Mac Web Publishing

[Daysleeper]

I have a .mac account and have been using the templetes to publish some simple but great photo web pages. However I want to publish some stuff thats a bit more complex with pictures, web links, text and the odd movie clip.

Anyone have any suggestions for OSX friendly web publishing stuff thats easy to use?

Should say I had a look at Adobe Go Live 6 but it seemed over complex.:hmm:

[amanoffewwords]

Why not approach it from another direction and go for an open-source image gallery program?

Coppermine is an example: http://coppermine-gallery.net/index.php

and it supports video, last time I checked anyway.

Demos here:

http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg13x/

You server would need to provide one MySql database and ImageMagick or GD for the graphics and support Apache.

hth
Charles

[Daysleeper]

You server would need to provide one MySql database ImageMagick or GD for the graphics and support Apache.


OK you lost me there for a bit.


Was hoping to use it on .mac but maybe I can try my zen account.

[amanoffewwords]

MySql is part of OS X so I presume it should be able to run on whatever OS .mac is using (you'd expect they're running the latest and greatest), but I am no mac expert - but I found this link http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/osdb.html/

The GD and Imagemagick software are Open Source programs that manage graphics on webservers. GD is mentioned in the mac developer site mentioned above as it is part of PHP (a programming language which is usually part and parcel of an Apache installation).

And Apache is also OS X compatible so I guess it might be running .mac (Apache is the part of the server that produces the actual web pages you see in a browser).

In short, it should be possible using .mac, depends what they're offering you - I tried to have a look but it involves signing-up from a Mac, which I haven't got.

Coppermine is very powerful, easy to install but will take a while to get right in terms of look / feel though there are loads of templates available on the web to transform the default installation.

If you want to have a play around with the admin/user interface look at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ - the left hand-side menu has a drop-down selection called Image Galleries - that gives you a list of options including Coppermine - when you click on it the right hand-side panel changes to allow you to access demo versions of the program.

hth
Charles

[WeatherJinx]

Daysleeper

Just to clarify, are you looking for a WYSIWYG HTML editor or a content management application?

If the former, Dreamweaver (http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/) or the excellent (and British!) Freeway Express (http://www.softpress.com/en/freeway/express) are both worth a look (especially if all you've tried is the lousy GoLive). Freeway in particular offers full, simple control of layout and makes it very easy to create and publish sites - and it's much cheaper than DW!.

I don't want to pre-judge your knowledge and experience, but from what it sounds like you are trying to create, I'd steer clear of the open source CMS programs (excellent though some of them are) - for now anyway.

You should be able to use either your .Mac space or your Zen space to host your output with no problems (.Mac can host non-template sites too, but you'll probably find Zen much quicker and you have 1Gb of free space to work with there). Only fairly complex, dynamic sites would require a server-side database such as MySQL.

PM me if you require further information.

Jx :cool:

PS - For information, .Mac (http://www.mac.com) is Apple's mail, online backup and web hosting service. It runs on WebObjects (http://www.apple.com/webobjects/) , an Apple-developed Java web application server and as such uses neither Apache nor MySQL.