Website Stuff - Need somethign easy to update

DampCat

DampCat

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Currently on my site i'm using Highslide. It works fine but i know very little about HTML/Javascript and I'm getting a tonne of injection scripts.

Additionally, it's a massive pain to update. For every photo i add, i need to edit the Gallery page with this:

Code: 
<a href="gallery/_MG_6677.jpg" class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this)"><img src="gallery/_MG_6677_thumb.jpg" width="67" height="67" title="Click to Enlarge" /></a>

It's a bit of a pain having to upload two version then manually edit the HTML.

Is there something else I can use? I dont really want to be using Instagram or Flickr, I want to continue using my own website and domain, but I really would rather have a click to upload system, or something.

Can it be done? Or am I asking for the best of both worlds :/
 
Simple Viewer looks great, and its easy to make a gallery, but it doesnt publish directly to my site. i still seem to have to edit the gallery page html, as far as i understand anyways. Is that correct?
 
DampCat said:
Simple Viewer looks great, and its easy to make a gallery, but it doesnt publish directly to my site. i still seem to have to edit the gallery page html, as far as i understand anyways. Is that correct?
Click to expand...

It depends how you use it, but it you use it with flickr you just need to upload the images and tag them it nessersary.
 
http://www.pixelpost.org/

I used to use it, some really nice templates out there and extremely easy to upload and tag your photos.

I use simpleviewer now though as I wanted my own design from scratch and I couldn't be bothered to learn how to theme pixelpost.
 
Lovely, thanks for the links guys.

Ive gone with SimpleViewer, but the gallery wont fit in my current CSS layout. Since i know bugger all about CSS, im just going to abandon the whole thing and let the website lapse into non-existence.
 
Totally agree with SS. I've built 3 sites as a complete beginner using the WordPress method. Granted once I get started with something ibaleays make sure I get really stuck in, but WordPress is great. Am I allowed to post my photography website or not?
 
Can I add the simpleviewer gallery into the wordpress site using the embed code it generates? Love how the SV Gallery looks.

Edit: Yes.

also mr tommo, link. It's not advertising.
 
www.paololoraso.com was my first one. Went with that theme mainly because the ecommerce is simply brilliant on there. Allows to sell photos online, a lot better than the standard Wordpress plugins for selling photos. Also our client areas can all be password protected and it can upload 99 photos at a time. The keele graduation thing is only temporary. Our sub dye printer broke after the second print of the night so had to point everyone to our site to order photos instead so made sure it was easy for them to find.

Www.kandlphotography.co.uk was my second build. Just love the look of this one. Still working on the seo and writing as I left that up to someone else to do. For example the front page text that you can expand needs altering as I was just testing some seo techniques. Again this has a client area which we found excellent on the last dance school job we did.

Www.commercialphotographystaffordshire.co.uk was the last one. More of a text based site, it's for the same company but allows us to be right at the top of google for commercial photography searches in our area.
 
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