[filmscanners] RE: Web home page writing software

["" <david_bookbinder@sprynet.com>]

An approach midway between hand-crafting each page and using a web-design
WiziWYG tool is to hand-craft a template (or use someone else's hand-crafted
template and adapt it) and then use a web-page generator to plug your
images, descriptions, etc. into the set of pages required to create a web
site.

I recommend that, if you are using a Windows machine, you take a look at
IMatch (at www.photools.com). IMatch has a built-in scripting language, and
the developer has written a web-page processor that will work with any
number of templates to build web pages from categorized images. You
categorize your images, choose the categories to include in the web page,
select one of the pre-built HTML templates or build one of your own, and
IMatch builds the appropriate web pages from these templates, resizing the
images as needed for thumbnails, larger versions or popups of the images,
and so on. So far, it's the best tool I've seen that combines both image
management and web-page building, and at present there is a somewhat active
user community that is enhancing the somewhat simple built-in templates. And
it's fairly cheap - $50 US.

Another tool, with a similar approach to web-page building, is BreezeBrowser
(www.breezesys.com). This is specifically oriented toward Canon camera
images, but actually, the web-page-builder part is image-source independent.
The most recent version also adds some color management, which IMatch does
not support, so it will convert, say, Adobe RGB images to sRGB as a batch
process, as well as resizing the images, creating the thumbnails, and
plugging them into template-based HTML pages.

I don't know of equivalent tools on the Mac side, but I'd be shocked if
there were none.

- David

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Alex Zabrovsky
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:04 PM
To: david_bookbinder@sprynet.com
Subject: [filmscanners] Web home page writing software


A little bit off-topic issue:
I intend to begin building my web site soon having gained reasonable amount
of images to be exhibited.
I'm quite novice in web design, have no idea how to do that myself.

I would be glad to hear any suggestion you have which simple-to-use software
can be utilized for web page design which would also allow building easily
manageable image galleries.
Also, JPEG image size for web advises are welcome.

I'm going to purchase a domain and will have to decide about purchasing web
hosting somewhere.
I think web hosting offer for 50 MB space would be fair for reasonable
amount.
Do you think it would be enough for starter ?

Thanks in advance,
Alex Z

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