aniMal
Well-known
A simple approach
A simple approach
If you need nothing more than something to navigate with, you could have a look at using lightbox in some variant.
CSS is perhaps the most useful thing to learn properly first, and you could then integrate any design on top of the lightbox itself.
The HTML could then be a simple list of images, or you could get some small script to parse the images out in order. Just wrote something like this myself, which picks up pictures and thumbnails from folder which I ftp/upload images into. I all came to 5-6 lines of code in php, the rest is lightbox and CSS.
If you use this approach, you could also easily make any content show - just make a .jpeg of it and upload it.
I have been searching for a real simple gallery system for years now, and ended up with this very simplistic approach. The good thing is also that all the uploaded images are sorted in folders, and it is then easy to build another system on top of it if I should chooses to.
I am also sure that there are scripts out there rendering the same content as flash, so you could have it both ways eventually!
The lightbox clone I chose this time is called slimbox, seems to be configurable and easy to work with.
Good luck anyway, getting started on webdesign/development is bewildering, but gives you the award of being in control yourself!
A simple approach
If you need nothing more than something to navigate with, you could have a look at using lightbox in some variant.
CSS is perhaps the most useful thing to learn properly first, and you could then integrate any design on top of the lightbox itself.
The HTML could then be a simple list of images, or you could get some small script to parse the images out in order. Just wrote something like this myself, which picks up pictures and thumbnails from folder which I ftp/upload images into. I all came to 5-6 lines of code in php, the rest is lightbox and CSS.
If you use this approach, you could also easily make any content show - just make a .jpeg of it and upload it.
I have been searching for a real simple gallery system for years now, and ended up with this very simplistic approach. The good thing is also that all the uploaded images are sorted in folders, and it is then easy to build another system on top of it if I should chooses to.
I am also sure that there are scripts out there rendering the same content as flash, so you could have it both ways eventually!
The lightbox clone I chose this time is called slimbox, seems to be configurable and easy to work with.
Good luck anyway, getting started on webdesign/development is bewildering, but gives you the award of being in control yourself!
nathanp
Established
One quick hint - Doing all the text as images will mean that screen readers used by the visually impaired won't work, and the text won't be readable to search engines etc. There are some clever tricks to do image replacement on this page - http://css-tricks.com/css-image-replacement/
reuno
Log out, go shoot.
Pipho is a nice and easy to set up gallery built for iPhone viewving. That's what I use on http://touch.rcoilliot.net. I added a simple code to redirect visitors to this subdomains, works well imo.
Pickett Wilson
Veteran
I'm not sure it's important to make a photo website accessible to the visually impaired.
Jamie123
Veteran
I appreciate the help but, as Pickett Wilson says, there is no point in making a photo website accessible for the visually impaired. I can't see how a blind person would have any interest in visiting my website. The only text on the website will be words like "portfolio", "contact" "previous", "next", etc. which also renders the point about readability for search engines moot.
Pickett Wilson
Veteran
Just put some text at the top of the page that says, "Greatest Photo Website In The Universe!" That's what you want the search spyders to find, anyway. 