gueno wrote: »

flash is so last year. Silverlight is where it's at these days. check out the memorabilia section on www.hardrockcafe.com

You have got to be faecesing me.