Heelp Please

[fakan]

Hello,

I'm a web designer and I have 7GB worth Templates. Some of it I have organized by category and type of the website. Other half of them are in the folders which I have no idea what category or type is and its very hard to find what I'm looking for most of the time.

What I'm looking for is appz or somethin that would grab the .PST files from every folder and created a preview somethin like a thumbnail for each site.

every folder has .pst, index.html, jpg files which are linked together.

Any ideas ? My life would be so much easier

[MitaDC]

Fakan, I can't help you but maybe u can help me. I love web design, but I don't have anything to design, so when you design a template how do u get your creativity or like decide what you are goig to base the design on? Like do u just one day say your are going to make a golf template? If so where would u get pictures for it etc? Google? Hopefully you don't mind me asking.

Well what if you made your web folders thumbnailed then put a screeny of the picture as like the thumbnail image so you could view it that way? Doesn't sound like it would solve your uncategorizable items though.

[VHockey86]

could use PHP and a MySQL server. The tricky part in my opinion is figuring out how to generate images from a PST file in a batch process since im not familiar with that format.

Use PHP to recursively scan all of those directories and insert an entry into the database (containing prolly a path name for the template, a path to a thumbnail stored somewhere (perhaps alongside the PST files with the same name and a different extension?), and you could put category flags in there). Then you can use anohter PHP script that pulls info from that database, using sql queries based on the category and then render a table containing the thumbnails for the user to view.

[fakan]

MitaDC

Hmm I dont create the templates haha what I do I use the templates for websites I'm creating. Its very long process to make flash/html website and lots of work if you start from scratch.

This way I have 7GB templates so when customer wants a company website I can show him what he can have and from many templates he can choose the one he likes.

After that I just customize buttons change the flash the way he likes it and maybe colors and couple of minutes in photoshop so its unique.

I had customers paying 4 000 for a website and when it was done they didnt like it. This way they know what they are getting and its not as much work I guess.

Everybody is happy and I can afford to give 'em good price cause I dont have to spend a month working on flash n other things.

Usually customer gives me the images and text for the website.

You can get images of sites like http://www.comstock.com/web/default.asp
its very expensive depends on customer I guess. If you be making website for a HP u wanna get all legit images . ... if its some local guy it doesnt really matter

[fakan]

VHockey86

Wooow thanks so much ... it sounds very complicated.

I'm not a programmer and scripts n stuff blaaah that sound scary.

I was hoping for some little appz that would pull .index files from each folder and maybe link 'em up on one html site where I could view the site in small view.

I guess I'm a dreamer ?

[MitaDC]

So you just have a base template and just modify it? I thought maybe u did something like at templatemonster. Do you have a website? I really like web design, I just don't know where to start :S

[filipino]

MitaDC you should start by learning the basic of photoshop and some imagination and good color combo.

[fakan]

MitaDC

Yeah exactly hmm I have couple of websites this is what I finished 2day working on.

www.photothrill.com

just need 2 change some info n whoala its done

all you need for creating a websites is macromedia studio 8 ( dreamweaver, fireworks, flash) and photoshop

if you want some webspace for cheap just to play around I can help ya with that I'm a webhosting reseller

[VHockey86]

So essentially you're looking for a way to render an image from an html file (and its associated images, etc)? I realize you then need to display these images... but thats not really the main hurdle since you could use something like dreamweavers "create web photo album" command to create a gallery from pictures.

[towlies high]

well, i just got a website, to mess with and learn. and its alot of work, thats why its not up no time but what i did was found a already made template, and mess with it alot(dreamweaver, photoshop, imageready). im gonna try to design my own soon tho, same prob as you, dont know where to start.