[missJacquixx]

Hi everyone, I wonder if somebody can help me out on this problem.
I am in the middle of building my partner a website using a website creator site called 123-reg. It is for showing off his photography and hopefully building it into a business some day. I have created a couple of photo gallerys in photoshop elements 5 which look great and I would like to get the galleries onto the 'Galleries' page of his website so it looks more proffessional. I can insert links into the page but I cannot for the life of me work out how I get those galleries in elements 5 into the web page. I am fairly new to this so please explain clearly...thanks
Jacqui

[missJacquixx]

Thanks for helping me guys!!!!!!!

[evilfantasy]

What options are given to enter the photos?

[dr john]

We could start with the obvious - has photoshop elements 5 created a web page to show the photos? If so, ftp the page(s) and images to the site, remembering to duplicate the folder structure.

PS 123-reg is not a web site creation site, it's a major domain registar. It also offers web hosting and an online page creator.

[missJacquixx]

Hi and thankyou...I was beginning to think I was alone in here....

It opens a box and I can then enter a URL in the box. I have the Gallery saved as an HTML document on my computer and am I right in thinking I have to host the gallery somewhere on the web for the link in my page to work? Someone has mentioned an ftp client??
Jacqui

[missJacquixx]

Originally Posted by dr john We could start with the obvious - has photoshop elements 5 created a web page to show the photos? If so, ftp the page(s) and images to the site, remembering to duplicate the folder structure. PS 123-reg is not a web site creation site, it's a major domain registar. It also offers web hosting and an online page creator.

Photoshop saves various files to do with the gallery in my c drive on my pc, one of which is a HTML doc. I f I open this file I can view the gallery. Ive heard about ftp-ing before but am not quite sure what this is or how to do it. ( i am new at this)
What do you mean by 'duplicating' the folder structure?

What is the difference between a web site creation site and an on-line page creator? I was under the impression I can build my whole site on there and publish it to the web? Is this not so?

[evilfantasy]

123-reg is a registrar. They sell domain names among other tools.

An online page creator that you can customize and publish (with multiple pages) is something like
Google Page Creator which I use.

Here is one of my pages http://evilfantasy.googlepages.com/smitfraudfix

You can change the colors and so on.

[dr john]

FTPing is how you transfer files from your computer to your web space. There are specialist programs that do this, but some web design program like Dreamweaver have their own built in ftp program which has been designed specifically for web design. (FTP has other uses too)

As for duplicating the folder structure, if your html file is a in a folder called xyz
and within that folder there are other folders containing your files eg xyz/images or xyz/gallery-one/images or whatever, you have to have the same folder structure when you upload the image files for the html page to find the files.

I should point out that using an online program to create your web pages is a bad idea, because you can't practise and fine tune the pages at home, they are only stored on the web server (so you don't have a backup copy either)

When you said 123-reg was a web page creation site, that implied that they were in the business of letting you create a web page online, and such sites usually add adverts to finance the web (free) webspace they give you. 123-reg sells domain names, and sells proper web space. It throws in an online page creation program to give beginners a quick start while they learn how to do things properly at home with a real web editor or text editor. eg dreamweaver, kompozer (free) TextPad, EditPlus, or any of the other such programs (But NOT EVER, NEVER frontpage [uggh I feel unclean after typing that "program" name] )

[missJacquixx]

Originally Posted by dr john FTPing is how you transfer files from your computer to your web space. There are specialist programs that do this, but some web design program like Dreamweaver have their own built in ftp program which has been designed specifically for web design. (FTP has other uses too) As for duplicating the folder structure, if your html file is a in a folder called xyz and within that folder there are other folders containing your files eg xyz/images or xyz/gallery-one/images or whatever, you have to have the same folder structure when you upload the image files for the html page to find the files. I should point out that using an online program to create your web pages is a bad idea, because you can't practise and fine tune the pages at home, they are only stored on the web server (so you don't have a backup copy either) When you said 123-reg was a web page creation site, that implied that they were in the business of letting you create a web page online, and such sites usually add adverts to finance the web (free) webspace they give you. 123-reg sells domain names, and sells proper web space. It throws in an online page creation program to give beginners a quick start while they learn how to do things properly at home with a real web editor or text editor. eg dreamweaver, kompozer (free) TextPad, EditPlus, or any of the other such programs (But NOT EVER, NEVER frontpage [uggh I feel unclean after typing that "program" name] )

Dr John, I am understanding what you are telling me about the files having files within that file as this is the case with the 2 galleries I have created in elements 5. I have made use of the file sharing facility within 123-reg, this is called 123-drive. I have uploaded all the files for one gallery to there. In the page I want to put the gallery into on my site it only gives me a box for one link..which link do i use? How do I get the uploaded files from 123-drive to my web page??
Also, I have actually paid 123-reg for the site, I bought the pro package and already have the domain name, so its not free. I wanted something that was relatively simple to use to start off with as I know nothing about html etc, but I want to get some software to play about with and start a site from scratch in the future. I was thinking about frontpage.....I guess you dont recommend that?
jacqui

[dr john]

Originally Posted by missJacquixx I was thinking about frontpage.....I guess you dont recommend that? jacqui

Frontpage is not recommended by any web designer!

Neither are any of the prograns that say "no knowledge of html needed" or that offer "click here and enter text" facilities or "just drag it into position". The html that they produce is almost uneditable by a human being. Ditto any program that is not a web editing program but offer the ability to Save As html!. I really suggest that you get a book on web design - Elizabeth Castro's books are usually very good, as are the sitepoint introductory books (www.sitepoint.com). Learn html and css (although like most beginners you will find that creating a css tableless layout is tricky at first, and might get frustrated with it).

As I've never used 123-reg's site creator, I can't help you with that I'm afraid.