Port folio website suggestions

Smithy

Smithy

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I was approached by someone asking me if I could build them a website. It's very basic, perhaps just a collection of photographs organised into some sort of structure. He requires no fancy flash animations or interactivity. The site exists only to showcase his welding and fabrication.

What would be required is the ability for him to upload pictures and easily form them into a new category or section of the site. Since the person has no HTML knowledge it needs to be very easy for them.

My first thoughts were to use a CMS, perhaps PHPNuke. I could modify it to exclude most of the modules, and install a port folio module of some kind so that the client could log in, upload their photos, fill out the necessary fields and have the module build the page for him. A quick lesson on how to do so might be all that's needed.

Perhaps a CMS is a bit OTT though. Is there a php/asp script of some kind that can do what I'm after? I know of a few gallery scripts, but I'm not sure if any would allow the user to upload new pictures and categorise them automatically.

Suggestions welcome.
 
Could you just have an images section, with an upload button -

Select Upload - Click Browse - Find Picture - Upload?
 
it's a fairly straightforward make in php or asp, whether it's simpler for you to strip down a cms (there are photo focused ones you could use) or to build one up from scratch depends on your ability and what else you might want from it I suppose.
 
Ciphon said:
Could you just have an images section, with an upload button -

Select Upload - Click Browse - Find Picture - Upload?
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The problem is not so much the uploading of the pictures, more how to make the structuring and categorising of the pictures as easy and automatic as possible.
 
Abraham said:
it's a fairly straightforward make in php or asp, whether it's simpler for you to strip down a cms (there are photo focused ones you could use) or to build one up from scratch depends on your ability and what else you might want from it I suppose.
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My php knowledge is weak at best. I do know my way around a CMS though, it's looking the more favourable option at this stage.
 
check out something like coppermine (I know there are better out there but that's the only one i've used) php mysql driven gallery, very customisable
 
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