photos on website

[Patton Echols]

On 04/24/2007 10:02 PM, Patton Echols wrote:
> On 04/20/2007 01:44 AM, norman wrote:
>   
>> I know very little about the use of websites and would appreciate some
>> guidance, please. What I would like to do is to use the site to display
>> photographs so that those who are interested may view them. This would
>> be especially useful for members of my family who are widely scattered.
>> I use Ubuntu 6.10 and have a website space available so, all I need, I
>> hope, is some recommended reading and or software.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Norman
>>   
>>     
> Interestingly enough I was just looking for a "slide show" solution and 
> ran accross this page:
>
> http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/gr/column8/
>
> Use gthumb to create your thumbnails, put them on your webpage with the 
> scripts embedded and it will DL the full image for viewers who want that 
> particular image.  The problem, of course, is that you need to know 
> something about putting up a web page and putting a javascript in a 
> page.  For that, I recommend some books on web page design.  One that I 
> have used is "HTML for the World Wide Web" by Elizabeth Castro.  Mine is 
> the Fourth Edition, I understand there is a sixth.  If you are a 
> beginner and don't like this one, find one that takes you from the very 
> basic forward.
>
>   

Hmmph, note to pat: when reading four day old threads, read the whole 
thing before replying.  The gThumb solution looks best.  A good HTML 
reference is still a good idea though.  I expect that once gThumb has 
created your pages, you could edit the page and the CSS to make the look 
and feel the same as the rest of your site.