Im in the wrong tribe

topic posted Sat, March 7, 2009 - 2:19 PM by  Hjiørst
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Because I'm actually looking for some software that will create some very basic HTML pages for me; I'm not interested in learning to code. But I thought perhaps someone in this tribe could steer me in the right direction.

Photoshop has a feature that lets one create photo gallery web pages by some kind of macro. Select the folder, select a couple options, fill in some identifying info, select a location, let it run and BINGO, you got a web page with a bunch of captioned thumbnails; each thumbnail links to a page displaying the photo.

So I want something like that, but in some ways simpler, some ways a little more detailed. I want to select a folder with a bunch of documents, or photos, or other files, and get a webpage that merely lists the name of all the files in one column of a table, leaving three or four columns adjacent, for things like the document date, etc. Each listed item links either to a page displaying the document, or to the document itself, depending on what I choose. Etc. Etc.

I don't need flashy graphics, animations, razmataz; I just need to create lists of things with links to them, and to be able to add some data to the listed items. Obviously, once said page is greated, adding page titles and text boxes is easy. But I'll have folders of several hundreds or even thousands of items (such as jpegs, mpegs or tiffs), and doing it manually would take too long.

I've played around with an old version of GoLive. But otherwise, I know nothing about any web building software, so I have no idea if what I'm looking for is the most basic thing imaginable, or what. Any clues as to where to look would be helpful. Thanks!
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  • Re: Im in the wrong tribe

    Mon, October 12, 2009 - 7:50 PM
    If you don't care about the coding, there are lots of word processors that have a "save as" HTML. Even Word does this.

    Remember, you said you don't care about the code.

    I've been using a product called "Thumbnail" for about 12 years. It is a photo/image library manager. In my image database I enter captions. Then select the images I want and the it creates web pages with a variety of options (columns, thumbnail size, links, destination folders, etc.)

    There are more HTML generators out there for non-webmaster than you can shake a stick at.

    But, no matter what generates your code, you're going to want to tweak it. At some point some basic knowledge of HTML will make your life closer to what you want.

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