[U/W Photographer]

I have decided to have a play at setting up my own website using photium, to show my underwater images & hopefully sell a few prints.
The nearest that I have ever been involved in websites is uploading a few of my images on here last week, so if anyone has any tips on setting up the Professional looking website, or Do's & dont's etc for a complete beginner I would be eternally grateful.

[fionaB]

keep it simple there is nothing worse than getting lost on a site or having to look everywhere for a certain link or page.......

[Dabhand16]

Choose backgrounds that complement your pictures and pick a colour for the links that is easily visible.

[U/W Photographer]

can anyone tell me how I go about making a logo/image into a link for others to put into there website links page etc, Do I need special software to put code into the image? if you get what I mean.

[JAG]

Originally Posted by U/W Photographer

can anyone tell me how I go about making a logo/image into a link for others to put into there website links page etc, Do I need special software to put code into the image? if you get what I mean.

What software are you using at the moment for your web design?

You can manually code your html pages

[j sotelo]

I am currently working on redoing my website and I am using Photoshop CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3 (waiting for CS4 )

It is sooo easy do you template in Photoshop and just slice it up and use Dreamweaver to put it all together, If you decide to go this way and need help I can help you in any way I can.

I haven't tried Photium, but I do recommend and use 1&1 they have been the great, they also have many, many ready made templates you can use .

[j sotelo]

Originally Posted by U/W Photographer

can anyone tell me how I go about making a logo/image into a link for others to put into there website links page etc, Do I need special software to put code into the image? if you get what I mean.

All you have to do is upload you image either to your server or a website like Photobucket and just use the code it gives you. just like you do it with the images here in Pixalo.
copy and paste the code, of course there is some coding involved if you want to put the image in a specific place.
overall it's not that hard.

[U/W Photographer]

Originally Posted by JAG

What software are you using at the moment for your web design?

You can manually code your html pages

I'm not using any web design software, as I am using the photium template system.

[U/W Photographer]

Thanks stotelo, I don't realy understand what you mean by most of your comments.
I have a small image/graphic that I want to be able to email to people so that they can put it on there links page, so that people can click on it to go to my website. the only software a I am have is CS3.

I am having to go & get ready for my day job now, so will be back this evening.

[U/W Photographer]

Is there a very kind person with the software needed, who if I email them the image can put the relevant code into it or whatever needs doing?

[the_frog]

use this code, substituting the domain name/page location and image location.

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/targetpage.html"><img alt="image name" src="http://www.yourdomain.com/image.jpg" /></a>

You don't have to do anything to the image, the code is independant.

[U/W Photographer]

Originally Posted by the_frog

use this code, substituting the domain name/page location and image location.

<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/targetpage.html"><img alt="image name" src="http://www.yourdomain.com/image.jpg" /></a>

You don't have to do anything to the image, the code is independant.

So it doesn't work by just sending someone the image with the code embedded somehow into it?
I was also expecting, if I was putting a link to someone elses website on my links page, they would email me there graphic with the code embeded in.

[IanHoughton]

Originally Posted by U/W Photographer

So it doesn't work by just sending someone the image with the code embedded somehow into it?
I was also expecting, if I was putting a link to someone elses website on my links page, they would email me there graphic with the code embeded in.

No, the process would be:
a) You send the image to the other person.
b) They add the image to their website and add the <a href="your-website-address-here"></a> tags to point back to your website.

If someone sends you an image for a link:
a) Add the image to your site using the <img></img> tags then wrap the img tags within a <a href="their-website-address-here"></a> tag

I'm not aware of any software that will embed the tags to the "image" before you send it out. If you need any more help, drop me a line.

[U/W Photographer]

Thanks for the info Ian, I started to realise it was more complicated than I first thought, so I emailed Will at Photium who is sorting it out for me.

[U/W Photographer]

Will from Photium has sorted the code etc for me.

I would highly recommend photium to anyone wanting to set up a template based website, as you probably gathered from my posts I hadn't a clue, but with the photium site it was quite easy even for me on most of the site, the few areas that I got stuck on Will at Photium helped me or sometimes even did the work for me, such as this case with the links.
I would recommend photium 100%.

[U/W Photographer]

I have decided it was time to put a link to the website on here for comments, I still have a lot of work to do on it, but feel that it is coming along enough.

It started of mainly to showcase my images, with a view to hopefully selling a few prints, but like most things with me I don't do things by halves, and it has escalated into a "hopefully" professional looking website designed at selling my images.

Any comments, advice, suggestions, criticisms most welcome.


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