# Website / Slideshow - Recommend Software
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-slideshow-recommend-software/195546
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 16, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-slideshow-recommend-software/195546 "2003-08-16T05:33:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-slideshow-recommend-software/195546/1 "2003-08-16T05:33:24Z")
I would like to replace my existing metal art website with something more like a slideshow template. The goal being something along the lines of an online artist’s portfolio. I imagine a long page with thumbnails down one side which open up into the main window alongside a brief description, although I will need to show around 200 pics so they may need to be catergorized. An ability to easily add some seperate pages for descriptions of me / my buisness etc, would also be helpful.
The software price is not really significant, the main thing is ease of use balanced with a decent range of options. Also, my knowlege of HTML is quite limited.
Can you recommend any software that would suit these needs without being overly complicated? I don’t want something where I have to design buttons and borders from scratch.
I was told that Photoshop included some simple photo templates, the combination of a photo editor in the package would be useful but not necessary. I was a bit worried that Photoshop might be too limited on the web development side for what I am trying to create. Dreamweaver was also recommended. I was able to fool around with Frontpage a couple of years ago but I really didn’t see enough to form an opinion. Any suggestions?
I don’t know where to start.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-slideshow-recommend-software/195546/2 "2003-08-16T22:41:01Z")
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-slideshow-recommend-software/195546/3 "2003-08-16T23:08:30Z")
A couple of weeks ago in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201776&highlight=slideshow+javascript), I posted some free javascript for a web-based slideshow. It’s pretty rudimentary, but you’re welcome to use it.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/website-slideshow-recommend-software/195546/4 "2003-08-17T01:59:38Z")
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> \*Originally posted by SkyBum \*
> I was told that Photoshop included some simple photo templates, the combination of a photo editor in the package would be useful but not necessary. I was a bit worried that Photoshop might be too limited on the web development side for what I am trying to create. Dreamweaver was also recommended. I was able to fool around with Frontpage a couple of years ago but I really didn’t see enough to form an opinion. Any suggestions?
You do not use Photoshop to create web sites, per se. You use Photoshop to create/manipulate images to be used in a web site.
You use Dreamweaver to create/maintain web sites.
Are you talking about a series of web pages that automatically change so that you can view images? If so, you can use a META tag within the HTML to do that for you. You do not need JavaScript.
You can also create a series of simple web pages, each containing a number of thumbnail (smaller) images and a bit of text for each one. A user would click on the image to open a different page with a larger view of the same image. (Of courese, you could click on the thumbnail and just open to the larger image – sans web page – but this really is not user-friendly, especially for a portfolio.