Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Charles, I would caution you to think twice before you build your website as a collection of static pages, or HTML files. Back in 1995, I came up with a product called "iBasic", which evolved into what the world knows today as Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP is built into Windows NT, 2000, and XP. A company called Chilisoft made versions of ASP for a variety of UNIX variants as well as Linux, and is now owned by Sun. See http://www.chilisoft.com/ and http://www.asp.net/ ASP is a great time saver for photo websites. For example, let's say you have 100 images you wish to display, 10 to a "light table" page. With regular (static) HTML, that means creating 10 separate pages. Now, supposing next week, you'd like to make a change to your light table page. That means going back to each and every one of those 10 pages and making the exact same change. Certain programs like GoLive and Dreamweaver will do that for you in a "brute force" way, but with ASP, you simply make a change to a single script and the change would appear on all 10 pages, because each of the 10 pages are built dynamically, at the time of the request, from the same script. Just imagine...if you had 1000 images, then you'd be faced with managing 100 html pages that do the exact same thing, but with different images! I don't want to say alot more than this on the list, since we are veering off topic here, so give me a shout offline if you want more info. Depending on your hosting service, ASP usually doesn't cost anything extra. Many hosting services, such as http://www.interland.com offer it as part of thier basic packages for ~$25/mo or so. There's nothing to set up on your side either. You just write your scripts, ftp them to the server as usual, and run them just as you would any HTML page. All you need is a simple text editor! O'Reilly make a couple of great guides to ASP: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspnut2/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/designasp/ - --Jim - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Pope" <mark.teampope@ntlworld.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo Web Site Software > Dear Charles, > > FWIW, I use notepad and write 'raw' HTML. With the aid of a decent book, it > is fairly straight forward. I have two - one that is called 'learn HTML in > 10 minutes' (or at least I think that's the title - the book is out on loan > at the moment) and the most useful one that I have found is the O'Reilly > HTML pocket reference. > > HTML isn't really difficult, unless you want to do complicated things with > it. But then I feel that a simple approach often works best anyway. Too > many bells and whistles just spoil a site in my view. > > Well, that's my 10p worth. > > > Have fun! > > Regards > > Mark Pope > Swindon, Wilts > UK > > http://www.monomagic.co.uk > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles W. Hehl" <cwh@fast.net> > To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: 28 September 2001 01:06 > Subject: [Leica] Photo Web Site Software > > > > Can anyone recommend a fairly easy to use software for setting up a photo > > website. I continue to be impressed with many of the Lug member sites. > > Thanks > > Charles > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html