Iguess I am just a newbie

[wizeazz101]

Hey y'all,

I have recently started a website that is very pic heavy, so far I have been hard coding everything. Have figured out the HTML editor, but am thinking there has to be a better way. Is there another language I can use to automate this activity from a database? I have years of computer experience (dating back to the TRS80) and some programming experience, but actually coding webpages is fairly new. Have tried to look at some of the information online, and the amount of it is somewhat over whelming. Just looking for a good direction from some individuals with prior experience.

My website is at www.virtualautomuseum.com and what I would like to do is make the pages build on the fly. Any help out there?

Thanks for any assistance that might be rendered

Doug

[nookiemon]

Hi.

Have a read of the following tutorials from the links below. They'll give you a good grounding in asp and returing queries.

http://www.codefixer.com/tutorials/
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp

I found them really good. Basically all you need to do is store all your data on your database using fields such as Year, Model, Picture and run the specific query using a Request.QueryString on your webpage.

Hope it helps

[wizeazz101]

Thanks for the help, will go check out the tutorials.

[vanny]

Nice site good idea, I noticed you are missing Holden /GMH look up holden.com.au :)

Also I have noticed that the images are quite slow to load, and when I saved one and had a look i noticed it was 500k, you probably need to make these a bit smaller and web friendly for both yourself and the end user, as I looked at one corvette page and it will use 5Mb of your downloads per view, which means you could soon be hit with large download charges.

As the photons are only 300 x 100 (ish) on the site maybe resize them down to that, so that the browser doesnt have to re render them down, you will probably notice that they will look better as well.

Good luck, I like you idea and have book marked it.

[wizeazz101]

Thanks Vanny

I know I am missing a lot of makes and models right now, am working on it diligently. I work 50 hours a week at my "day" job, and am doing the site in my "spare" time, usually at 4:30 AM. Group of volunteers was to make the site look bigger, it is a one man operation. Right now I am having the not for profit corporation paperwork drawn up and hope to have it in place shorlty.

I would like to make the pics smaller in file size, but haven't found the right program yet. So far everything I have done is hard coded, I am looking for a solution to make the pages build on the fly from a database of pics. I have so much more I want to do with the site, that it's aggravating to have to hard code everything.

I have a lot of computer experience, back to TRS80's and Comodores, some programming experience in dot prompt dbase and basic, but very little in the way of current web technology.

Any suggestions you have will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again
Doug

[vanny]

I would be interested in giving you a little help, mail me and I will give you a hand.