Website building problems (1 Viewer)

stevo

Well-known member

• Jun 5, 2003

• #1

I recently decided to build my own website to display my digiscoped images,the problem i`ve run into is how do I enable my pictures to open in a larger window when their clicked on?I know nothing about HTML coding & I am using a serif website building package.Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Regards Stevo. 3 :t:

 

Ashley beolens

Breeding the next generation of birders.

• Jun 5, 2003

• #2

try
www.webmonkey.com

They have tips on HTML and other website building languages, worth a try.

 

IanF

Moderator

• Jun 5, 2003

• #3

Hi Stevo,

I used a Serif program to build my website, Page Plus 5 and then 7. I don't think they let you add your own HTML, but were a very easy web building tool if like me you have no idea about such things.

I used thumbanails in my site to click on to lead to larger images. I basically resized my photos as thumbails and put them on an index page and then used the same images at 640x480 optimised on a page of their own. You then simply add hyperlinks from the thumbnails to the page containing the full sized image. This hyperlinking feature comes under different drop down menus along the top of the screen, depending on which version you have.

I hope this helps.

 

stevo

Well-known member

• Jun 5, 2003

• #4

Brilliant thanks for your help,hopefully I will have the website up & running soon.

Regards Stevo.

 

walwyn

Well-known member

• Jun 5, 2003

• #5

You can download a freeware thumbnail creator, from minostudio. From what I've seen it seems to work quite well reducing the image footprint quite a bit. The attached thumb is 5k in size, whilst the original is 400K.

 

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stevo

Well-known member

• Jun 6, 2003

• #6

Thanks for the info Walwyn.

Regards Stevo.

 

Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Jun 6, 2003

• #7

I use a free thumbnail programme called
Easy Thumbnails which is easy to use and produces excellent results. It can be found here

I'll import one just to show:

 

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emc

Well-known member

• Jul 10, 2003

• #8

If anyone needs help in building a website check out this tutorial at http://www.webpages.ipfox.com

Bird T-Shirts Etc.
http://www.studionet.2ya.com/bluejay.html

 

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jakobs

Well-known member

• Jul 10, 2003

• #9

On my website I use javascript to open windows without creating a new html form for each picture. I have one function which takes parameters (path to picture, english title, icelandic title,...)for each picture on the main pages and shows it in a pop-up window.

All my bird pics are presented that way. If you like you can copy the source code from my site:

see:
www.simnet.is/jakobs
and click on the 'birds' link.


p.s. any comments on the page appreciated

 

Richard Ford

BF Member

• Jul 10, 2003

• #10

Hi All


Firstly if you can get yourself a copy of Dreamweaver, do it.
I have not read the manual, but I have found it pretty quick and easy to pick up being quite windows friendly, copy and paste, drag and drop, insert image, make link etc, and it writes the HTML for you. I first looked into building a site just over a year ago, I still know very little, but I have build this http://www.digitalwildlife.co.uk mostly using Dreamweaver. A lot of companies that will host your site have a built in web building tool, which is a good place to start, such as Lycos and Yahoo.


There are some free WebPage building downloads; one I have used prior to getting dreamweaver is arachnophilia
Another useful tool for saving thumbnails of your images and a useful tool generally is irfanview , it even has a few sharpening tools and other effects incorporated into it, it’s a small download and its still free I think. Though get PhotoShop if you can.

I hope that is useful

Rich

 

robinm

Registered User

• Jul 10, 2003

• #11

Even Photoshop Elements v1 has an automatic web page builder. See File, automate, web photo gallery. Quite a few cameras come with this free.

 

Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Jul 10, 2003

• #12

Originally posted by jakobs

p.s. any comments on the page appreciated

Click to expand...

Very nice :t:
I liked the photo of the arctic tern in particular--I thought it was a skimmer at first.

PS I started with Netscape Composer, which is not bad for a free web composer. Dreamweaver is pretty expensive, I believe. I quite enjoy doing some HTML coding, though you have to be careful.

 

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Karl J

Well-known member

• Jul 10, 2003

• #13

Surreybirder said:

Dreamweaver is pretty expensive, I believe.

Click to expand...

I'd guess the latest version is but I've had one now for a couple of years, which came free on the front cover of a computer magazine. So easy to use and I'm no expert but am pretty sure it does all what's been asked of in this thread. Orig ran on Windows 98 but now runs fine on XP.

So it may be worth looking for a older version if you want to save some cash.

 

Richard Ford

BF Member

• Jul 11, 2003

• #14

You can, I believe download a 30day trail version too.

 

marek_walford

Well-known member

• Jul 11, 2003

• #15

Hi,

Making an image open in a new window is very easy:

Create a link tag, put the image tag inside it and set the target to "_blank".

<a href="#" target="_blank"><img src="mypicture.jpg" border=0></a>

Cheers,
Marek Walford