Website software

Is there a really good piece of free software for making websites which does not compress the hell out of JPEGS when you upload them. I am using Ilosoft at the minute and it really kills the images.

Hi Keiran,

Not sure what you mean, do you mean web based software like a gallery? or do you mean software which saves the image to disk and allows you to save images without compressing them to much?

Dave a website creation/development software is what I am after. Already have the domain and host.

Here is the site: ancarraigobservatory.co.uk/

Long way to go with this yet

Kieran,

Two alternatives - NetObjects Fusion Essentials or Kompozer, both free, neither interferes with your jpegs. Google will get you the download sites. Look forward to seeing the website, you have some magnificent material to put on it!

Thats what I thought. Just needed to check before giving an answer.

For webtreatz. I use Zoom media gallery. It will upload and display exactly as the file was on disk, i.e no further compression. So whatever compression you save it as it keeps that. However, Zoom is in fact a plugin for mambo/joomla which is a content management software. So to use zoom, you also need to use mambo or joomla to manage your site.

All of these are free and once you have them up and running, you'll never look back. Your server/host needs to support php and mysql to use thewse tools.

See

www.joomla.org/
www.zoomfactory.org/

The lovely thing about having these set up is you'll never need to write another piece of html or code again, your entire site is then managed through a backend editor.

Thats what I thought. Just needed to check before giving an answer.

For webtreatz. I use Zoom media gallery. It will upload and display exactly as the file was on disk, i.e no further compression. So whatever compression you save it as it keeps that. However, Zoom is in fact a plugin for mambo/joomla which is a content management software. So to use zoom, you also need to use mambo or joomla to manage your site.

All of these are free and once you have them up and running, you'll never look back. Your server/host needs to support php and mysql to use thewse tools.

See

www.joomla.org/
www.zoomfactory.org/

The lovely thing about having these set up is you'll never need to write another piece of html or code again, your entire site is then managed through a backend editor.

Cheers Dave, I think. This is all new ground to me so all the terms etc mean feck all, bit like talkiing to Dave McDonald without the Scouse translation :lol: