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Posted by David Segall on 12/05/07 16:14
"jupright@gmail.com" <jupright@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have an idea of what I would like to do, but I have no idea how to
>do it. I am not sure if it can even be done in frontpage, so i will
>ask and hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Frontpage is intended for people who are writing static web pages. If
you are looking for a similar tool for writing web applications that
interact with the user, then Microsoft and others offer more
appropriate tools. See <http://webdevelopment.profectus.com.au>.
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>The first thing (and probablly the simplist) I would like to do is
>have a page (lets call it 'Proofs') where clients enter a password
>that takes them to a gallery of photos where they can view the photos
>from their session. Each clients password would be different
>obviously, and when they enter the password it takes them to their
>respective gallery.
You could probably achieve a primitive version of this using JAlbum
<http://www.jalbum.org> to create directories of each client's
photographs and the .htaccess file of the Apache Web Server
<http://apache-server.com/tutorials/ATusing-htaccess.html> to provide
password protection for each directory. Try it. Even if you don't like
the result it will give you an idea of the scale of the task ahead and
almost nothing that you learn will be wasted.
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>For the time being, I guess I will have the clients manually tell me
>what they would like to order, but eventually I would like to be able
>to automate this as well. What I would like is for the client to be
>able to select the size and qty either from the gallery itself, or
>from a page accessed by selecting the image from the gallery.
Now you are talking about a full blown e-commerce web site with the
added difficulties of displaying photographs. The time required to
build such a site in-house is measured in man years of a staff of
experienced programmers. What is your time frame?
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