PS CS to create Web site?

[james_ogara1]

Anyone have any experience with using PS to create a Web site? I'm

talking about the Web templates.

 

Is this the sort of thing that would allow a technological incompetent

to create a simple Web site from scratch?

[marshall]

You could certainly set up a web gallery that way. Without the ability to get in an play with the templates themselves, you won't be able to do much with it, but it would give you photo pages.

[joe_kallo]

I'm a techie by trade and I actually have been using PS to generate my site:

 

http://www.quietglow.com

 

I'm using .mac at present, and Apple doesn't allow any scripting. Rather than make/update

a gallery in Dreamweaver, I do it automatically with PS. And, yeah, you can indeed modify

the stock designs (as I have), but just be sure to work on a copy of the originals.

 

Best,

Joe

[james_ogara1]

Joe that is a very good loking web site. How did you make it?

[joe_kallo]

James,

 

It a modified version of CS's "horizontal gallery." I opened a copy of the template (which is

in your PS CS directory) in an HTML editor and made the changes you see. Now I use that

one to generate my pages when I update. Its kinda like what a PHP script would do on a

server (i.e. dynamically generate a page) but I just do it on my machine and upload the

results. Basically, Photoshop does the page generation and I just put it on the web. I would

offer you the template, but it wouldn't do you too much good as it has all my info in it. It

a pretty easy project to do, though.

 

Joe

[derek_simpson]

I'm no good at that HTML thing but have recently found the PS Web page creator a very useful way of getting event photos on the web quickly - some potential buyers don't want e-mails with attachments - so they get a link to the gallery. Next step is to rewrite my main web site to link to the galleries and learn how to put a return to home link in the gallery . Last Friday I had www.portfolio.plus.com/UlsterGloucester

up and running within a couple of hours of the match (one hour drive home on a filthy night) just using the supplied Horizontal template as is - looks OK does the job.