Making an online portfolio

benneh · 7 Feb 2007 at 23:48

Not too shabby. I don't like the folder icons though, and the colour schemes not to my liking (too much OcUK me thinks). Is it easy to upload and control dude?.

yak.h'cir · 8 Feb 2007 at 00:08

Wile E. Coyote said:
Just had a quick look, some really nice pictures, love the China ones. Like the look and links on the site easy on the eye and the navigation is simple, big thumbs up

Thank you very much!

benneh said:
Not too shabby. I don't like the folder icons though, and the colour schemes not to my liking (too much OcUK me thinks). Is it easy to upload and control dude?.

I had it stuck on the ocuk style theme and couldnt for the life of me find how to change it! Was driving me mad... sorted now though.

It's a big of a nightmare to use at first. But thats cos i have no knowledge of html etc. But once you get used to the gallery software you find you can get away with not knowing much. There are loads of guides and templates about so you can get a basic one and tune it to your liking!

yak.h'cir · 8 Feb 2007 at 00:12

haha, spoke to soon, its all gone horrible wrong!

alexisonfire · 8 Feb 2007 at 00:45

I've been looking for some webspace for a while now, decided to use dreamhost..trying to create it now, but its saying every domain i try is taken. Im checking other domain sites and they are saying its available. :confused:

yak.h'cir · 8 Feb 2007 at 01:06

Thats odd, worked on my second try.

alexisonfire · 8 Feb 2007 at 01:41

Well i've finally found a name that wasn't taken! Just waiting for everything to be activated now, apparently the domain can take up to 12hours?

yak.h'cir · 8 Feb 2007 at 02:26

Think thats just to cover themselves. Mine was useable within about 10mins.

robmiller · 8 Feb 2007 at 02:32

Domain name propagation takes a matter of minutes nowadays

alexisonfire · 8 Feb 2007 at 02:55

Yeah its all up and running now, i'm going to be making the whole site by hardcoding html so its going to take a while! *Runs to notepad*

I'll post the finish result in a few days

yak.h'cir · 8 Feb 2007 at 03:33

Sounds fun!

alexisonfire · 8 Feb 2007 at 03:43

No its really not!

Hours and hours of typing lines and lines of code into notepad. The only reason i do it is because of the simplicity and the amount of control i have.

unknowndomain · 8 Feb 2007 at 10:03

I duno if its been suggested but robmiller from this very webite has created a very cool gallery program which you will find at ... http://robm.me.uk/projects/simplegal/

morgan · 8 Feb 2007 at 13:07

i'm getting an error with that site...

alexisonfire · 8 Feb 2007 at 13:15

Im using simpleviewer at the moment, its very easy to customize aswell. Website will have to wait, off to work!

robmiller · 8 Feb 2007 at 14:12

morgan said:
i'm getting an error with that site...

I was playing, sorry

alexisonfire · 8 Feb 2007 at 22:36

Bah, im having some trouble changing the layout on my simpleviewer. I make the changes and it works locally on my PC, but as soon as i upload it, it returns back to how it looked as default. Which i can't even see is possible because the html & xml i uploaded are for the new layout, not the old. So where is it finding all the old code from? :confused:

alexisonfire · 8 Feb 2007 at 23:38

Hmm.. its working now, that was odd :confused:

Anyway, I've finished the template for the site, still a few bugs left, and yes im aware that it looks terrible in 1024x768 resolution and also looks bad on IE. I will fix it

But for those with 1280x1024 and firefox heres how far i've got so far:

http://www.msxphotography.com

Even though i planned this to be only the template, im kind of liking the simplistic look.

yak.h'cir · 9 Feb 2007 at 00:41

Mines back up and running again finally. I don't know what made it die last night but hopefully it won't happen again!

www.rjkay.com

yak.h'cir · 9 Feb 2007 at 00:45

alexisonfire said:
Hmm.. its working now, that was odd

Anyway, I've finished the template for the site, still a few bugs left, and yes im aware that it looks terrible in 1024x768 resolution and also looks bad on IE. I will fix it

But for those with 1280x1024 and firefox heres how far i've got so far:

http://www.msxphotography.com

Even though i planned this to be only the template, im kind of liking the simplistic look.

Wow! That really is shaping up to be a quality website! I take it all those fancy things that happen on mouse over are a bit tricky to do?

EDIT
So focused on website rubbish that I forgot to mention how great the photos were! I especially like the Ferrero Rocher idea, i'll probably steal that one! Well any excuse to buy some chocolate!

alexisonfire · 9 Feb 2007 at 01:07

yak.h'cir said:
Wow! That really is shaping up to be a quality website! I take it all those fancy things that happen on mouse over are a bit tricky to do?

EDIT
So focused on website rubbish that I forgot to mention how great the photos were! I especially like the Ferrero Rocher idea, i'll probably steal that one! Well any excuse to buy some chocolate!

Thanks, and the menu wasn't actually that hard. I just made some images in paintshop pro (the ones that don't move). And made the moving ones in animation shop. Then using some html + javascript you can turn them into mouse over buttons.

If you knew anything about html, you could probably just copy the code i used and adapted it to fit your needs.

Heres the javascript:

Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
	<!-- Begin
	image1 = new Image();
	image1.src = "homeon.jpg";

	image2 = new Image();
	image2.src = "portfolioon.jpg";

	image3 = new Image();
	image3.src = "msboardon.jpg";

	// End -->
	</script>

And heres an example of htlm code i used for one of the buttons:

Code:

<a href="homeframe.html" target="iframe1" onmouseover="image1.src='homeon.gif';" onmouseout="image1.src='homeoff.jpg';">
<img name="image1" src="homeoff.jpg" border=0></a>