[huylibizonoff]

Morning onions,

I am hoping someone can give me a little advice this morning. I am building a site for a local photographer and what we have decided to do is as well as having the main site with the odd gallery, her information etc etc is have a seperate area where customers can login and view only the photos from the event she has covered for them.

I will put a 'login here to see your photos' button on the main site which will then link to a seperate area which they can then login with username/password we give them which will take them to (reduced quality and watermarked of course!) their photos - also encouraging friends to go on and look and hopefully order prints too.

What would be the best way to go about this? Do I just add a load of extra pages to the existing site, not include them in the navigation and make these secure and send the user details in an email? How would I go about removing said photos after, say, 3 months as I donot want to archive every single photo on the site indefinitely!! Is there a way to setup a system that she can do this herself EASILY? She is not the next 'architect' if you catch my drift.

As well as weddings etc she goes to a lot of local sporting events for kids (local rugby teams, football etc etc) and we would like to put these on the site as well but in a publicly viewable stylee again with a view for people to buy prints. For this i would like to add a sort of 'news feed' onto the home page that people can click on to view the photos - again if possible it would be good if she could do this. Any ideas?

Thanks for reading i'll keep you posted on how it turns out - might even tell you the address as long as you all promise to be nice!!

Cheers,
Mark

[Fiesialenp]

If you are not a skilled web developer then the easiest way to achieve what you want is with a Content Management System.

I would suggest Drupal or Joomla, the latter has more extensions (add-ons that give it more functionality). Google their names for their website address. They are open source products so free.

Neither of these CMS packages work out of the box and you are going to have to create templates and get through the initial learning curve. This will be a lot quicker than learning enough PHP/ASP in order to write the system yourself.

Joomla has extensions available for putting a gallery on a page (with timescale removal) and for integrating a login system.

[freevideoandoicsI]

I'd recommend Joomla w/ Gallery2/3

[huylibizonoff]

If you are not a skilled web developer then the easiest way to achieve what you want is with a Content Management System.

I would suggest Drupal or Joomla, the latter has more extensions (add-ons that give it more functionality). Google their names for their website address. They are open source products so free.

Neither of these CMS packages work out of the box and you are going to have to create templates and get through the initial learning curve. This will be a lot quicker than learning enough PHP/ASP in order to write the system yourself.

Joomla has extensions available for putting a gallery on a page (with timescale removal) and for integrating a login system.

I'd recommend Joomla w/ Gallery2/3

thank you both will check it out tonight

much love!!

[huylibizonoff]

had a look at this joomla malarky last night and it seems that it is just as much a website creating tool as it is a content management system. I have already built the website using another program - i take it there is a way to use existing HTML in this prog?