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How to make a photo website? |
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
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For those interested in some technical information about this site:
It is built upon the free CMS system Joomla! that I just like a lot for several reasons:
1. it is free
2. it has a lot of great free add-ons and components
3. there is a great support community
4. even an amateur like me can produce a relatively sofisticated web page without any (worth mentioning) scripting and coding knowledge... You can judge :-).
For this site I used the original "madeyourweb" template and tweaked it a bit to fit my colour preferences.
As for other components I used:
- Exposé Flash Gallery - provides wonderful front-end design as well as convenient back-end management features
- Blogg-X - a great desktop SW that allows offline preparation of content which I´m using as a kind of blog component. - SlideShow - for front page intro slideshow - AkoComment - for comments and votes
- EasyBook - as a simple feedback list feature
- DF Contact and Security Images - for contact form
- JoomlaStats - for back-end traffic statistics
...and couple of others that I´m just getting acquainted with, like JoomFish, Artio JoomSEF and other SEF and SEO components etc. |
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Creating a blog with Joomla! |
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
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As I was working on this site I got stuck on the issue of a (photo)blog. The gallery I just love - Exposé Flash gallery - is very nice, but I wanted to have something that can be also SEO-friendly. I wanted my images to be searchable. The idea of a photoblog seemed to offer some solution. As I was searching for some Joomla! blog component I was not quite satisfied with any of the solutions offered. While still looking around I started to create my own solution based on the available components. And then I ran across this interesting article that confirmed my direction: Creating a Blog Site With Joomla! Very informative reading! |
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