My Thinking at the Genesis

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1 My Thinking at the Genesis Lots of ways to do this, mine isn t necessarily the best. But I wanted to have the following: My name on the domain Total control over the look and feel Cheap

2 Website Creation: The Steps 1) Make a folder that contains your website. 2) In Photoshop or Lightroom, create your photo galleries in subfolders of your main page folder. 3) On your local computer, use an HTML editor (Dreamweaver, FrontPage) to create your index.htm page with links. 4) Buy a website domain name on a web hosting service. 5) Upload website to your hosting service. 6) Alert the world!

3 And now, onto the live portion of our program

4 Here s where we Used MS Word to make a main web page. Used MS Frontpage to make another web page. Used Photoshop and Bridge to create a photo gallery Used Lightroom to create a Flash slideshow photo gallery.

5 My web hosting company

8 We Created a Main Page We Made our Photo Galleries We Bought a Domain and Hosting... Now Let s Move Our Files!

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11 Filezilla: Left Screen, local computer files

12 Filezilla: File>Site Manager, stores passwords & settings

13 Connection information Local Folders Remote Folder Local Files Remote Files File Transfer Status Filezilla Connected

14 Local Files Remote Files File Transfer Status

15 File Transfer box Queued, Failed, Successful

19 Other Options Wix.com free with ads, template based. PhotoShelter.. GoDaddy.com Blogs blogger.com Dave s school site Ted Ringger s site Wordpress.com

20 Glossary & Resources HTML Hypertext Markup Language. The basic code for web sites, read by all browsers FTP File Transfer Protocol. A way to move files from a local computer to a remote server. Filezilla- ( a graphic FTP program. Doteasy ( an inexpensive web hosting company ($25/year, or less when on sale). Microsoft FrontPage - an easy HTML writing program. Adobe Dreamweaver a sophisticated HTML writing program. An industry standard. (Think Photoshop vs. Paint). Microsoft Word an even easier way to create HTML, just Save As and choose Save As Type Web Page Photoshop or Lightroom- To create photo galleries.

21 Answers to questions Many links can be on the same page. The links can be to the same destination or to different destinations. Almost any word processing program can Save As a web page (under type of file ). Other web hosting companies offer templates, some with/some without ads. Photos are not necessarily well protected, but because they re small they re not all that usable for printing. Flickr.com and SmugMug.com are other ways to show your work online.

22 Here are the pages we made in our hour together Main Page (index.htm) Created in MS Word

23 A secondary page (laurel.htm) Created in MS Frontpage

24 Photo gallery Created in Photoshop/Bridge (greatfalls11/index.htm)

25 Flash slideshow gallery created in Lightroom.

26 Your turn Make your photo galleries Make a main page (index.htm) Keep it all in the same folder Explore web hosting providers (doteasy, godaddy, etc.).or.. Play around with Blogger, Flickr, SmugMug to get your toes wet!

27 HAVE FUN You can t break anything! Just like with your photography, you ll be bad before you ll be good; you ll screw up before you get it right. Keep trying feel free to ask questions! (dave@nora-school.org)

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