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Identify this business web site

Sask2005Sask2005 Registered Users Posts: 140 Major grins
edited November 1, 2006 in Mind Your Own Business
Please could someone help us by looking at this web site http://www.catto.co.nz/scorching/ and telling us with what software the owner uses to create this cool layout.

We can't ask him because we are his competition but someone must be able to identify it.

I'm posting this question to this forum as it relates to photography as a business.

While we don't wish to copy the site we are curious at identifying the software that made it to stop the arguement from preceeding any further. Too many views in the office.

Thanks
Bruce :clap:clap:clap

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    ingramimagesingramimages Registered Users Posts: 23 Big grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    I can't tell exactly what that is, but it's not far from either of these:
    http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/
    http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/index.html

    The second one is a flash-based image viewing app. The first one will automate the generation of the image show, either in html format or if you download both apps, in flash.

    It is really easy to use. I am using more and more of it on the website that I do for a theatre group I am associated with: www.gibsoncountytheatre.org.
    "All the art in my work dwells in the subjects; it's all theirs. It's not made up by me; I ain't that smart."

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    Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    His email is on his home page you may want to just be brave and email him your question......he may have used dreamweaver or some other software....however since you cannot view the source, I have no way of telling the app that was used.
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    ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 23,852 moderator
    edited April 5, 2006
    Art Scott wrote:
    His email is on his home page you may want to just be brave and email him your question......he may have used dreamweaver or some other software....however since you cannot view the source, I have no way of telling the app that was used.

    Here is "part" of his source,

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    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Robert Catto, Photographer - Scorching Triathlons - April 06</title>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
    <META name="NOROBOTS" content="NOINDEX">
    </head>
    <frameset rows="25,*,27" frameborder="no" border="0" framespacing="0">
    <frame src="top.htm" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="NO">
    <frameset cols="331,*" frameborder="no" border="0" framespacing="0">
    <frame src="index-frame.html">
    <frame name="slide" src="slides/SB6TR 7136.html">
    </frameset>
    <frame src="bottom.htm" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="NO">
    </frameset>
    <noframes><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    </body></noframes>
    </html>

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    It kinda looks to me like just plain old HTML, maybe hand rolled, 2 frames, with the left frame as an image mapped to individual links and the right frame displaying those links.


    Anybody good with this technique?

    ziggy53
    ziggy53
    Moderator of the Cameras and Accessories forums
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    Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2006
    Probably just used notepad. There's nothing all that complex with that site. If I were you, I wouldn't try to emulate it. Tables for layout is for suckers. If you're going to do a new site, do it up right with xhtml and CSS. It's easy plus, no frames to fuss with (bleh) no tables to deal with (gross), no old school inline html to change every time you want to make a simple layout change (eeew).
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

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    CattoCatto Registered Users Posts: 18 Big grins
    edited April 7, 2006
    It's clearly JAlbum...
    ...I use it every time I create new web galleries for clients. I customised the page a little (like the 'order a print' email generating link), but it's just for speed & ease of use. I create the 450x450 images in Photoshop as part of an action, then create the gallery page with their utility - you can download it at http://jalbum.net/. Naturally I'd prefer you not ape the style completely, but I'm hardly going to sue over it.

    Maybe it's not the best / flashest / trendiest way of doing it, but what do I care - I'm not a web designer, I'm just looking for simple workflow in my photographic work, and a result that just about anyone can see in their browser. It's not my primary portfolio for clients, it's a practical solution for displaying images from an event quickly.

    Unless, of course, you're talking about the look of my main site (http://www.catto.co.nz) - that was created by Springload (http://www.springload.co.nz) a few years ago - it's a specific design job, not a 'roll-yer-own'.

    So what argument have I stopped? I didn't get that part. And how many people do you have in your office?!? You must sell a LOT of prints, to be paying staff to look at my website...
    R

    p.s. tip du jour: if you link to my site, it shows up in my stats...
    Robert Catto, Photographer
    Seatoun, Wellington New Zealand
    http://www.catto.co.nz
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    DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited April 7, 2006
    Catto wrote:

    p.s. tip du jour: if you link to my site, it shows up in my stats...
    Zing! lol3.gif

    Let this be a lesson to us all: a polite email with your question is usually the way to go.
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    dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2006
    ROFL Catto. A priceless response. rolleyes1.gif

    Hope you stick around and check us out here at dgrin (and of course smugmug.com as well). Even if you only found us by accident.
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    wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2006
    lol3.gif OK, this got pretty funny pretty fast.

    Catto, thanks for your thorough and very polite response. I think Sask may have been worried he'd be accused of trying to rip-off your look.

    Thanks for the smile, guys!
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
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    BodwickBodwick Registered Users Posts: 396 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2006
    :fish





    :hide
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    3rdPlanetPhotography3rdPlanetPhotography Banned Posts: 920 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2006
    looks home grown to me.... I sure don't want any "place order" links or buttons on my website to send me an email. That's for sure!

    Use Smugmug = Problem Solved!


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    CattoCatto Registered Users Posts: 18 Big grins
    edited November 1, 2006
    Nah...
    kc7dji wrote:
    Use Smugmug = Problem Solved!

    You obviously don't live in New Zealand!

    The logistics of using an offshore print provider (and paying for international mail to deliver the prints, with damage / delay en route), billing clients in USD$, and having the proceeds transferred back here and converted into NZD$ would mean that my print costs would be astronomical to say the least.

    So...it sends me an email, I send the file to the lab, I check the print myself for colour fidelity to the original file, and send it to the client. Not the most efficient, but when Paypal has a local equivalent I'll look at changing it - maybe.
    R
    Robert Catto, Photographer
    Seatoun, Wellington New Zealand
    http://www.catto.co.nz
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    dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2006
    Wow guys way to drag up a dead thread thumb.gif :dragon

    Hey Catto where you been you need to post more and show us more of your work dude.
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    CattoCatto Registered Users Posts: 18 Big grins
    edited November 1, 2006
    dragon300zx wrote:
    Wow guys way to drag up a dead thread!

    Long story, related to this thread - http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=31362 - which I'm sure you'll recall also.
    Hey Catto where you been you need to post more and show us more of your work dude.

    Actually I just had eight weeks in Canada (with a little of Las Vegas on the way home), but I haven't got the hard drive space or time currently to do anything with the photos from that! Thanks for the interest, though - I keep planning to update my site, but it doesn't quite happen...
    R
    Robert Catto, Photographer
    Seatoun, Wellington New Zealand
    http://www.catto.co.nz
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