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Jenko_Sport

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9th Feb 12 at 11:20

Right its about time i got my arse into gear and actually had a website to help promote myself and my work.

After a simple clean looking site with a couple of galleries, main page, contact.

So really three sections.

Anyone able make any good recommendations?

Whittie

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9th Feb 12 at 11:21

quote:
Originally posted by Jenko_Sport
Anyone able make any good recommendations?

On?

Who to use, or what software to use?

Jenko_Sport

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9th Feb 12 at 11:23

Both really fella.

Nismo

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9th Feb 12 at 11:40

plenty of free lance people on here.

James

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9th Feb 12 at 13:12

That kind of site should take a day tops, assuming you don't want some kind of content management system for the gallery.

You could even get something that just reads from a file structure if you wanted a simple way to manage the images. Then you just need to upload images to the host and it would work.

Jenko_Sport

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9th Feb 12 at 13:40

Thats pretty much all i need James

Simple way to add images, change images etc

Dan

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9th Feb 12 at 14:36

Sounds like something wordpress would be good at?

You can build a half tidy site yourself on it using google to do things you want to do etc.

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Bart

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9th Feb 12 at 16:53

quote:
Originally posted by Dan
Sounds like something wordpress would be good at?

You can build a half tidy site yourself on it using google to do things you want to do etc.

This.
But of course you need to know a few basics and depending on what host you have.
Some hosts have one click web applications to install / others will just offer the database for you to manually install, while other will have no database at all.

Ive just whipped up a couple of wordpress sites myself (one for a friend and another for the dive club im a member of).
I liked the theme so much (I paid $30 for it) that I used it on both sites.

currently hosted below;

http://www.bridgesltd.co.uk/preschool
http://www.streetdivers.co.uk/new

neither is complete, still a reasonable amount to do, but with wordpress its all about building blocks rather than code.

noshua

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9th Feb 12 at 17:03

For your Photography? I'd just get a WordPress template and mess around with it.

A good website for templates is; http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress

If you know where to look you can get the templates for free if you just want to tinker with them, then buy the license after (save getting yourself in trouble, especially if you're advertising it).

Dom

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9th Feb 12 at 17:44

Mentioned Wordpress in Welly's thread - http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=627025&highlight=1&pid=8300210#pid8300210

Themeforest is a good shout though, plenty of 'light' themes about and they are pretty cheap.

Bart - What theme did you use for your sites?

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9th Feb 12 at 17:48

I'll bandwagon WordPress too - can find a theme that supports gallery post types, tweak one do do it or use a gallery plugin. Loads of options, plugins and info out there

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9th Feb 12 at 21:24

quote:
Originally posted by Dom
Mentioned Wordpress in Welly's thread - http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=627025&highlight=1&pid=8300210#pid8300210

Themeforest is a good shout though, plenty of 'light' themes about and they are pretty cheap.

Bart - What theme did you use for your sites?

Looks like it's called "Peekaboo" according to the theme location in the HTML.

Dan

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10th Feb 12 at 07:27

I've never used Wordpress tbh. I've seen awesome results. Really want to give it a try. But nothing to use it for ATM.

What's shopping cart like? (top selling one I forget the name)

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Jenko_Sport

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10th Feb 12 at 09:49

Just a quick one, can you edit the typeface within wordpress?

Sam

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10th Feb 12 at 09:53

If you mean change the font style/weight/size then yes.

Changing font names requires editing the CSS file or applying a 'style' to some highlighted text.

[Edited on 10-02-2012 by Sam]

Jenko_Sport

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10th Feb 12 at 10:03

So i cant import a font of my own then, can only use standard internet fonts etc

Sam

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10th Feb 12 at 10:07

If you use a font you downloaded from somewhere, then chances are a lot of people won't have it so you'd have to fall back on whatever the default font is in your browser unless you've specified it in your CSS file, i.e.:

font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;

The above line says Tahoma is your #1 font choice, if the user doesn't have that installed on their system then use Verdana, and again if that's not available just use a sans-serif font.

I can't remember but I think you can save the font on your web server and specify the location of it in the CSS file so it's automatically downloaded - I'm sure someone else with a better knowledge of fonts will come along and confirm, but there is also the problem of licensing for said font if you're bothered about such things (a lot of the time free fonts off the web or wherever are only allowed for personal use, you can't distribute them like on your website for example).

Bart

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10th Feb 12 at 10:09

quote:
Originally posted by Dom
Mentioned Wordpress in Welly's thread - http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=627025&highlight=1&pid=8300210#pid8300210

Themeforest is a good shout though, plenty of 'light' themes about and they are pretty cheap.

Bart - What theme did you use for your sites?

Yeah, Peakaboo.

Themeforrest seems quite good.

Jenko_Sport

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10th Feb 12 at 10:09

Yea i did think about that side of things, time to look for a clean web font then really be on the safe side.

Sam

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10th Feb 12 at 10:13

Bart I've used ThemeForest a few times, although themes for stuff on there are quite good generally there are some that you have to tweak due to sloppy coding or whatever.

Dom

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10th Feb 12 at 10:55

quote:
Originally posted by Jenko_Sport
So i cant import a font of my own then, can only use standard internet fonts etc

Use Cufon; usual method of using fonts outside the standard browser set.

Whittie

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10th Feb 12 at 11:03

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Bart I've used ThemeForest a few times, although themes for stuff on there are quite good generally there are some that you have to tweak due to sloppy coding or whatever.

I'm currently in a right pickle because of their style sheet, which has 5000 lines

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10th Feb 12 at 11:04

I use the Google Web Font API for virtually all the websites I do (got a bit bored of Georgia, Helvetica and Tahoma a while ago). Plenty of good, open source fonts on there:

http://www.google.com/webfonts

Word of warning though, some of them render like dog shit mixed with puke on Windows, especially in IE - I've absolutely no idea why though.

Sam

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10th Feb 12 at 12:04

Didn't know about that, thanks for the link Ed.