Good Grief. Can’t a person find a decent web gallery program?
I have spent the past few days searching Download.com (powered by cnet) to find a good, simple, easy to use a web gallery program to put artwork on my website.
I looked at other artists’ web galleries. They are simple and easy to navigate. Some of them are roll overs and some you click on. The ones I like have the artwork on one side in the form of thumbnails and a frame for the larger art on the other side. This is all I want. Is it too much to ask?
You would think such a thing would be easy to find and use. It must be for most people but for some reason I am having not so good a time doing this.
I have found lots of them, hundreds in fact. I weeded out the ones with 1 or 2 stars or no reviews or no screenshots. In this case I need to know before I download what the end product is going to look like. After all, it is what you are going to see.
I’m not going to name any names here. I am not giving a review, I am just venting if you don’t mind.
Most of the ones I liked and downloaded had wonderful interfaces. But for me there was something wrong with each one I found that prevents me from wanting to use it.
Several were easy to use and had beautiful templates. But one had silly sound effects. Another had silly transition effects. I couldn’t get rid of these. Another did not resize the artwork but chopped off heads and feet. Some made you work backwards. You had to import the entire folder then delete the artwork you didn’t want. In one of my folders I have 150 files. I only wanted to use 7 to 10 of these. One had templates I wanted but I couldn’t import those into my website. They were to be FTP’d directly onto the internet. I need to work with my files offline in my local site before uploading them. Some were a nightmare to use. Many had dismal help files or no help files at all. A lot of the creators of these programs didn’t bother to give any information about them. It was as if they submitted the program to cnet, if that’s what you do, then forgot about it.
I suppose I could ask the artists what programs they are using, but I would rather not. What for? I don’t want to copy their programs. They look custom made for their sites anyway.
So, the search goes on while my art and website sit and wait for me to make up my mind. When I figure this out you will certainly know.
The search for a web gallery
Good Grief. Can’t a person find a decent web gallery program?
I have spent the past few days searching Download.com (powered by cnet) to find a good, simple, easy to use a web gallery program to put artwork on my website.
I looked at other artists’ web galleries. They are simple and easy to navigate. Some of them are roll overs and some you click on. The ones I like have the artwork on one side in the form of thumbnails and a frame for the larger art on the other side. This is all I want. Is it too much to ask?
You would think such a thing would be easy to find and use. It must be for most people but for some reason I am having not so good a time doing this.
I have found lots of them, hundreds in fact. I weeded out the ones with 1 or 2 stars or no reviews or no screenshots. In this case I need to know before I download what the end product is going to look like. After all, it is what you are going to see.
I’m not going to name any names here. I am not giving a review, I am just venting if you don’t mind.
Most of the ones I liked and downloaded had wonderful interfaces. But for me there was something wrong with each one I found that prevents me from wanting to use it.
Several were easy to use and had beautiful templates. But one had silly sound effects. Another had silly transition effects. I couldn’t get rid of these. Another did not resize the artwork but chopped off heads and feet. Some made you work backwards. You had to import the entire folder then delete the artwork you didn’t want. In one of my folders I have 150 files. I only wanted to use 7 to 10 of these. One had templates I wanted but I couldn’t import those into my website. They were to be FTP’d directly onto the internet. I need to work with my files offline in my local site before uploading them. Some were a nightmare to use. Many had dismal help files or no help files at all. A lot of the creators of these programs didn’t bother to give any information about them. It was as if they submitted the program to cnet, if that’s what you do, then forgot about it.
I suppose I could ask the artists what programs they are using, but I would rather not. What for? I don’t want to copy their programs. They look custom made for their sites anyway.
So, the search goes on while my art and website sit and wait for me to make up my mind. When I figure this out you will certainly know.