[PLPete]

Im interested in creating a website for some of my best photos, a portfolio if you will. I am pretty computer savvy but I have never done a website but would like to learn how. I did some reading on here and looked at quite few portfolios/web sited to kind of get inspired. As for now Im not looking for anything fancy but something simple yet professional looking, something I could present to a client. One feature that I would like and I noticed on other sites are the nice fading transitions while viewing the photos as well as the inability to right click and save my photos. Here are some websites that I liked:
http://dukesphotography.com/
http://devinlefevere.net/
http://www.ericdejuan.net/

If anyone could point me in the right direction as far as what software do I need, where is a good place to host the site and if there are any tutorials available...anything that will pretty much help me in creating the site. Thanks a lot in advance!

[PLPete]

i know its been a bit slow on here lately ...... but anybody?

[v2L]

all three of those sites are pre-made template scripts - they are available online - but i do not know exactly where; search a few template sites - you may find em' - or they may be modified slightly from their original forms...

[PurelySwift]

If you want to create it yourself, you'll need Flash, which is now an Adobe program. It isn't easy to learn, but has a lot of possibilities.

An easier way is to get Adobe Lightroom, which has some built in templates for uploading photographs to the web as a set the way you see on the websites you listed. It won't be quite the same, but it's a start, and costs far less.

One of the for-sale galleries that I know of is http://www.bludomain.com, which Blair Bunting uses.

[PLPete]

thanks for the pointers so far! What are some good and inexpensive places to host my site. Im looking at something that will let me create my own domain name and will be ad-free.

[PurelySwift]

I use ipower, but there are plenty of others out there for similar prices. I tried GoDaddy and didn't find it to be quite as easy really, even for their ultra low prices.

[lLLlclT]

You don't need flash. Go download simpleviewer flash gallery. Create a SIMPLE website using tables, embed the flash gallery. That's all I did.

[Pendulum]

Do not use tables, they're the devil.
You don't need Flash, those effects can be done with jQuery.


Check out my website at http://mchandler.me for an example of what can be done without tables or flash. It's all CSS and jQuery.