MAKING A PICTURE GALLERY IN DREAMWEAVER

For this page I wanted to just make a gallery of my images that could be quickly viewed but none of these had the text with them, I intended to put biggerscale pictures with the text on other pages, this was just a little overview.
One thing I do need to go back and sort out is the jpg bits written on the end of the titles and so the next step is removing these.
This was made in dream weaver using something called WEBGALLERY and was a really quick way of getting your images together. I would most probably work a little more on the presentation of my gallery and try another method as I go along.

GIFF, JPEG OR PNG

This is another version of me deciding on what file format I should save them in and this picture is one of the most detailed and so this took alot of trying and tweaking.

results

This is me in the middle process of making my index page and uploading a selection of front screen images that the page would automatically open on if the website was up and running.
I was going for this idea of frames hung on a white wall and they are all different and of different sizes, which makes them a little quirky.
Due to the field I want to go into, I am only going to make a gallery website, with details and not much else.

saving as web devices

Once I had produced my images in photoshop at 72 dpi, because that is the resolution needed for a website compared to printing which is normally around the 300 dpi.
Then I had to save them for web and devices which in the end opened up this screen, what you could do was go through the different files such as JPEG, PNG AND GIFF.
Then you would have to look and see what gave best results, but at thesame time how much time it took to upload. So once I had decided on these images it was time to get them up as a file format, I normally chose 4 up to view them. This gave me a 4 way split screen and I could see the original and then three others at different quality percents. Really you shouldn't go under 60 otherwise the quality isn't there and for photography that is not good.
Once I was happy with that, I decided to save them and name them appropriatley and this allowed me now to open in dreamweaver and use the image with ease.

linking pages

There was a really interesting thing that i found out while I was creating my basic site and that was you could link the pages and that means when you click on something it can take you to another page.
So what I did was highlight the word gallery and then click on the link selection below and by chosing the file you want it will automatically link that part to the other page with that title.

This was really interesting and I thought that part was going to be alot harder than it was, and it is a brilliant function.

main index page

This is the index page of my website and I have decided that I am going to place three images within frames on it to show a range of work.
I decided to keep the layout very simple and so I decided to stick purely with the black and white idea and so this will keep everything looking crisp and sharp.

I had never used Dream weaver before and so it took me a little while to get used to it.
Alot of my items were created in photoshop and then once saved they were brought into dream weaver and placed within the page.

fifteeth image

"The ghosts of my life, blow wilder than the wind"

I wanted my final image to be this shot of the bare bulb in a dark room and this idea of a little light in the big dark space but the only problem is it eventually needs to burn out and then you are in permanent darkness like our person the pictures will be. Then there is no way of finding yourself again.